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Contact

www.linkedin.com/in/ernestobenedito (LinkedIn)

Top Skills

Software Development

Management

Engineering Management

Ernesto Benedito

Sr. Engineering Manager at Ziff Davis / J2 Global / Campaigner

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Summary

20+ years of management experience in software development

and product support in companies of all sizes, both in local

and offshore setups. A passionate and empathetic leader with

excellent interpersonal skills able to effectively build, manage, and

motivate successful cross-functional engineering teams driving

development to completion. Able to interface with executive and

senior management and key internal/external stakeholders across

teams, regions and in a multicultural environment. I am a helper, I

am a doer!

* Living in Dallas/Texas.

* Legally authorized to work in the United States for any company

and do not require any future sponsorship

Experience

Ziff Davis

Sr. Engineering Manager

April 2023 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Dallas, Texas, United States

JSI

Software Development Manager

November 2021 - December 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

* Managed 4 agile teams (15-17 people) developing complex UIs and

microservices APIs.

* Handled development plans (releases, sprints, dependencies), project

backlogs, negotiation with product management, day to day escalation of

competing priorities, OKRs, and 24/7 support.

* Accountable for project strategy, content board approval, hot fixes content,

and championing the health and predictability of teams (velocity, plans,

capacity, etc) with Principal Corporate Project Manager.

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* Line management responsibilities included: staff supervision, 1on1s, hiring,

career path development,

performance reviews and salaries.

* Championed many areas (from processes to products) to unblock the

company in their scaling process.

* Canadian Top Security and NATO Secret clearance.

* C#, ASP.NET & Core, WPF/WCF, Angular, REST APIs, Microservices,

Kubernetes, Big data, Agile,

AzureDevOps, Confluence.

▪ Left company in January 2023 due to family relocation from Canada to

Dallas, Texas, USA.

VirtaMove

Engineering Manager

November 2007 - October 2021 (14 years)

Ottawa, Canada Area

* Managed a team of ~12 people doing Software development, QA, consulting

engineering, customer technical support, and training of the VirtaMove

application virtualization and migration products.

* Lead daily tasks, priorities, escalation, release content, support. staff

supervision, 1on1s, hiring, and career path development.

* Implemented best practices and enforced R&D processes. Analyzed and

improved existing processes, enabling the company to scale.

* In depth knowledge and hands on experience in virtualization, containers and

modernization of IT workflows

* Architected and coded the V-Maestro product from scratch. V-Maestro is a

key/pivotal product that orchestrates and automates the migration process to

data centers and clouds. This also allowed the company to offer application

migrations as a SaaS product under the Amazon AWS and Azure

Marketplaces. (https://www.virtamove.com/v-maestro/)

* Hired, managed and mentored over 150 students from UWaterloo and

CarletonU during 8 years.

* Acted as Product Manager. Worked closely with CEO, VP, Field Engineering

and Software Developers to define technical specifications, features, and

product behavior. Managed product life cycle.

* Setup and managed an offshore 24x7 Technical Support (L1/L2) team in

Vietnam (TMA Solutions) and

outsourcing of technical training to “Infront Consulting”.

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* Directed all aspects of pre/post-sales product training. Developed all training

content and managed trainers.Personally trained over 400 companies/1000

people, including key accounts (Microsoft, HP, Dell, IBM).

* Delivered public webinars, some delivered in partnership with Sun

Microsystems, acting as Trigence's

technology evangelist.

* C#, C++,C, Asm, ASP.NET Core, Blazor Server, SQL, JavaScript ,HTML,

SASS, D3.js, Windows servers

2000 to 2019, Linux RedHat & Centos, Solaris, Virtualization, Kernel modules

development, Containers, Enterprise Applications, Clouds: Amazon EC2 and

MS Azure, Blockchain, Redmine, OEM Agile, SVN, Git

eStaffMatch Inc.

CTO, co-founder

November 2015 - November 2016 (1 year 1 month)

* Drove all engineering efforts leading to the award of the Techstars Metro

Accelerator program in Germany (xcelentrepreneurs.com). Handled all

technical and IT aspects of the startup.

* Designed and coded from scratch an online marketplace using Meteor.js,

MongoDB and NodeJS for the web application, and Apache Cordova for the

mobile application.

* Meteor.js, NoSql MongoDB, NodeJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, GeoJSON,

Cordova, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bitbucket, Trello, Atlassian, Kanban.

Mitel

Software Development Lead/Manager

2001 - 2007 (6 years)

Ottawa, Canada

Software Development Manager (2002 – 2007)

Senior Software Engineer Team lead (2001 – 2002)

* Managed a Software Development team in the Applications Department.

Management responsibilities included: product development (analysis of

requirements, sizing, software implementation, tracking and reporting), staff

supervision, hiring, career path development and performance reviews.

* Managed offshore development subcontractors in India (Trivium-Icope and

Telesoftnet).

* R&D prime for software development and architectural guidance, negotiation

of requirements with

PLM/Marketing, project sizing and liaison with all downstream groups.

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* R&D representative for Product Support during product “market entry” and

UR releases (service packs).

* Responsible for software development of:

1)-Messaging Applications: Speak@Ease v3.6,6000,IM1.0, NuPoint

Messenger v7.1 to 10.1.

2)-NuPoint Unified Messaging for Exchange servers for a large customer

(Deloitte and Touche).

3)-QNX to Linux porting of the NuPoint product.

4)-Complete IP integration of the NuPoint, coded the SIP integration for

Nupoint(QNX and Linux). 

5)-Unified Messaging project for SME with 6000 MLS (Mitel Linux Server) and

IP PBX3100 (VxWorks).

* C++, C, Java, Qnx, Linux, SIP, RTP, Nuance Speech Recognition, Waterfall,

ClearQuest-ClearCase, Perforce, SVN, VxWorks/Tornado

Nokia IP Voice Networks

Software Development Manager

1998 - 2001 (3 years)

Ottawa, Canada

Software Development Manager (2000-2001)

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead (1998-2000)

* Managed a Software Development team of 9 people. Responsible for all

aspects of software development: requirements analysis, planning, scheduling,

documenting, tracking, reporting progress, and resource management (people,

space, equipment). Managed product life cycle.

* In charge of all the signaling aspects of the Softswitch program (development

of the protocol stacks: SIP, MGCP, SS7, Q931), and several releases of the

VoIP Call Processing Server, the system integration of the IVC VoIP card in

the IP Router Gateway (IPRG), and the RTP automated test suites

* Liaison with Product and Program Management, QA, other global R&D

groups and Senior Management.

* Group line management responsibilities included staff supervision,

interviewing and hiring, career path

development, training, performance reviews & salary increases.

* Wrote functional specifications, designed and implemented features and

functionality, tracked bugs, provided status reports to the PRB (problem report

board), assigned workload to members of the team. Design prime and code

review chairman.

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* C, C++, VoIP (SIP / MGCP/ SS7 / Q931 / RTP), Solaris, Catapult, Rational

Rose

Soft Reality

Software Developer (Independent Contractor)

December 1996 - September 1998 (1 year 10 months)

Port Orange, Florida

* Developed all software and performed system integration of a health system

(Tele-radiology & Video Network System) for a group of hospitals in Daytona

Beach and Port Orange, FL. Only developer working on this project.

* Evaluated new hardware, performed system beta and final test. Installed

hardware/software and performed calibration. Provided technical support.

Wrote documentation.

* C++, MFC, Windows, TCI/TKL, ISDN

Grupo Magnasafe Intl.

Vice-president

1994 - 1996 (2 years)

Caracas, Venezuela

* Founded and established a company specializing in project design, service

and maintenance of safety systems (access control, CCTV, fire alarm systems

and burglar systems).

* Responsible for site surveys, system design, customer offers, project

management, supervision of technical personnel at installation areas, pre-sale

and post-sale technical support.

* Pivoted the company into manufacturing of electronic equipment. 

* Designed and developed a Networked Access Control System and an

Electronic Water Level Meter for residential and industrial use, including the

hardware design, firmware development, PCB layouts using OrCAD, design

of metal boxes and silk screens, prototype assembly, simulation and test, final

product release, marketing and installation.

Centralarm C.A.

Head of Laboratory

1993 - 1994 (1 year)

Caracas, Venezuela

* Designed, troubleshooted, repaired and maintained analog and digital

boards (at component level) of security equipment. Mentored new members,

supervised lab personnel and equipment assembly lines. 

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* Designed a micro controlled burglar system and a high-speed telephone

communicator from initial product conception and specification to product

release, including hardware design, assembler code, debugging, PCB design

using OrCAD, prototype assembly & testing, design of metal boxes and silk

screens.

Education

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Electronic Engineer, Bachelor of Engineer (5 year program) · (1987 - 1993)

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