IT Manager for a team of IT professionals that support GIS solutions for the enterprise and technology solutions for Douglas County land management divisions.

* Responsible for managing IT programs\projects for Douglas County* Utilizing Agile project management methodologies to dramatically reduce project delivery times* Significant domain knowledge in all areas of regional government* Utilize SAFe concepts for scaling Agile throughout the enterprise* Responsible for initiatives to mature the PMO

• Created and Managed the Software Development Center, including a QA, Test, and Support departments• Reduced the IT budget in half and still met every product release deadline.• Managed the development and deployment of 10 commercial product lines• Managed the transfer of technology for the sale of CTG to Usurf America and then to Zkid Network• Established a scalable/reliable architecture for 24x7 operations• Matured the software organization using Unified Process and CMM principals• Developed proprietary technologies for securing desktops and Internet traffic• Integrated SalesFuel for managing sales/marketing efforts• Managed CRM integration project, Epicore• Implemented multiple conversion marketing and online marketing initiatives• Extensive graphic development using the Adobe Creative Suite• Key Development Technologies: HTML, C#, .NET, ASP, VB, MS SQL Server, C++, SSL, MS Agent, XML, XSLT, UML, Adobe Create Suite

* Created and managed an IT Development Center with over 30 engineers* Matured the software organization using Unified Process and CMM principals. Used tailored processes defined within CMM to rapidly mature the software organization and meet product schedules and budgets for numerous commercial releases.* Created business plan, product road map, and instrumental in securing two rounds of venture capital funding.* Built a solid foundation for Company by founding the intellectual property for the SmartPath product line with a pivotal role in all phases from initial concept and high-level design through establishment of the entire technology arm.* Designed initial architecture for SmartPath, a product line currently deployed within finance and healthcare institutions providing secure policy-managed access to web resources. Designed to meet the scalability, performance and reliability requirements of a user-base of over one million.

* Responsible for managing the Software Development Organization of over 240 engineers* Managed large scale IT software projects with over 120 engineers for Fortune 100 companies* Served as Chief Architect and Project Manager on an MCI telecommunications project where we created a next generation customer service center* Project Manager and Chief Architect for an internally developed middleware product. Designed over two-dozen frameworks for extending the capabilities of distributed computing middleware solutions. Proven performance gains of over 400% on average projects* Project Manager and Chief Analyst for a startup healthcare company. Provided both business and development strategies* Project Manager and Chief Architect for a security company. Invented a security framework providing managed multi-factor authentication for access to Internet resources through utilization of plug & play authentication modules and a neural network policy engine* Held full responsibility for internal product directions, patent applications, system architecture, software process implementation, competitive analysis and all technical development areas* Project Manager and Chief Architect for a project where we created the first e-Commerce Internet portal for industrial chemicals. Required designing a scalable, high performance architecture supporting large-scale Internet transactions

* Served as Project Manager and/or systems engineer on numerous successful projects* Key player in winning numerous government proposals and managing these relationships* Invented a product to secure network legacy applications, providing user authentication and confidentiality of information, deployed in a Fortune 100 company. This was a first generation VPN solution* Designed system architecture and domain classes, and coded/tested over 100 classes for a Certificate Generation Capability Workstation, utilized in the production of PKI items such as X.509 certificates* Tapped as the Chief Designer and software engineer developing the complete secure IP/ICMP layer for Caneware, creating a first generation multi-layer security hardware appliance* Spearheaded the “Wireless Gateway application” project, an application developed on a Sun SPARC station running Solaris, to provide secure wireless communications* Formed the Software Quality Assurance Group and served as Project Manager for an initiative to increase department’s software process maturity, achieved CMM level 2 within 6 months, designed project home page using HTML/Java* Delivered numerous security solutions for several projects using extensive network security expertise; including invention of intellectual property secured through patent applications.* Project Manager and Architect of team instrumental in developing the X.509 standard and PKI technologies

* Served as Project Manager on several successful product releases.* Designed an adapter to simulate and test an avionics cockpit* Designed and integrated the software/hardware to test avionic navigation systems* Designed software subsystem for a missile system* Provided object-oriented software consulting services* Provided services to increase the maturity of several software organizations

* Chairman for Loral ATE Teams* Project Manager for test/simulation team. Managed over 10 employees* Electrical design development of SLR radar systems* Invented a Test Adapter that reduced the development time of simulations by over 30%, adapter received recognition and designed was utilized by other divisions* Developed QA processes and procedures for the ATE team, reduction of development times by over 50%* Achieved top 2% software development performance benchmarks; won numerous achievement awards