Digital TurbineAustin, TX

July 2018 - Present

Sr. Director of Development

• Led ~50 onshore and offshore resources in the production and maintenance of software utilized by internal teams, supply partners, demand partners, and over 600 million consumers.
• Established a modern tech stack and accompanying architectural guidelines that increased the scale and resilience of our solutions while cutting operational costs by 80 percent.
• Directly managed over twenty resources while mentoring junior managers on the care of feeding of developers, encouraging a balance of technical oversight and individual contributor ownership.
• Established a matrixed architectural function to ensure collaboration across teams without sacrificing standards or quality.
• Introduced documentation standards to optimize communication across product, architecture, development, and operational staff.
• Ensured SOX compliance in team processes, and CCPA/GDPR compliance in our solutions.
• Envisioned and executed a realignment of the engineering org from a tech orientation to a customer orientation, enabling ownership and continuity for individual contributors.

EverfestAustin, TX

September 2017 - December 2018

Vice President of Engineering

• Led at every level of the organization, remaining a strong individual contributor while demonstrating best management practices and providing a seasoned strategic perspective on the executive team.
• Grew the engineering team from two to six within six weeks, employing a blend of full-time and contract developers providing seasonal flexibility across velocity and cost.
• Presided over several consumer product releases in a single year, including expansions to subscription offerings, a social network, and a loyalty program generating over $100,000 in revenue in its first month, resulting in acquisition talks with a Fortune 500 company.
• Participated in acquisition talks and produced all artifacts for the ensuing diligence, ranging from high-level technical vision documents to detailed analyses of risks and costs.
• Introduced asychronous service and plugin architectures that integrated inventory procurement and fulfillment mechanisms across multiple providers including Front Gate Tickets and Eventbrite.
• Implemented a product governance framework allowing strategic stakeholders to set and consistently communicate data-driven product development priorities, reducing churn in the product backlog and enhancing product quality and development velocity.
• Reduced developer churn from 80% to 0% annually by establishing a work environment emphasizing transparency, repeatability, personal growth, work quality, and an appropriate level of autonomy.

OwnLocalAustin, TX

December 2015 - July 2017

Vice President of Engineering

Senior Director of Engineering

Lead Product Engineer

• Supported the company in crossing the $10M ARR threshold by refining existing teams, technologies, and operations.
• Managed a $2M engineering budget. Organized twenty engineers into full-stack product teams aligned with internal stakeholders and user personas, with matrixed QA, Product Management, and Architecture functions providing consistency across products and teams.
• Established a leadership structure with existing resources by promoting and mentoring promising leaders, and instituted best management practices to ensure personal growth paths were clear and in alignment with the needs of the business.
• Led other departments by example in the development of processes and deliverables for annual and quarterly planning, including coordinated twelve-month product and architecture roadmaps revisited on a quarterly basis.
• Envisioned, built a business case for, and launched a modernization of the product stack on a serverless big data architecture that reduced projected production costs by 90% while limiting the number of technologies employed.

Click SecurityAustin, TX

July 2011 - July 2015

Senior Director of Engineering

Director of Application Engineering

Principal Web Engineer

• Led a full-stack web application team consisting of six developers and designers who provided SAAS customers with intuitive and performant web-based access to big data obtained from numerous on-premise security devices and appliances.
• Built and wrote automated tests for reusable UI components using Angular, jQuery, and Protractor, and numerous data visualizations using d3.js, crossfilter, dc.js, and Highcharts.
• Specified a powerful and intuitive syntax for ad-hoc queries of big data and used test-driven development to provide a JavaScript reference implementation which was mirrored at the Vertica SQL, C++ platform, and node.js/express.js middleware layers.
• Designed a stream-based API that standardized data flows across process boundaries, realtime ZeroMQ messaging, batch-based SQL queries, WebSockets, and Web Workers.
• Transitioned the application from MongoDB to RethinkDB to enable realtime synchronization of application resources across users and sessions.
• Coordinated timely and on-budget releases and sprint deliverables across 20 cross-functional resources including design, web development, platform development, security, operations, quality assurance, and documentation.
• Defined agile engineering processes and kept them optimized in an evolving business environment. Reduced sprint cycles from four weeks to two weeks, release cycles from four months to six weeks, and improved quality metrics by 50 percent.
• Collaborated with other executives, sales, product management, and engineering leads to ensure engineering activity directly benefited customers and the business.
• Presented to executive staff, customers, and all hands, and orchestrated presentations with other leaders.

Reutter, Andrew. 2015. Automated security analytics platform with visualization agnostic selection linked portlets. U.S. Patent 8,984,633, filed November 14, 2012, and issued March 17, 2015.

Source: Google patent database.

JournyxAustin, TX

July 2003 - July 2011

Director of Product Development and Custom Solutions

Professional Services Development Manager

Professional Services Development Consultant

• Oversaw core product and custom software engagements in both SAAS and on-premise environments, including definition, development, offshore QA, and support, for Fortune 500 companies such as BP, Bayer, L'Oreal, Goodrich, and Honda.
• Architected a Python framework for custom tool development that supported multiple versions of Journyx Timesheet, databases including MS SQL Server, Postgres, and Oracle, and integration with critical business systems including Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft Project.
• Drove the maturation of Journyx Professional Services Development into an agile customer-centric services team responsible for roughly 20 percent of annual revenue.
• Established a $500k services revenue stream and downstream development pipeline that produced add-on products that could ultimately be integrated as core application features.