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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Lead a phenomenal R&D team that is revolutionizing the use of data to drive customer value in the hospitality industry.

Austin, Tx, Us

As a CTO I helped Zilliant transform from a single product enterprise software company to a true cloud native SaaS solution with 6+ products addressing the full span of Price and Revenue Management and Optimization market. This resulted in more than doubling the ASV growth rate of the company and 3x increase in revenue over 5 years and led to a sale of the company to Madison Dearborn Partners (PE Firm).

Austin, Tx, Us

Zilliant leverages the vast amount of data companies have about their customers to produce actionable insights that help those companies maximize their sales opportunities while helping their customers. I led the engineering organization through a transformation process. This included:* Establishing consistent processes across the organization and driving the disciplined implementation to ensure consistent and efficient software delivery * Engendering a culture of innovation and customer focus* Defining a clear technical vision for the Zilliant platform transformation and creating a path to incremental progress towards that goalThis allowed us to successfully scale the engineering team from 30 to 140 engineers while efficiently building a cloud native platform that enabled us to accelerate creation of new products to expand our addressable market.

eLogix Solutions provides software development services to clients in various industries ranging from Facilities Management to Windows Security Management. Solutions developed by eLogix are deployed at several Fortune 1000 companies. As a Founder/Principal of eLogix my role is to provide strategic direction for the company.

Austin, Tx, Us

Build and Lead a world class engineering organization that created an innovative financial platform to disrupt the consumer credit industry. In order to accomplish this I:* Built a scalable engineering organization leveraging onshore and offshore resources* Transitioned from a project based to platform based product strategy across the enterprise* Established a culture of Continuous improvement leveraging industry best practicesIn addition to leading a growing engineering organization I took on additional responsibilities like:* Led corporate strategic initiative to establish a full spectrum lending solution* Took on the role of Product Architect to set the product strategy and delivery roadmapVize was bought by Mastercard.

Austin, Texas, Us

While reporting to the CIO I built from ground up and Directed the Online products and platform engineering group. This group consists of two distinct teams the Web team and the Business Applications team. The Web team is responsible for all SolarWinds online properties including the marketing sites, portals, eCommerce, Live Product Demos, Community network, and SaaS products. Business Applications team builds and manages all SolarWinds backend business systems including ERP/CRM solution, Business Analytics Data Warehouse, and Enterprise Message Bus for system integrations. Some of my accomplishments in this role included:• Built from ground up team of 70+ engineers, 3 managers, and 1 Director• Extended the US engineering operations to India, Costa Rica, and Ukraine to achieve 24 hour development cycle• Established Agile process for delivery of platform features and content in an iterative manner• Created the IT Operations team and Processes to support the 24x7 online platform management• In collaboration with Product Management defined the online strategy including SEO and Analytics• Managed a $4MM annual budget

Austin, Texas, Us

Part of the senior management core team responsible for SolarWinds' entry into the Systems Management space. The products delivered in this space now account for significant portion of SolarWinds license revenue. As part of this team my responsibilities included:* Building a Development and QA team to deliver industry leading Application, Virtualization, and Systems managementproducts.* Assisting in defining the product roadmap and go to market strategy * Providing updates to and gathering feedback from executive team about the Systems Management business.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed networking product development teams responsible for delivering industry leading Network Configuration Management solution.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managing multiple products with development and QA teams spread between Houston and Pune, India.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for managing Development, Quality Engineering, and Documentation resources to deliver strategic products such as Enterprise Policy Manager.

Houston, Texas, Us

Development Manager for the Administration and Migration Products at NetIQ. As a Dev Manager I was responsible for managing 20+ engineers across multiple geographical locations including US (3 sites), Bolivia, and India developing products that generated in excess of $20M in revenue yearly.

Executive Certificate, Innovation And Strategy

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Computer Science