Category: ENGINEERING

         ENGINEERING OPERATIONS DIRECTOR           Executive Profile    Senior Software Executive Senior Software Executive who is a key contributor to strategic planning and product development. Highly skilled at creating and implementing key software improvements and process changes by uncovering major process limitations, maximizing profitability, scalability, and competition in the global marketplace. Accomplishments (over last 15 years +) Reported directly to C-level executives and Board members, successfully bridging the gap between the business and Engineering, implementing strategic plans and ensuring that the engineering teams are aligned to business goals. Agile expert and evangelist, running software development teams for over 17 years and specifically agile software development for more that 13 years. Reorganized and transitioned many teams and companies to become smooth running agile groups, drastically reducing delivery issues, making the work very transparent, empowering team members to become self-directed and accountable to their commitments. Skilled at managing entire software development process and employees including QA, Project Management, Technical Support, on and offshore teams, contractors, subsidiaries, and merger/acquisitions. Successfully on-boarded the engineers and technology from an acquired company and quickly merged their intellectual property (IP) into the main product line. Advocate for strong Engineering Best Practices, including design & code reviews, paired programming, unit tests and continuous integration testing through automation. Including, establishing leading and trailing engineering metrics, which provide strong indicators of product quality and delivery schedule. Managed globally distributed teams ranging from 15-60 people, with P&L responsibilities between $2M - $6M. Teams have been located in US, Germany, Hungary, Russia, China, and Argentina. Consistently an early adopter of critical trends in methodologies and practices, which transform and refine processes to increase the delivery of business value.       Skill Highlights        Technology ·   Java          ·   Amazon  AWS          ·   Hibernate   ·   PHP          ·   EC2          ·   Elastic  Search   ·   C++          ·   JSMVC          ·   JUnit   ·   C          ·   HTML          ·   Selenium   ·   CanJS          ·   CSS          ·   Aurora   ·   PL/SQL          ·   Bootstrap          ·   Jenkins   ·   Oracle          ·   Python          ·   Phabricator   ·   My/SQL          ·   AJAX          ·   GitHub   ·   JavaScript          ·   Camel          ·   Jira   ·   REST  and  SOAP  services     ·   MongoDB          ·   Perl              Professional Experience      Engineering Operations Director    January 2014   to   Current     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      A high growth company, whose suite of services help researchers successfully communicate their work.  Identified misalignment between technical teams and business, reorganized the technical teams and aligned technical metrics to support business KPIs, increasing revenue and cost savings.  Doubled team to 20 people in 4 months, by introducing a new improved hiring process that quickly filtered out non-qualified candidates and increased our acceptance rate to over 90%.  Awarded Culture Champion Award.          Director of Software Development    January 2012   to   January 2014     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      A non-profit organization devoted to the advancement and well-being of dogs.  Turned around a multiyear software delivery failure, by re-architecting the approach taken, changing the technology used, and transitioning the team to Agile; putting the software back on budget and on time.  Reduced technical dependency on old technologies by road mapping out a multiyear strategic technology plan, reducing number of technologies used throughout the department by 50%.  Responsible for web based PCI compliant e-commerce software, connected to an enterprise database.          Chief Operating Officer    January 2010   to   January 2012     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Public safety software and services company focused on enterprise-class software for Fire and EMS Departments.  Implemented a SaaS solution, allowing smaller towns and cities the ability to use and integrate with the Fire and EMS software.  Reduced customer's server upgrade time from 4 days to 4 hours.  Removed the requirement, caused by software limitations, that hard mounted mobile computers be removed from fire trucks and brought into the IT dept for upgrades.  Reduced a mobile computer's install and upgrade times from 1 day per machine to 2 hours.          Vice President of Engineering    January 2001   to   January 2010     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      A mid-sized 3D software company for creating digital models of physical objects, including both 'off-the-shelf' and customized commercial applications.  The software is used globally in markets such as: rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, inspection, and healthcare.  Grew revenue from $0 to over $16M with a CAGR greater than 30% for 6 consecutive years.  Integral in receiving 6 term sheets of similar valuation resulting in $8M in VC funds in 2008.  Expanded company organically from 22 to 110 employees, coordinated effectively with Sales, Product Development, and Marketing teams to produce globally competitive products.  Conceived of and implemented critical changes in software architectural designs creating a partner eco- system.          Director of Software Development    January 2000   to   January 2001     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      A 30 person company using its patented lens system to project a standard 3D image into a 180 degree.  hemispherical screen using software to convert the flat image to the curved surface without distortion.          Engineering Manager/Senior Software Engineer    January 1996   to   January 2000     Company Name   －   City  ,   State      A 60 person company providing B2B and B2C real-time 3D solutions, via the Internet.          Software Engineer    January 1993   to   January 1996     Company Name   －   City  ,   State            Software Engineer    January 1989   to   January 1993     Company Name   －   City  ,   State            Education      Postgraduate courses in Cognitive and Neural Systems   :     1991    Boston University   －   City  ,   State              M. S   :   Computer Science  ,   1989    Union College   －   City  ,   State      Computer Science Masters Project: A Netless Neural Network - presented on August 16, 1989 at International Conference on
Expert Systems and Neural Networks - Theory & Applications        B. S   :   Computer Science  ,   1988    Union College   －   City  ,   State      Computer Science        Skills    3D, Agile, AJAX, approach, B2B, budget, C, C++, competitive, CSS, database, delivery, e-commerce, Expert Systems, funds, hiring, HTML, PHP, image, inspection, Java, JavaScript, Marketing, MongoDB, enterprise, Network, Networks, Neural, Oracle, PL/SQL, PCI, Perl, Product Development, profit, prototyping, Public safety, Python, real-time 3, receiving 6, requirement, Sales, SOAP, SQL, strategic, upgrades, upgrade, valuation, VC