Professional Journey
In January, 1993, I formed CompuSource Computers which provided accounting and operations solutions for small and medium sized businesses. In addition, we engineered solutions for the telecommunications industry which lead to our acquatioin by LDMI Long Distance in 1996. I was appointed Director of IT and lead all systems operations.
Moving my career from technical development and IT leadership, I was offered an opportunity to lead the Project Management Office at QQuest Corporation, a consulting firm to the automotive industry. In this role, I expanded the PM methodologies while delivering multi-million dollar technology projects.
At this point, my entire professional life has been with smaller organizations which offered very flexible solution development, entrepreneurial approaches and the ability to take extended risks. Moving to a $15B organization brought many learning experiences. Fortunately, the industry was embracing an agile approach to development and a more cohesive approach to the overall IT organization as we embraced a DevOps culture. In these roles, I expanded from Project / Program management, to business IT requirements expert (included developing prototype applications), to Business/Enterprise Architect. My role included demonstrating our advancing metering technology to politicians in Washington DC and financial stakeholders at the NYSE.
inventr.io family of STEM learning kits and related courseware takes beginners on an exciting journey to discovering electronic components and programming/ scripting languages such as C++, Python, PHP, etc. From product development, procurment, pipeline inventory tracking to delivery and customer support - this adventure has been incredible.
