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Portland, OR, US

• Cayuse, a fast-paced series-C startup, facilitates research institutions and companies in advancing research activities worldwide. My teams focus on developing customer-facing B2B SaaS applications and platform.
• Lead 30+ engineers across 12 fully remote teams, including international teams across Europe, Asia and North America.
• Led product development and operations for 100% of our revenue generating products, brought from 6 acquisitions, each with differing tech stacks.
• Reduced critical security incidents by 90% and increased customer quality score in 75% of the quarters.
• Provide strategy and coaching for Agile implementation to both Engineering and peers in other departments.
• Incorporated AI driven tooling providing directed troubleshooting and QA support, translating to a 90% reduction in MTTR.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• HMH acquired NWEA at the end of April, 2023. My title and responsibilities are the same.We produce an EdTech, AWS cloud-based, SaaS product utilized by multiple states across the US to deliver educational assessments.
• Accountable for delivery and strategy with product and platform engineering teams developing customer and internal-facing functionality in a primarily serverless, AWS cloud-based environment. (AWS Lambda, Dynamo.
• Led teams building end to end systems and currently work in areas such as data analytics, assessment engines, content creation, developer / build tools, as well as supporting research and AI/ML teams.
• I helped create our division and for the first 2 years we operated like an embedded start-up, requiring new processes to be defined and implemented.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and others to build a unified product and technical roadmap.
• Delivered on a major customer initiative using 50% less resources and with a condensed timeline.

Portland, OR, US

• We produce an EdTech, AWS cloud-based, SaaS product utilized by multiple states across the US to deliver educational assessments to students. These high-stake solutions require scalability, security, and cost.
• Accountable for delivery and strategy with product and platform engineering teams developing customer and internal-facing functionality in a primarily serverless, AWS cloud-based environment. (AWS Lambda, Dynamo.
• Led teams building end to end systems and currently work in areas such as data analytics, assessment engines, content creation, developer / build tools, as well as supporting research and AI/ML teams.
• I helped create our division and for the first 2 years we operated like an embedded start-up, requiring new processes to be defined and implemented.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and others to build a unified product and technical roadmap.
• Delivered on a major customer initiative using 50% less resources and with a condensed timeline.

Portland, OR, US

Accomplishments are included in the Sr. Director title.

Portland, OR, US

• Provided leadership to multiple development teams across multiple projects, accountable for both development delivery and quality. We developed SaaS products providing educational assessment services to institutions.
• Managed six separate functional teams, including contractors, across multiple disciplines with an overall turnover rate of less than 3% across my tenure.
• Part of a leadership team that drove major technical innovation, switching our staff to utilize cloud-based development with a new tech stack and architecture, over an intensive nine-month period.
• Built initial cloud services covering both partner-facing and internal stakeholder needs.
• Co-led AWS cost reduction initiative that produced savings of >40% in 6 months.
• Improved year over year velocity within team by more than 40%.

Brentwood, Tennessee, US

• Top level technology resource providing leadership to engineers, QA analysts, DBAs and business intelligence analysts. We use.Net C# and Angular for web development, web services and integration with 3rd party.
• Revamped our development methodology to use Scrum and Kanban including coaching of staff across departments, acting as Scrum Master and the introduction of JIRA.
• Revamped QA process to include more accountability, introduce UAT testing, centralize our test coverage (TestRail) and increase automation.
• Reduced the need for operational support development by over 8% in just two months.
• Manage the development of code processing over $25 million in payments per year.
• Represented software in SOC2 compliance response and resolution.

Austin, Texas, US

• Provided leadership to developers and business analysts utilizing Agile development to create enterprise technology solutions. The solutions involved.Net C# Windows and web development, web services, Salesforce.
• Managing development and act as technical product owner for our primary field product responsible for $8.9 million in revenue. I transformed our produce from end-of-life to a fully invested product.
• Recognized with customer awards for “Teamwork”, “Agility”, "Going the Extra Mile" and a company award for partnership. My work directly led to the renewal of a multimillion-dollar contract.
• Managed software development for the Residential division including a multi-year, 9-phase software automation project spanning multiple teams and involving our largest client.
• Managing development of a consumer facing web site for our largest client that serves thousands of applicants a week and is responsible for processing over $10 million a year in rebates.
• Managed development of an invoice processing system that reduced operational time by 30%.

Bs, Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science