About

Track Record

Building product capabilities inside organizations that create outsized outcomes.

A consistent pattern across my career: join or start an organization, build teams, ship products, and create durable value. The common thread is turning engineering capability into competitive advantage.

Defining Outcomes

Career highlights

ESG Mobility

Acquired by Cognizant (2021)

Director of Technology
2010 - 2021

Built and led a new product division inside a 1,000-person automotive engineering consultancy. Grew from individual contributor to directing sales, marketing, product development, customer support, and IT teams.

Key Outcomes

  • Created three products that became ESG's competitive moat, directly contributing to Cognizant's acquisition of the company
  • Cognizant's acquisition strategy required consulting teams to have product differentiation - the division I built provided exactly that
  • Led teams across automotive innovation hubs in Germany, the United States, and China
  • Products served eight of the world's top ten automotive original equipment manufacturers

Products Built

Auklet

Embeddable software package for Internet of Things modules that monitors application performance in the field. Conceptualized, vetted against market, secured investment, and brought to market. 200+ users within the first month. Reduced on-site debugging for engineers by 25%.

Automated Test Platform

System enabling original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to automate testing of infotainment systems, instrument clusters, and mobile device integrations. Test cases defined using images and video of screens, with machine learning models identifying buttons, artifacts, and expected components. A fleet of matrix arms with camera systems simulated and recorded interactions, reducing release validation from months to hours.

Vehicle Analysis Platform

Internet of Things device and logistics platform for instrumenting pilot vehicles with a dongle - usable standalone or paired with the Auklet software package. Captured vehicle errors and logged durability run details including location and environmental data, reducing time to root cause from weeks to hours.

Selected Client and Internal Engagements

  • Transformed Ford's software process from waterfall to agile, developing training used by 500+ engineers
  • Delivered end-to-end fleet monitoring platform for MVCS with web, mobile, video streaming, and computer vision for automated vehicle identification
  • Built a portable profile solution for rear seat entertainment systems that enabled users to carry their custom profile into any vehicle via their phone, with automated hardware-in-the-loop validation using matrix arms and computer vision
  • Designed and implemented ISO 27001 compliant internal systems automating recruiting, onboarding, and asset management - a team of three maintained 99.99%+ uptime on 500+ cloud assets
Read the Cognizant acquisition announcement

PrintSites

Millions of users, $10M+ annual revenue

Platform Lead
2013 - 2019

Led the platform team that built a complete web-to-print solution in three months. The platform became the backbone connecting web-to-print providers with trade printers at scale.

Key Outcomes

  • Built the entire platform from zero to production in three months
  • Served hundreds of customers including The UPS Store, reaching millions of end users
  • Platform supported over $10 million in annual transaction volume
  • Created the API layer that became the backbone of the entire PrintSites ecosystem

Progression

From individual contributor to executive

1

Software Engineer

ESG Mobility · 2010 - 2012

2

Senior Software Engineer

ESG Mobility · 2012 - 2013

3

Advanced Systems Manager

ESG Mobility · 2013 - 2017

4

Director of Technology

ESG Mobility · 2017 - 2021

5

Chief Technology Officer

Fetch.ai · 2021 - Present

Ventures

Entrepreneurial history

In parallel with my primary roles, I co-founded and built several products from zero. Each one sharpened a different muscle - fundraising, go-to-market, customer development, and knowing when to close a chapter.

Next Release

2019 - 2022

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Changelog management platform that integrated with GitHub to seamlessly deliver release notes. Managed product development and customer outreach from concept through operation.

Sagebrew

2013 - 2017

Co-founder

Political engagement platform enabling candidates and groups to collect donations from constituents. Automated the process of matching users with their elected representatives and candidates running for office.

Push Display

2013 - 2017

Co-founder

Digital signage platform with an Android application for displaying advertisements configured via web application. Created an automated over-the-air update system that eliminated manual device management.

Education

Foundation

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Minor in Entrepreneurship

Central Michigan University

2007 - 2011

Interested in working together?

I'm always open to conversations about technology leadership, product strategy, and building teams that deliver.

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