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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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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