CTO, VP of Software Development, Software Engineering

A Technology Strategist, Innovator, and Mentor who loves to solve complex technical challenges and lead organizations and teams in creating efficient, high quality, easy to maintain technology-based solutions that provide an outstanding user experience. Repeatedly recognized as an experienced leader, team builder, and motivator who combines the technical expertise of a software architect with the business and management acumen of a C-level executive.

Optimizing Organizational Efficiency

Transformation of business challenges into reliable and scalable solutions: Innovative creator of technology-based strategies and solutions that provide optimal value for an organization and its customers.

Visionary and inspirational IT leadership: Enthusiastic driver of organizational, team and personal evolution through team building, empowerment, and mentoring to create a culture of success and achievement.

Exceptional results exceeding expectations: Committed goal and result-oriented pioneer of cutting edge techniques and technologies to enhance operational efficiency, reliability and profitability while reducing associated risk.

Clear communication: Skilled speaker and writer with international and multi-cultural experience in business development, proposal writing, product briefing, public speaking, training, and authoring technical manuals.

Far reaching technical expertise: Knowledgeable problem solver and builder of technical solutions for Cloud, Mobile, Web, Desktop and Virtual environments, hosted on Windows, iOS, Android, Linux and OS X.

A Versatile Strategic Leader

I seek an organization that values innovation, quality, and sustainability. As a self-motivated and internationally experienced technology leader I look forward to leveraging my unique skill set as a key strategic contributor to your company’s executive team.

Maximizing Technology Benefits

Summary

I optimize return on investment by recommending short and long term technology strategies and leading their implementation in teams and companies of all sizes, specializing in streamlining software development teams and processes while improving their productivity. Although focused on leadership I maintain proficiency in almost 20 programming languages and numerous software platforms and technologies.

Objectives

I am looking for a Technology / Engineering VP or CTO level role in a growing company that will fully utilize my extensive knowledge and experience as a key strategic contributor to its executive team.

Currently based near Washington DC, I am open to relocation within the USA or internationally, and I will consider opportunities that require business travel.

Professional Experience

Baton, Washington, DC Jan 2015 – Dec 2015

www.batonmed.com IT solution provider enabling Health Care teams to securely share patient information

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

One of 4 co-founders of Baton. Led all aspects of the technology practices and strategy of the company. Provided technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring as I led and actively participated in the design, implementation and deployment of a system enabling aggregation and updating of patient care information in real time by the care team.

Architected and built the company’s mobile, enterprise strength, HIPAA compliant, secure, scalable, cloud based software solution, and oversaw its successful deployment at a number of major East Coast hospitals.

Attended and graduated from the DreamIT Health Baltimore 2015 startup incubator as one of only six companies that were selected from a list of more than a hundred national and international applicants.

Led the successful implementation of Agile Development and Deployment practices and tools, enabling rapid development of feature requests, frequent high quality deliverables and high customer satisfaction.

Fulcrum, Centreville, VA 2010 – 2014

www.fulcrumco.com IT service provider to the U.S. federal government and security agencies

Director of Software Engineering

Led the software development practices, strategy and direction of the company’s Civilian division. Provided technical leadership, guidance and mentoring across teams, projects and contracts, and drove the evaluation and adoption of new and cutting-edge technologies, tools and techniques. Active in Business Development efforts across the company.

Led technical efforts for the winning proposal for the company's largest contract, a $64 million technology contract with the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).

Built and led the team that designed and delivered on schedule the tablet-based assessment system for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Technology Based Assessment piloted in 200 schools in 2014, and administered to over 130,000 students across the U.S. in 2015.

Led the successful implementation of Agile Development and CMMI-Dev practices and tools in multiple teams and projects across the company, significantly increasing customer satisfaction and the quality of deliverables.

Led and participated in teams developing applications in Unity 3D, having personally built the first application from scratch in C# and architected a shared framework library on which the other applications were built.

Chesapeake Capital Corporation, Richmond, VA 2007 – 2010

www.chesapeakecapital.com Trend based commodity trading advisor

Software Architect

Reported directly to the COO and led all aspects of the in-house and outsourced IT software development, including systems and software architecture, standards and quality control, and hiring, training and managing the technical staff.

Transformed the disparate IT software development efforts into a scalable and reliable, enterprise-ready, suite of software applications and development and operating environments.

Championed and led the introduction and successfully implementation of formal SDLC, coding and testing standards, techniques and processes, and a range of automated build and deployment tools.

Code Healer Group, Richmond, VA 1999 – 2007

www.codehealergroup.com Software tool developer

President and Software Architect

Co-founded Code Healer Group to build software development tools that improved the quality and performance of software developers' source code. Led the management and implementation of all technology related aspects of the company strategy and direction, and co-architected its business strategy.

Led the creation and development of commercial software development tools such as CodeHealer, a source code analysis and verification tool used by developers around the globe.

Oversaw software development consulting, troubleshooting and training services, liaised with customers, partners, vendors, and distributors, and presented at software development conferences and user groups.

Administrator for DUnit, an Open Source unit testing tool for Delphi with more than 10,000 regular users.

Blink, Inc., Richmond, VA 1990 – 1999

www.blinkinc.com Software tool developer

President and Software Architect

Co-founded Blink, Inc. to build performance enhancing software development tools that improved software developer productivity by simplifying complex tasks. Led the management and implementation of all technology related aspects of the company strategy and direction, and co-architected its business strategy.

Grew the company to 25+ people in 3 locations in the USA and the UK, supporting over 50,000 customers throughout the world, and liaising with customers, vendors, distributors and other business contacts.

Led the creation of commercial software development tools, including Blinker, an award winning Linker and DOS Extender, DeltaPatch, a file comparison and patching utility, and Shrinker, a Windows .EXE compression tool.

Presented at software development conferences and user groups throughout the world.

Technical Expertise

Programming Languages: Assembler (Intel x86, Motorola 68k), ASP.NET, C, C++, C#, CA-Clipper, CSS, Delphi, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, T-SQL, VB.NET, VBScript, Visual Basic and XML.

Concepts: Agile development, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Architecture / Design, Design Patterns, Dependency Injection / IOC, Estimation, Mocking, Multi-Threading, n-Tier, Refactoring, SCRUM, Virtualization

Education and Background

BSc (Eng. Honors) in Computer Science: Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK

Lived and worked on 4 continents Tested into Mensa Graduated IBM Sales School

Ran the Johannesburg Marathon Completed Karrass Effective Negotiating Attained Public Trust Clearance

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