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Executive Director of Information Technology and Chief Information Technology Architect

Azusa Pacific University is a comprehensive, evangelical, Christian university located 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. A leader in the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, APU is committed to excellence in higher education. Offering over 80 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs on campus, online, and at seven regional centers across Southern California, APU has been recognized as one of U.S.News & World Report's Best Colleges for seven years running.

Meet me at the generative place where product innovation, the science of healthy technology teams and sound IT architecture intersect. Let's build together. Open to consulting on any of these fronts. About Me: I build, empower and inspire healthy cross-functional technology product teams that innovate and deliver timely value to customers and partners. I am a catalyst, able to spot and connect amazing talent, emerging technology patterns and strategic market opportunities early. I lead through trust-building communication, character and activation. Engineers trust my still-active engineering experience and business partners/customers/users (inside and out) love to ideate toward product experiences that delight and deliver measurable value. Open to: Direct product engineering consulting work, especially in areas of mobile and web product development, architecture, and integration platforms (started integration platform team leveraging MuleSoft). Love rolling up sleeves alongside engineers while having a strategic balcony view of timely delivery of business value. Also available for technology leadership consulting on organizational change (having functioned in roles similar to CTO and CIO): digital transformation, IT organizational design, team topologies, healthy DevOps and agile culture, overall technology architecture and talent strategy. Actual experience shifting from project to product organization, and from functional division of labor to team-based patterns.