Retired('ish) Technology Executive

Highly accomplished technology executive with 25+ years software/service delivery and business experience in a variety of companies: large corporations, small to midsize private companies, midsize public companies and venture backed entrepreneurial start-ups in Silicon Valley, Toronto, New York, Tel Aviv, and Waterloo. Skilled engineering manager with 20+ years of experience hiring, training, mentoring and managing teams between 5 and 200 through repeated, successful, and on-time deliveries using Agile methodologies. Described as a people-first, evidence-based engineering leader with deep/pragmatic technical capabilities balanced with strong business acumen. Adept at externally-facing roles including technical due diligence in support of strategic sales, business development and fundraising. Experienced in assessing companies for acquisition and integration post-acquisition. Demonstrated capability to work effectively in environments with strong compliance/regulatory constraints such as SOX, PCI, and SOC 2. Extensive experience with, and highly effective in, software architecture/hands-on software engineering roles. Broad and deep technical skills from pragmatic experience scaling large deployments in a variety of scenarios including 300MM+ user consumer-facing apps, P2P networks, cryptocurrency, and advertising infrastructure as well as business process automation.