Miles Lewitt

Current

• Vice President at Intuit

Past

• Vice President at ADP
• Vice President at Cadre
• Software Engineering Manager at Intel

• Software Engineer at Honeywell

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Education

• Arizona State University
• City University of New York

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Miles Lewitt’s Summary

Senior engineering leader with a passion to deliver for customers, to take teams on a journey of continuous improvement, and to lead projects where the organization wants to do something significantly new. Partner with other leaders to define the Vision, Strategy & Roadmap.

Mentored by exceptional leaders including Andy Grove, Gary Butler and Steve Bennett. Awarded by Steve Bennett the CEO Excellence in Leadership Award.

Organized and presented at multiple company sponsored conferences on technology and offerings. Keynote speaker and presenter at industry and academic conferences. Experienced at making presentations to engineers, customers, CEO staff, and the Board of Directors. Performed technical due diligence of potential acquisitions for Intuit and ADP.

Successful with leadership positions at both large and small organizations. Career spans web offerings, commercial software products, tools for software engineers, software for real time applications, microprocessor vendor and mainframe computer vendor. Managed development efforts utilizing current technologies (e.g. XML, SOAP, Web Services, SOA, Flex, Java, J2EE, C#, .NET, C++, C, SQL and Linux, Unix, and Windows).

Earned a Masters in Computer Science (issued by the mathematics department) from Arizona State University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from the City College of New York Grove School of Engineering (summa cum laude). Senior member of the IEEE and the American Society for Quality. Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. Taught college-level computer science courses and was on the executive committee of the American Electronics Association Oregon Council.

Miles Lewitt’s Specialties:

Building a world class software engineering organization, change agent resulting in dramatic improvements (in quality, predictability and cycle times), disruptive innovation, software architecture, software design, software engineering process, innovative solutions to customer problems, developing reusable components, software product lines, Six Sigma as a management tool, designing computer systems (e.g. processor architecture, operating system design) and real time systems.

Miles Lewitt’s Experience

• Vice President

  Intuit

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)

  August 2001 — Present (7 years 3 months)

  Managed Product Development groups for Intuit’s two largest businesses (Tax and Small Business) and the Shared Development and Services organization for Intuit's Corporate Technology Group.
  
  Significantly improved the effectiveness of all these teams and in the case of the Small Business Division created an outstanding new engineering team with the skills for developing the next generation of Intuit products for Small to Medium sized businesses.
  
  In the tax business led the delivery of consumer and accountant tax products for two years with a focus on reversing years of software entropy and improving the user experience of the tax products.
  
  In Corporate Technology led the team that developed the shared common software infrastructure and tools that support Intuit offerings and software development groups companywide.

• Vice President

  ADP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADP; Computer Software industry)

  August 1991 — August 2001 (10 years 1 month)

  Vice president of research and development at ADP. Responsible for developing systems software, data communications software and applications software for the company's dealer services division.

• Vice President

  Cadre

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1989 — August 1991 (2 years)

  Managed Cadre's Portland Oregon based engineering team, delivered new products and product updates to the Teamwork and Software Analysis Workstation product lines.

• Software Engineering Manager

  Intel

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  May 1978 — September 1989 (11 years 5 months)

  Managed Intel's software technology lab and managed the development of many hardware and software products (e.g. iRMX family, Multibus, Unix reference ports) including the Product of the Year as selected by Electronic Products magazine. Co-architect of iAPX286 and iRMX86. Launched and managed the Intel's first overseas software development group.

• Software Engineer

  Honeywell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Computer Hardware industry)

  June 1973 — May 1978 (5 years)

  Joined Honeywell direct from college. Completed the three year Advanced Engineering Program. Developer on Operating System products, Complier products and firmware for next generation (capability based) mainframe hardware. Also worked as a Program Manager.

Miles Lewitt’s Education

• Arizona State University

  Masters, Computer Science (from the mathematics department)

  Completed all of the course work and the qualifier for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

• City University of New York

  Bachelors, Computer Science - Grove School of Engineering

Additional Information

Miles Lewitt’s Websites:

• My Company

Miles Lewitt’s Interests:

Achieving great outcomes by building an organization of highly capable people with a shared vision (of both the what and the how), a passion for excellence, clear priorities, high levels of trust rooted in open communication, high levels of collaboration, accountability and a commitment to serve all three stakeholders (customers, shareholders and employees). One of my passions is to take software engineering organizations on this journey. This involves effective communication, a high degree of transparency, recruiting and retaining top engineers, providing the engineers with an environment that engages them and helps them develop their skills, continuing to raise the high-bar on each important functional area and having the organization maintain a standard that accepts nothing but excellence on every task.

Miles Lewitt’s Groups:

Senior Member of the IEEE
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Voting Member of the ACM
Senior Member of the American Society for Quality

•    Arizona State University Alumnus
•    Arizona State University Alumni Association

Miles Lewitt’s Honors:

CEO Excellence in Leadership: Recognized for his passion for innovation while remaining committed to creating sustainable, repeatable software development processes. Worked as a business partner with the Consumer Tax Group to drive culture change and embraced the Intuit operating mechanisms. “He made a huge difference across all levels of CTG engineering by doing something that is simple but powerful — having multiple face-to-face meetings and gaining shared vision. And, his learning helped him become an even more effective customer and employee advocate,” Bennett said.

Eliza Ford Prize, Best Product Award (Electronic Products Magazine), Keynote SEPG 2005, Invited presentation at the Workshop on Performance and Reliability 2005, Customer Advisory Board for Initiate and Digital Equipment Corporation, Technical Advisory Board for the Data Intensive Systems Center, Board of Directors (Portland Computer Training Instutute), Who’s Who in America (1990-2008)