Stealth Startup

Building the next generation of 3D Spatial Generative AI tools for virtual identity.

Founder & CEO

Better Than Services

Serving as an advisor to the leadership at BTS, a top-notch AWS cloud consulting firm.

Advisor

HungryFriend

Investor / Advisor

Caylent

Investor

Caylent is a global cloud-native Professional and Managed Services company serving clients that range from paradigm-shattering Startups to Fortune 500 heavyweights.  Caylent has an innovative and human-centered approach to consulting to help customers get the most out of their investments in people and technology.

I managed the Service Delivery organization at Caylent, which is a global workforce of 250+ consultants organized into practices such as Cloud Migration & Modernization (CMM), Cloud Data Engineering (CDE), Cloud Native Applications (CNA), Cloud DevOps (CDO), Cloud Security & Compliance (CSC), Cloud Platform Monitoring (CPM), Cloud Engagement Management (CEM).  I also managed Delivery Operations teams such as the Project Coordination Office (PCO) and Customer Success Management (CSM).

During my time at Caylent I combined several delivery groups, established new practices and grew the revenue and headcount of the Service Delivery organization by 350%, while improving the gross margin by 120% through management of the P&L. I established strong delivery practices while maintaining industry-leading CSAT scores and supported an incredible team of delivery leaders.

Vice President of Service Delivery

Ackolyte Consulting

Ackolyte is a boutique AWS cloud consulting firm based in Redmond, Washington.  It was acquired by People Tech Group, Inc. in November 2022.

President and Founder

Slalom Build

Slalom is a leading business and technology consulting firm, headquartered in Seattle with offices in the United States, Canada, UK, Asia Pacific and Europe.  Slalom's model consists of local offices backed by a network of global Build Centers and Regional Delivery Teams that provide specific expertise and scale.

At Slalom Build, I created the Cloud Infrastructure division, which later joined with the DevOps and Security teams to create CDS (Cloud, DevOps and Security).  This group was recently renamed to Platform Engineering.

I was involved in the entire engagement lifecycle, from pre-sales client workshops through to contract generation, team modeling, staffing and engagement management.  I interviewed, recruited, trained and managed high-performing technical teams who focused on client delivery.  I scaled these teams across the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to Florida, the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego, and across the regions of Canada.

I also co-developed a few practices including Machine Learning and XR (eXtended Reality).

Senior Director - Platform Engineering (formerly Cloud and DevSecOps)

Forever Living Products International

At Forever Living Products International, I led a team of dedicated software engineers in the design and development of world-class, user-facing products and services.  The software is thoroughly internationalized, supporting more than 30 languages in over 140 countries.  Leveraging the power of the Salesforce force.com platform, Google Apps, CloudBees PaaS and Amazon Web Services, we delivered a suite of both free and subscription-based tools that empower our distributors with the ability to analyze sales and recruitment data, track leads, design customized websites, place and track orders for products, and communicate with their sales team in new an interesting ways.  In the process, I mentored and trained the next generation of truly phenomenal software engineers, encouraging them to share their knowledge and insights with each other, and bringing a passion and love for the work.

Lead Software Engineer

US Airways (now American Airlines)

At US Airways I managed the back-office development team responsible for travel reservations (web and IVR), pricing, time tracking, badging systems and boarding pass generation.  Leveraged Oracle Fusion Middleware and custom integrated SOA architecture to provide identity management and data-layer services.  Led a team of engineers in the development and maintenance of TravelUS, a website used to make online flight reservations for employees and travelers using guest passes.  Worked with a team from Nuance to provide web services which integrated a customized IVR system into our local travel databases, and provided some pass-through messaging to the SHARES reservation system using a custom-built JCA connector.

Technologies Lead

General Dynamics Mission Systems

- Led a group of System Architects and Systems Engineers in requirements development, design and documentation of a large distributed military planning application.
- Provided architectural guidance to a large, geographically distributed group of ~500 Software Engineers.
- Performed design and code reviews
- Participated in partner telecons to facilitate overall system interoperability
- Advised on large component upgrades and version changes
- Performed impact analysis for changes to requirements
- Revised and refined the project SDLC methodology
- Gave educational presentations when new technology was introduced

Systems Architect [under contract from E-Code Inc]

Vcommerce

[Note: Vcommerce was acquired by Channel Intelligence, which was then acquired by Google]
I was initially brought on board at Vcommerce as part of the Client Business Systems team as a Java Developer.  My primary role was to resolve bugs and add enhancements relating to client-specific issues within the Vcommerce platform.  The platform itself is a large multi-tenant order fulfillment and order management software suite written primarily in Java.  Our clients included Overstock.com, Target.com, Barney's New York, BJ's Wholesale and several other large online retailers.

Java Developer

Experienced technical executive with a proven track record of success.  I build, train and lead high-performing teams of technical experts in all areas of technology, including Blockchain, XR, Machine Learning, Cloud Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps and InfoSec.

I keep my skills sharp and write code nearly every day, because bringing new things and ideas into the world is what life is all about.  Currently an investor (in) and advisor (of) several businesses, and also CEO of a really cool stealth-mode startup that is about to seriously change the XR space with some new Generative AI techniques.

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