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Lead development of control applications and firmware for S&C products. Establish and achieve aggressive, transformative goals for the Embedded Software organization by hiring top talent, creating high performance teams, inspiring success, and overcoming numerous obstacles. Consistently meet challenging delivery timelines while delivering high-quality software and driving process improvements. The embedded development team manages multiple simultaneous projects of varying complexity and duration and supports a variety of communications methods and protocols.

Led a geographically dispersed team of wireless and IP networking engineers. Developed technology strategy for LTE, proprietary OFDM, and MU-MIMO based on market objectives and available spectrum. Drove the creation of executable site designs to support an annual build plan of hundreds of new locations. Led the successful deployment of LTE with carrier aggregation using pre-5G /CBRS technology to deliver 100+ Mbps services in Utah and proprietary MU-MIMO systems which provided 50 Mbps service network wide.

Led the development of new products and strategic customer relationships. Joined company pre-revenue and drove growth to significant sales. Led Product Engineering, provided product line management, and owned OEM Business Development. Built significant OEM relationships, released 40 distinct product models, and established domestic and international channel partnerships that contributed over 50% of company revenue. Led team of hardware and software engineers to develop software-defined wireless products, computer aided manufacturing (CAM) systems, and network management applications (NMS).

Product leader who drove the development, delivery, marketing, revenue and profit of multiple product lines from concept to multi-million dollar businesses. Maintained channel and OEM relationships across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceana. • Led software development and implementation of a streaming-cipher for unreliable wireless links using AES and Galois Counter Mode (GCM) as well as associated key-management techniques, obtained FIPS 140-2 validation, and NSA Suite B compliance to support a military application.• Brokered solution with a global OEM to use TDMA as the foundation for a peer-to-peer MESH technology resulting in sales of over 10,000 units a year.• Drove successful solar field command and control proof of concepts in Italy and Spain for multi-billion dollar utility companies and was instrumental in landing FreeWave’s first opportunity with Saudi Aramco.• Achieved a 500% increase in product line revenue in two years by positioning products for large volume commercial OEMs and generating sustainable revenue growth for embedded products lines.• Launched FreeWave’s first global product line to meet the needs of OEMs for internationally shippable wireless products.• Implemented a phase-gate New Product Introduction (NPI) process to select development projects that emphasized unique and valuable product concepts while seeking to maximize long-term profitability.

Riverton, Wy, Us

Led geographically dispersed team of engineers, technicians, project managers and sales staff that designed, deployed, and managed wireless networks for Oil & Gas companies and Wireless ISPs. Ran a network operations center, supervised field services, and managed radio tower construction projects.

Created the enterprise blueprint for information security and successfully focused the program on standards, change management, risk analysis, awareness, and monitoring. Handled incidents involving numerous partners within the health insurance and financial services industries. Designed and implemented physical, administrative, and technical controls to safeguard information covered by HIPAA, GLB, and SOX.• Founded the computer security incident response team (CSIRT) to support multiple divisions and business units while minimizing incident response time, maximizing protection, and meeting compliance objectives. • Aligned security expenditures with business objectives by creating a risk assessment and management approach based on ROI.• Redesigned the enterprise network infrastructure through a series of strategic incremental changes without a budget or officially sponsored program. Seized opportunity created by a fast-tracked datacenter move to successfully culminate the project. • Organically developed in-house computer forensics team by mentoring Security Operations staff and guiding their annual training plan reducing investigation times and outsourcing costs. • Senior technical resource for Cisco routers, switches, ASA and Checkpoint Firewalls, VPN, IPS/IDS, RSA SecurID, and Bluecoat content filtering platforms.

Managed several consulting engagements with commercial and government clients as both a project manager and a subject matter expert for Network Engineering and Information Security while supporting the sales organization as a key member of opportunity pursuit teams.• Protected $400 Million in annual revenues for the Colorado Lottery and Powerball from internal and external threats through verification and validating of their security mechanisms.• Developed security testing and verification programs and conducted reviews based on relevant standards, and industry specified requirements. Strong understanding of ITIL from both Visible Ops and BS 15000 perspectives.• Assessed network security controls and identified risks for the Commonwealth of Virginia.• Developed SCADA network infrastructure and software for the Hanging Lake Tunnel operations center.• Designed and implemented centralized access control systems for the state of Colorado’s network infrastructure.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

Master Of Arts - Biblical Literature And Languages, Ancient Near Eastern And Biblical Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Certificate Of Entrepreneurship Studies, Entrep