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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Leading their newly combined product + data + technology organization to both scale existing products and expand with new products into other channels and markets.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Led the product and technology sides of Rhithm with transformations to at-scale, outcome-focused product discovery, and delivery, resulting in significant user and revenue growth. Rhithm exited via acquisition to Securly Inc. in April 2022.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Interim Chief Product, Chief Technology Officer. Strategy and execution in product (e.g. customer development) and technology (e.g. software, semi-automated, concierge), I helped ventures (for-profit, non-profit) answer some of their biggest questions about "what's next?” such as “Is there a new market for our existing product?” or “Is there a way to graduate from our founder-led sales?” or “is there a way to reach problem/solution fit in our new non-profit?”Clients included Rhtihm, TruJay, and NearShoreDevs

Austin, Texas, Us

Created K-12 education SaaS product company with a proven business model and repeatable customer acquisition in a newly discovered market: democratized access to continuous improvement guidance for K-12 accountability. Led company through private equity roll-up and spin-out, through multiple pivots in customer acquisition, market, and product. Created, recruited, managed, and led technology and product areas, and turned-around customer acquisition. Developed, and continually validated, the long-term vision and roadmap, focused on customer outcomes. Drove data-driven experimentation and continuous improvement into all functional areas.

Austin, Texas, Us

Turned-around a professional services company and delivered over 2x improvement in bookings over two years, solving public-sector data interoperability problems. Led recovery from a problematic spin-out from their former non-profit owner, through cultural and operational shifts, and turn-around of customer acquisition. Shifted the focus to customer outcomes, enabled via rapid iterations and incremental delivery. Hands-on strategy deployment in: managing partnerships with technical standards organizations (e.g. Ed-Fi Alliance), new market technology strategy, and new market demand and productization opportunities, which resulted in the spin-out of a new SaaS product company (EdSight).

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Led hands-on, in-market opportunity discovery via the deployment of entrepreneurial management approaches with multiple Rackspace teams. Worked directly with customers and employees, applied Lean-Startup and Customer Development approaches and to uncovered hidden opportunities for product growth, and go-to-market improvements. Resulted in repeatable, scalable growth for multiple product and marketing efforts, and increased capability of staff to design, test, and execute new business models.

Built consumer SaaS product through leadership in software development and operations, which led to the acquisition by Scripps Networks Interactive / The Food Network. Established and led product development and operations from day one through to 1.7 million registered users, across multiple platforms. Our work was featured as case studies in both "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" by Eric Ries and "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya.

Austin, Tx, Us

Led enterprise SaaS company, software development, and operations through multiple pivots to exit via acquisition by Workstreamer. Led turn-around in technology efforts to stabilize the existing product, and through multiple pivots to create two new products. FiveRuns delivered SaaS products for instant, affordable web business intelligence, application management, and application performance tools.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

I provided virtual CTO / VP of Development services to a variety of software product development efforts that were facing critical challenges to success.

Built educational SaaS product from existing services business, through leadership in product, software development, and operations, which led to an acquisition by Macmillan Publishers, Ltd. Led the pivot from a services business to a product business through the creation of product management, and the growth of the product software development and operations efforts. Sapling Systems delivered a higher-education SaaS eLearning platform, that was created out of a professional services content creation business.

Reston, Va, Us

Advised public-sector executives and staff on technical and business management, which led to avoiding $1mm in vendor charges and leveling the playing field with vendors on one of the largest public-sector software projects in Texas at the time.

Dir. of Engr. and Chief Architect, effectively served as divisional CTO, for both Commerce and Communities divisions of excite.com. Provided technical and managerial leadership in the development of a number of distributed n-tier web-based & desktop apps., utilizing a variety of languages and technologies.Co-authored and evangelized the business vision and strategy for Communities at Excite; instrumental in reaching a peak of 50 million page views / day, which accounted for 50% of the Excite's total traffic.Technical leadership in acquisitions of webshots.com and Throw (ex. Excite Clubs), both of which were highly successful products that at peak generated a combined average of over 20 million page views per day.Retained to turn-around an engr. team and product line in chaos, resulted in a recognized renewal in the product line and the engr. team, with a focus on software engr. excellence, individual responsibility and the preeminence of the end user experience.

Houston, Texas, Us

Championed the users perspective in all phases of product development by leading a diverse team of engineers, artists, designers and human-factors experts. Product recognized for its high degree of usability.Invented, patented and developed a framework for creating dynamically customizable user interfaces in a distributed object environment. The implementation included over 8,000 lines of C++ and formed the basis for a series of client products used to manage Tandems fault-tolerant UNIX systems.Collaborated with fault-tolerant experts to apply the architecture for user interface customization to the customizable management of policies for fault-tolerance. This work resulted in additional patents pending.nEvangelized internally developed technologies and processes to potential partners and in-house development groups. Results included adoption by several groups.

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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us