Experience

Phunware

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Dec 2022 - Oct 2023

  Austin, Texas, United States

• Board Member

  • Nov 2022 - Oct 2023

  Austin, Texas, United States



GlobaliD

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Apr 2021 - Nov 2022



Praxent

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Client Services & Chief Operating Officer

  • Dec 2019 - Dec 2020

  Austin, Texas, United States Leader of the Client Services, Project Management, Design, and Engineering teams. Manage the company's largest client, coach the young leadership team. Sharpened the company's revenue and cost forecasting, contributed to business development, and up-leveled the teams' performance. Tech & tools: React Native, JavaScript, Postgres, AWS, Heroku, DevOps, Trello, Atlassian suite, Git, Code Climate, EOS, Traction, Jobs To Be Done, Whois, David Baker, Functional Recourses Model, Hubspot, 10,000… Show more Leader of the Client Services, Project Management, Design, and Engineering teams. Manage the company's largest client, coach the young leadership team. Sharpened the company's revenue and cost forecasting, contributed to business development, and up-leveled the teams' performance. Tech & tools: React Native, JavaScript, Postgres, AWS, Heroku, DevOps, Trello, Atlassian suite, Git, Code Climate, EOS, Traction, Jobs To Be Done, Whois, David Baker, Functional Recourses Model, Hubspot, 10,000 ft, BambooHR, Google apps. Show less



Mutual Mobile | A Grid Dynamics Company

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Client Partner, Chief Operating Officer, VP Engineering

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2019

  Leader of the delivery team at Mutual Mobile, encompassing Engineering, Design, and Project Management in Austin and India. Also serving as a Principal, responsible for a portfolio of client accounts with annual revenues of more than $7 million. Hired a strong leadership team, established career ladders, increased internal rigor, and personally trained over 100 people in Agile software development. Tech & tools: iOS, Android, React Native, JavaScript, node.js, Django, Python, Objective… Show more Leader of the delivery team at Mutual Mobile, encompassing Engineering, Design, and Project Management in Austin and India. Also serving as a Principal, responsible for a portfolio of client accounts with annual revenues of more than $7 million. Hired a strong leadership team, established career ladders, increased internal rigor, and personally trained over 100 people in Agile software development. Tech & tools: iOS, Android, React Native, JavaScript, node.js, Django, Python, Objective C, Java, Microservices, AWS, Elasticsearch, Lambdas, DevOps, Firebase, Heroku, Trello, Atlassian suite, Git, Salesforce, Harvest, Keynote, Google apps, MS Office. Show less



ReachForce

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Products

  • May 2011 - Jan 2012

  Responsible for product development and product management at ReachForce. Used data matching technology to correlate and cleanse large databases of contacts, and pioneered the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk to use humans to scale data verification when automation could not. Tech & tools: Java, JavaScript, solr, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Atlassian suite, Google apps.



Pearson

• United Kingdom
• Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Engineering - Record and Transcript Solutions

  • Oct 2005 - May 2011

  Led product development and client implementation of National Transcript Center, a SaaS solution for sending and receiving electronic student records and transcripts among K-12 and postsecondary schools. Responsibilities included product definition, development, testing, documentation, and client relationships covering eight states. Tech & tools: Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, Postgres, MongoDB, J2EE, DevOps, Atlassian suite, MS Office.



ESP Solutions Group, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP, Product Development

  • Jun 2005 - Mar 2009

  Responsible for product development, testing and delivery for ESP. The company's flagship product, State Report Manager, provides data gathering, rules execution and reporting to state education agencies. The technology used is primarily Java using mature open source tools including the Spring Framework, Hibernate and others. Tech & tools: Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, Postgres, MongoDB, J2EE, DevOps, Atlassian suite, MS Office.



PerformanceRetail, Inc.

• Director, Engineering

  • Jul 2002 - Jun 2005

  Helped the company make the transition from a consulting business model and culture to a startup product company. Recruited and hired a development team of 15 engineers, managed offshore development work with two firms based in India, and managed the product through nine feature releases and two dozen maintenance releases. Reduced technology costs by more than $10 million per year by eliminating reliance on outside firms for technical resources. Cut hosting costs by 80% per store while scaling… Show more Helped the company make the transition from a consulting business model and culture to a startup product company. Recruited and hired a development team of 15 engineers, managed offshore development work with two firms based in India, and managed the product through nine feature releases and two dozen maintenance releases. Reduced technology costs by more than $10 million per year by eliminating reliance on outside firms for technical resources. Cut hosting costs by 80% per store while scaling customers to 100 stores. Technologies used ranged from Oracle database technology to J2EE server and Web development. Tech & tools: Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, Postgres, J2EE, Oracle. Show less



CenterPoint Ventures

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Entrepreneur in Residence

  • Sep 2001 - Apr 2002

  Evaluated software opportunities for CenterPoint Ventures while also performing market research and creating the business plan for Reveal Software.



Reveal Software Corporation

• CTO & Founder

  • 2001 - 2002

  Developed the concept and business plan for Reveal Software, a startup using static analysis to solve the expensive, pervasive, and longstanding problem of verifying software during the product development process, focused on enterprise applications based on J2EE. Performed primary and secondary market research, formulated the product concept and vision, created comprehensive financial plan, and worked with venture investors to seek financing.



Object Reservoir

• VP, Engineering

  • 1999 - 2001

  Managed the research and development team responsible for Object Reservoir’'s petroleum reservoir modeling software. Led the turn-around effort to productize a complex technology with a team of scientists and engineers with backgrounds ranging from petroleum and aerospace engineering to computer science. Hands-on leadership extended from defining and instilling development processes to full software lifecycle management. Worked with customers to refine the product feature set and… Show more Managed the research and development team responsible for Object Reservoir’'s petroleum reservoir modeling software. Led the turn-around effort to productize a complex technology with a team of scientists and engineers with backgrounds ranging from petroleum and aerospace engineering to computer science. Hands-on leadership extended from defining and instilling development processes to full software lifecycle management. Worked with customers to refine the product feature set and roadmap. Pushed the business strategy from product to service, established customer relationships, and reported to investors. Tech & tools: Java, C, JavaScript, Postgres, J2EE Show less



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Application Management

  • 1997 - 1999

  Managed five teams in four countries responsible for a family of application management products encompassing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Messaging, Database, Middleware and Performance products at Tivoli. During that time, the product family grew from seven to twelve products while the development team grew from 20 to 60 people. Products included management of SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, IBM MQSeries, Oracle and MS SQL Server. Led the turn-around of… Show more Managed five teams in four countries responsible for a family of application management products encompassing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Messaging, Database, Middleware and Performance products at Tivoli. During that time, the product family grew from seven to twelve products while the development team grew from 20 to 60 people. Products included management of SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, IBM MQSeries, Oracle and MS SQL Server. Led the turn-around of the application management groups from morale, product and delivery challenges. Made needed people and product changes and mended key relationships to move the group and its products forward. Hired strong managers to position the organization for growth and hired domain-specific experts for the product teams. Tech & tools: Java, C, C++, JavaScript, J2EE, DB2. Show less



Vignette

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager, Core Technology

  • 1996 - 1997

  Managed the product team responsible for StoryServer. Was the 10th employee in the company and brought in specifically to manage the product. Led Vignette’s first two product releases and the cross-functional teams to on-time delivery while exceeding product goals for each release. Served as the project manager and product strategist to establish StoryServer as the leading Content Management Solution for the Internet at that time. Involved in sales from hosting customer visits to… Show more Managed the product team responsible for StoryServer. Was the 10th employee in the company and brought in specifically to manage the product. Led Vignette’s first two product releases and the cross-functional teams to on-time delivery while exceeding product goals for each release. Served as the project manager and product strategist to establish StoryServer as the leading Content Management Solution for the Internet at that time. Involved in sales from hosting customer visits to making field sales calls to top prospects including American Airlines/SAABRE, 3Com and CitySearch. Served as the de facto Sales Engineer during the initial sales ramp-up. Tech & tools: Java, C, JavaScript, Netscape, IIS, Oracle, Sybase, Informix. Show less