Background

I am an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of executing transformational strategies within software engineering that produce game-changing business outcomes. I flourish at establishing a high-performing culture, building teams, growing leaders, and cultivating innovation through people empowering principles. I have lots of expertise in spearheading global efforts while championing collaboration across different geographies, cultures, and generations. As a leader I aim to identify inefficiencies and risks, then drives advancements to engineering practices around security, reliability, quality, and flow of value to customers. I am a strong believer and practitioner in establishing a highly efficient Software Development Lifecycle, built on reliable and secure infrastructure and policies to accelerate code changes, fixes, and experiments into the hands of customers. I have extensive experience in optimizing the entire DevOps tool chain to accelerate Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) metrics and outcomes.

Job experience

• October 2021 - January 2023
  Director of Software Engineering
  Citrix Systems
  

  Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

  Led Platform Engineering DevOps organization of 45+ people across multiple sites worldwide. Remit across broader 3,000+ organization to up-level DevOps and cloud maturity, optimizations to the software supply chain, boost developer productivity, gain efficiencies through economies of scale, and improve release metrics.

• October 2014 - October 2021
  (Senior) Manager of Software Engineering
  Citrix Systems
  

  Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

  Managed organization of 25 engineers over several R&D sites with focus on core DevOps platforms, test and environment automation, and analytics. Grew in position from remit of automation tooling to entire software development lifecycle, all aspects of developer productivity, and release procedures.

Education

• University of Michigan
  B.S. in Computer Engineering
  

  2000 - 2004