Dave Witonsky

About Dave Witonsky

20+ years of experience as a hands-on technical engineering leader with product management experience motivating culturally diverse individuals and cross-functional teams worldwide building successful mobile applications and cloud-based solutions. Laser focused on customer needs and partnerships. I am passionate about software development and hiring, coaching, and mentoring team members and managers towards delivering high-quality software. I have created cultures that inspire teamwork, innovation, and trust across the organization!• Results-oriented professional with significant and progressive experience in proposing and implementing creative solutions to increase productivity, cut costs and drive revenue in highly technical, fast paced environments. Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.• 10+ years of managing & leading agile engineering teams building SaaS-based applications in AWS.• Strong interpersonal skills, including networking and building sustainable relationships with customers.• Have a gift for providing clarity from complexity with strong verbal and written communication skills.• Experience and ability to translate broad company strategies into clear, specific objectives and actionable plans, building passion, a culture of trust and buy-in across teams and external stakeholders.• Winner Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Application OS Beta 3.0, WWDC, 2009.Began the first 6 years of my career at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory as a Software Engineer provided analytical and scientific programming for the evaluation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the areas of tracking, discrimination, and sensor development. Implemented algorithms leveraging data structures & sophisticated mathematical models with AI techniques.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software Engineering

   VIZIO

   Mar 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US

Education

• Boston University

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science