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10+ years as entrepreneur of adventure training & event companies. 30+ years of technical and leadership roles in software development, project & product management at media (Bloomberg News & Web), financial services (Bloomberg Trading & Internal Systems, Merrill Lynch) and government defense organizations (United Technologies, Unisys). Entrepreneur: Founder of Northeast Off-Road Adventures, Inc. (nyoffroaddriving.com) driving school & adventure experiences (2011). Created SOAR program for guests with mobility impairments offering adaptive hiking with all terrain wheelchairs and many other recreational activities. Co-founder of Path Less Traveled, Inc. (pltoffroad.com) Adventure Events (2016). Certified off-road instructor.Technology: (BS Computer Science) Worked on teams developing diverse software applications including trading systems, fixed-income portfolio analysis, anti-submarine warfare simulations, robotic vision processing and U.S. Navy ship based weapons systems.Projects: (PMP) Product owner of web-crawling systems that deliver competitive automated headlines to several thousand clients in milliseconds. Managed agile and traditional project portfolios for various media and financial systems. Volunteer at PMINYC chapter mentor program.Leadership: (MS Management Science) 6+ years as Global Team Leader of technical operations for Bloomberg News, accountable to the News CIO for building autonomous web crawler systems; 5+ years manager & team leader of software development groups for internal applications and trading systems at Bloomberg. 4+ years VP & Group Manager at Merrill Lynch for fixed income software development. 1+ year as regional co-chair of Hyde School Parents Association and 5+ years volunteering at Hyde School events.

Listed skills include Team Management, Operations Management, Business Planning, Strategic Planning, and 11 others.