I leverage more than 25 years of Fortune 500 IT experience to drive operational excellence and transformational change in infrastructure, software development, and product management organizations.
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Strategic Planning and Leadership: Create a vision and lead large, global teams through strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Agile and DevOps Implementation: Expert in introducing Agile methodologies and DevOps practices to organizations to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Proven track record in developing SRE strategies to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of platform infrastructure.
Cloud Technologies: Extensive experience with cloud migrations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
Product Management: Recognized for managing multiple enterprise software products from inception to delivery and driving efficiencies in the software lifecycle.
My passion is driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement in technology operations, ensuring robust and scalable solutions for complex challenges.
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For 13 years I’ve provided award-winning global team leadership focused on building cross-functional collaboration, individual empowerment, and a shared vision that brings out the best in everyone.
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Visionary Thinking: Success does not come from within our comfort zone. We must look beyond what we do today and strive to do better. This starts with a vision. One of my favorite quotes is, “If you want to build a ship, do not hire people and assign tasks. Instead, get your team to long for the endless wonder of the sea.”

A team that is excited about the journey will make things happen that even you did not know were possible.

Empowerment: One of the worst mistakes that a leader can make is to think they are the smartest person in the room. If this is the case, then you are not leading people, you are directing. Innovative leaders surround themselves with experts and give them the power to do what is right. If the team is aligned on the vision, then those individuals are the best ones to make the day-to-day decisions that move the team forward.

Trust the team to do what is right and protect them when things go wrong.

Collaboration: The biggest delay in any initiative occurs when a task must be handed from one team to another. If the priorities of those teams are not aligned, then the tasks will sit in a queue while the clock ticks. More than anything else, this is what delays projects and releases.The solution is not to eliminate that different teams, or siloes as they are often referred to, but rather to get the teams working together. Break the habit of tossing work over the fence at others and then yelling at them to move faster. Partner with them. Share your priority lists. Find out what their roadblocks are.

It is amazing what can be accomplished simply by finding ways to work better with other teams.

Career Development: Every individual on the team is on a journey. Their current role is merely a step on that path. My job, as their leader, is to help them on that journey. I am not only trying to get the most from them while they are on this team, I am working with them to prepare them for their next role. Through coaching, mentoring, and career development assistance, I make sure that each team member has the skills to provide value to the organization now and in the future.

The highest performing employees are those that know I am positioning them for success in the future.

Leaders are most effective when they set the vision, inspire the team, focus on the individual, and get out of the way.
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I have had the good fortune to work with a ton of different technologies over the course of my 25-year career. The bulk of my hands-on experience is with Unix and Linux administration, but my roles have exposed me to databases, web applications, cloud computing, middleware, containers and nearly everything in between.
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Infrastructure: Unix, Linux, Ubuntu, RedHat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), MySQL, Kafka, TIBCO, Apigee.

Supporting enterprise platforms has been a core part of my experience.

Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner

Software Development: Bash, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C++, HTML, CSS, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC), Agile, DevOps, CI/CD

Most of the groups I have managed over the past 10 years have been software development teams building enterprise critical applications.

I am always looking for what new technology is coming along and whether it can help bring something to the organization. Even if it cannot, I always enjoy learning about it anyway. You never know when you might need it.
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What is the problem that needs to be solved? That is the question I am always asking. Even when things are going well, I am looking for ways we can improve and be prepared for what comes next.

Faster. Cheaper. Better. In all my roles, that is what excites me.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

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