Explosion of custom software development. As Marc Andresson said "software is eating the world". Not only does software continue to dominate the technology landscape but the maturation and proliferation of open source software and cloud computing makes it more cost effective to develop customized solutions that perfectly fit the needs of organizations instead of buying and shoehorning expensive off-the-shelf products...
Filling the skill and experience gap. The struggle is real. As technology continues to disrupt every industry the shortage of skilled developers and experienced professionals increases. By cultivating software development expertise I can work more effectively with dev teams and agencies...
I managed the project plan backlog and provided senior technical leadership to the front-end and back-end development teams.