Experience
Now
Founder
PresentSummitspoint — Seraverra / CrawlReady
- Building Seraverra / CrawlReady, an AI-readiness scanning SaaS for agencies.
- Product, go-to-market, and business development for the venture.
Host
PresentP Town Bar, Pittsburgh, PA
- Host of P Town Bar (ptownbarpgh.com).
- Runs the business day to day, including staff and operations.
Co-founder
PresentMaddie’s Lab
- Co-founder of Maddie’s Lab, a suite of Clover apps for small businesses: receipt printing, expense capture, RegisterIQ, and inventory tools.
Before
Owner
2016 – 2023eCommerce Business, Pittsburgh, PA
- Sourced and marketed B2C products: product identification and sourcing, listing SEO, marketplace and social media advertising, fulfilment and post-fulfilment marketing.
- Built shipping automation — optimal ship configuration software with SQL Server, C#, and RESTful APIs.
- Evaluated and implemented an inventory management system; built sales and order automation with .NET and RESTful APIs for marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon.
- Managed a team supporting the business.
Owner / Operator
December 2019 – December 2021Blue Line Grille
- Owner and operator of a local diner. Sold the diner after two years.
Managing Director / Independent Management Consultant
August 2013 – April 2019Aderitas Group, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
- Pittsburgh-based firm providing business and technology consulting.
- Served as an interim executive for client companies — strategy, technology, and product development; due diligence, fundraising, strategic planning, and program management.
- Rainmaker Insights (real estate big data, formerly Rent Jungle): transformed a high-potential, underperforming business unit into a market leader. Created the brand, designed and launched new data-driven product sets, signed two Fortune 500 clients, and increased revenue to $2M — triple the previous data revenue.
- Community Elf (social media PR software): as interim VP, led outreach to venture capitalists, family offices, and angel investors for Series A funding.
Director — Global Services CTO Office (Strategic Business Development)
December 2011 – June 2013EMC (EMC2), Boston, MA
- Led an inter-disciplinary global team to identify, analyze, source, and evaluate acquisition targets.
- Redeveloped EMC’s Global Services M&A program processes and procedures, from deal sourcing to post-acquisition integration, replacing a previously ad hoc approach.
- Performed due diligence and planned and executed post-acquisition integration. Led a team of four.
Practice Lead (Director level) — Consulting, Asia Pacific and Japan
July 2007 – December 2011EMC (EMC2), Hong Kong / Boston, MA
- Managed the EMC Consulting business in Asia Pacific, with ownership of delivery and pre-sales personnel, across 22 countries in five sub-regions: Greater China and South Korea, Japan, Oceania, South East Asia, and India.
- Grew the services business from 0 to $45M+ annualized business in 4 years, with full P&L ownership. Exceeded the year-one professional services booking goal by 350% and the revenue goal by 240%; opened six new key accounts.
- Developed go-to-market offerings for APJ: application modernization and security, big data solutions, datacenter consolidation, and digital strategy.
- Notable projects: HSBC / JPMC — global data center consolidation ($50M); Barclays Card — digital banking transformation ($100M); BNP Paribas — real-time big data IT management systems ($25M); China Mobile — channel management solution ($25M) that shortened campaign creation and launch from 10 months to two; Goldman Sachs — global Center of Excellence buildout ($25M); China Mercantile Exchange — custom trading big data solution ($10M).
- Shortened the deal booking process from one month to three days; improved delivery efficiency by 20% and cut attrition by 80%.
- Negotiated a Microsoft-sponsored fund of $1.5M to pay for EMC services; EMC was repeatedly recognized by Microsoft as Partner of the Year in multiple categories.
Advisory Consultant / Advisory Architect
May 2006 – June 2007EMC (EMC2), Bermuda / Boston, MA
- Managed and grew EMC Consulting’s presence in Bermuda, growing the division from $1M to $3.5M in 1.5 years.
- Led and mentored a team of EMC consultants, client resources, and third-party consultants on strategic projects, including a global intranet rollout and an SAP rollout.
- Montpelier Re: led the team that designed, developed, and launched a reinsurance risk management system; project managed SAP data integration with the existing general ledger system.
Director of Information Technology / Practice Lead
March 2004 – April 2006Court Square Data Group, Springfield, MA
- Recruited to manage pre-sales and delivery for the application development business, and as chief architect and project manager.
- SafeHealth: architected, built, and piloted a US government-funded unified health record system with a regional consortium of healthcare providers, insurers, and manufacturers; functioned as CTO. The HIPAA-compliant system won the AMDIS 2009 Most Innovative System award.
- Launched a new application development practice that generated seven figures in additional revenue; created an alliance with Microsoft, increasing revenue by $1M, and received multiple Microsoft Gold Partner certifications.
Lead Architect
April 2002 – March 2004Concentra, Waltham, MA
- Recruited as lead technologist to modernize and consolidate field case management systems. Led a team of 15.
- Developed coding, architectural, documentation, and deployment standards; implemented project governance and requirements-gathering standards.
- Moved the design methodology from Waterfall to Agile / Scrum and established production promotion processes, reducing bug fix turnaround time by 51% and cutting QA time by 73%.
Principal Consultant
May 2000 – April 2002IT Factory, Nashville, TN
- Lead consultant for the Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange practice; split time between delivery and pre-sales.
- Grew the business in the eastern US from $5M to $10M in two years, with clients such as GE and Pfizer. New clients included Deloitte & Touche, Bank of America, SouthTrust Bank, and State Farm.
- Deloitte & Touche: led the team that designed and developed a sales force automation and knowledge management system recognized by Microsoft at Fusion 2001 as the world’s best collaborative solution.
- Microsoft: collaborated with the MS Exchange team to build the Exchange 2000 SDK.
Consultant
March 1999 – May 2000Xitech, Pittsburgh, PA
- Delivered existing engagements and drove additional business by strengthening customer relationships; conducted requirements analyses and wrote functional specifications and technical design documentation.
- Projects: Pittsburgh Public Schools — Enterprise Resource Planning system; Cutler-Hammer — knowledge management solution; Reese Brothers — data warehouse / reporting solution.
Skills
Business and leadership: P&L management, business development, revenue growth, global market entry, strategic and organizational planning, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, startup and turnaround, budgeting and financial management, contract negotiations, vendor management, team building and recruitment, operations and risk management, change management, IT governance, offshore development.
Development: C#, C, C++, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, R, T-SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, Angular, React, Node.js.
Platforms, data, and cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RedShift, BigQuery, SharePoint, BizTalk, Exchange, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps.
Methods and domains: Agile / Scrum, SDLC, cloud, big data, data warehouse, business intelligence, data analytics, enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture, web and mobile.
Education
Executive MBA — Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program, jointly offered by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) — May 2011.
B.S., Electrical Engineering — University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA — May 1997.
Certifications & awards
Certifications and licenses: MCP, MCSD, MCDBA, Series 6, Series 63, Six Sigma Green Belt, Pennsylvania Real Estate License.
Awards: Microsoft Fusion 2001 — World’s Best Collaborative Solution Award; AMDIS 2009 — Most Innovative System (SafeHealth).
Languages: Fluent in English; conversational in Chinese.