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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Other, Zw

Reporting directly to the CEO, recruited to rapidly expand and mature the Technology organization (Engineering, Database, DevOps, QA, IT) in support of first round of funding. Established technical vision and led company’s software platform development. Restructured and grew engineering team from 8 engineers to over 20, including key hires Director of Engineering, QA Manager, and Principal Architect. Implemented Agile SDLC. Employed data (KPIs) and cross-departmental feedback to improve engineering throughput. Established new QA function covering software, usability and data quality. Established in-house IT function.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Executed a variety of technology-based projects including: private equity investment and buy-side technical due diligences; solutions architecture strategy, and; technical product acquisition planning and execution.

Wellington, Wellington, Nz

Reporting directly to the CEO, responsible for driving design, development, deployment, and operations of the Author-it Cloud SaaS platform. Architected AWS-based, Cloud-Native multi-tenant service positioned for regulated Life Sciences enterprises. Managed onsite, remote and distributed (NZ, Ukraine) teams.

Paris, Fr

Recruited by Director, R&D to drive strategic modernization of the technology platform.Owned the 2020 Platform Vision and 5-year roadmap. Led developer culture transformation – more empowerment, ownership and accountability – a crucial foundation for successful Agile adoption. Responsible for architecture budget, roadmap prioritization, 3rd-party and open source technology selection, software security lifecycle. Executive-level technical contact for customers and partners, collaborated with strategic customers and national research labs on smart grid initiatives.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Recruited by Chief Product Officer to re-energize product development, create top process-driven software development organization and scale production to meet growing global demand. Establish lifecycle and QA processes standardize agile and scrum methodologies, build synergies between business and development teams, leverage best practices and create a culture of innovation. Direct up to 8 managers and 150 geographically dispersed staff (US, Japan, India). Helped position Rosetta Stone for IPO by modernizing the Rosetta Stone platform, architecting innovative new products and services, raising the bar on quality standards and making product delivery predictable, repeatable and scalable.

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Recruited to turn around organization. Spearheaded all technology operations aligning IT with corporate mission, defining product roadmaps, revising product platform, rebuilding primary partnerships. Coordinated projects and directed distributed team (US, Russia) across business and IT functions. Delivered presentations to Board of Directors; performed technical due diligence for organization’s acquisition. Led turnaround plan: 500% customer acquisition growth, 90% increase in customer transaction success, increase in customer satisfaction and 99.9% system uptime.

Accountable for the systems development staff and the software development process, including the design, development and support of both new and existing software products and systems. Collaborated with cross-functional leaders to establish priorities and ensure project-driven, results-oriented deliveries on-schedule, under budget, and to specification. Responsible for multiple concurrent development projects, from concept through to full production release and revenue generation in a very fast-paced environment. Reported to the COO.

New York, Ny, Us

Directed large-scale technology initiative to penetrate the mobile Web market. Presented platform strategy to executive team, worked with handset developers and service providers to develop technologies and orchestrated product suite development and market launch. Managed $10MM budget and staff across 3 sites. Generated $20MM+ by developing and launching 40 distinct mobile services on 12+ leading wireless service platforms covering North America and Europe.

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