20+ Years of Leadership Experience
Stix is a proven leader with over 35 years leadership experience - from leading creative and engineering talent in the design and development of innovative applications, to a technology executive leading a global 1000+ person application delivery organization. A 1983 graduate of the United States Military Academy, the premier leadership institution in the world, his broad leadership experience spans multiple disciplines:
Officer, U.S. Army
Project Engineer on several Air Force classified systems
Enterprise Architect and Thought Leader on dozens of mission critical applications
Senior Technology Executive managing a $100M annual P&L
Cross-functional leader in the development of 15+ mobile applications
Business advisor to multiple media and entertainment companies
Award-winning film and television Producer directly responsible for the development and production of scripted content
Enverus
2019 - 2023
Head of Mobile Applications
Led a cross-functional team in the design, development and maintenance of three high-value mobile applications - including a brand-new, green field field ticketing app that became the “Uber of the Oil Field”
Accomplishments
Led a global 15+ person team of product managers, designers, iOS & Android developers, backend service developers, and QA test engineers in the design and development of a suite of mobile applications
Over half the team was located in war-ravaged Ukraine. Managed the disruption and risk of the Russian invasion while ensuring the safety of the team and simultaneously meeting delivery milestones
Top and bottom-line growth exceeding 100% for all 3+ years
Consistently maintained NPS scores over 50 on all apps
Consistent delivery cadences with 8-10 new release per app per year.
Vixlet
2015 - 2017
Head of iOS Applications
Stix led a cross-functional team in the design, development and support of five game-changing social apps:
MLB Fans - the Official social platform for Major League Baseball
LFC Extra - the Official social platform for the Liverpool Football Club, the most popular sports team in the world.
Slipknot Outside the 9 - the Official social platform for the nu-metal band Slipknot. Also developed was a Beta tvOS app which delivered content and social action direct to the living room.
LA Kings Fans - the Official social platform for the LA Kings NHL Hockey team.
ATP - the Official social platform for men’s Professional tennis and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)
Accomplishments
Led the development and support of five high-visibility and high-value social apps and collaborated directly with our partners vendors through the app life cycle.
Designed an app architecture allowing all apps to share a single-code base with individual apps tailored and shined at build-time.
Designed and developed a tvOS app from the core iOS app that delivered social actions and content delivery from a social app directly to the living room
Simplexity
2014 - 2015
Chief Technology Officer
Responsible for the design and end-to-end development of Vizit, Simplexity’s flagship mobile application.
Accomplishments
Led the end-to-end development of Vizit and deliverd the MVP within three months of original concept
Staffed the team with top-notch talent. Our head of design is currently Head of brand at Lucid and our head of infrastructure manages creative partner integration for Marvel
Chief architect for the app, with primary focus on app design and crowd-source data mining of user locations.
Egen
2013 - 2014
EVP - Web & Mobile Solutions
Founded Egen’s Web & Mobile Solutions group and built Egen’s enterprise mobility practice from the ground-up.
Accomplishments
Defined market positioning, set solution messaging and created business development and marketing collateral to drive market interest in Egen offerings
Developed Egen’s innovative iSuite enterprise solution line - a comprehensive set of tools, technologies processes, and service offerings for web & mobile app development.
iBlock Architecture. An n-tiered MVC architecture and solution framework for composite mobile applications (apps with both web & mobile clients).
iCore Stack. A standard, customizable composite app solution stack.
iDev Process. A scrum-based agile delivery process for composite app development.
iTeam Delivery. Cross-functional teams and demand management processes for composite app development.
iViz & VizUX. A repeatable process for designing and implementing a world-class UX
CSC
2004 - 2012
Industry Executive
Senior CSC Executive responsible the delivery of application managed services, financial performance and day-to-day operations of CSC’s Aerospace & Defense business unit.
Accomplishments
Led a global applications services delivery organization of 1,000+ engineers, analysts and test engineers.
Consistency maintained a 45% direct margin and a 30% operating margin on an annual P&L of $100 million.
15-20% year-over-year revenue growth for every year in this role.
Managed the strategic relationship with 8-10 Fortune 500 customers.
Managed the relationship with multiple vendors and strategic partners in in the delivery of services
Account Executive
Account Executive and turn-around specialist for the Foremost Insurance account. Responsible for the delivery of application managed services, financial performance and day-to-day operations of managed application services.
Accomplishments
Highly successful turn-around of a failed account. The customer had requested the managed serviced agreement be terminated and the account was consistently returning an negative operating income.
Within six months, client relationship and trust had been re-establish and the account returned to profitability.
Led 75 developers, analysts Subject Matter Experts, and testers in the development and support of multiple mission-critical applications.
Consistently maintained a direct margin exceeding 40% and an operating margin of 30%.
Kuvera
1998 - 2003
Managing Partner
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kuvera, a boutique consulting firm specializing in enterprise solutions and technology transformation.
Accomplishments
Developed Kuvera’s national consulting practice from the ground-up, including hiring and recruiting.
Developed and executed highly successful account penetration strategies and doubled clients and revenue each year.
Opened a large number of key accounts and successfully closed multiple high-value opportunities (> $1 million). Key accounts included: CitiGroup, Merrill Lynch, AIG, ING, Zurich Life, BankOne, JP Morgan Chase, Royal & Sun Alliance, First Data, Principal Financial Group.
Developed several successful and high-value packaged service offering for our Agile and Financial Services practices.
Doubled the size of Kuvera’s national practices and increased revenue by over 100% each of the first four years and achieved profitability within the first 6 months of starting the firm.