Experience

Perpetua Advisors

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

• Chief Technology Officer - CTO Practice Lead

  • May 2022 - Present

  Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Along with my partners, I am establishing a new line of business for Perpetua Advisors, leading their Software-as-a-Business efforts to build a new practice to support our Private Equity, Mid-size, and Start-up Business partners. We have a clear focus on providing our customers with Strategic Guidance, Leadership and Clear Value as they expand and grow their Software and technology offerings, for both internal and external product deliverables. We provide Permanent CTO, Interim CTO… Show more Along with my partners, I am establishing a new line of business for Perpetua Advisors, leading their Software-as-a-Business efforts to build a new practice to support our Private Equity, Mid-size, and Start-up Business partners. We have a clear focus on providing our customers with Strategic Guidance, Leadership and Clear Value as they expand and grow their Software and technology offerings, for both internal and external product deliverables. We provide Permanent CTO, Interim CTO, Fractional CTO, CTO Advisory/Strategy, and SaaS/Cloud Product Guidance through collaborative partnerships. Show less



iMercatus Holdings LLC

• United States
• Oil and Gas

• Chief Technology Officer, Partner

  • May 2020 - Present

  Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Working on the future platform for Pipeline Construction Supply Chain transperancy



insITe - The ERP for IT

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• President, CTO

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  Dallas, TX I am taking an MVP and hardening it for market. Assembling the pieces of a great idea and formalizing it in to a product is what gets me up each morning. Working with great people as we execute our way to a real product, is the reward. The product is looking to change the way resource allocation is managed and planned, and in turn change the lives of our customers.



CLEARPRISM

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

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Aug 2019 - May 2020

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area Your competitive world has changed, creating significant implications on where to play and how to execute. Most organizations recognize this. And yet, many struggle with how to execute on both—leaving them at a loss of how to do either. That’s where we come in. CLEARPRISM clients have repeatedly achieved digital transformation success with our services, people, expertise and relationships. Https://ClearPrism.com



ZYYAH

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Aug 2019 - May 2020

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area ZYYAH is a new, next generation real estate and home living platform. Launching in spring 2020, this game-changing technology and services offering is like no other in today’s modern digital age. https://zyyah.com/next



Door - Real Estate | Mortgage | Title

• CTO

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area I serve as the CTO of Door where I am responsible for executing our vision to become the national leader in residential transactions. We do this by providing high-touch service through better use of technology and unparalleled user experience. Door is a next generation, tech-enabled residential real estate brokerage firm. With Door, home buyers and sellers are able to benefit from both the agent specialization inherent in our model and the lower fee structure our technology… Show more I serve as the CTO of Door where I am responsible for executing our vision to become the national leader in residential transactions. We do this by providing high-touch service through better use of technology and unparalleled user experience. Door is a next generation, tech-enabled residential real estate brokerage firm. With Door, home buyers and sellers are able to benefit from both the agent specialization inherent in our model and the lower fee structure our technology driven platform provides. All clients receive a single agent that represents them from initiation to transaction close. As the client moves through the process, our Transaction Services team provides the specialization required at each step including local market knowledge, comparative market valuations, on-boarding, negotiations and assuring that each detail through close is handled with highest level of accuracy and efficiency. All of this for a fixed fee of $5,000. Show less



SMU Digital Accelerator

• Board Member

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2018

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area I sat on the board of a new and exciting program which familiarizes every day people with coding principles. http://accelerator.smu.edu/creative-coding-and-visualization-curriculum.html http://accelerator.smu.edu/scott-gowdish.html



Lone Wolf Technologies

• Canada
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Executive Vice President, Product Development

  • Jul 2016 - Feb 2018

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area While working with the team at Lone Wolf, we delivered new ways to help our customers leverage technology in their brokerages, making their businesses more valuable and their people more productive. I was responsible for product development and all technical strategy across the portfolio of Back-office, Front-office, Transaction Management and Integration Services for the Real Estate Industry. My team was entrenched in organizational and technical transformation, as we migrated… Show more While working with the team at Lone Wolf, we delivered new ways to help our customers leverage technology in their brokerages, making their businesses more valuable and their people more productive. I was responsible for product development and all technical strategy across the portfolio of Back-office, Front-office, Transaction Management and Integration Services for the Real Estate Industry. My team was entrenched in organizational and technical transformation, as we migrated our platform to a Public Cloud Infrastructure providing a customer base of 10000+ a great indication of what the future will bring. Show less



Sabre Corporation

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

• Senior Director, Product Development and Delivery

  • Aug 2015 - Jul 2016

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area My time at Sabre was full of challenges and opportunities that helped mold me into a better leader and remarkable technologist. With responsibility for over 100 resources, including Developers, BAs, and QA Engineers, I recognized the true value of maintaining close relationships with my leaders and their leads. We were able to build a new generation of Property Management System which is the go forward product for the group today. By collaborating through a Matrix Organization, and… Show more My time at Sabre was full of challenges and opportunities that helped mold me into a better leader and remarkable technologist. With responsibility for over 100 resources, including Developers, BAs, and QA Engineers, I recognized the true value of maintaining close relationships with my leaders and their leads. We were able to build a new generation of Property Management System which is the go forward product for the group today. By collaborating through a Matrix Organization, and reporting to the SVP/Global Group Leader, I managed a budget of $12 Million+ spanning across two core development centers, and leveraging a full SCRUM model.

• Director, Product Development and Delivery

  • May 2014 - Jul 2015

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area When I began my journey at Sabre, I was focused on building out several new multi-national SCRUM teams, while maintaining responsibility for delivering on all current and future Operational System products for the Hospitality industry. My secondary roles included defining technology strategy and Architectural design of Accounting and Reporting Products, along with executing on broader Enterprise Product plans for transforming iterative organization to a Full SCRUM/SAFe implementation.



MICROS Systems Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Software Development, Hospitality e-Commerce

  • Jul 2012 - May 2014

  Naples, Florida Area in my fourth role at MICROS, I was given the opportunity to lead 5 onshore and offshore developer teams, with 7 direct and 60 indirect reports. I drove architecture and implementation of our next-generation MICROS e-commerce platform servicing our hotel, food and beverage, and retail verticals. * Increased productivity and customer satisfaction by transitioning from Waterfall to SCRUM agile methodology for software development * Implemented new Software Development Life-cycle… Show more in my fourth role at MICROS, I was given the opportunity to lead 5 onshore and offshore developer teams, with 7 direct and 60 indirect reports. I drove architecture and implementation of our next-generation MICROS e-commerce platform servicing our hotel, food and beverage, and retail verticals. * Increased productivity and customer satisfaction by transitioning from Waterfall to SCRUM agile methodology for software development * Implemented new Software Development Life-cycle tool set that better delivered on clients’ requirements and reduced associated costs by 50% * Improved point-of-sale (POS) SaaS performance 60% by introducing application performance-monitoring tools.

• Director - Software Development, Global Hotel eCommerce Solutions

  • Oct 2010 - Aug 2012

  Naples, Florida Area In this role I was charged with driving the growth, efficiency, and success of these 2 teams. I tracked all expenditures to ensure healthy ROI at all points. * Set plan to implement new hospitality focus; leveraged existing technology and resources to create required infrastructure. Served as project’s primary architect while overseeing all personnel changes. * Benefited hotel partners by incubating new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that delivered innovative web and mobile… Show more In this role I was charged with driving the growth, efficiency, and success of these 2 teams. I tracked all expenditures to ensure healthy ROI at all points. * Set plan to implement new hospitality focus; leveraged existing technology and resources to create required infrastructure. Served as project’s primary architect while overseeing all personnel changes. * Benefited hotel partners by incubating new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that delivered innovative web and mobile solutions governing branded content, analytics, and real-time inventory. * Grew software development team from 10 employees to 24 employees in 18 months.

• Director – Software Development, Opera Central Systems, OEDS and Opera Two-way Interface (OXI)

  • Feb 2008 - Oct 2010

  Naples, Florida Area I was promoted to lead, manage, and motivate these 3 groups. I researched and investigated Agile tool sets and methods to promote improved efficiency. * Expedited enterprise software delivery and trimmed costs by merging 3 teams into 1 organization. Finished consolidation in 3 months vs. 6-month goal. * Increased on-time delivery rate from 80% to 97%. * Fostered and maintained relations with offshore development proof-of-concept project for web service conversion.

• Manager – Software Development, OEDS, ORS

  • Dec 2005 - Feb 2008

  Naples, Florida Area I was initially hired into this company to bring to market a commercially available service-oriented architecture focused on hotel operations and integration. * Helped grow product base from 100 web service customers to 1500+ customers by improving documentation and normalizing consumer services, which led to easier implementation. * Eliminated 60% of product defects by co-establishing new development process. * Implemented and managed TeamTrack SDLC project



CTCII

• France
• Business Consulting and Services

• Director Automation/Product Development

  • 1997 - 2005

  In this early role I oversaw all IT aspects for the company. I deployed a global VoIP network and infrastructure connecting resources on 4 continents. * Helped take the company from $40M in air revenue to $525M air revenue in 8 years. * Achieved zero head count increase despite a period of dramatic growth by setting up 2 offshore call centers and launching a series of automation tools for enhanced scalability. * Helped generate $400M annual crew sales by launching Software as a… Show more In this early role I oversaw all IT aspects for the company. I deployed a global VoIP network and infrastructure connecting resources on 4 continents. * Helped take the company from $40M in air revenue to $525M air revenue in 8 years. * Achieved zero head count increase despite a period of dramatic growth by setting up 2 offshore call centers and launching a series of automation tools for enhanced scalability. * Helped generate $400M annual crew sales by launching Software as a Service (SaaS) booking engine and travel request module for all clients. Show less