Technology and business leader with fifteen years of proven Engineering leadership experience. Hands-on change agent and problem-solver with a passion for technology. Skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing, deriving, leading, developing/implementing solutions, and partnering closely with business leaders and C-level executives. Excels in developing and motivating highly-focused teams that successfully meet and exceed company objectives.
- Consistent history of successfully defining technical strategies and then executing them to fruition.
- Solid record of growing technology organizations from infancy to maturity with dramatic bottom-line results.
- Exemplary record of utilizing remote domestic and offshore development teams, turning around failing organizations, and delivering great products with long-term supportability.
- Leverages wide-ranging talents in computer technology and staff leadership, to effectively manage organizational change, mitigate risk, infuse new ideas, and provide project deliverables on-time and within budget.
- Technologist and influential business leader with the ability to shape concepts to full-production revenue-generating solutions.
- Exceptional implementation methodology, able to reduce both costs and time-to-market, while increasing quality.
- Motivational leader who inspires confidence, leads and motivates by example, cultivates a positive work environment, and promotes a spirit of teamwork and idea-sharing to build high-performing divisions.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Technology Architecture & Integration
- Offshore Outsourcing
- IT Delivery & Project Management
- Leading Edge Software Development
- Budgeting & Cost Control
- Electronic Commerce Strategy/Development
- Startups & Turnarounds
- Staff Management & Team Building
- Organizational & Staff Development
- Strategic Analysis & Internal Consulting
- Vendor Selection & Management
- .Net & J2EE Development Environments
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Extensive experience developing and launching new products and programs:
- Automated remote energy management and monitoring V1.0 for EnerNOC.
- Media delivery and playback system V1.0 for R3Media.
- Sponsor-based K-12 Web sites for EdTech Networks.
- Mutual Fund Processing Image and Workflow system for First Data Corporation.
- Thin Film Automated Inspection system for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Successful turn-around of publicly traded firm after a complete Executive restructuring and seven consecutive quarter loss. Brought company to break even in six months and profitability after that.
- Spearheaded EnerNOC’s startup corporate services business model, driving 400% valuation increase in first 18 months, leading to a very positive IPO.
- Introduced and implemented the next generation(s) of technology and methodology to a private Direct Marketing firm which had strongly entrenched manual procedures and outdated software. Transitioned from a project-based methodology to a cost effective customized product with a single code base.
- Transitioned Verilytics, on very limited budget, from consulting/R&D to efficiently-run product development model. Executed both technical and organizational change management.
- Dramatically increased MotherNature.com capacity tenfold by reconfiguring hardware, optimizing database access, and migrating scripts to COM modules.
- Turned around failing restructuring and implementation of First Data Corporation’s Intelligent Workstation product, successfully bringing product to market after three-month delay.