Bio

Result-driven, award-winning strategic software professional. Proven record of helping businesses identify technology needs and trends and creating viable solutions to support vision and business strategy. Extensive experience leading projects from idea to completion, increasing efficiency, maintainability, scale and value. With a passion for staying at the forefront of the tech-driven revolution, thrives on solving the big problems by inventing solutions that push the envelope. Takes pride in teaching new and complex technology through speaking engagements, conferences, authorship, course publication and hands-on in-house team training. Also enjoys community mentoring at workshops, code camps, meetups, and coaching middle and high school robotics teams. Key achievements include: ● Created the platform for online-dating pioneer JDate.com, from start-up to hugely profitable cash cow in portfolio of Spark Networks, LLC. ● Architected and implemented multi-lingual, multinational website for millions of members of a global nutrition company. Website is responsible for a large share of company revenue. ● Awarded Microsoft MVP recognition and is a MongoDB Master. ● Inaugural MongoDB Zola Award for Community Excellence. ● Prolific on-trend Pluralsight course author. ● Entrepreneur, consultant, owner of Plus N Consulting, Inc.