Dynamic, hands-on Business Systems Manager with proven experience in optimizing the team and technology to successfully deliver measurable business results. Demonstrated success in creating innovative and quickly adopted systems in tight collaboration with key users and sponsors within well managed budgets and timelines.
Highlights

1 year as VP Engineering of a medical social network startup that is focused on the clinical,
business and personal needs of America's 1 million practicing Physicians.

• Pragmatic hands-on leadership of a energetic team of experts in the creation of a dynamic site.
  

• Maintained company focus on the process and data needs of key partners and advertisers.
  

4 years as MIS Director of a fast growing EDA Software startup, fast pace development of operational systems for Magma's explosive growth (200 to 860 in 4 years). Deep hands on role in constant evolution of operational systems; sales, support, product management, and finance.

• Leveraged on-demand services and outsourcing along with the recruitment of key in-house resources to deliver highly cost effective and innovative business operational services.
  

4 years as CTO of an innovative Web Services startup designed and developed a powerful AJAX web framework optimized for self-service sales and marketing automation.

• Created solutions for global collaboration of corporate marketing and alliance partnering.
  

• Managed software development projects that incorporated outsourced IT resources, tight timelines, open source software components, and dynamic implementation cycles.
  

8 years as IT Service Manager & Architect with Hewlett-Packard, diverse experience as a driven technology leader and solution designer at this global information technology powerhouse.

• Initiated and drove IT programs that delivered highly visible business operational value.
  

• Marshaled multiple raw projects out of HP Labs into customer delivered products.
  

• Defined Corporate Architecture role to guide HP $300 million internal IT infrastructure budget.
  

• Lead the technical delivery architecture of a $250 million joint initiative with Microsoft.
  

Recruited and lead a team of Ruby on Rails "rock stars" to evolve an initial prototype into a rock
solid destination social network exclusively for the clinical and lifestyle needs of US Physicians.

• Used bi-weekly releases and a focus on reuse to incorporate rapidly evolving business ideas
  

into a stable, scalable, secure, extendable, and engaging user generated content site.

• Incorporated the latest Rails oriented tools and techniques to deliver user functionality quickly.
  

• Used a focus on specification and testing to ensure stability and cost effective maintainability.
  

• Maintained active experimentation of key web scaling and infrastructure management
  

technologies to ensure the site will always be ready for growth.