A hands-on leader with passion for continually raising the bar, creating strong teams and developing people.

Results-oriented professional, offering 10+ years of leadership experience with a record of leading design and development of products, improving processes, and procedures that are critical for success in the world of evolving business goals. Strives to cultivate a culture in which staff members feel comfortable voicing questions and concerns, as well as contributing new ideas that drive innovation, efficiency, effectiveness, competitive advantage, & company growth.

Areas of Expertise

  • Mentorship, Coaching, & Guidance
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Continuous Process Improvement
  • Distributed Team Management
  • Product Management
  • Product Integration
  • Systems Design & Engineering
  • Test Driven Development
  • Vendor Management

Experience

  • Imperva, Senior Software Engineering Manager, ( 2019 – Present )
    • Empower a team of engineers with varying levels of expertise and domain experience to achieve a high level of efficiency, quality, and consistency. Expand the team through hiring and onboarding, including mentoring and growing junior engineering managers as the team grows. Collaborate extensively with stakeholders across the entire company. Dive into projects that influence processes, efficiency, and development of the Engineering department.
      • – Realigned workflows and drove process efficiencies to reduce on-call events from over 250 a week to 30 a month
      • – Transformed an Operational team to an SRE team with a mindset on a making production system healthy via automation
      • – Steered consolidating services and automation infrastructure which reduced expenses by over 500k.
  • Distil Networks, Director of Engineering & Executive Agile Coach ( 2017 – 2019 )
    • Helped stand up new agile teams and provided coaching and consulted to these teams to support their development and ongoing improvement to become self-organizing, self-managing, and highly functional. Played leadership role to help remove impediments and facilitate an environment of continuous improvement and adoption of agile and scrum practices. Provided educational support to the development organization on Agile practices to increase company-wide execution, innovation, and overall maturity. Promoted Agile culture and mindset throughout organization, including leading teams and influencing leaders and partners as they learn and adopt Agile practices by supporting them through coaching, mentoring, facilitating, and teaching. Promoted use of DevOps technical practices and tools.
      • – Introduced and implemented agile methodologies and mindset, transforming organization.
      • – Orchestrated all phases of restructuring organization to reduce cross team dependencies and allowing each team more autonomy and ownership.
      • – Spearheaded key initiative to move from DevOps as a functional position to an organizational mindset.
  • Distil Networks, Senior Software Architect, ( 2013 – 2017 )
    • Designed and implemented hardware systems and software applications. Developed architectural solutions for databases, user interfaces, and web services. Conceptualized software solutions to address needs for end-users. Pitched project proposals to departments, management, and clients. Provided training about new programs to end-users. Collaborated with programmers and developers to determine project scope and direction. Decided on platforms and coding standards to be used in project development. Evaluated existing software solutions to identify areas for improvement. Created modifications for existing software to upgrade performance. Conducted testing to ensure optimal functionality. Ensured architectural integrity of software solutions. Determined project timelines and completed work to deadlines. Maintained thorough documentation of systems and applications. Mentored, encouraged, and motivated team members. Oversaw architectural approaches from conception to installation.
      • – Built external and internal APIs for bot protection service.
      • – Constructed reporting ETL pipeline which processed over 4.5 billion http requests per day
  • 6fusion, 2011 – 2013
    • Software Architect
  • iContact, 2010 – 2011
    • Technical Team Lead
  • Surgical Review Corporation, 2009 – 2010
    • Software Architect
  • ChannelAdvisor, 2006 – 2009
    • Senior Software Engineer
  • GlaxoSmithKline, 2005 – 2006
    • Senior Software Engineer
  • TotalVid Inc., 2003 – 2005
    • Web Developer
  • GlaxoSmithKline, 2002 – 2003
    • Software Engineer