Vision oriented leader and product perfectionist. Past roles include small business founder, product manager, Agile development coach, engineer and Value Stream Architect.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
1
1
Member CO Bar 50195
Work History
Co-Founder
Centil
Boulder, CO
03.2017 - 09.2021
Co-founded defense development & consulting business to bring modern product development practices to DoD.
Cultivated key business partnerships with industry primes and government leadership
Recruited, trained and led team of Agile coaches, Scrum Masters and Product Owners to embed within large industry development efforts.
Led product development efforts to build dashboard and tooling algorithms that provide unique insights to development bottlenecks and user satisfaction.
Designed and tested novel scoring system for DoD projects currently employed across multiple US Space Force programs.
Grew company to over $3M annual revenue within 3 years.
Oversaw deployment of strategic execution plans to achieve customer performance targets
Completed in-depth analyses of risks to control company profile, and track legal concerns.
Product Development Lead
Integrity Applications Incorporated
Los Angeles, CA
08.2014 - 03.2017
Designed and executed plan to democratize US Space Force data in Boulder CO.
Designed, coordinated and achieved approval for technical design of open services platform to provide multi-security level data access to third party development teams.
Authored Secure Software Development Life Cycle approach and actively managed award and execution of 10+ Agile application development efforts in parallel.
Oversaw third party delivery of three certified applications to operations in 18 months (unprecedented for DoD).
Implemented feedback channels with operators to facilitate improved UI/UX.
Principal Engineer
Linquest
Los Angeles, CA
01.2008 - 03.2014
Provided technical oversight for engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) of multi-billion dollar missile warning capability.
Delivered critical engineering solutions to meet urgent needs request for data to Afghanistan - saved $10M in assets over 6 months.
Established open standards for technical baseline ownership of critical defense technologies
Advised customers and other project stakeholders on relevant technical concerns and feasible solutions.
Program Manager
United States Air Force
Los Angeles, CA
01.2002 - 03.2008
Managed design, development and delivery of Space Based InfraRed Systems (SBIRS) EMD contract for USAF.
Led technical evaluations, performance reviews, contract negotiations, and general contract oversight for spaced based missile warning system.
Implemented key telecommunications protocol upgrade to increase inter-continental communications 10x
Provided technical oversight to ground system and communications components delivering communication infrastructure spanning three continents.
Spearheaded key partnerships with government stakeholders across DoD and IC to leverage data, infrastructure and technologies across platforms