Consultant / Program Manager / Business Planner, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1996-present

• Managed technology evaluations involving senior strategy and technology leaders spanning HP's business units. Managed idea and patent submissions.
• Managed taxonomy service and metadata standards used to categorize, search, and navigate millions of pages of support content on www.hp.com.
• Provided process innovation and cultural transformation consulting to help organizations make significant improvements in performance.
• Improved maturity of worldwide business processes and enabled knowledge sharing by creating collaborative, web-based solutions to reduce cycle times, improve quality of results and provide an overview for management.
• Introduced teams to software engineering principles based on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Performed informal appraisals.
• Prepared consulting process, materials, and sample solution web site to support business development for new technology introduction. 

Vice President,  InfoKinetics, Inc., 1994-1996

• Improved client business processes using collaborative hypertext / workflow solutions.
• Provided temporary engineering management.
• Formed a virtual organization over the Internet with other consultants.

Director of New Product Development, UniData, Inc., 1992-1994

• Guided UniData product family expansion, leading development of transaction processing; graphical user interfaces; client/server interfaces; and transparent support for legacy COBOL programs. 
• Improved engineering processes to handle growth in staff and complexity, revising development and delivery processes to support simultaneous release of multiple layered products on 30+ UNIX platforms while significantly reducing cycle time.

Engineer / Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1990-1992

• Named one of the top 25 visionaries in communications industry by CommWeek. 
• Defined and prototyped a process integration paradigm involving a hypertext collaboration environment.  Co-authored integrated management vision for international symposium.
• Introduced Capability Maturity Model to the organization and co-led assessment of organization's software development processes.
• Coordinated research activities with corporate labs and other divisions.

R&D Project Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1986-1990

• OpenView Network Node Manager: Led development of industry leading network management application that introduced patented network topology discovery and layout.  Delivered product in five months and exceeded quality criteria. 
• Network File System:  Led NFS performance improvements (5X) and championed improvements in underlying file and network subsystems based on competitive benchmarks.
• SoftBench:  Led skunkworks prototype development of a software development environment (IVO), the precursor of both the Softbench and UNIX desktop programs (CDE/VUE).    
• LISP:  Led language development and represented HP on ANSI standards committee. Refocused the strategy to third party products, negotiated contract, managed port of third party software.

Software Development Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1979-1986

• LISP:  Refocused program from proprietary dialect to emerging standard.  Leveraged public domain source to bootstrap development.  Designed transparent support for compiled and interpreted code.
• Ada:  Recommended third party compiler offerings integrated with HP code generation tools.
• Pascal:  Developed object code handling for the compiler.  Instituted multi-pass build and regression test to overcome bootstrap compiler stability issues.  Authored HP Standard Pascal manual.
• COBOL:  Developed COBOL specific microcode with twice the expected performance gain.  Improved performance of sort/merge facility (3X/8X), extending the life of HP3000.

• Graduate Student (M.S., Ph.D.), Computer Science, Colorado State University
• Fundamentals of Engineering, National Society of Professional Engineers
  
• B.S., Computer Science, College of Engineering and Technology, University of Nebraska

• Capability Maturity Model Integration, Software Engineering Institute
• Focus: Tools for Process Improvement and Management, Rummler-Brache