Hold dual role of Technical Product Owner and System Architect for HealthEquity’s technology platform. Focused on transitioning the system developed for company’s start-up, to highly scalable and resilient system responsive to expected growth rates and expectations of very large enterprise customers.As Technical Product Owner, developed product release plan focused on: system scalability, Scrum team independence, and business agility.Introduced asynchronous services using message bus technology to the system architecture. Developed patterns, practices, and standards for Agile Scrum teams in the areas of Coding Standards, Code Reviews, Domain Driven Design, Unit Testing and Test Driven Development. Mentored team members using these patterns and practices to measurably elevate competency and quality of team’s work.

Product Manager for new short-interval scheduling package, SmartSched, designed to optimize production schedules for highly constrained semiconductor photolithography areas. Success depended on very hands on knowledge of customer's problems, the advanced constraint satisfaction and scheduling technology used, direct interaction with international customer and development teams.

Direct activities of cross-product architecture team to integrate acquired products with existing products to improve business performance, meet client needs, and drive efficient application development. Ensure compliance with high service-oriented architecture standards. Achieve alignment of all engineering practices and product architectures between company and acquired organizations alike, promoting test-driven development. Partner with clients to create joint development projects, identify needs, and deliver focused software support. Manage multi-location teams spanning Europe, North America, Asia, and India.

Established and lead a cross-product architecture team emphasizing Service-Oriented Architecture standards. After more than a dozen company acquisitions, Brooks Automation has multiple software product development teams spread around the globe in Europe, North America, South East Asia, and India.With very different engineering practices and product architectures, the challenge was to integrate acquired products with existing Brooks’ products to better serve the same customer base and allow for more rapid application development.

As the primary solution architect, lead technical aspects of large system deployments. These projects resemble the process of starting a new software company, running it at a furious pace, and then transitioning to a new owner at the end of eighteen months, with the engineering challenges being identical to high-growth start-ups.Developed new engineering teams for software development. Developed the engineering methods and practices.Developed new system architecture patterns and software features to meet specific customer requirements. Led by example and in this way enabled rapid development with higher levels of consistency and quality than you would normally find in a newly-formed development team. Prepared $15M+ proposals for computer-integrated manufacturing systems. Direct and credible interaction with customers and prospects supported “wins,” which contributed to some of Brooks Automation’s most profitable system integration projects.

Led a variety of short and medium-term consulting projects that focused on delivery of large infrastructure development projects.Worked with client executives to develop appropriate organization structure and development processes to streamline the development life-cycle of their web sites and e-commerce applications.Assumed the role of Interim VP Development for start-up .com that failed to ship product on time and was low on venture capital. Worked with the development team, focused on the fundamentals of software development, and shipped first production releases. The company that was failing at the beginning of the .com bubble burst but is still in business today and has expanded into European market.Led the design and construction of a major e-commerce application for processing online orders. This multi-tiered application received orders from the website, dis-aggregated these orders into purchase orders sent to a variety of different suppliers, tracked fulfillment until the customer received their order, and updated the appropriate website with status every step of the way. Led the construction phase of a web-based application used by the U.S. Army’s Recruiting Command to manage small purchase requisitions.Conducted FrameIT workshops designed to teach customers, by example, the best way to organize and conduct a software development project. These workshops focused on three key areas of software development: architecture of multi-tier systems, team organization and roles, and the software development life-cycle.

Managed a group of developers located at AutoSimulations’ Bountiful Utah office and Bracknell UK office. These groups were responsible for the development of The AutoSimulations Productivity Family (APF) of real-time scheduling and simulation products. This product is now owned by Applied Materials and is still the standard for orchestrating real-time operations in semiconductor manufacturing.

Responsible for the managing Promis’ Encore! product development teams. Encore! was Promis’ “next generation” Manufacturing Execution System software which is an essential part of modern semiconductor manufacturing facilities.

In the highly-charged atmosphere of the Space Shuttle program following the Challenger accident, designed and implemented new and innovative data acquisition and control systems for rocket motor test facilities. Developed these systems using emerging microcomputer and optical networking technology.