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Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha Metropolitan Area

Vice President of Software Engineering at NTT Security Holdings driving the development of an innovative cloud-native XDR security service and managing the operation of two current cloud security platforms and a team of 68 engineers contributing to a revenue of $35 million.* Leading a 68-person Software, Data Science, and DevOps organization building a cloud-native XDR security platform on Azure, advancing the capabilities of our machine learning threat detection engine, and operating… Show more Vice President of Software Engineering at NTT Security Holdings driving the development of an innovative cloud-native XDR security service and managing the operation of two current cloud security platforms and a team of 68 engineers contributing to a revenue of $35 million.* Leading a 68-person Software, Data Science, and DevOps organization building a cloud-native XDR security platform on Azure, advancing the capabilities of our machine learning threat detection engine, and operating two existing custom cloud security platforms servicing 750 customers supporting $35M in revenue. Led solution consolidations of AWS and Azure infrastructure resulting in a $1.5M YOY cost savings.* Streamlined agile development, planning, and support onto the Atlassian software suite to improve operational efficiency by 90% and enable NTTSH to reduce staffing by 40%. Show less

Led the development of Spreetail's e-commerce marketplace and logistics platforms, supporting 18 different e-commerce marketplaces and websites.* Led significant organizational restructuring to accommodate rapid growth, expedite feature delivery, and improve quality. These changes supported growing to 110 engineers in 12 months and provided the foundation for future growth and personal development while decreasing turnover from 15% to 2%.* Built the technical roadmap for… Show more Led the development of Spreetail's e-commerce marketplace and logistics platforms, supporting 18 different e-commerce marketplaces and websites.* Led significant organizational restructuring to accommodate rapid growth, expedite feature delivery, and improve quality. These changes supported growing to 110 engineers in 12 months and provided the foundation for future growth and personal development while decreasing turnover from 15% to 2%.* Built the technical roadmap for software engineering and DevOps at Spreetail. Transitioned and optimized Spreetail's Azure cloud hosting infrastructure, leading to a 25% cost reduction and decreased system downtime by 65% during a period of 90% revenue growth. Show less

Greater Omaha Area

* Responsible for three geographically dispersed teams that develop core marketplace operations systems integrating 18 e-commerce marketplaces and Spreetail's e-commerce website. Grew teams by 2x to accommodate Spreetail's 100% year-over-year marketplace expansion while improving on-time delivery by 40%.* Integrated Okta’s Customer Identity Management into NodeJS/React-based e-commerce website on Google Cloud. The Okta rollout was expanded to cover 2,500 internal employees to improve… Show more * Responsible for three geographically dispersed teams that develop core marketplace operations systems integrating 18 e-commerce marketplaces and Spreetail's e-commerce website. Grew teams by 2x to accommodate Spreetail's 100% year-over-year marketplace expansion while improving on-time delivery by 40%.* Integrated Okta’s Customer Identity Management into NodeJS/React-based e-commerce website on Google Cloud. The Okta rollout was expanded to cover 2,500 internal employees to improve Spreetail's security posture by 90%. Show less

The Senior Manager at Google is responsible for analytics, training, and documentation to standardize hardware operations processes in Google's data centers. This organization consists of more than 1200 members.* Led 3 globally dispersed teams responsible for installing, operating, and removing Google servers and network infrastructure. Expanded teams from 8 to 24 members worldwide to accommodate the organization's growth from 350 to 1200 associates. Mentor teams in program management… Show more The Senior Manager at Google is responsible for analytics, training, and documentation to standardize hardware operations processes in Google's data centers. This organization consists of more than 1200 members.* Led 3 globally dispersed teams responsible for installing, operating, and removing Google servers and network infrastructure. Expanded teams from 8 to 24 members worldwide to accommodate the organization's growth from 350 to 1200 associates. Mentor teams in program management resulting in 18 promotions * Created an analytics team to support strategic decisions within hardware operations. Introduced simulations to validate new operational processes to reduce the time and cost of new initiatives. Introduced machine learning methodologies into the machine operations parts reuse program that lowered the cost of replacement parts by $60M annually.* Architected applications with SRE teams to improve compliance with operational mandates by 30% Show less

Led the planning, architecture, development, and operations of Solutionary’s ActiveGuard security platforms. The primary toolset was Java, Spring, Oracle, Postgres, and Linux. Grew software and platform engineering teams from 10 to 40 engineers. * Primary responsibility for the ActiveGuard Monitoring and Saas platform. Led the development of a new messaging-based implementation that increased event log monitoring by 20x while limiting infrastructure costs. Rearchitected SaaS… Show more Led the planning, architecture, development, and operations of Solutionary’s ActiveGuard security platforms. The primary toolset was Java, Spring, Oracle, Postgres, and Linux. Grew software and platform engineering teams from 10 to 40 engineers. * Primary responsibility for the ActiveGuard Monitoring and Saas platform. Led the development of a new messaging-based implementation that increased event log monitoring by 20x while limiting infrastructure costs. Rearchitected SaaS applications using Spring to improve developer efficiency by 50% and reduce application costs by 80%. Show less

Senior leader responsible for software engineering and operations. * Created a retail management solution and data warehouse for clients to manage weekly nationwide print advertising program development and ad effectiveness. This initiative secured multi-year contracts valued at $25M with three retail customers.