• Directly manage an organization of 61 Software Engineers, Development Managers, and Platform Analysts that focus primarily on product innovation and development. • Led a major transformation in development practices at Ascend, implementing a SW Engineering best practices approach in an environment that was in need of a major transformation. Improved release quality, efficiency, and time to market substantially through this exercise. This process transformation is in the process of being adopted across Ascend in other engineering organizations as best practice. • Drive DevOps adoption and best practices across the organization including projects to adopt build and deployment automation and continuous integration. • Research and adopt new tools to improve monitoring of systems, testing automation, development automation, and load and performance testing capabilities. • Leading a major platform re-architecture effort for the Clinical Health platforms, migrating from a legacy platform to a new micro-service based architecture. The first phase of this is complete with 700,000 students moved to a new student portal. • Continue to drive efficiency in the development organization with goals to achieve 10% productivity improvements in 2017. • Work with directly with CEO and Business Unit leaders on key technical decisions, product/project status updates, and overall roadmap progress. • Work directly with CTO, CIO, and Chief Architect on organizational strategies. This includes key platform, technology stack, and infrastructure decisions. • Travel to customer locations as needed to meet with CIO’s and Nursing Department Heads at educational institutions as needed. epay, a Euronet Worldwide Company Director Of Software Engineering November 2012 - July 2014 (1 year 9 months) Leawood, KS • Implemented a best practices SW Engineering methodology into an environment will minimal controls and minimal investment planning. • Responsible for Design, Development, PMO, and Support of all components of the epay platform transaction processing platform. • Responsible for the management of Euronet’s Kansas City datacenter. This included all HW purchases, datacenter site management, and access. • Developed the regions strategic roadmap for the epay platform, this included consolidation initiatives as well as driving best practices across the region. Page 2 of 4