Positions

Capgemini – RTP, NC

2023 – Present
Sr. Engineering Unit Director

  • Head North America Engineering Software Practice
  • Head Software CoE
  • Sr. Solutions Architect

Capgemini – RTP, NC

2021 to 2023
Engineering Unit Director

Capgemini – RTP, NC

2019 to 2021
Sr. Portfolio & Engagement Manager

WorthWize Consulting – RTP, NC

2017 to Present
Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant

Dell EMC (formerly EMC) – RTP, NC

2016 to 2017
Sr. Technical Staff – Center of Excellence Program Management Office (2017) Director / Sr. Technical Staff – Global Innovation/Israel Center of Excellence (2016 to 2017)

EMC – RTP, NC

2004 to 2016
Director – Global New Business Development Operations (2010-2016) Director – Storage Products Global Business Operations Team (2004 to 2010)

Prior Experience

EMC:

  • Director – NAS Strategy & Business Development
  • Director – R&D Effectiveness (Software Engineering Operations)

Data General:

  • Department Manager – UNIX Products Group
  • Section Manager – UNIX Products Group, Systems Applications Engineering, Software Quality Assurance
  • Senior Software Engineer – Software Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Systems Test Engineering

Professional Services Delivery

  • Spearheading engineering engagement in $100M of annual bookings, primarily AI focused
  • Led team developing an AI readiness assessment tool, aiding customers plan incremental AI investments
  • Secured $4.5M in new sales with a leading infrastructure provider
  • Advised on solutions & proposals in multiple domain areas, totaling over $20M.
  • Created a multi-year, $65M derivative products business plan based on Capgemini assets
  • Implemented technical advisory offerings guiding multiple client executive committees & boards on technical strategy.
  • Developed a $13M L1 – L2 engineering support opportunity.
  • Led expansions in L3-L4 engineering opportunities, growing $3M in revenue.
  • Expanded engineering services by $2.5M with a leading hybrid cloud infrastructure provider

Product Strategy & Innovation

  • Increased Life Science product sales by $15M+ with Metalnx (Metalnx GitHub), an agile, containerized Java cloud application helping genomic researchers manage big data & user-defined metadata with iRODS (Integrated Rule Oriented Data System). Created the concept, led the design, development, and user insight gathering/interactions. Twice BioIT World speaker on this application. The software was created using an agile process and continuous development model and has been donated to the IRODS Consortia.
  • Vendor manager for a new innovative mesh grid, core to edge storage product expected to generate $75M in revenue.
  • Led design & development of a consumer home network attached storage system leveraging new on-demand video format conversion hardware.
  • Created a storage emulator which behaves as a fully configured 960 disk array in a small 5 disk unit, saving $2M annually in hardware costs.
  • Developed LAN backup to disk methods which added $20M in new sales over year one.
  • Designed an automated test system for the Data General AV 300 workstation, reducing overall test time by 50%.

Organization, Budget, & Cost Management

  • Directed a 150+ person integrated engineering operations organization, managing a $35M+ budget, delivering 12 product releases across 2 product lines over 2 years.
  • Saved $2M via transfer of product QA from China to India, expanding automated test coverage by 70%.
  • Responsible for overall budget planning, rollup, and balance negotiations for multiple software organizations.

Software Development, Architecture & Design Development

  • Metalnx, a containerized Java cloud application created using agile design, user stories, and open source tools such as D3, Bootstrap, NodeJS, and Spring.
  • Created a hardware abstraction layer enabling $45M in new sales.
  • Achieved industry-leading benchmark performance numbers for Oracle, SAP, and Sybase on Data General AViiON Servers.

Project, Program Management, Cross-functional Leadership

  • Led design & development of a #50M consumer home network attached storage system generating expected revenue during its first year.
  • Coordinated a task force to develop software development KPIs for the storage products division.
  • Led a team that executed an initiative to bring management of a Brazilian tax credit program back in-house, saving $1M in annual costs.

Strategic Initiatives / Global Software Engineering Management

  • Returned $115M in real value, managing $26M in Brazilian R&D tax credits over 8 years and delivering 16 production & prototype projects.
  • Designed and constructed a 7,000 sq. ft. engineering lab.
  • Developed lab specifications for a Brazil R&D center.

Software Partner / Vendor Management

  • Created $2M in additional sales by standardizing a partner engineering program growing partnerships from 2 to 15.
  • Directed a 60+ person vendor management/porting team working with over 40 application and database partners.

Customer Engagement

  • Engagement Manager of legacy product engineering support, providing last line engineering support for all products, saving over 10% on annual costs.
  • Initiated a $2M+ professional service opportunity leveraging next generation Manufacturing Workflow Orchestration software.
  • Speaker at BioIT World in 2015 & 2016, and former university adjunct lecturer.

Education

  • Master of Science (MS), Computer Studies (Computer Science)
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, NC
    Thesis: “Performance Evaluation of a Data General MV/8000 Computer”
    Minor: Operations Research

  • Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, NC

Associations

  • North Carolina Technology Association
  • Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board, North Carolina State University

Awards

  • 2nd Place, “Best in Show”, 2015 EMC Innovation Competition
  • Metalnx selected a “Best in Show” finalist, BioIT World 2016
  • Patent 6,766,519: “Generic Software Interface for Hardware Environments"