I’m a passionate and accomplished technology executive with over 20 years of experience building and managing diverse, high-performing teams, with proven results leading growth and innovation for teams, products and organizations.
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Lead Interfolio's product engineering organization, including software engineering, architecture, QA and DevOps.
- Key leadership team member facilitating the acquisition of Interfolio by Elsevier.
- Championed our tier 3 support model, negotiating with an outsourced organization, evaluating talent and establishing a phased approach for success.
- Established a near-shore engineering strategy, partnering with a firm in Mexico to augment our engineering staff.
- Successfully advocated for establishing both the technical program and technical product manager roles.
- Increased diversity in hiring for the engineering team, especially in leadership positions.
- Partnered with product management to lead the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework to improve collaboration, planning and delivery.
- Rearchitected and modernized the platform authorization system for scale.
- Established the program management office for our product organizations.
- Established test and deployment automation goals and recruited leadership to migrate to full test automation.
- Completed the migration from snowflake servers to replaceable containers, managed by automation, for all production and non-production environments.
- Reduced AWS costs by 25% through detailed utilization analysis.
- Developed automation and bots to improve release cadence, achieving over 150 releases per year.
- Advocated for and directed successful certification under TX-RAMP and ISO27001
- Responded to technical RFPs for high value multi-year subscription contracts.
- Defined an architecture model to support regional hosting for international customers.
- Defined technology and architecture roadmap to align with our product roadmap.
- Partnered with product management to improve visibility into our development process and metrics.
Head of Digital Product and Software Delivery Architecture
Oversee architecture strategy for Capital One's consumer digital products, digital commerce solutions and software delivery tools.
- Recruited and hired experienced engineers and architects to support multiple product lines and product capabilities.
- Represented Enterprise Architecture on the Capital One Diversity and Inclusion in Technology group.
- Defined best practice architectures for Capital One's large-scale consumer products in AWS.
- Led architectural design process for large consumer partnership with Walmart.
- Partnered with Capital One's innovation labs to evaluate projects for promotion into the consumer product set.
- Helped consolidate the Capital One CI/CD pipelines into a single pipeline across products.
Chief Technology Officer
Oversee the technology development, product management and production operations teams for Teaching Strategies, a leading developer of early childhood educational curriculum and assessment technology.
- Built a team of top talent, covering software engineering, operations engineering, product design and product management.
- Transformed the organization from a heavily contract-based development group into a fully in-house development organization.
- Introduced agile methodologies to improve the efficiency and transparency of the development process.
- Introduced DevOps principles, including continuous integration and delivery, configuration management and automated production monitoring.
- Reduced operational cost by migrating from expensive Windows infrastructure to Linux.
- Supported sales and customer success with customer meetings and RFPs.
Vice President, Chief Architect
Technical lead for the teams responsible for designing and developing Blackboard's Learn product line.
- Developed the product technical roadmap, overall product architecture quality and best practices in quality software engineering.
- Led the modularization of the Learn platform architecture.
- Rearchitected the build and deployment process, supporting a rapid release model.
- Led a broader strategy to transition our hosting business to a true cloud platform.
Principal Architect
- Defined the short term technical roadmap, overall product architecture quality and best practices in quality software engineering.
- Worked with sales, support and consulting with client-facing issues.
- Supported business development with technical evaluation of products and organizations considered for partnering.
- Developed internal training material to help mentor the internal engineering staff.
Director, Engineering
- Directed a team of 25 engineers within product development.
- Helped define a new organizational structure in engineering to better serve the product development needs of Blackboard.
- Migrated the tier 3 support organization out of product development into the client support organization.
Engineering Manager
- Managed a team of engineers and architects in the Product Development division of Blackboard.
- Helped define the role of engineering manager at Blackboard as the team grew from 25 to 50 engineers.
Senior Software Architect