Responsible for managing multiple SBIR Phase III programs supporting Space Missile Systems Center (SMC) in both Los Angeles and Colorado Springs. P & L lead for directorate totaling 80+ FTI employees and multiple subcontractor partners.

Software IPT Lead and Control Account Manager for an L3 prime, DX rated, space payload program. Responsible for program management and technical oversight for software for the flight and ground control systems. Led a technical team comprising local staff and multiple 3rd party, software sub-contractor companies across different geographical locations and time-zones.Technical work included: requirements analysis/review, detailed designs (ICDs, CDR), software code reviews, support to software/firmware/hardware integration and testing.Programmatic duties included: management of multi-subcontractor schedules, cost and risk; formal weekly and monthly customer reporting (PMRs); contributed to multiple proposals and provided software support to new business development.

Software engineering leadership and product-line management for Overwatch’s industry leading RemoteView, ELT/Series, and GeoCatalog software. These products provide analysis, exploitation and content management for satellite imagery and other remotely sensed data. Technical, functional and multi-million dollar budget management responsibility; team comprised 4 software development managers and 20-30 engineering staff across 4 different Overwatch sites. Hands-on daily technical involvement in all parts of the Software Development Life-Cycle. Coordinated cross-functional teams in Customer Support, Sales and Marketing to ensure timely product release and customer satisfaction.- Created strategy to generate new license sales and sustain maintenance contracts worth $30M- Generated road-maps and managed multiple release schedules for 12,000 user customer base- Initiated and drove development of new ribbon user interface resulting in $2M+ international order- Championed technology update to product groups i.e HTML5/JavaScript and C#/WPF/.NET- Presented regular briefs to senior officials and customers in defense and intelligence agencies.- Added Agile development/test initiatives; Improved quality, stability and delivery perception- Drove annual maintenance renewals to over 90% and drastically lowered known product defects- Organized Geospatial Strategy off-site, Managed deployment, progress and status of goals.

Product-line and engineering management responsibility for Overwatch’s ELT/Series COTS product suite. Technical, Functional and Operations management responsibility for team of one manager and 10-12 engineering, test and support staff at Woburn office.- Created product strategy, roadmaps and release scheduling for annual revenue of $3-5M.- Involved in all aspects of software life cycle: requirements analysis, design, coding and testing..- Coordinated Sales and Support teams on requirements, product enhancements and field issues.- Coordinated with Marketing on release cycle, go-to-market planning and trade show support..- Managed integrator and partner relationships for OEMs and customized solutions for programs.

Initially employed as Software Engineer before becoming Director and minority owner of private start-up company Paragon Imaging. Paragon Imaging was acquired by Overwatch in 2005 and then shortly afterwards by Textron Systems in 2006. Technical and Functional Manager of ELT product engineering group comprising 5 to 6 software engineers and 2 support/testers.- Major design, coding and testing contributor to the ELT Windows Infinity codebase.- Part of initial team that ported Paragon's UNIX ELT products to the first Windows platform ELT- Code written in C++ under Visual Studio using MFC, OpenGL, DirectX and multi-threading..- Developed the product SDK using COM and ATL, enabling new multi-million sales and new program integration work from companies such as Intergraph and General Dynamics.

Satellite Information Services was the pioneer of supplying real-time sports information to off-course gaming shops in UK and Ireland via private subscription satellite broadcast. Responsible for recruiting and managing a software engineering team of 6 staff. . Also a major individual contributor to software engineering team. All work was done in C / C++ on both PCs and custom Intel based hardware.

Worked various projects for Logica customers including: Reuters, Philips, Italian broadcast company RAI, and Swiss Teletext. Work involved design, C coding and installation/support at customer sites in UK and Europe.