Expertise – A CIO with a rare combination of experience,business savvy, and technical expertise. His breadth and versatility is demonstrated by the fact that he has served as CIO and Assistant Dean for Information Technology at one of the world’s most prestigious universities, and also held senior management positions at a leading software company.  He has built and managed globally distributed teams working to deliver to an overarching vision.  His strategic thinking,interpersonal leadership and problem solving skills have consistently delivered very strong organizations that are able to continually and sustainably deliver great products and services.

Subject Areas– Alignment of business and technology, strategic planning, operational discipline, software and hardware product development, software and hardware quality assurance, systems integration, business analysis and reporting, web development, IT operations, security, helpdesk and hardware support.

Excellent Business Acumen – Organization, Leadership and People development, VisionandStrategy development andimplementation, Software and Hardware Product Development, Enterprise Architecture, Offshore outsourcing

Industry Verticals –Higher Education, High Tech/Internet Products, Software, Consumer Products, Financial Services

Representative experience:

Consulting – Worked VP/IT at Rambus Corp. on:
1) proposal for software development solutions center,
2) IT strategic plan,
3) articulating service portfolio framework for annual planning purposes,
4) implementing disciplines for planning and operations, and
5) developing security framework and policies.

Stanford Graduate School of Business - Assistant Dean for Information Technology and CIO

• Developed and led department responsible for all aspects of IT.  Grew web and software development teams and delivered applications for administrative and instructional purposes such as course registration, course planning, course/research assistants management, and various simulations and games.  Integrated GSB systems with University’s Oracle/PeopleSoft enterprise systems.
• Outsourced commodity IT services, focusing local resources on GSB-valuedassets.
• Initiated and engaged India-based offshore software development team to add flexible capacity and technical breadth. Offshore team of additional 25 FTE saved approximately $1.5 million per year.
• Developed and executed strategy to deliver solutions for every department that met their internal and external needs by combining custom software development efforts with leveraged customized platforms, SAAS and purchased systems.  Solutions included CRM systems, document management system, and web content management and publishing platforms.
• Participated in several cross campus committees focused on IT strategy.  Member of forum consisting of CIOs from top business schools in U.S.

Intuit, General Manager, Director of Product Development, Project Manager

• Managed the operations of the Automated Financial Services unit. Organized AFS organization (300 FTE) service businesses (Banking, Investments, etc.) with individual business P&L group leaders.  Unified development/operational engineering efforts into one management structure
• Managed or oversaw all aspects of product development for Business Products Group including software engineering, QA, and documentation.Built product development organization from original 3 engineers to department of over 50 engineers, QA testers and technical writers
• Delivered high quality successive releases of QuickBooks;  the installed customer base grew to 1 million in four years
• Defined and drove a rigorous software development lifecycle methodology that ensured quality and met date driven releases.

Past employers - Stanford University, OffRoad Capital, AlphaBlox, Intuit, Echelon and Hewlett-Packard