Selected Leadership Achievements
- Led software development organizations for 15+ years.
- Directed modernization of enterprise platforms supporting 1,400+ employees.
- Delivered ERP transformation initiatives across manufacturing facilities in the US and Canada.
- Built cloud-native applications using AWS serverless technologies.
- Established engineering standards, development processes, and organizational best practices.
- Managed cross-functional initiatives spanning engineering, operations, finance, manufacturing, and executive leadership.
Experience
Director of Software Development
Grain Millers Inc
May 2018-present
- Direct the design, implementation, and management of business-critical platforms supporting manufacturing, supply chain, planning, and operational workflows for a multinational food manufacturing business with over a billion dollars in revenue.
- Ingest data from thousands of hardware data points to provide real-time analysis and dashboarding of manufacturing operations, with approximately 300k rows added daily.
- Lead planning and prioritization across approximately 50 business stakeholders and communicate delivery progress to over 200 managers and leaders.
- Partner with executive leadership to evaluate strategic technology investments and guide multi-year platform modernization initiatives.
- Drive quarterly roadmap planning, portfolio prioritization, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for round-the-clock manufacturing software.
Solution Principal
Slalom Consulting
June 2017-April 2018
- Led engineering delivery for a cloud-native analytics product serving enterprise users, including architecture decisions, engineer mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, and product requirements through delivery.
- Managed a team that created a web-based data visualization application for a publicly traded communications company using heatmaps to convey advertising opportunities.
- Designed and oversaw a serverless AWS Step Functions workflow for processing multi-gigabyte data files into AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
Senior Technical Manager
Emberex, Inc
Jan 2011-Jan 2016
- Served as primary client contact for multiple consulting projects, bridging requirements gathering, backlog grooming, engineering leadership, and hands-on code contribution.
- Managed a team building TypeScript and MongoDB-based educational training software.
- Contributed as developer and Scrum Master across client projects using JavaScript, Node, Java, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Public Project
Word Wefter is a recent browser game project with account sign-in, invite-based play, a live board and rack interface, scoring rules, tile stacking, marketplace mechanics, and responsive UI.