SUMMARY

Software development leader with a background in driving revenues through team building, management, and innovation. Proven success in managing teams with a wide range of skill sets in diverse industries and locations. Skilled in finding creative and innovative solutions to problems and being the catalyst to drive others to do the same.

LEADERSHIP

Significant experience in multiple industries building teams, maturing process (focusing on Agile), and ensuring cross team and cross company collaboration to deliver high impact value.

  • Globally distributed teams
  • Local and Remote Employees
  • Managers and individual contributors
  • All aspects of the SDLC (design, development, testing, delivery, and support)
  • Collaboration, Transparency, and Productivity
  • Agile execution

TECHNOLOGIES

Experiences leading diverse technology teams to deliver scalable, performant, and robust solutions

  • Enviornements: AWS, Azure, On-Prem
  • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, ADX,
  • Languages: Java, C#, C++, JavaScript
  • Frameworks: Spring, Struts, React Native, Vue, Node

PATENTS

None of these were done alone, but in total they are a testimate to creativeity and collaboration.

  • United States Patent Application 63405012 “System and Method for Preparing a Hybrid Electric Vehicle for Operation in a Geographic Zone with an Operational Requirement” (2023)
  • United States Patent Application 63369401 “Cloud Based Data Analytics for Dynamic Battery Charge Strategy” (2022)
  • United States Patent 8,010,321 “Metrics independent and recipe independent fault classes”. (2011)
  • United States Patent 6,965,895 "Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Manufacturing Data". (2005)
  • United States Patent 5,991,277 "Primary Transmission Site Switching in a Multipoint Videoconference Environment Based on Human Voice". (1999)
  • United States Patent 5,768,263 "Method for Talk/Listen Determination and Multipoint Conferencing System Using Such Method". (1998)
  • United States Patent 5,594,725 "Process and System for Video Rate Control in a Multipoint Video Conference" (1997)

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin

Director Sofware Development

Hyliion, Austin TX | 2021 - 2024

Leading multiple teams of software developers across multiple disciplines to deliver significant value both on and off the truck. The commonality across it all is user facing value add functionality extracting and showcasing end to end system value.

  • On truck we have delivered a tightly integrated, highly flexible, IoT QNX based edge device supporting both telematics functionality for cloud connectivity and Android Applications for in cab information and control.
  • Off truck we have delivered full stack data collection, analytics and web applications with Vue, Node, Postgres, KQL and hosted in a Microsoft Azure environment.

Sr. Director Sofware Development

YapStone, Austin TX and Drogheda Ireland | 2017 - 2021

Lead globally distributed teams to design, develope, test, releas, and support Java micro-services deployed and managed in AWS for our new Transact Global Platform along with applications developed using REACT and Java Script to create new User Experiences on that platform for both customers and internal users.

  • Started in Austin, building a small Java development team to kick off a green field engineering program to build the next generation platform.
  • Relocated to Ireland and built a larger global technology organization spaning both the U.S. and Ireland. Growing and leading three teams plus product management to span the breadth of Yapstone's value proposition.

Director Sofware Development

Visa, Austin TX | 2015 - 2017

Built the Austin Software Development team from 2 to 16 in one year to lead the transformation of the Risk and Authentication organization by driving value though three key initiatives:

  • Leading the migration of development and QA to a Continuous Integration development process with automated builds, deployment, and testing to dramatically improve quality, productivity, and time to market.
  • Building a centralized model execution and deployment environment to facilitate consistency, scalability, and improve productivity across the analytics organization.
  • Supporting and enhancing the existing customer facing application to improve scalability, functionality, and usability.

Sr. Software Development Manager and
Austin Risk Product Development Site Lead

PayPal (EBay Inc.), Austin TX | 2008 - 2015

Lead and evolved the Austin based risk engineering platform team through its growth from 5 to 30 managers and engineers delivering java/Oracle based services and capabilities to facilitate fraud detection in the real time transactional flow.

  • Austin Risk PD Site Lead for 3 Managers and 30 Individual contributors responsible for a diverse set of applications and technologies aligned to the collection, analysis, simulation and decisioning of very large real time data streams.
  • Managed the design, implementation, and delivery of the next generation risk platform. This was a large and complex green field development program on a Java/Oracle platform that went across multiple development, business, and operational teams.
  • Initially hired to grow a new development team from 5 to 12 while managing the delivery of a software integration project to maximize the business value of a PayPal acquisition. This was one of PayPal's first projects to utilize a Java technology stack as opposed to the historic C++ applications. This project required managing resources in both San Jose and Austin while working with a peer development team in Israel.

Earlier Career Expierience and Growth

Applied Materials, Sr. Software Development Manager

Managed multiple teams responsible for 2 current and 2 legacy products representing over $15 million in revenue with distributed team of 17 individual contributors. Phoenix, Austin, Santa Clara, Atlanta, and France.

Global Knowledge Services, Software Development Manager

Built the software development team from one to seven prior to the Applied Materials acquisition. Grew the development team for the start-up, and delivered a product that attracted a buyer to the company in under 2 years. Served instrumentally in building the data analysis engine, the web-based interface, and the data warehouse platform that helped sell the company for about $10 million.

ClearCommerce Corporation, Software Components Development Manager

Led 15 people in enhancing the ClearCommerce Merchant Hosting Engine with risk and fraud detection products and components with complex, user-defined rules, rule-based decision trees, and neural analysis scoring systems. Utilized a web- based user interface for merchant configuration and control along with back-end applications such as shipping and tax calculators.

VTel, Sr. Software Development Manager

Ascended through positions of increasing responsibility from Engineer to Sr. Development Manager by consistently driving results through exceptional software development leadership.