Bio

I love leading innovative teams to deliver cloud and SaaS solutions that delight customers. As a proven enterprise technology and open source leader I have: • Had lead roles in launching multiple new SaaS offerings and software products • Launched and led multiple open source projects attracting dozens of companies • Spoken at multiple international conferences • Presented alongside executives to industry analysts such as Gartner • Led multiple Fortune 500 customer & partner technical solution design workshops • Authored 12 granted patents with 8 more pending • Acknowledged contributor to industry specifications I have deep experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM). I have been recognized multiple times by Okta, an industry leading IAM provider, as being one of their most successful and thought leading customers and partners. Specifically, I have: • Twice been a member of the Okta Advisory Board for Customer Identity and Access Management • Twice been a speaker at Okta's annual industry conference • Been featured in a success whitepaper • Been publicly awarded by Okta for being one of their top customer evangelists I excel at creating innovative solutions and software architectures, but my greatest joy is building up teams to understand our customer so that they eagerly own delivering working software to our customers. I love being both the evangelist for my product as well as the voice of the customer for my teams. I've had a technically focused career where I have continuously interwoven many different roles including: • Business technology strategy • Software architecture and development • Product ownership and road-mapping • Technical program management I have extensive experience doing all of this with large, globally distributed technology and business teams. You can often find me hiking, biking, and skiing in my home state of Colorado. SKILLS & EXPERTISE Engineering Leadership | Rapid Development | Technology Solution Innovation | Thought Leadership | Mentoring and Team Building | Technology Transformation Systems Architecture | Software Architecture | Cloud Solutions | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | User Experience (UX) | Agile Development | Open Source | Enterprise Software | Technology Strategy | Golang (go) | JavaScript | Python | Java | AngularJS | ReactJS | IAM (Oauth2, OIDC, SCIM, SAML) | Microservices | AWS | Kubernetes