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Houston, Tx, Us

Mountain View, Wy, Us

Pro bono work with-start ups.

Studio City, California, Us

Provided technical leadership, vision, direction, and mentoring for City National Banks’ Exactuals software engineering teams. Manage engineering teams and support the Entity Resolution, Analytics and Data Enrichment Platform for industries such as Music, TV & Film, and others. Accomplishments: • Led transformation organization changes from siloed functions to DevOps and test automation.• Training teams on software laws and principles, quality, and Scrum Developer training.• Build out cross-functional independent teams with dedicated Scrum Masters. • Maximize Resource Utilization & Improve collaboration across teams. • Process improvement across engineering groups.• Re-platforming of legacy music royalty solution to a cloud AWS native application.• Leveraged micro-services, web-assembly (Blazor) and micro-front end architecture.• Compliance, SOC, bank regulator audits, internal audits, and various controls policies & Procedure• Achieved a 95% retention ratio. • Successfully manage projects on time and on budget.• Commercialized RAi product technology in four months. Exceeding business expectations.• Re-organized team and improved efficiency.• Significantly improved stability, performance and quality of RAi product and infrastructure.• Established governance groups (Architectural Review Board and SEMG).• Completed audit of current Engineering, QA, Customer Success, CloudOps, and DevOps.• Establish Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) program.• Leverage agile and DevOps principles at scale to improve velocity, quality, and cost.Technologies and Frameworks and Standards: AWS, Azure, .Net, SyncFusion, C#, Java, Angular, Selenium, Blazor, Node, SCRUM, ESG, APIs, Micro Front-End Architecture, Snowflake, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Master Data Management, Data Mesh, DataHub.

Studio City, California, Us

• Successfully manage projects on time and on budget.• Commercialized RAi product technology in four months. Exceeding business expectations.• Re-organized team and improve efficiency.• Significantly improved stability, performance and quality of RAi product and infrastructure.• Established governance groups (Architectural Review Board and SEMG).• Completed audit of current Engineering, QA, Customer Success, CloudOps, and DevOps.• Establish Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) program.• Leverage agile and DevOps principles at scale and improve velocity, quality, and cost.Technologies and Frameworks and Standards: AWS, Azure, .Net, SyncFusion, C#, Java, Angular, Selenium, Blazor, Node, scrum, ESG, APIs, Micro Front-End Architecture, Snowflake, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Master Data Management, Data Mesh, DataHub, Identity Resolution.

Providing hands-on services to SaaS start-ups and established software companies in product quality, continuous integration, Test Driven Development (TDD) security and SaaS DevOps best practices.• Upgrade Audit Report and Recommendations• Mentor at Station Houston - Hub for technology innovation and entrepreneurship.• WITI (Women in Technology International) “DevOps Best Practices for Velocity & Agility.”• Auburn University White Paper: “Apply Software Best Practices for Quality, Velocity and Agility” V2.• Auburn University White Paper: “Startup Best Practices for Offshore Development.” In progress. • Studies (UX Design, Gamification, Design Thinking, UX Testing, DevOps in Machine Leaning, and more….)

Houston, Tx, Us

Quorum’s oil & gas enterprise software span exploration to distribution and all accounting in between. Quorum’s integrated software platform is developed from the ground and built for the cloud, optimized for mobile users.Responsible for all aspects of Quorum’s product development, integration practice, DevOps, CloudOps, mobile and BI groups across 24 enterprise software products with development in Houston, Dallas, Tampa and offshore. Work with Executive and Product Management to advance the Quorum’s core products, cloud SaaS products, multi-tenant platform solution and legacy monolithic application migration to AWS and Azure public clouds. Achievements• Architected and deployed cloud solution for Land product to public cloud (AWS). • Released Quorum’s cloud (Azure) developer platform. • Deployed automated UI and unit testing frameworks to increase code coverage and product quality.• Consolidated product development functions into a single Engineering department. • Institutionalized architectural review board (ARB) and technical committees.• Established software development processes and quality standards group (SEMG). • Migration of all development to Microsoft VSTS and GIT.• Implementation of software application integration, security testing / remediation practices for SOC 2.• Post-acquisition integration of two acquired companies. Technologies: AWS, Azure, IoT, ESG, Cloud, Selenium, C#, Java, Angular, NodeJS, SCRUM, APIs, NServiceBus, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, VSTS, GIT, Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning.

Providing Software operations / DevOps advising services to start-ups and established companies.• Software and organization scalability, DevOps, product management, and SDLC best practices.• Process Improvement, deployment pipeline, testing, security and SaaS Dev/Ops best practices.• Technical workshops on managing technical debt, licensing, Intellectual Property (IP), team management and development, contracts/agreements and SLAs.• SaaS E-commerce deployment, integration and CPI compliance.• Advising on O&G Big Data visualization platform scalability and performance.

Houston, Texas, Us

Provided vision and leadership for Linux / Windows High-Performance Computing (HPC), enterprise IT Services Management (ITSM) infrastructure operations and service delivery including solution design, cluster setup, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning and managed services.• Service & Project Delivery. Responsible for all IT project estimates, SOWs, project management and delivery of high-performance, cloud-based HPC (public, on premise, hybrid) and IT / SaaS enterprise infrastructure. Services included deployment, managed IT services, application tuning, and troubleshooting. Establish process, policies, procedures and cybersecurity best practices for managed services clients. Managed vendors and partners on project and service delivery. • Service Business Capacity Management (SBCM). Responsible for understanding performance and matching IT and HPC analysts, architects, network engineers skills and capacity across IT services and projects. Results: Increase in performance and capacity.

Louisville, Co, Us

Rogue Wave is the largest independent provider of cross-platform software development tools and embedded components in the world. The products span 45 years, offering everything from cloud-based-services to native platform applications to portable software libraries in deep learning, machine learning, algorithms and solutions for clients. Offices: Boulder, Houston, Portland, Boston, London, Paris, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Stockholm.• Leadership of teams as large as 130 people in R&D, IT, DevOps and Support;• Managing and coordinating tech centers in North America, Sweden and France;• Produced operating budgets, projects and post-acquisition integration plans and strategies; • Standardized / enforced IT / SDLC and quality processes across organization; • Perform technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration; • Guide technology infrastructure for reliability, security, efficiency and CI; • Identify, analyze and resolve operational and production issues with products and services; • Manage staff performance, develop future leaders, set goals and appraising job results;• Create an environment that promotes innovation, creativity, and fosters professional growth;• Established and maintain long-term technology vision and strategy:Achievements• Scaled application to 1,000,000 threads of execution across 98,304 nodes.• Achieved a 40% increase in revenue with <10% increase in IT / R&D operating costs.• SaaS and PaaS product migration, DR and international scaling proposal, plan and budgets. • Product development efficiency increase of 200% on targeted product line.• Product delivery date variance of < 3% and reduced time-to-market on five products by 25%.• Reduced post-release bugs on three products by 50%.

Houston, Texas, Us

Recruited by Visual Numerics, to provide technical (IT/R&D) and strategic leadership for this global company. Assumed P&L and leadership for an operation with a staff of 90. Responsible for strategic and tactical planning; product development; product management; professional services; pre-sales and post-sales support.Reporting to CEO responsible for technical and strategic leadership of the organization; • P&L responsibility for technical operations staff of 90 (IT, R&D, Support, IT Consulting);• Build out of Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and solutions for clients; • Technology strategic and tactical planning;• Development of self-funded growth strategy; • Manage staff performance, develop leaders, set goals, monitoring and appraising job results;• Restructure resources to best leverage human capital assets; • Promote entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and foster professional growth & development;• Evangelize products and technology – sales, speaking presentations, panels and articles;• Vendor and partner management (IBM, Microsoft and Intel, Sybase, SAP and others); • Established new business intelligence (BI) consulting strategy;• Develop and enforce standardization - SDLC and IT methodology, QA, process integration; • Adoption best practices (CMMI, Agile (SCRUM)).Achievements• 35% technology costs reduction while significantly increasing quality and ROI.• < 1% variance on schedule for Product delivery.• 70% per year increase in consulting revenue - over a four-year period. • 30% increase in product technology transfer reducing product release cycles by 50%;• Launched new BI products in Java, C#, and Python. • Scientific Computing & Instrumentation 2005 “Product of the Year” Award.• Shaped new analysts’ categories of “Embeddable Analytics” and “Business Analytics”.• Advised Microsoft engineering on architecture and development of Parallel Extensions to C#.

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Founded in 1986, DMG has provided more than 400 troubled corporations with hands-on management and advisory services. Recruited by CEO to provide interim CTO/CIO/VP of Software leadership and facilitate technical aspects of corporate development, restructuring, turnaround, asset sale and technology.Technology Consultant for various clients including:• Offroad Capital - Online private capital marketplace. • Addicom Wireless - Wireless phone equipment provide wireless local loop services. Provided technology and market assessment. Pursued active buyers and potential investors.• Exabytes - Data storage product manufacturer offering automation tape storage solutions. Advised on technology, operations, cost containment and growth strategies.• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Technology Transfer Program Manager. Worked with various scientists and engineers to evaluate inventions and technology for commercial markets. Highlighted Achievement• Successfully coordinated technology sale, including development team, to NYPPE (now NYPPEX).

Handpicked by the CEO to commercialize an internet-based accredited distance education IT degree program. Accepted leadership for strategic planning; budgeting; research and development; product management; content production; system architecture and design. Recruited, mentored and empowered a team of 50 developer professionals. Responsibilities• Technical lead of R&D for build-out of disruptive LMS technology;• Hands-on commercialization of online accredited distance education IT degree program;• Leadership for strategic planning, R&D budgeting, and product management; • Recruited, mentored and empowered a team of 20+ developers and content professionals; • Managed SDLC including, design, development, deployment and maintenance;• Senior Technical subject matter expert in Network Engineering curriculum.Achievements• $50 million in bookings 18 months after roll out of Learning Management System LMS).• Catapulted business to $100 million valuation in less than 3 years. • Designed an innovative optimized development process (aggregate-linked content method).• Disruptive technology and process reduced costs by 80% and time to market by 85%. • Commercialized / managed online Associate’s / Bachelor’s / Master’s degree programs in IT.• Market leader with >80% market share.

As office manager and principle trainer I managed facility, advised and taught advanced Microsoft, Novell, CompTIA and a variety of other network engineering certification courses.

Reporting to the Director of facilities I was responsible for installation, management and troubleshooting of Novell and Microsoft servers, desktops wireless networks, systems engineering, power integration (early IoT), consultation and application development.

Managing Director and CTO of geophysical services company leveraging leading edge IT technologies in exploration and development of data analytical software for geophysical data correction.

Mba, Information Technology Management

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Associate'S Degree, Electronics Technician

Network Engineering - Systems - Web And Internet - Technical Training