Paul Tidwell

At Praxent, I lead our ongoing initiative to develop our AI-enabled Software SDLC in order to deliver optimal value for our clients, our AI-product enablement offerings supporting our client's needs to embed safe, consistent, cutting-edge AI technologies into their GTM, and a revolutionary AI-powered platform modernization team to migrate legacy systems to modern architectures and languages. We unlock the capabilities of frontier models and open source solutions, giving our clients the support and confidence to blaze forward and build bigger moats.

Leading our digital practice to architect comprehensive technology and experience strategies across critical industries. Spearheading organizational evolution by developing advanced capabilities in AI, machine learning, and enterprise-grade software solutions for clients in airlines, wealth management, logistics, and financial technologies. Key Achievements: - Orchestrating strategic transformation of digital practice, focusing on up-skilling team capabilities in emerging technologies - Developing integrated experience and technology strategies that align backend initiatives with customer and employee experience programs - Driving technological innovation across qualitative/quantitative research, UX design, and full-stack engineering - Supporting enterprise clients through technology-agnostic solutions leveraging Java, .NET, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, and open-source frameworks Strategic Focus Areas: • Emerging Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, Advanced Data Pipelines • Customer Experience and Employee Experience Service Design • Qualitative and Quantitative Research • Enterprise Solution Design • Cross-Functional Team Development • Technology Adoption and Organizational Change Management

Led a professional services team of 90 developers, designers, devops/SRE engineers, cloud engineers, and researchers leading a $25M/yr, 3 year Digital Transformation engagement for a global bank with almost $150B in assets under management while working with executive stakeholders on transformation to a capability operating model. We worked closely with our client to develop a digital strategy and compliance framework while designing and developing new online and mobile banking systems, updating controls to modern control objectives, implementing modern software practices and architectures while creating a human centered design capability across the organization. Drove efficiency through adoption of a capability operating model, reducing redundancies and massively increasing throughput on product teams while remediating legacy IT EOL issues and associated MRAs.

As a global practice leader, my job was to ensure quality and consistency of delivery at scale for a team of almost 400 developers across 9 offices while collaborating with other practice leaders on integration and process optimization. Our job, collectively, was to ensure the highest quality of work and value for our clients and ensure long and beneficial relationships with key stakeholders. I play a key role in due diligence and have been active or responsible in 5 acquisitions and post merger integrations. I play an executive account manager and senior consultant role, supporting both presales and delivery. My job was providing technical guidance and leadership to ensure that our solutions were aligned with industry best practices and standards. I collaborated closely with other key stakeholders within the firm, including UX designers, project managers, and business development professionals, to identify technology solutions that met the needs of our clients and supported the overall business strategy. To be successful in this role, I drew on my extensive technical background, with experience in software development, architecture, and design. Additionally, my strong communication and interpersonal skills proved essential, as I was regularly interacting with clients, team members, and other stakeholders.

We're building a rocket ship. My role is to grow the development practice in Austin while guaranteeing quality in delivery across numerous technologies. I work with a talented staff of IX, UX, and Visual Designers as well my my development team to bring visionary applications to life with a strong focus on user research and testability via MV* patterns. I bill as an architect or CTO for hire as well as develop all sizes of applications, train, hire, sell, and mature the practice offering and processes.

As a member of the e-commerce web application team at Dell Computers, I had the opportunity to architect and implement high transaction volume solutions using .NET. During my time on the team, I leveraged my experience in software development and architecture to design and build robust, scalable solutions that could handle the demands of a large e-commerce website. This involved collaborating with other team members, stakeholders, and business owners to ensure that our solutions met the needs of the organization and delivered a positive user experience for customers.

Founder of a Roku channel designed to deliver Arabic language TV programming to the Arabic speakers globally. Negotiated with content owners and broadcasters, ran vendor management and all IT functions. Architected and built a secure and scalable system to deliver live streaming video Roku devices, the web, iOS and Android devices using HTML5 and Flash. Built a customer security scheme to prevent users form sharing logins to watch video streams simulatanteously and to time out unused video streams to prevent unnecessary bandwidth utilization. Employ a COTS video advertising package to further monetize streams on certain platforms.

WCF, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008R2, C# Server development for web, mobile and hand held computing serving the first responders of the world in an effort to leverage technology to save lives. Architect enterprise ERP solution and enforce the design, coding standards, and processes which building and supporting key frameworks. Interviewed, hired, and trained a team if top notch engineers to build and maintain our applications.

Team lead, solutions architect, and software developer in .Net integrations with SAP, AS/400, and legacy COM systems. Familiar with Websphere MQ, LINQ to SQL, C#, WCF, Silverlight, and web services. I work to establish standards for the team following best practices in design and security and provide expertise to other team members.

Senior -most technical role at a $100M/year e-commerce company, with responsibility of IT operations, headcount, and budget. Managed systems administrator, developers, and database engineers while we reacrhicted into a service oriented architecture and API led culture, crating APIs to extend the availability of inventory to partners, developed sophisticated caching HTTP handler and schema to improve site performance, managed and developed on project to rebuild e commerce site from the group up to improve speed and SEO, hired and fired, led all technology effort for the company as a whole, began paperless office project. Accountable for availability and performance.

Leading the active trader client application development team, I hired, trained, and managed team of 20 developers and QA engineers and led initial architecture for the next-gen equities trading platform. Worked with security and enterprise architecture teams to delivery a scalable, high performance platform.

Technical lead for client software development team. Product owner and lead developer for retail trading API and architecture lead on institutional trading platform for high-volume transactions.

3D modeler and animator using 3DS Max to design, render, and animate wafer fabrication training material. Logo and marketing video animation and production. Worked closely with art directors and brand teams.