I enjoy difficult challenges and a collaborative approach to innovation. My engineering experience and long tenure in developing and managing successful partnerships and product strategies have given me a unique perspective on achieving breakthrough results.My work at Degrees of Change focuses on one of the most strategic problems facing our society: the tremendous, irreversible waste of talent that results from bright, talented young people that do not complete post- high school education, or who fail to even attempt it. Degrees of Change has proven that this problem can be solved. We are working to scale the solution to have meaningful impact.I also provide consulting through Degrees of Change to organizations seeking to improve their capacity to collect, analyze and act on data to improve their performance.Previously, my career included technical alliances, software design, development and implementation, product management, international consulting, complex process optimization, very large-scale realtime data collection, and market analysis.Specific highlights include:− Managed VMware’s relationships with Microsoft and Oracle.− Developed a strategic alliance between Compaq's StorageWorks Division and Microsoft, leading to a dramatic turnaround in customer satisfaction and strategic cooperation.− Technical Sales rep for hardware, software and services; consistently exceeded quota.− Designed and implemented custom and packaged software systems in regulated pharmaceutical industry environments.− Engineering consultant specializing in realtime data collection, process control and optimization to multinational corporations with independent delivery responsibilities in Asia, Europe and North America.