Career Highlights

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Over the course of my long career, a number of accomplishments stand out as representative of the work that I do and the value I bring to an organization.

Value Points
  • Business Impact
  • Team Development
  • Growth by Design

MentorGraphics PERC Product

Co-founded a team to stand up a new product for programmable electrical rule checking, initially with no management sponsorship. Successfully took the tech to a greenspace market in 18 months, creating a new revenue center and completing the suite of IC simulation tools.

  • 8 Figure ARR in Debut Year
  • EDA Product of the Year
  • Industry Wide Adoption

Series B Technical Due Diligence

Developed a technical portfolio for a 3rd party technical assessment conducted during a successful external financing round for Athennian. Defended the application architecture, system design and coding practices during a live review with principal engineers.

  • $42M CAD Series B Raise
  • Outstanding Technical Report
  • Years Ahead of Benchmark

Discontinuation Driven Onboarding

Following a deal struck with Morgan Stanley to assume clients following a platform discontiniuation, built out technology and systems for rapid transition. Facing a hard stop on the window of opportunity, refined the process and change management with our delivery team until it was down to a science. At scale, up to 10 transitions a week were managed by a minimally trained ad-hoc team.

  • 70+ Clients Onboarded
  • 50% ARR Growth YOY
  • 3% Churn @ 2Y Post-Implementation

Co-Chair DEI Committee

Drove diversity goals and bencmarks through the Athennian DEI Committee as a founding and ongoing member. Together with my amazing colleages, worked to ensure an intentional focus on DEI throughout the operational stack. From inclusive language in the recruiting process, to a focus on improving respectful listening during meetings, the committee executed on realization of benefits at the individual level - far beyond metrics.

  • 45% Females in Technical Roles
  • Inclusive Product Design
  • Facilitated 2SLGBTQ+ Training

Co-founded RIPEDA Consulting

Co-founded a Calgary family business delivering IT Consulting Services, with a focus on Medical/Dental and Media industries. Built out a toolchain for endpoints-as-a-service with automations for billing, support requests, time tracking and reporting.

  • 12+ Years in Business
  • Subscription Revenue Model
  • Ongoing Lateral Expansion

Founded Growth Department

Successfully advocated for and started up a specialized Product Growth team, focused on building technical and product strategies for expansion into potential growth segments or markets. This highly agile team operates within a stated business problem and prototypes functioning experimental solutions that can be market tested. The team is full-stack and multi-discipline including Engineering and Product, and works closely with Revenue to gain intelligence on themes around pain points.

  • Low Investment Experiments
  • Rapid Delivery of Value
  • Proven Scope & Cost

WeGY Mentorship Program

Pursing diversity as a business strategy, started up a structured professional mentorship program to deploy through the organization. Developed assets to drive successful pairings, set guidelines, govern standard expectations and measure success.

  • 90% Junior Participation
  • 0 Attrition Following Launch
  • Diverse Technical Leadership