With 17 years of experience in all facets of both IT and the software development life cycle (SDLC) I've learned how to guide technology and technologists to work towards an organization's strategic goals and how to guide organizations to get far more than they've previously come to expect from technology.

Independent Consultant - San Diego, CA

Software Development and Management Consulting

• Clients included Qualistics, Inc., Virtual Assistance Lab, and Cubic Transportation Systems.
• Consulted with the management of Qualistics to improve technical processes and hire personnel.
• Led and mentored a team in integrating agile methods in an environment that previously gave virtually no visibility into its process.
• Created and managed a quality assurance process which had previously relied on ad-hoc testing.
• Designed and built a continuous integration environment in a process that previously could not even reproduce a build.
• Designed and taught a 3 day course on the Hibernate Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework.
• Introduced and implemented AJAX techniques for two clients, garnering high usability marks from their users.
• Introduced and implemented the use of aspect oriented programming (AOP) via AspectJ and object relational mapping (ORM) via Hibernate to substantially reduce boilerplate in Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE/JEE) code bases that used hand coded JDBC. One application shrank by a measured 15%.

Momentum Software - Austin, TX - http://www.momentumsi.com/

Director of Software Development

• Provided product management for a commercial application called OpenStorm - a BPEL authoring environment and runtime engine.
• Oversaw team selection, project progress, and key architectural decisions for several high profile clients including the U.S. Navy.
• Worked as a sales engineer in meetings with prospective clients and wrote proposals for attracting large clients including Harcourt.
• Created a multi-million dollar bid for the state of Texas.
• Hired, mentored and managed consultants in their career.
• Implemented key software for clients including a Java based COBOL parser and code generator for creating Java and C++ interfaces.

Independent Consultant - Austin, TX

Technical and Strategic Consulting

• Consulted to Blue Current, an outsourced asset management company.
• Designed a strategic plan for integrating two of Blue Current's most critical software systems.
• Created a strategic and tactical plan for integrating mobile hand held devices into their service offerings.
• Implemented prototype system imaging applications for Pocket PC and Palm devices.

SmartPrice.com - Austin, TX - http://www.smartprice.com/

Director of Engineering

• Created and manged a $1M annual budget overseeing IT and software development.
• Worked with the CEO and the board of directors to establish strategic priorities.
• Co-inventor on patent application: "System and Method for Automated Authorization for Service Provider Switching" ( U.S. Patent Application No. 10/209,074).
• Designed and led several critical improvements to systems capabilities including a data warehouse, a system for comparison testing of multiple simultaneous UI designs, and a system for automated and semi-automated management of email responses.
• Hired, managed and mentored a team consisting of project management, software engineers, QA personnel, and systems administrators.
• Gathered and prioritized requirements from across the company's departments.
• Implemented key software pieces including a Microsoft IIS filter written in C++ and ATL.

Momentum Software - Austin, TX - http://www.momentumsi.com/

Technical Services Manager

• Added Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) to the company's offered services by creating and teaching a 4 day internal training course.
• Named to Austin Community College Downtown Technology Center advisory board.
• Acted as a panelist for an Austin Software Council discussion entitled "Major Hype, Major Breakthroughs in 2001: What Will the Rags Say in Their Year-End Retrospective" for 200 attendees.
• Gave a presentation to the first Austin BEA Users Conference entitled "To EJB or Not To EJB: Decision factors on the use of Enterprise Java Beans" to 50 attendees.
• Gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas (Austin) entitled "Distributed Components: A survey of technologies and techniques" to 60 students.
• Oversaw team selection, project progress, and key architectural decisions for several high profile clients.
• Worked as a sales engineer in meetings with prospective clients and wrote proposals for attracting prospects.
• Hired, mentored and managed consultants in their careers.
• Lead the SmartPrice.com project to completion on time and under budget with high customer satisfaction.
• Acted as a lead developer on a multi-million dollar distributed point of sale application using Java JEE/J2EE.

Garden.com - Austin, TX - http://www.garden.com/

Lead Developer

• Acted as lead developer on a Java JEE/J2EE project to improve distributed supply chain management.

CyberPlus - Denver, CO

Lead Developer

• Acted as a lead developer on "HealthBridge", a commercial patient charting application, to create a distributed business logic tier providing core services in Java JEE/J2EE and integrating to a legacy CORBA system.

Productive Data Solutions - El Paso, TX

Lead Developer

• Acted as a lead developer on several projects, including a multi-million dollar automated coupon processing system using Visual Basic and C++.

Aware Technologies and DATAMARK - El Paso, TX - http://www.datamark.net/

Lead Developer

• Acted as lead developer on "Keying on Image", a in-house and shrink-wrap tool written in C++ for generating image processing and data entry software.
• Created a over-the-network software authorization scheme based on smartcards.

Independent Consultant - El Paso, TX

Software Developer

• Contracted to several clients including acting as developer on a hypertext system for doing ICD-9 processing in a medical system.

BS Computer Science University of Texas El Paso

Sun Certified Architect for Java Technology

Sun Certified Java Developer

ICCP Certified Computing Professional with specializations in Software Engineering, ANSI C++, and ANSI C

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer with specializations in Visual C++/Microsoft Foundation Classes, Visual Basic and SQL Server