Delivery velocity+200%
Organizational cost−50%
Release cycle6 to 9 months → 2 weeks
8 weeks
Apple Leisure Group. Inherited 15 Scrum teams and about 140 people during a leadership gap, then changed how work entered the organization.
OPERATIONS · PRODUCT · TECHNOLOGY
Engineer by training.
Operator by necessity.
Started as a software engineer. Served as CTO twice. Most recently ran operations and product at Intrusion, a public cybersecurity company, where IT, marketing and sales operations were added to the job one at a time.
Open to COO, CTO, CPO and SVP roles · Austin, Texas
MEASURED RESULTS
Numbers with a story behind them
3M+ subscribers
Event-driven architecture
Proposal to production
Store returns integrated
$35M+
Blockbuster Online. Spotted the supply-chain opportunity, served as chief architect and led the redesign through delivery. Shipping times and disc reliability improved too.
$120M
$160M
15 months
GameStop online revenue during my time leading a 70-person online technology group. Requests were ranked by business case, and e-commerce, marketing and loyalty were treated as one journey.
WHERE THE EVIDENCE SITS
Three disciplines, one career
Scope that kept growing
Joined Intrusion to run Product and QA. Operations, IT, Marketing and Sales Operations followed. Cut roughly $570K in cost during a period of financial pressure, and reported to the CEO and board on the departments I led.
$570K
in operating cost removed at Intrusion: $250K marketing, $320K departmental salary
Owned product from roadmap to market
Set roadmaps and requirements for the Shield portfolio across cloud, on-premise and endpoint deployments, and worked with leadership on pricing and packaging. Product marketing moved under me in October 2025, and the full Marketing department followed in January 2026. Earlier, rebuilt LeisureLink's product function for a move from consumer to B2B.
300%
growth supported by LeisureLink's multi-tenant SaaS platform
Originated an AI product
Created Command Hub at Intrusion after working through what customers, support staff and field engineers needed. Its AI monitored network traffic, flagged likely threats and suggested fixes. It became the flagship of the product suite.
Flagship
Command Hub's place in Intrusion's suite, from first customer conversation through rollout
IN THEIR WORDS
From the people who worked with me
He has kept his knowledge of technology and architecture current.
Captain, coach and coder.
Incredibly smart, productive, and forward thinking.
1987 TO PRESENT
Operating record
2022 · Intrusion, VP Operations and Product
Joined to lead Product and QA and became VP of Operations and Product Development. Originated Command Hub, then took on IT, sales operations and all of Marketing.
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SIGNAL LOG
Recent AI work
- 2026.11This siteUsing ChatGPT and Claude to plan its structure and content: evaluating reference sites, organizing career evidence and generating homepage mockups.
- 2026.09Daily work with generative AIApplication materials, interview preparation and correspondence drafted with ChatGPT. I supply the source material and instructions, then check each draft for unsupported claims and revise the prompt when a fix misses.
- 2025.06The Cure EngineAn independent research concept for pediatric brain cancer: synthetic patients and stochastic simulation to explore CAR-T treatment variations for diffuse midline glioma, including DIPG. Filed a submission with the USPTO and gave my research notes to a University of Chicago research team. Project now paused.Founded in memory of my son, Hunter.
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