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Technology professional, specializing in software development, operations, project management, cloud transitions, consulting, support, diagnostics, remediation, IVR, speech recognition, contact center technology, and customer relationship management.

  • Roles: Expert Witness, CIO, software technical program/project manager, software engineer, software tester, management consultant, software integrator, software support engineer, technical writer. 
  • Industries: AI, machine learning, information technology, software, research and development, insurance, banking, retail, construction, law enforcement, government, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, publishing, telecommunications, networking, management consulting, patent litigation
  • Employers/Clients: Booz-Allen & Hamilton, AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Avaya Communications, GAP Inc Direct, Nationwide Insurance, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, CardinalHealth, ColumbusRegionalAirport Authority, McGraw Hill Education, Covidien/Medtronic, Recommind/OpenText, State of Ohio Depart of Admin Services, State of Ohio Department of Medicaid, Honda of America, PeerAssist, PNC, Wide Open West, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Tata Consultancy Services.  

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Senior Technical/Software Project/Program Manager

Apr 2019Present
Tata Consultancy Services
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers - Zero Trust/IT Security project leadership 
  • PNC Bank - Hands-on production support and issue remediation for contact center technologies, reverse engineering, cross-silo collaboration, monitoring, cross platform diagnostics, and realtime resolution of mission critical outages involving Avaya, Nuance, Genesys, Verint, WebSphere, and SAP. 
  • WOW! - Project leadership, technical advice, vendor selection, acquisition & divestiture in support of WOW!’s contact center technologies:  NICE inContact/CXone, Salesforce, Occam, Cyara, Empirix.
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield - Technology audit and remediation for contact center technology and IVR systems

Katz RAKTL & Parus Patent Litigation Expert Consultant, Expert Witness

Jan 2009Present
Various Law Firms
  • Provide research, analysis, evidence, documentation for Katz RAKTL and Parus Holdings patent infringement claims involving contact center, artificial intelligence, and speech recognition technologies, in which I have many years of direct experience and of which I retain exhaustive documentation. Multiple cases, all successful outcomes.  

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2015Dec 2017
PeerAssist, Dublin, OH
  • PeerAssist is owned by a California construction company.  For them, I developed, tested, and supported mobile and desktop applications that automate back office and field operations for the construction industry. 

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Software Program/Project Manager

Oct 2013Nov 2015
Software project manager/business analyst on contract to:
  • Honda of America, Marysville, OH - Technical product owner/project manager for agile software remediation of Honda's manufacturing data reporting system.
  • Ohio Department of Medicaid, Columbus, OH - Planned the division of systems shared by ODJFS and ODM when those agencies separated.
  • Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH - as product owner/PM, led project migrating newly acquired Allied Insurance Company's document management technology to the Nationwide Insurance standard, HP Exstream, now OpenText.  Led four fast-paced R&D technology prototyping projects for Nationwide’s IT Architecture division.

Senior Software Integrator

Sep 2012Oct 2013
Recommind Inc, Columbus, OH
  • Hands-on implementation of the Recommind (now OpenText) predictive analysis, machine learning, AI platform for various clients thereby optimizing eDiscovery within their litigation departments.

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Senior Software Program/Project Manager

Jan 2009Sep 2012
Software project manager/business analyst on contract to:
  • Covidien Inc, now Medtronic, Mansfield, MA - Conducted a Master Data Management (MDM) feasibility and readiness analysis for Covidien, a multinational medical device and pharmaceutical supplier.
  • Ohio Department of Administrative Services, DAS, Columbus, OH - Remediated and led statewide program to consolidate the numerous, separate email services within the various state agencies into a single, centralized email service.
  • McGraw Hill Education, Columbus, OH - Initiated and managed Oracle Fusion Product Data Hub™ (PDH) implementation using web services oriented architecture (SOA) to replace a legacy master product database.
  • CardinalHealth, Dublin, OH - Managed two IT infrastructure projects and two software development projects: A product recalls management system and a controlled substance diversion protection system.

Chief Information Officer

Mar 2007Jan 2009
Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, OH
  • Led the Ohio Attorney General’s state-wide technology establishment which provides products and services to agency legal, regulatory, and investigative staff, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Intelligence (BCI&I), and the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy (OPOTA).
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Senior Software Project Manager

Oct 2004Mar 2007
Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH
  • Led agile software development project to replace Nationwide’s aging document Production Workflow System which manages, tracks, and maintains Nationwide's voluminous document and mail printing operation.  Led integration of acquired company technology infrastructure within Nationwide's environment.   
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Software Operations Manager

Oct 2003Oct 2004
GAP Inc Direct Distribution Center, Groveport, OH
  • Managed technology operations at GAP's retail distribution center where web-based GAP, Banana Republic, and Old Navy orders are picked, packed, and shipped to customers.
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Member of the Technical Staff

AT&T Bell Laboratories & Lucent Technologies
  • Project management, software engineering, testing, and support for internal venture CONVERSANT Systems which developed and supported AT&T and Lucent's Integrated Voice Response (IVR) platform and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software suite, INTUITY and AUDIX Voice Messaging platforms.
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Management Consultant

Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Bethesda, MD
  • Managed national security emergency preparedness exercise to demonstrate that a crippled US public switched network could be restored using battlefield military communications assets.  Rated top in class and awarded out of cycle salary action my first year.
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