The Cybersecurity Business Unit sells products and managed services to thousands of commercial and government customers around the world. As the senior technical leader in the business unit, I am responsible for a team of over 150 engineers that develop, manage, and operate a portfolio of cybersecurity products and managed services that are sold to AT&T Business customers.

As the head of engineering, I led the engineering geographically distributed team transitioning from building an on-premises, threat detection appliance to developing and operating a large-scale, SaaS application.

Blacklight Solutions is a boutique software consulting company that focuses on providing data solutions to Independent Software Vendors and information analysts. With an extensive background in both building software and business intelligence solutions, I put together the team, tools, technology and techniques required to provide advanced analytics solutions for our business intelligence consumers. Blacklight clients include both Independent Software Vendors as well as traditional businesses in the retail, government, transportation and financial services sectors.- Assisted client in developing an enterprise reporting strategy for multiple subsidiaries and partner organizations. The solution was deployed on the Amazon Web Services cloud using a high-availability, load-balanced architecture.- Built recurring revenue book of business from ISV’s looking to deliver various embedded business intelligence solutions for their end customers.- Worked with client’s Executive Team in due diligence efforts around potential M&A activity. Evaluated product synergies, process, team, and technologies. Made recommendations to the board of directors.- Provided technical and management consulting on oil royalties for a state government client. - Provided technical due diligence to clients around strategic software acquisition and office infrastructure build-out.- Partnered with Yellowfin as a key distributor serving ISV's in the U.S. and Canada. - Recruited additional partners to round out the leadership team as well as the senior technical resources required to deliver solutions.- Successfully sold and delivered > $1M solutions to multiple customers.

As co-founder of Noesis, a FinTech startup focused creating an online lending marketplace for commercial and industrial buildings in North America, I helped successfully transform the original business model from a freemium energy analytics SaaS solution to an online lending platform serving thousands of users proposing > $1B of improvements to building owners in the U.S. and Canada.I have management responsibility for product development, product management, quality assurance, customer service and data center operations.

AlterPoint is a provider of network configuration management software for some of the largest and most sophisticated IP networks in the world. AlterPoint’s products focused on capturing network configuration data, improving network operations efficiencies through advanced automation technologies, optimizing network spend, and analyzing network data to ensure regulatory compliance, corporate standards, and industry best practices. Additionally, AlterPoint developed a network-specific Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for advanced reporting and analytics. Versata Enterprises acquired AlterPoint in February 2009. Clients included Citigroup, AT&T, Microsoft, Yahoo!, E*TRADE, Cable and Wireless, and the US Federal Government. As VP of Engineering, I was responsible for evolving AlterPoint's products from an SMB offering to enterprise-wide deployments in some of the largest networks (+60K nodes) networks in the world.- Responsible for all aspects of product delivery including requirements gathering, design, engineering, quality assurance, documentation, training, and customer support.- Key contributor to corporate strategy including product direction, M&A activity, partnerships, resource allocation, and budgeting.- Managed team of 40+ on and offshore resources.- Participated in technical due diligence efforts with 4 of the largest US technology companies.- Managed $5M departmental budget- Effectively moved product testing and content delivery resources to an offshore development partner in Costa Rica.

Yclip.com provided an online incentive marketing infrastructure that matched Internet advertising with offline consumer purchases using an SaaS delivery model. The technology allowed merchants to create measurable online advertising in the form of credit card-based incentives. Clients included Bed Bath & Beyond, Jack in the Box and Advance Auto Parts.- Responsible for product development and quality assurance.- Participated in corporate and product strategy.- Interface to the First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) technical and product teams.- Provided technical support to sales team on key customer opportunities.- Managed team of 35+

Knowledge Discovery One developed data mining technologies targeted at brick-and-mortar retailers to analyze customer purchase behavior and optimize print ad placement. The products allowed retailers to analyze historical sales patterns to forecast future product sales. This helped KD1’s customers reduce excess inventory levels and reduce wasted or spoiled inventories. Net Perceptions acquired KD1 in January 2001. Clients included JC Penny, Lowes, Walgreens, and Wine.com.- Developed product prototypes for Sales and Marketing.- Managed user interface design and development team.- Built componentized user interface model that allowed the application workflow to dynamically change based on user selections.- Participated in technical due diligence during company acquisition by Net Perception.- Primary technical interface to Net Perception post merger.

Thoroughbred Development Group assisted retailers in the design and implementation of data warehousing solutions and enterprise Decision Support Systems (DSS) applications. Clients included Meijer, Food Lion, and Ahold.- Built Ad Performance module to analyze the effectiveness of print-ad flyers for the Meijer Information Retrieval System (MIRS) running on Teradata RDBMS.- Provided data warehousing consulting services to Meijer Inc.- Assisted Meijer in the evaluation and selection of their office automation suite.

Kelly Information Systems developed retail decision support software. Intrepid Systems acquired Kelly Information Systems in March 1996.- Lead developer on the reporting engine and data visualization component of the retail decision support product (DSplus).- Assisted in evolving a custom-developed decision support product into an industry-recognized application.- Migrated custom SQL generation engine to Microstrategy’s DSS Server product.

Midwest Payment Systems, a subsidiary of Fifth Third Bank, processed ATM and point-of-sale retail transactions.- Developed IBM 360 Assembler tools for onboarding new customers onto the ATM processing backend and generating physical credit card- Wrote JCL scripts to allocate mainframe resources and execute jobs.- Developed batch process for encoding, branding, and embossing credit card stock.

The Strategic Air Command (SAC) operated all of America’s land-based strategic bombers aircraft and the land- based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strategic nuclear arsenal. This included all of the infrastructure necessary to support the nuclear missions.Part of the responsibility of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) is to support NATO’s mission to provide mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.- Maintained Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM), Short-Range Attack Missiles (SRAM), and B-61 gravity weapons in support of SAC and NATO missions.- Responsible for tracking all maintenance activities, weapon location, personnel training, and deployment of nuclear weapon assets.- Held Top Secret security clearance.