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Manager-of-managers with 11 direct reports, responsible for the product group charged with delivering the service which power Ford’s electric vehicle experiences. Segments include retail and commercial customers; $50M annual budget. • Led the engineering teams which developed, launched, and operated the mobile app features and cloud services responsible for allowing customers to charge and discharge their Electric Vehicles via mobile or web technologies. Adding over 100k vehicles per year.• Defined and implemented the architectural platform strategy which allowed us to migrate from developing energy device specific experiences to one span multiple automotive OEMs and charging devices.• Owned the day-to-day availability and reliability for the real-time electric vehicle services powering Ford’s new BEV fleet; setting expectations by demonstrating how to triage and monitor a highly distributed ecosystem.• Revamped the engineering team’s staffing strategy to ensure strategic development work was in-sourced; building out a leadership team that focused on retention and hiring to build a world class software organization• Transformed a project management culture into a product organization by focusing the teams on the importance DevOps and software craftsmanship over just “meeting” project milestones

Manager of 20 to 40 direct reports responsible for the product line charged with delivering a differentiated connected vehicle experiences, focusing on a vehicle’s location; $20M annual budget. • The cloud architect on the cross-functional team responsible for defining the Movement Strategy, resulting in Ford’s first connected navigation experience. • Built and led a remote (German) team responsible for the real-time traffic and hazard feeds for Ford Sync 3 and 4 navigation system in Europe• Staffed and built four balanced teams, responsible for building and running the cloud services which support the Sync 4 connected navigation experience; services included personized points of interest, aggregation of charging stations, mobile abled trip planning, and route aware feature enablement.• Partnered with the embedded software engineering team on the Blue Cruise level 2 autonomous driving program to prove that Ford could run an Agile project with hardware as part of the process; saving 2 years of development time.• Built and led eXtreme Programming team responsible Ford’s Alexa to Vehicle Skill in four months, proving that small nimble teams can work at a large corporation.

Manager of 40 direct reports responsible for the global team responsible for delivering connectivity for Ford’s connected vehicle ecosystem. $40M annual budget. • Reskilled a global operational support team, spanning five locations, to enable the global launch and operations of Sync Connect and FordPass.• Revamped Vehicle Connectivity’s support process to segment SLOs by prioritizing services which directly impacted Ford’s bottom line; Increased plant supporting system’s availability from one to three-nines, retail log-in from one to two nines.• Spearheaded Ford’s modernization of DevOps processes to take full advantage of Azure’s PaaS offering; reducing deployment downtime from 25 hours to milliseconds.• Modernized Ford’s development processes to reduce deployment frequency from quarterly to three times per week.• Relentlessly attacked cost, focusing on various deployment and development activities to reduce costs by $12M per year

Multiple Technical Team Lead roles averaging 6 to 8 reports. All roles focused on modernizing Ford’s dealer ordering systems.• Launched and stabilized Ford’s first North American web-based dealer ordering system; owning stakeholder and customer communication through a very disruptive change to Ford’s Dealer culture.• Revamped Ford’s support processes to reduce mean-time-to-resolution by 30% by categorize known failures and either automating resolutions or enabling tier-1 support to resolve issues,• Operations Lead for Ford’s Global Order to Delivery ecosystem, developing a strategy to shift Ford closer to practicing DevOps and ensure that the new system was considering SLOs from the beginning.• Lead a distributed team of 8 embedded operational experts to develop operational instrumentation throughout development, instead of after launch.

Recruited to leverage my knowledge of Ford’s various infrastructure offerings to revamp Ford’s infrastructure investment procedures.• Led interviews across eight infrastructure lines of business to understand their procurement and service models; creating forecasting model for about $1.7 trillion of infrastructure and human assets.• Led the tooling procurement process to support a streamlined approach which would integrate with Ford’s ERP systems, reducing lead time across all eight infrastructure lines of business.• Consolidated multiple, line of business focused, governance processes into a single processing to keep all senior stakeholders aligned of progress to plan, issues, and risks.• Leveraged dependency mapping, process mapping, and user interviews to identify multiple leading indicators of infrastructure demand; resulting in more effective use of investment capital.

Three year rotational program designed to introduce recent college graduates to Ford Motor Company. Experience span from program management, software development, and operations across multiple divisions.• Junior Software Engineer, Sync Gen 1 – Developed numerous proof of concepts which led to Sync Gen 1.1-1.3 offerings. Languages: C, Java, Python• Plant IT, Analysist – Tier-1 support for seven plant floor systems, launched a new version control system for the plants Programmable Logic Controllers. Languages: C• IT Infrastructure, Tech Refresh Analyst – Managed the plan and budget for Ford’s technology refresh program; Languages: VBA, SQL

Vertically integrated company that develop programmable logic controllers for process monitoring and control systems• Designed and laid out a 32-input, high-voltage carrier card for Acromag’s FPGA networked PLC line.• Developed a reference Operating System to include in Acromag’s Verilog line• Ported Acromag’s Windows hardware interface applications from XP to Vista; Language: C• Developed reference PC applications to be included in with Acromag’s PLCs; Language: C/C++

Working with the Electrical Engineering Chair to develop a CD that will replace their textbook. My job is a java applet interactive interface to ask questions of the students.