Philip Doherty

Charismatic team builder with more than fifteen years of senior and executive management experience and more than twenty years of software development experience. Direct experience in growing and grooming an engineering team from early-stage investment to acquisition. Excellent communicator, building consensus through collaboration and trust; recognizing that the culture one creates as a leader has a material effect on a team's success.Selected AccomplishmentsWhile VP of Engineering at Thunderhead:• Ran Software Development, DevOps, QA, and IT and Desktop Support, delivering a set of features that helped propel our SaaS platform product to leadership in two separate Forrester Waves - Real-Time Interaction Management and Journey Orchestration.• Grew the engineering team by 44% in my first year. • After almost nine months of global lockdown, managed a reduction in force of 34%, maintaining the trust of the remaining team and those we terminated so that we could re-hire two principal engineers approximately eleven months later.• Managed the team to SOC2 compliance and ISO 27001 accreditation on the first attempt.• Improved release cycle efficiency by 85% (seven-week release cycle to one week through major test and build automation initiatives).• Was a vital member of the senior leadership team working towards a successful acquisition by Experience Management pioneers Medallia in January of 2022.Founder and CEO of systems integration consulting firm (Senatus) from 1998 until 2011• Without borrowing or outside funding of any kind, grew Senatus over four years from an initial headcount of two consultants to a team comprising a VP of Operations, a VP of Sales, and twenty-five additional full-time staff and contractors• Built lucrative professional services partnerships with major CRM and eCRM vendors, helping Senatus to third-year revenues of $1.4M• Successfully implemented, as architect, technical lead, and manager, fully integrated CRM systems for companies such as GE Capital Card Services, McKesson Health Solutions, Roper Scientific, Fleet Bank, Parametrics Technology, and St. Gobain• Architected, designed, and led the development of, one of the first fully CTI capable, inbound and outbound SFA call centers, for Fleet Bank (now BofA)As VP of Software Engineering at WaterSuite, took a suite of minimally viable products deployed as a SaaS platform, built a highly agile team around them, and re-architected a problematic and fragile Vert.x architecture into a highly stable, AWS serverless architecture utilizing Lambda and API Gateway