Trusted partner and organizational leader, with over 20 years of experience between Fortune 10, tech startup, and private-equity-backed companies. Someone who is just as comfortable sitting in executive discussions as standing at a dry-erase board with engineers and designers. This comes with an understanding of what success looks like and the diversity of organizational roles that need to come together to deliver it.

My responsibilities included managing multiple product lines of development and coordinating with marketing, sales, and support groups. I have a strong, proven track record of home-grown innovation, mentoring leaders, and managing risk through over a decade of agile development.

Creator of Facelets, a web development technology used in JavaServer Faces (along with driving other features and optimizations of the platform in AJAX and state management). I also co-authored the Unified EL implementation used in Java EE; this led to also working on Apache Tomcat's Jasper compiler.

Specialties: E-commerce, knowledge-based systems, usability and design, and architecture. Experience with PCI and HITECH rules and compliance.

Jake Hookom has been a guest on 1 episode.