Experience

Ascend

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor and Senior Vice President Of Technology

  • Jun 2022 - 1 year 7 months

  Seattle, Washington, United States Advise and architect cloud native solutions for the Ascend Elevate AP platform.

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2022

  Portland, Oregon, United States Fractional CTO. Currently driving a technology migration from on-premises legacy Windows software to a new scalable, Linux based, cloud-native platform.



Trilogy Search Partners

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

• CTO and Operating Partner

  • Aug 2019 - 4 years 5 months

  Greater Seattle Area Supporting Trilogy's entrepreneurs with expertise in software engineering and information technology. Working with Trilogy on tech diligence, tech oversight and as a technology advisor or fractional Chief Technology Officer post-investment.



KNOEPP CONSULTING LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Principal

  • Jan 2018 - 6 years

  Seattle, Washington, United States Independent contractor focused on technical due diligence. Clients consist of insurance companies and the private investor community.



Madrona Venture Labs

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

• CTO in Residence

  • Mar 2018 - Aug 2019

  Seattle, WA Working with some very exciting startups in the AI/ML and Blockchain space.



AnswerDash

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• CTO

  • Jan 2015 - Feb 2018

  Seattle, WA CTO - ran the engineering team and product at AnswerDash AnswerDash enables companies to deliver point-and-click contextual Q&A to their customers right where they need it, without typing or switching pages, whether on desktop or mobile platforms. By providing instant self-service answers.



Progress Chef

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Vice President of Product

  • Dec 2012 - Feb 2014

  Greater Seattle Area Helped define the product management process at Opscode / Chef as well as running the client and cloud engineering teams. Managed the rapidly growing Chef client and web engineering team. Worked with companies like Facebook, Disney and Yahoo to ensure several successful releases of the Chef client software. Helped improve the testing infrastructure and release processes as well as adoption of new platforms. Also managed the Chef cloud engineering team. Responsibilities included… Show more Helped define the product management process at Opscode / Chef as well as running the client and cloud engineering teams. Managed the rapidly growing Chef client and web engineering team. Worked with companies like Facebook, Disney and Yahoo to ensure several successful releases of the Chef client software. Helped improve the testing infrastructure and release processes as well as adoption of new platforms. Also managed the Chef cloud engineering team. Responsibilities included making sure Chef worked seamlessly across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute, as well as multiple flavors of OpenStack, CloudStack and VCloud. Show less



Internet Technology Consultant

• Consultant

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2012

  Seattle Worked as an independent Internet technology consultant providing a range of services from strategic planning to technical implementation. Engagements primarily focused on platform development and patent litigation.



Thoughtful.co

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• CTO

  • Nov 2010 - Jun 2011

  Greater Seattle Area Thoughtful is a social commerce service focused on gifts and experiences for the people that really matter to you.



Oracle

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

• VP Technology

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2010

  After the acquisition of InstantService worked to ensure a smooth transition for our employees and legacy customers to ATG / Oracle. Also focused on helping ATG integrate the InstantService technology into their infrastructure and participated in numerous design and architecture meetings as we worked out the optimal path to the industry's best rules, chat and email system.



InstantService

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Feb 2000 - Jan 2010

  InstantService built the chat and mail software behind the highest volume chat sites on the planet. Key customers included Intuit, H&R Block, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, FedEx and United Airlines. As CTO led the engineering, QA and IT teams from pre-beta to shipping product and beyond. Worked with sales and operations, steering InstantService through the dot-com wipe out and recession, all the way to a successful acquisition by ATG



GTE

• Egypt
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Internet Development

  • Aug 1998 - Oct 1999

  Worked to expand GTE's Client-Server infrastructure onto the Internet. Worked closely with teams in Dallas, Tampa and Vancouver to enhance and integrate GTE's legacy systems.



True North Technology

• Founder & President

  • Jan 1994 - Aug 1998

  True North developed the first Internet based Multiple Listing Service for the Northwest (Seattle Tacoma) MLS in 1996. As a founder I wrote code, installed hardware, did sales and trade shows, ran users groups, negotiated contracts and built the company with one co-founder. True North successfully competed with multi-billion dollar entrenched rivals and shipped systems for Austin, Salt Lake City, Alaska and other key Multiple Listing Services. In 1998 we successfully sold… Show more True North developed the first Internet based Multiple Listing Service for the Northwest (Seattle Tacoma) MLS in 1996. As a founder I wrote code, installed hardware, did sales and trade shows, ran users groups, negotiated contracts and built the company with one co-founder. True North successfully competed with multi-billion dollar entrenched rivals and shipped systems for Austin, Salt Lake City, Alaska and other key Multiple Listing Services. In 1998 we successfully sold the company to GTE. Show less