Summary

A results-oriented professional with exceptional leadership skills who can manage the design, development, and implementation of global solutions and processes within demanding environments aligned with transformation objectives. A highly self-motivated leader with excellent communication skills that can work with a global population to deliver quality results while managing complex dependencies with competing priorities. Extensive leadership credentials, a strong ability to analyze complex situations, with creative problem-solving skills to deliver.

Core competencies

Global Team Leadership
Team Builder and Resource Development
People, Process, & Technology Optimization Problem Solver – Logical Thinker
Complex Process Design & Standardization Change Agent – Transformation & Innovation Technology Vision, Design, Development & Delivery Detailed Technical Design
Application / Software Design & Development

Global System Implementation
Issue / Risk Management & Resolution
Budget Management & Administration
Resource & Capacity Planning
Collaboration & Communication
Vendor Management
Quick Learner
Broad & deep technical skills
Rated in top performance and behaviors quadrant entire career

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) Graduated 2016
GPA 4.0 / 4.0

Baker College, Flint, MI
Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems (CIS) Graduated 2006
GPA 4.0 / 4.0

Certified IT Professional – Learning Tree International
Courses included: Business Implications, Architectures and Infrastructures, Telecommunications, Networks & System Security, Web Development, and Case Study Analysis
Completed in 2000

Additional Non-Degree Courses

CAD classes, Oakland Community College C/C++ Classes, Sun Microsystems
Java Classes, Sun Microsystems Engineering courses

Drafting courses
Engineering design courses
130+ internal GM courses - leadership, safety, technology, ...

Professional Experience

Lead Technologist / Development Lead/Senior Dev Manager - General Motors Company [1/2018 – Present]

• Appointment - appointed by GM CTO directly as Chief Technologist of CAE/HPC Software Innovation initiative

• Team development - built a diverse distributed team of leaders across the US

• Leadership - lead team of senior innovators, designers, architects, and developers; portfolio management

• Strategy - developed end-to-end open-source vision, architecture, and strategy

• Technology - lead technical team responsible to execute the vision, strategy, and back-office development

• Design - designed end-to-end multi-tier detailed design - compute, storage, network, OS, middleware, and software services

• Development - development lead for back-office systems and desktop integration Execution - drive Agile priorities to deliver features on a monthly deployment schedule

• Performance - lead end-to-end performance optimization across all tiers of the ecosystem - hardware and software

• Vendor management - selection, relationship building, contract development, legal approval, setting vendor vision, manage activities

• Achievements - designed, developed, and deployed multi-tier ecosystem with 30+ loosely coupled services on monthly release schedule, many time reducing process optimizations, resource reducing data flow optimizations, single UI end-user interface, ...

Lead Technologist / IT Professional Fellow - General Motors Company [3/2016 – 1/2018]

• Appointment - Appointed by GM senior VP directly to design vehicle back-office support systems

• Team development - built a diverse global IT technology team (40+ external resource hires)

• Leadership - led cross-domain global team to innovate, design, and develop; led daily executive leadership team to deliver capabilities to acquired company at the speed of a startup

• Strategy - designed IT back-office vision, architecture, and strategy

• Technology - led technology assessment and selection for all systems

• Design - designed 22 logical and physical system designs

• Development - led design, architecture, and development of all front-end and back-end systems

• Vendor management - built and managed partnership with acquired company to integrate and leverage GM capabilities and systems

• Achievements - led $100M detailed data management assessment from technical and financial perspectives; led IT requirements and delivery coordination of 6 new remote operational GM facilities; led GM senior VP cloud feasibility assessment of data cloud providers; optimized end- to-end development process to deliver at the speed of a startup; led multiple IT senior VP & staff technical activity progress/guidance sessions to optimize delivery

Chief Architect / IT Professional Fellow - General Motors Company [3/2015 – 3/2016]

• Leadership - chief architect on Global IT Standards Counsel; management of priorities, demand, capacity, issues, risks, conflicts, and deliverables across multiple CIO organizations

• Technology - developed, managed, and drove global technology roadmap consisting of 260+ technologies

• Design/development - developed and managed global IT diagram standards and IT standards process

• Execution - senior executive relationship management across 3 CIOs; application development of special projects to optimize systems; provided technical guidance and leadership to GM’s top 10 back office systems; CIO single point of escalation to optimize service delivery

• Vendor management - vendor roadmap management and interfacing with GM implementation roadmap

Chief Architect / IT Professional Fellow - General Motors Corporation [2003 – 3/2015]

• Appointment - appointed by CIO directly to build and lead company wide architecture team and ARB - application, logical, and physical

• Team development - built team of senior architects and technologists

• Leadership - led cross-functional team of 40+ highly technical application, middleware, and infrastructure internal architects and 50+ external resources; led architecture review board to focus activities to create a cohesive GM ecosystem; traveled globally with IT VP for years as technical and leadership advisor; led Asia-Pacific architecture/engineering guidance program to increase overseas effectiveness

• Strategy - developed GM's architecture strategy and implementation globally Technology - responsible for technology selection and adherence to standards

• Design - responsible to review, guide, and approve all technical design aspects for hundreds of technical designs across all tiers and all disciplines – software, hardware, security, availability, scalability, reliability, business continuity, services, telecommunications, ports/protocols, storage, backup, ...

• Process management - developed GM global standard architecture process standardizing work for 350+ architects; led multiple process re-engineering workshops to continually optimize end- to-end process involving 100’s of resources

• Development - developed GM global diagram standards tools for application, infrastructure, and physical design across all tiers – client, access, application, data, and storage. A conclusive common language all technical resources within GM and all vendors that do business with GM to communicate

• Execution - led the end-to-end GM architecture process globally; resolved technical issues globally driving issues to closure

• Vendor management - negotiated and managed major vendor contracts to reduce cost and increase vendor expectations; integrated vendors into daily activities to deliver to GM objectives as part of the team, regardless if their products were part of the solution - HP, Sun, IBM, Intel, Cisco, EMC, Super Micro, Oracle, ...

Engineering Design Leader Application Development Manager - General Motors Corporation [1990 – 2003]

• Application Development Manager (the only one in the company back then)

• Team development - built and led development team of 45+ developers focused on CAD/CAE automation

• Leadership - consolidated 8 unique CIO vertical development teams into a single functional team and led with a common focus; developed and led GM Program Development Library across the company

• Strategy - contributor into the creation of an Information Technology organization within GM

• Technology - leveraged technology to innovate & automate CAD/CAE labor intensive work as an Engineering Design Leader

• Centralization - developed served application configuration management strategy for 10,000+ Windows® clients

• Process management - developed end-to-end application development process

• Development - led development of hundreds of custom applications to reduce engineering time, increase first time quality, and optimize results – eliminating entire teams of engineers leveraging technology (many still used in 2021); developed first ergonomics application (Oscar) to automate and transform months of effort to minutes; ported hundreds of served UNIX applications to Windows® client/server applications; developed engineering 11x17 drawing standards to eliminate rolled drawings; developed plotting application that reduced plotting costs by over $1 million per month and provided the portability of drawings to manufacturing environments; developed centralized application interface leveraging a central configuration for all client applications; developed Silo Architecture model for all CAD/CAE/Design client applications deployed within GM – multi-tier management and central control; redesigned & consolidated hundreds of custom legacy applications into modern global common applications

Engineering Design Leader

• Leadership - led team of CAD designers and automotive engineers

• Design - engineered fuel systems, shift controls, brake systems, and accelerator systems leveraging NX leveraging the mature GM standard vehicle development processes

• Innovation - convinced senior leadership that allowing me to leverage my engineering knowledge and my software development skills to develop software to automate complex engineering tasks was an investment. Initial application was an ergonomics application that transformed a manual board drafting process that took months for each vehicle proposal to an application with sliders that 3D transformed the 3D CAD geometry that took minutes. The software enforced/restricted leveraging government regulations and GM proprietary design guidelines to ensure conformance. After months of personal time developing the application, senior leadership granted me approval to spend 50% of my time developing software and soon after approval to hire development resources to transform engineering.

Engineering Design – Chassis Group / Powertrain - General Motors Corporation [1985 – 1990]

• Worked my way from print management, detail design, layout, designer, senior designer, to Engineering Design Leader – powertrain and chassis design

• Powertrain design focus on engine component design – casting, stamping, and mechanical design

• Chassis design focus on brake systems, shift control systems, fuel systems, & accelerator systems

Small Business Owner [1988 – 2001]

Engineering Design

CAD training for automotive OEMs and suppliers
3D design modeling of legacy 2D mechanical designs 3D automotive component design
3D design validation and optimization
Overnight design services for component build issues

Technology

Web design, development, operation, and hosting services
Application development and engineering design automation Application development training in a variety of programming languages Application optimization services for custom developed solutions

Customers

Customers included: General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Toyota Corporation, Bosch, Walker Manufacturing, Lear Seating, Aerotek Engineering, and Rockwell International

Language Reference

I have developed leveraging many languages and frameworks over my career, starting with FORTRAN, C, PHP, Perl, Ufunc, UGOpen, and many more. More recently I developed leveraging Java, Bash, C++, and Python. Although a senior leader for decades, designing requires a modern understanding of language capabilities and I enjoy staying current by developing too.