A hands-on executive with over 41 years experience in commercial software development. Excellent leadership and technical skills enable me to bring focus and clarity to creating software products while leading others to do the same. I provide a balanced approach to applying business needs and technology capabilities to software product development using best practice techniques and leading edge technologies.

I am a team player and understand that the difference between good software and great software is often measured by how well the whole team understands each other and the overall objective. I have a lifetime of experience, not only at developing software, but at developing teams that can get quality software delivered in a timely fashion.

I've worked in startups and large companies and I'm an expert in software project recovery efforts with a successful track record as evidence. Today my work centers on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern web architectures. I prefer working in Ruby (including Rails) and Elixir, and I'm hands-on with AI-assisted and agentic development, using tools like Claude and GitHub Copilot daily to help engineering teams get more out of AI across the SDLC. I have a broad background spanning most modern software development frameworks and languages since 1985.