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CTO and Head of Product for Heroic Enterprises, Reg CF & Reg D funded early stage startup ($15M++).* Initial product launch, zero to one, in closer partnership with Founder & CEO* Hired and established internal product & engineering team and saved 75% expenses from external agency* Established all engineering, customer discovery, and product processes.* Continuous delivery of values & improvements to system w/ daily production deployments.* Grew user base 300% in under 12 months, additional 100% YOY growth in the following 12 months* Full technical & product integration of acquired related business, managing legacy technologies, integrating multiple legacy monoliths and modern service based systems.

Exploring opportunities, customer discovery, product prototyping in the mental health, training, & fitness space.

Broad role leading business strategy, product & engineering strategy, and general management responsibilities.Accomplishments* Achieved EBITDA goals while reorganizing the company after founder transition, maintaining complex 20+ year old legacy technology, and shipping new, innovative products.* Built a product management team, hiring externally and promoting from within, to bring process and customer/product-knowledge into a high performing team.* Led & supported deep engineering excellence focus through principles & practices, heavy emphasis on automation (testing, deployment, infrastructure), investment in Cloud Native technologies, and supporting core legacy systems and technical debt.* Directly led new product development from inception to market launch of two brand new products within the TrainingPeaks family.Role Responsibilities* Key liaison between Corporate CEO and Brand executive team.* P&L responsibility, working closely with CEO & CFO. Managed budget toward overarching corporate goals and constraints, managing toward EBITDA goals, staffing goals, and growth & innovation goals.* In collaboration with overarching corporate vision from Chairman & CEO, and working with product & executive teams, defined and deployed Brand specific purpose, mission, and long-term growth & innovation strategies.* Led weekly and monthly All Staff communication as part of vision & strategy deployment phase, ongoing company updates, and during high-intensity COVID periods.* Worked with cross-functional executives and directors to establish value-based leadership skills, providing management and leadership coaching, supporting people management across broad functions.* Worked with product management team to translate business strategy to product strategy, identifying Horizon 1-3 opportunities, balancing short & long-term needs, and focusing heavily on feasibility based on technical leadership input.

Peaksware unifies deliberate practice focused brands under one corporate umbrella providing vision, strategy, and best practices across a variety of industries.Brands: - TrainingPeaks- MakeMusic- TrainHeroic- AlfredTechnical partner and advisor to the Corporate CEO and Brand GMs. My role as VP, Engineering and CTO was broadly focused on product development best practices, people leadership, M&A support, and organizational scaling. I managed VPs and Directors across the various brands, refining a core set of engineering best practices, systems, and processes across multiple unrelated technology stacks.Projects, Skills, Accomplishments:- Defined & deployed Peaksware Engineering Principles & Practices- Developed engineering hiring and onboarding processes- Support M&A at the Corporate & Brand level, identifying or collaborating on strategic opportunities, due diligence, integration, culture management.- Managed technology & product strategy, collaboration, and development across worldwide teams, from LA, Boulder/Denver, to Paris, France, and near-shore teams in Costa Rica and Argentina.- Opened satellite office in Denver, Colorado which eventually grew to 25 people office.

Led Engineering, QA, UX, and Product Management as one collaborative group focused on end-to-end product development.Responsibilities:* Hiring & training Product Management group* Defining a product management framework specific to our context* Applying statistical process control (SPC) practices to establish predictable engineering process focused on value flow (Kanban based)* Coaching managers and leaders within group to uphold engineering best practices, communities of practices, culture standards, and to continuously share company vision and strategy.* Helping define product strategy by closely collaborating with executive leadership and product managers within various teams.

Leading software engineering efforts for a department with three cross-functional product development teams.Responsibilities & accomplishments:* Managing individual contributors and other managers as direct reports, along with an extended dotted line network.* Focus on communication and transparency with executive team to drive trust and tight feedback loops on product and technology decisions.* Process management through Agile/Lean practices with focus on opportunities for risk management and continuous improvement.* Project management through Scrum and Kanban practices, primarily in a coordination effort across teams and other departments.* People management through direct reports, regular 1-on-1's and mentorship.* Implementer and maintainer of a software best practices culture and knowledge culture through Lunch 'n Learn, Engineering Offsites, Hackathons, Communities of Practice.

Leading a team of front- and back-end engineers building the company's flagship HTML5 SOA web application. I was the architectural lead responsible for R&D'ing initial technologies (Backbone.js, Marionette.js, Require.js, Flot, .NET Web API RESTful services) then transitioned to the Engineering Manager role recruiting the team to its largest at just around 10 people.I strived to be a servant leader, acting as ScrumMaster and liaison to the Product Owner, ensuring value flows smoothly across our PO, Developer, Designer, and QA stream. Through this initial management role, I continued to contribute to large back-end refactors in .NET C# and development of internal tooling.

Started my career at TrainingPeaks as a software engineer working on direct device communication. I maintained and expanded our C++/QT based DeviceAgent product which used USB Mass Storage, HID drivers, or FTDI USB/Serial drivers to communicate to fitness devices (Garmin, Timex, etc) and download user data.Through my initiative to learn JavaScript and HTML5 technologies, I transitioned to R&D'ing and developing the company's first HTML5 single page application. I was exposed to a number of client-side frameworks, eventually choosing Backbone.js, along with a wide variety of other JavaScript related technologies (Grunt.js, Yeoman, Require.js, Jasmine). At the same time, I developed the RESTful API services required by the SPA, learning to work in .NET WCF services using C#. Throughout the year, I was able to apply these new skills to a number of other new products.Again through my personal desire for knowledge and initiative, I transitioned to assisting with a MongoDB replica installation in the AWS cloud. I quickly learned the new technologies and became the lead/product owner of our AWS MongoDB replicas. Technologies/concepts I worked with during that time: Linux, MongoDB, replica sets, delayed replicas, multi-AZ deployments, multi-region deployments, SSH tunneling, MongoDB backup strategies, EC2, EBS and IOPS optimizations, etc.Finally, I used the experience gathered to evaluate, plan, and architect our flagship product's transition from Flash to HTML5, which led to my next position managing the implementation team.

Software developer in small medical start-up environment. Quickly picked up many duties beyond job description as part of my desire to continuously attempt to improve process and environments:- Conceived and implemented make-based automated build, integration, and testing environment around existing large code base.- Executed significant refactors of persistence layer (PostgreSQL) implementing design patterns and unit testing best practices.- Initiated and led integration and system test effort towards FDA certification of product.

- Systems Engeering duties such as requirements gathering (DORS), verification and validation, systems testing, black and white box testing.- Software Engineering duties building C++, QT, RS232 engineering tools for continuous integration pipeline, autopilot / test flight telemetry, HITL testing infrastructure.

CAD drafting, CFD analysis, general IT responsibilities.

- Large scale data entry- Large scale data manipulation (MS Excel, MS Access)- Excel to SAP / SAP to Excel data scripting and migration

Through High School and two years into college, employed as a contract / hourly software web developer for a small but established German startup.Web application development:- ASP - Server Pages, SQL DB- Dynamic HTML- Hosting, web mastering, operational dutiesDesktop application software development:- Visual Basic- MS Access- MS SQL- Windows sockets.