Proven Track Record includes:
- Skyward: Interim VP Engineering: Initiate, coach and facilitate effective agile process resulting in incremental product delivery every two weeks; provide healthy influence to both the leadership team and the organization as a whole; help the product organization move from "where do we start" to relentless delivery; facilitate critical architecture conversations
- LesConcierges: Interim VP Engineering: Recruit and establish product management; rebuild development; lead design and kick off construction of next generation customer facing platform, CRM, and mobile and web solutions
- NerdWallet: Guide executive, engineering and design teams to synch product development with hockey-stick product line growth
- Schwab: Transform application development from "anything goes" to a single shared approach and platform company-wide
- m-Via: Transition mobile-phone payments team to Scrum
- Apple: Advance and evolve the Macintosh OS desktop, Apple's user experience crown jewels
- Mid-Stage Startup: Acting CTO: Lead strategic and tactical planning to transition from outsourced product development to full ownership of architecture, development, pilot launch, and product roll-out
- Stanford: Make over and transform HighWire Press Professional Services, supporting 1,500 web sites, hosting 1,400 academic journals and 1,000 academic books for 150 publishers worldwide
- Axcient: Train and support embracing Agile in developing multi-tenant, cloud-based product line
- Schwab: Devise and deliver award-winning investor tools for the world’s most active secure web site
- PaceWorks: Advise two merging half-billion-dollar manufacturing companies how to integrate their IT technology and teams
- Razorfish: Design and implement ecommerce, web, consumer and enterprise applications for clients from Shutterfly and DNA Direct to Visa, Genentech, Singapore Airlines and Disney
- ZoneAlarm: Drive product definition and delivery of consumer security software
- Merced Systems: Train and immerse call-center development team in Scrum
- Forensic Logic: Lead product development of SaaS-delivered crime prevention and analysis services
- Fujitsu: Rescue the long-overdue product development of WorldsAway online animated virtual worlds
- Mingle Analytics: Systemic coaching to boost teamwork and tweak agile practices in dramatic ways
- Cadreon: Customize and deliver scrum trainings to eight team configurations on three continents
- mFactory: Complete and deliver anxiously-awaited, award-winning multimedia authoring tools
- Oration: Interim VP Engineering: introduce best engineering and agile practices and schedule predictability to an early stage startup