Crafting Software enables high growth companies to quickly create highly scalable, fault-tolerant solutions for high volume payment processing, online gaming, and next generation SaaS and PaaS. Our platforms process millions of transactions daily. We are expert in Elixir and Erlang, and able to provide complete solutions including front-end and mobile.

Responsible for revenue growth and strategy as the company pursued and successfully attained PE investment. Company is now called Veltris.

Cognizant made its largest-ever strategic acquisition of Softvision to create a Software Product Engineering horizontal business unit. Responsible for incoming revenue stability and creating new revenue at Cognizant accounts in Comms Media & Technology; and Life Sciences. Led team in revenue achievement of $95M in 2020.

In 2016, Softvision merged with another company in a PE roll-up. My focus was on digital engineering sales and solutions. My portfolio was 33% of overall company revenue. Delivered $50M+ in annual revenue, contributing to a $250M increase in the company’s valuation before selling to Cognizant in 2018.

As the first U.S. employee, I created additional ongoing annual revenue of $25M (35% of total revenue); built a 6-person U.S. team to do sales, account mgmt and solutioning at net $0 SG&A cost; implemented a scalable sales and sales ops methodology; and established a Las Vegas delivery center – all of which translated to a $150M (150%) increase in the value of the company. Managed 60 accounts including 35 new logos across a variety of verticals.

Crowdflower provided an AI-powered PaaS for customers who want efficiency and quality when managing crowdsourcing tasks on a variety of industry platforms including Amazon Mechanical Turk.Brought VC-quality structure and supervision to engineering team. Managed a 20-person team of engineers and data scientists with budget of $2M. Worked closed with Chief Product Officer to execute on product roadmap generating $3M in revenue ($2M product, $1M services). Implemented Agile methodology resulting in more predictable development and CI/CD delivery. The AWS-based platform processed up to 3M transactions/day for customers including Google, Facebook and eBay.

Scratch.fm provided an online music service which enabled DJs and other users to create and share playlists of music. Architected product from prototype to beta launch and managed implementation by 5-person offshore team.

Servo enabled mobile operators and handset manufacturers to skin Android and play on a level playing field with Google. Provided product management and engineering leadership for the creation of Servo’s first product: unified search of all Android databases (contacts, calendars, files, apps.) Product shipped on 10M+ China Mobile phones. Managed a 12-person distributed engineering team in China.

Core Mobility developed OEM mobile and cloud solutions for wireless carriers and handset vendors. Led 60-person product engineering team, with 7 direct reports and $6M annual budget. Implemented a hybrid agile development methodology that resulted in more predictable delivery dates vs. previous waterfall model. Launched a cloud-based synchronization product embedded in 1M+ original Samsung Galaxy phones generating $5M+ of ongoing revenue. Created and launched the firmware for Verizon Push-to-talk solution.

EasyReach provided a consumer mobile search solution - enabling individuals to use their mobile device to easily access, share and act on data and documents residing on their desktop computers. Raised $1.5M in seed funding, built a team of 10 and achieved product revenue of $1.5M.

VP Sales - EMEA (Apr 2004 - Jul 2004): Moved to Europe for 3 months to re-organize the sales teams in UK, DACH and Italy. Achieved company's first $1M of sales in Europe in a calendar quarter.CTO (Jun 2002 - Mar 2004): Outward-facing CTO, with specific focus on M&A. Also responsible for portfolio of 100+ patents. Established a technical vision, cut 5 non-strategic products ($3M in annual costs) and identified 300 potential M&A targets to help us achieve that vision. Personally visited over 100 in U.S. and Europe. Led the technical diligence of 5 acquisitions ranging in size from $1M to $60M. M&A execution resulted in stock price increase of 3400%.VP Engineering (Apr 2001 - Jun 2002): Led a U.S. product engineering team of 25 people and created a 125-person offshore team in Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Generated product revenue of $32M and services revenue of $6M.VP Professional Services (Jul 2000 – Apr 2001): Managed a P&L of $6M in revenue and $3M in expenses. 40 FTEs and 10 offshore contractors produced 25 customer products. Generated $10M in additional license revenue.

Dry Creek provided a quick and easy way for internet companies to enable their PC and PDA users to synchronize data to web sites. Completed 15 licensing deals ($2M in sales.) Sold to Intellisync (Nasdaq: SYNC).

Pumatech provided the world’s leading data synchronization solutions to consumers. Managed a 55-person product engineering team which developed Tranxit, the leading infrared file transfer software, generating $20M in annual revenue and shipping on 90% of the world’s laptops. Also created and led a team of Japanese speaking engineers, which produced Japanese market products for NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and others, generating $1M in annual revenue. Editor, and 1 of 3 primary authors, of the IrDA IrMC (Infrared Mobile Communications) standard which enabled exchange of PIM data, files and isochronous voice between devices. This work became the basis of OMA SyncML and 3GPP TS 27.901 - used on 5 billion+ phones and laptop that ship every year which enable you to share contact data and sync data between phones, computers and the Cloud.

Real World capitalized on the convergence of mobile device and wide-area wireless networks, enabling access and manipulation of enterprise data. Raised $1M in corporate and VC financing. Achieved sales of $3M. Sold to Pumatech (NASDAQ:PUMA) in July 1997.

Held a variety of Senior engineering roles. Specialized in creating low-level communications software. Shipped 4 products in 5 years including telephony APIs in MacOS and a TCP/IP software router.

Led teams which produced products and systems interconnecting mainframe, minis and telephony. Created the prototype, and then led the the team that created Telebroker - the world’s first touch-tone trading solution - which in 3 years increased Schwab’s revenue and customer base by 50%, $150M and 500K, respectively.