Drive’s mission is to transform the test drive process of the automotive industry with applications that benefits consumer, salesperson and dealer alike.Hands on start-up leader responsible for every aspect of technology from infrastructure to development and all back office processes. Partnered with CEO to develop original concept and worked closely with engineers to deliver applications. Planning application launch with automotive dealerships and dealer management system providers while ensuring application stability and appropriate scaling.

Responsible to provide vision and leadership to transform a Web Operations team into a DevOps culture- Lead the Vehicle Acquisition software development team including both front-end (JavaScript, Angular) and back-end (Java) development technologies- Delivered test and learn experiments to production to increase private party lead traffic- Transformed a Release Engineering team into a master build automation DevOps shop creating continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins to quickly build, test and deploy code to production- Lead DevOps direction to containerize applications and build out Docker on AWS- Built the platform to increase the velocity of changes to production from 5 a year to 5 a day- Grew the Site Operations team into a Site Reliability Engineering group that became a member of each Product team focusing on product/feature performance and health and improved application monitoring- Provided guidance to the Platform Engineering team on development frameworks, cloud migration projects and architectural direction- Provided strategic direction, vision and leadership to my development management team

Hired to stabilize a struggling web platform that could not sustain heavy site traffic or application changes and rebuild an organization that had lost the confidence of the business- Improved site reliability and application health to 99.9% availability- Built a platform that sustained 1200% increase in web traffic during Super Bowl commercials- Implemented organizational processes to better manage change to the platform- Hired strong leaders to build operational teams - Automated manual delivery processes to more reliability and quickly deliver applications to production- Grew manual software testing practices into functional test automation to reduce the dependency on people and improve time to production delivery- Dramatically increased the rate of updating over 1 million images per day from hours to 15 minutes

Responsible for the Network, Systems and Storage Operations organizations as well as Capacity Planning, Data Center Operations and 24x7 Operations Support Center.

Led team of process managers and analysts responsible for developing and implementing ITIL processes for IT organizations within the US, Canada, South Africa and India.

Oversaw infrastructure technology within Settlement Solutions subsidiary. Managed all desktop services, including PCs, printers, IP Telephony/mobile technology, LAN/WAN connectivity and data center operations. Directed and delivered several multi-million dollar data center consolidation projects.

Built network services group responsible for design, build and support of WAN and LAN connectivity as well as desktop services. Designed cable plants within professional sports stadiums and restaurants, providing services for point of sales devices and all back office functionality.