Executive Coaching, Team Development, Effective Product Development, Coaching leaders and teams working through product challenges

VP Engineering at Tachyus where we create technology to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry.

NetBase extracts actionable insights from social & internal data for Global 2000 customers such as Coke and Yum! Brands using Natural Language Processing, Data Science & Machine Learning.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:Built and led world class, agile, data science, development and SaaS operations teams is six geographies: Santa Clara, Taipei, Heidelberg, Portland, and Kansas City. Grew team from 6 to 56 people, while maintaining less than 5% undesired attrition per year.• Increased 2016 feature delivery by 2x without increasing team size• Sustained 2 or 3-week scrum cycle for 5+ years• Team exceeded objectives 38 out of 42 quarters• Attracted talent from Microsoft, TrendMicro, Yahoo, etc.• Team has 14 patents granted or pendingDelivered highly scalable big data platform and application framework• Processing more than 250 million documents per day; 144 billion document active index• Less than 2 second latency• Deep NLP in 20 languages; shallow NLP in over 100 additional languages• Image analysis & metrics aggregated from millions of documents• Technologies include: Apache Lucene, Hadoop/HDFS/Spark, Kafka, Kestrel, Cassandra, Zookeeper, GWT and mySQLReliable SaaS Operations• Greater than 99.99% uptime• Year over year cost reductions with increased usage• 24 x 7 support with only 5 operations engineersBuilt strong strategic relationships• Forged close partnerships with Twitter, Softlayer, SAP & GNIP • Sold & delivered on 8-figure, 5-year partnership with Reed-ElsevierManaged budget of more than $15M with less than 2% variance from plan “Steve’s management expertise is the primary reason that NetBase’s engineering and operations teams were seldom on the ‘hot seat’ during his tenure. Steve knows how to get the most from an engineering team, while making the journey exciting and marshaling strength for strategic stretch drives. I’d work for him again in a heartbeat!” – Mark Bowles, NetBase Chief Technology Officer, 2009-2016

Language Crossing is a non-profit that supports cross-cultural education and understanding.

Firm specializing in effective product development, project management & rescue, and leadership development. • Clients included Fortune 500 and privately held companies. Example engagements included:• Helped a Fortune 500 client develop an innovative music discovery, sales and delivery system• Led development of scanner/communicator for large retailers• Turned around development organization and led client team in making a significantly successful company-defining technology decision leading to their IPO• Served as interim CEO for company developing innovative display technology• Led clients in defining and moving to appropriate agile development processes, resulting in shorter, more predictable and higher quality releases; enabled clients to respond to rapidly changing market conditions.

• Turned around Buyer team, establishing culture of commitment and quality; rebuilt trust and confidence within team and with enterprise customers• Reduced overall expenses by 30% through restructuring two somewhat discordant 130-person groups into a cohesive 120-person team • Led product releases that increased revenues by 20%

Privately financed, consumer-oriented e-commerce startup. Brought in by CEO and Board to focus team on execution. Responsible for Marketing, Engineering and Operations.

Helped build and lead 70-person international team of architects, chip designers and writers to deliver on largest Cadence professional services contract to date.

Led landmark software and hardware developments; built strategic partnerships.