Led engineering department with 150+ employees and contractors and total budget exceeding $15M. Collaborated with product, marketing, sales, support, and key stakeholders to develop strategic product plans. Delivered Cloud-native, web-scale SaaS products to market, improved reliability, and response to production issues.• Transformed engineering department to scalable structure, leading to predictable and sustainable growth, resulting in 100% growth over 2 years, reducing attrition to 17% annually.• Managed a team of 10 managers and principal engineers representing 8 Scrum teams.• Negotiated and managed $6M in annual off-shore and near-shore development engagement• Implemented C4 architecture model, CI/CD, automated testing using BDD practices, increasing engineering maturity, improving product delivery speed, responsiveness, and reliability.• Measured key performance indicators, including cycle time, escaped defect velocity, time to respond and resolve production issues, causing teams to evaluate and improve development and operational performance.• Formalized professional development plans, encouraging continued technical and leadership growth.• Standardized job descriptions with skill ladders, aligned internal titles and compensation with industry standards, correctly classifying and compensating employees, achieving 100% gender pay equity, retaining key performers.• Restructured engineering group to include both QA and DevOps functions, allowing for rapid and accountable software development process.• Led Agile transformation that empowered individual teams to be accountable for delivery and support of products, while providing for predictable delivery of products and features.• Converted all operations to fully remote while meeting delivery commitments.• Delivered SaaS products using modern tech stack including AWS, GitHub, Angular, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Java, Cucumber, SonarCloud, Docker, K8, Terraform, NewRelic.

Created and led 2 Scrum teams, 12 direct reports. Implemented effective agile practices and tools. Developed critical new product features.• Hired and chartered 2 Scrum teams of engineers and QA testers, delivering new product functionality.• Improved engineering maturity by using test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, and cycle time, driving retrospectives.• Delivered revenue-generating features to core products, using AWS, Angular, Cucumber, Jenkins, Docker, K8, Ansible.

Managed teams of software developers and contractors. Implemented agile process and software practices across department. Estimated and bid projects. Delivered software products to clients within contract time and budget. Assessed and developed skills of team members. Led strategic business planning.• Developed engineering as core business practice, leading to $1.5M in revenue.• Implemented modern Cloud-based technology and standard agile practices, allowing for rapid prototyping and development of front-end software.• Estimated and bid multiple software projects, achieving 90% rate of on-time and budget delivery.• Introduced WCAG standards, tools leading to accessible applications.

Architect and Technical Leader for Mission Critical SaaS Products:• OECD PISA for Schools Assessment• Universal Assessment Platform (UAP)• NWEA NGen Assessment Engine• Delivered world-class, highly available, WCAG compliant international student assessment product. • Built healthy cross-functional engineering teams of employees and contractors. • Established architecture standards and practices. • Delivered international assessment product to students in under 6 months.• Negotiated service agreements with Hitachi and other software contracting firms, increasing engineering capacity by 100% while meeting budget goals.• Implemented effective CI/CD model, allowing team to deliver fixes, improvements, functionality 24/7.• Rearchitected legacy assessment systems to allow for extensible, API based platform that scale. • Collaborated with key business and technology leaders, created strategic architecture and technology roadmaps. Led architecture team, developed multi-product platform architecture. • Designed core platform, shared services, RESTful B2B interfaces. • Implemented highly scalable, low latency assessment engine.• Redesigned assessment engine, scaling 2M+ transactions / minute with sub-second response times and 99.9% uptime. • Led cross-functional teams, developing, testing, and integrating assessment engine into NWEA’s core product.

• Led cross-functional team in critical effort, making core product stable and scalable. • Introduced application monitoring and analytics to product, measuring KPI. Implemented automated functional, load and failure mode testing with JMeter. • Managed offshore manual testing team. Participated in companywide Scrum implementation.• Collaborated as lead developer for in-product reports and BI functionality with Java, Hibernate, BIRT, designing and implementing product reporting schema on PostgreSQL. • Built data management services using Java and Talend.

Working with Spring, Hibernate, JBoss. Mmmm, good.