Experience

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  New technologies

  Jul 1988 - Jan 1991

  Sr. analyst

  • Software Developer for applications supporting NASA’s Space Shuttle Missions.

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  Motorola solutions

  Jan 1991 - Jul 1997

  Sr. engineering manager

  • Responsible for profit and loss, budgetary, and personnel management for a professional services engineering group. This group included both Hardware and Software engineering. • Grew this group from a single $1 million development contract to multiple contracts with $18 million in booked revenue over 2 years. • Interfaced with potential customers to determine system needs and identify product solutions.• Served on Motorola’s Corporate Software Quality Assurance Counsel.• Led efforts to achieve SEI Level 2 certification for the Motorola Huntsville Division.• Lead developer for call-back security and customer billing management applications. • Knowledgeable in communications standards: T1, E1, ISDN, PRI. Show less

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  Pliant systems

  Jul 1997 - May 2001

  Sr. engineering manager

  • Release manager for the Pliant System 3000, a flexible Digital Loop Carrier Systems (DLC).• Primary responsibilities include negotiating shifting priorities and aligning resources to better meet marketing and development demands, interfacing with compliance-engineering to ensure systems were NEBS, UL and FCC certified, communicating product plans and requirements to manufacturing to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.• Contract Manager/Engineering Development Manager for the Lucent Technology Optical Network program, which was a $21 million dollar development contract. Led Statement of Work negotiations and managed the development team. Project was completed 2 months ahead of schedule.• Knowledgeable of communications standards: ATM, xDSL, VoDSL, LAN/WAN, OC3. • Experience leading complex application development projects using Agile software development methodologies and processes, including Scrum and iterative development. Show less

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  Ipitek

  Aug 2001 - Mar 2002

  Director rtp technology center

  • Established a remote office in RTP for IPITEK and managed technical staff at the site. • Management responsibility for software and hardware projects based in Carlsbad, CA and in RTP.• Instituted several new processes, including Marketing requirement tracking, Software development documentation process, defect tracking and product release checklists for operations.

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  Self employeed

  Mar 2002 - Aug 2003

  Owner

  • Management Consultant and Customer Liaison for VisionAir, Inc. o Cleared $3.8 million in aged accounts by negotiating contract completion terms with clients.o Wrote business plans to justify the establishment of a Professional Service Group under the direction of the Project Management Organization.o Led VisionAir’s Client/Server application migration to a Software As A Service model targeted at small rural police departments. The SAAS software increased TAM by 5 times.• Business Development Consultant for Interactive Planet, Inc. (IPI).o Evaluated IPI’s intellectual property (IP), and created new product concepts based on the IP. o Productize two of IPI’s patents and successfully marketed those products to AMD, Nike, AT&T, and Coca-Cola. These contracts resulted in $1.8 million in revenue. Show less

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  Parachute partners inc

  Aug 2003 - Mar 2015

  Owner

  • Bootstrap funded Parachute Partners, Inc. (PPI) in 2003. PPI offers Medical Transcription Services and Health Care IT Services to a verity of medical practice across the United States. To date PPI has generated over $8 million in revenue.o Created Business and Marketing plans.o Evaluated market trends, determine product segmentation and marketing strategyo Designed and implemented an infrastructure and business processes to ensure HIPAA compliance.o Managed teams of application developers in India, China and the Ukraine. Used Agile development process and personally led the Scrum meetings.o Designed and developed a web-based document delivery system (www.rxtranscript.com).o Built and manage teams of independent commission-only sales representatives.o Manage a staff of 60 medical transcriptionists in India and the US.o Created multiple custom and HL7 interfaces to clients’ EMRs and RIS systemso Created a billing application for Tele-radiologists. This application reduced the client’s billing task from 2 days to 1 hour.o Evaluated multiple vendors’ PACS/RIS and EMR systems and recommended systems to clients based on their current workflow, requirements and capability to demonstrate Meaningful Use as described in the HITECH Act. Show less

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  Dell technologies

  Mar 2015 - now

  • Director Strategic Realization

    Sept 2019 - now

  • Consultant Solutions Program Manager

    Mar 2015 - Sept 2019