Jul 2022 – Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Leading Technology and Engineering teams in N. America, United Kingdom and India to scale Bazaarvoice's technology platform and services.

Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• From mobile-ready online stores to record-breaking pop-ups to wholesale made easy, Shopify Plus provides businesses with unmatched scalability, reliability, and flexibility.
• Shopify Plus is powering the world’s fastest-growing businesses, from high-volume brands to Fortune 500. Brands like: Kylie Jenner, Rebecca Minkoff, LeSportSac, GE, Nestle, and P&G. Plus is a multi-store experience that enhances Shopify with tools and capabilities that meet the needs of growing, established businesses. Shopify Plus Admin delivers the roles, permissions, instant-store-creation, and multi-store management necessary to develop, deploy, and manage stores in record time. Shopify Plus Flow is the Workflow tool that enables Plus merchants to unlock the capabilities of Shopify's powerful building blocks to meet their unique needs, and to differentiate themselves form their competitors.
• Shopify is a Digital-By-default company; everyone works from the location that best suits their professional and personal lives.

Nov 2017 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is building the daily habit in local commerce, offering a vast mobile and online marketplace where people discover and save on amazing things to do, see, eat and buy. By enabling real-time commerce across local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products and live events, shoppers can find the best a city has to offer. Groupon is redefining how small businesses attract and retain customers by providing them with customizable and scalable marketing tools and services to profitably grow their businesses.

Oct 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Pittsburgh Area

• CTO at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO. AEO is a leading global specialty retailer offering high-quality, on-trend clothing, accessories and personal care products at affordable prices under its American Eagle Outfitters® and Aerie® brands. The company operates more than 1,000 stores in North America, and ships to 81 countries worldwide through its websites. American Eagle Outfitters and Aerie merchandise also is available at approximately 60 international franchise stores in 12 countries.
• Initial areas of focus: Innovation (in-store customization; fitting-room interactive technology; tele-presence; audio-activated systems; in-store wif-fi activation; RFID for inventory management/control); Personalization and Recommendation systems for digital channels; IBM Watson Order Optimizer.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Time Inc., responsible for shaping the company’s overall strategic technology direction, including oversight of day-to-day technology and engineering operations: Infrastructure, Corporate Apps, Information Security, Revenue & Data Engineering, eCommerce, Video (ingestion, storage, discovery, streaming delivery), Product Engineering (websites, mobile applications) for 90+ brands. We operate engineering centers in New York, Stamford, Tampa, Seattle, London & Bangalore. Our goal is to be a trusted adviser and partner delivering world class technology solutions and services to each of our diverse businesses to help grow revenue and maximize profitability.
• Major projects include:
• Cloud Migration: Migration to Amazon AWS of all Corporate and customer-facing applications to enable Time Inc. to exit the data center business, reduce cost, and drive down time-to-traffic for new and growing sites.
• Platform Development: Centralize and standardize all systems on platform technology to maximize reuse and focus innovation. We’ve driven the number of CMS’ in use from 14+ to 4 with the plan to ultimately reduce this to two. We can now launch new websites within 24 hours. We have developed a native application development and deployment platform that enables us to launch new native mobile applications within a week (for iOS, Android, Amazon Fire, Roku and consoles). Global Digital Asset Management (DAM) system for all content types; eCommerce platform.
• Globalization: Moved substantial number of engineering roles to Time Inc. India to reduce cost, tap into talent pool and to establish “follow-the-sun” development and support.
• Outsourcing: Outsourced Global Help Desk and IBM Mainframe operations.
• Deduplication of systems: Including HRIS (deployed Workday in 10 months); Financial systems; Customer Service; global deployment of Office365.
• I chaired the inaugural ABI.NY GHC/1 event in April 2015 for Women in Engineering

Mar 2013 – Feb 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Digital Store Platform (DSP) is the applications and services on which Amazon digital content is sold. DSP comprises the core shopping, rendering and commerce technology across all digital content stores executing on web, Amazon Kindle Fire and Kindle eInk devices and 3rd party devices including Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and other Android-based devices. DSP owns and operates the Kindle book, periodical and magazine stores. DSP owns persistence (RDBMS) solutions across the breadth of Amazon Digital offerings, compute and storage capacity and application scalability and availability (24x365) programs.
• I'm the exec. sponsor of: Commit: Amazon’s annual database conference; Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) and the AWEsome annual conference; WebDevCon: Amazon’s annual conference for website development staff; TPMCon – annual conference for Technical Program Managers.
• I own the exec.relationship between Amazon and Oracle.
• Since 2009 I’ve run Amazon’s annual engineering offsite event attended by engineers across all levels, countries and subsidiaries representing all lines of business; for brainstorming, product inception and networking.

May 2006 – Mar 2013 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• From targeted, personalized merchandising to systems that serve website content from distributed data centers around the world, the Website Application Platform (WAP) team builds the tools, frameworks and services that let users develop, assemble, deploy, and maintain world-class websites from boutiques like Endless.com to Amazon retail sites around the world.
• Our hosting software ensures consistency and availability across thousands of hosts, responding in real-time to changes in traffic and load. Our email systems, including Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES), deliver billions of targeted emails, directly driving revenue to our sites. Through highly specialized content management systems, site development tools, and sophisticated experimentation software, the Website Application Team gives Amazon website owners the power they need to make their online businesses thrive.
• Builder Tools creates the software and services that enable Amazon’s worldwide software development community to turn revolutionary ideas into high quality code running on production systems.
• We help developers simplify the challenge of large-scale distributed software development. Our goal is to free teams to focus on innovating in their problem space and not worry about the “muck” of building software. By doing so, we allow Amazon software developers worldwide to focus on what they do best, whether that’s creating a new Amazon Web Service, inventing a better recommendation algorithm, opening a new eCommerce website, optimizing our fulfillment and distribution systems, or building the next generation of the Kindle platform.
• Our teams are responsible for building the systems that every Amazon software developer around the world uses. Our challenges include those unique to Amazon and the global scale at which we operate, and those common to the industry.

Oct 2001 – Apr 2006 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Fremont, CA

• Responsible for the technology that runs VA Software's SourceForge Enterprise Edition and OSTG's technology web sites including SourceForge.net, Slashdot, Freshmeat, Linux.com and Thinkgeek. I joined VA when the company exited the hardware manufacturing business to lead the development of an enterprise SourceForge solution for application development and collaboration behind the corporate firewall.

Oct 2001 – Apr 2006 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Fremont, CA

• OSTG is the leading network of technology sites for today's IT managers and development professionals and provides a unique combination of news, original articles, downloadable resources, and community forums to help IT buyers, influencers and users make critical decisions about information technology products and services.
• (Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) was the name adopted when VA Linux/VA Software exited the hardware business)

Aug 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr · Cupertino, CA

• WebGain was a jointly funded venture between Warburg Pincus and BEA Systems. The objective of the company was to acquire existing Java EE /Java programming language development tools and roll them together into a single application development environment: WebGain studio. Webgain Studio was conceived as the development toolchain for BEA Weblogic Server – a competitor to IBM Websphere. In April 2000, WebGain acquired the company The Object People, and their TopLink product-line. Webgain also acquired Visual Café from Symantec. Additional funding came from HP and Intel.

Jul 1995 – Aug 2000 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Mountain View, CA; Walldorf, Germany

• IntelliCorp (IC) is a software company that provides, develops, and markets SAP application lifecycle management, business process management and data management software for SAP customers and partners. IntelliCorp applications deliver automatic intelligent impact analysis of SAP systems and are SAP Integration Certified.
• I joined the company to lead the development of LiveModel for SAP to reduce the time, cost and complexity of deploying SAP R/3. Development staff were located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the UK and embedded at SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. I built a strategic relationship with Deloitte Consulting ICS and acquired key technology to add to the IntelliCorp portfolio.
• LiveModel for R/3 is a modeling tool that links the R/3 Reference Model directly to the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG). SAP implementation teams use the R/3 IMG as an on-line tool for performing customization of the R/3 System.

Jun 1984 – Jul 1995 · 11 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom; Palo Alto, CA

• Micro Focus provides innovative software that allows companies to develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications.
• I joined the company in the UK on 1984, relocating to the United States in March 1985. Originally a compiler back-end developer (AT&T WE32000, CCI VAX-compatible Power6, MIPS, HP PA (Spectrum), Sun SPARC, IBM Power PC, Thinking Machines) I founded the Silicon Valley team responsible for the UNIX-product line of IBM mainframe offload development tools and compilers and owned the technology relationships with EU, US and Japanese computer manufacturers that licensed our software.