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Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Drive the vision and direction for core technologies underlying Battle.net, the platform supporting all Blizzard titles for millions of players.• Converted the platform from a model of regular downtime to a continuously integrated, always-on service deployed in the cloud.• Work across the full Activision-Blizzard organization to ensure requirements from all teams are constantly being evaluated and met.

Austin, Texas, Us

One foot in the program management office (PMO) and one foot in the product quality office (PQO), I worked to see that the products we developed were of high quality and shipped on time. I was responsible for several components of the Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite, which was developed in a globally distributed group. The group worked in a variety of agile and waterfall development styles, using Jira and Confluence for the agile work and traditional Oracle project management utilities for the waterfall projects. During this period I became a certified scrum master.

Austin, Texas, Us

Product Manager for Oracle's Messaging Server product (formerly Sun Java System Messaging Server). Responsible for the entire product life cycle of the standards-based (SMTP/MIME, POP, IMAP) messaging server product line. The messaging server included a C-based MTA and message store, a Java management console, a Javascript-based web client, and an LDAP directory back end. As product manager I had all the duties described under the role at Sun. I also ensured that the product met all Oracle release requirements, including validation of third party software libraries, development and maintenance of license terms, and management of localization and accessibility requirements.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Returned to Sun to resume my previous role as product manager for the messaging server product. Full description of the role below.

Software development management for embedded systems providing highly accurate timing and frequency information for the telecommunications and military sectors.

Responsible for turning a videoconferencing application developed in an academic environment into a commercially viable product. Recruited the software development team and acted as liaison between them and the technology group at Cal Tech. Built the company infrastructure, including the office network and e-mail system.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for the entire product life cycle of the standards-based (SMTP/MIME, POP, IMAP) messaging server product line, which generates approximately $60M in annual revenue. The messaging server includes a C-based MTA and message store, a Java management console, a Javascript-based web client, and an LDAP directory back end. As product manager I investigated nascent technologies, defined product requirements, managed engineering schedules, planned internal and external product training, defined localization schedules, assisted field sales teams with customer presentations and visits, assisted the marketing team with collateral and events, evaluated competitive products, formulated pricing models, established and maintained partner relationships, and interacted consistently with other Sun teams to ensure proper interoperability of numerous products and platforms.

Built the post-sale technical support and on-site consulting department from the ground up. This group, which consisted of nine people at the time Innosoft was acquired by Sun Microsystems, was responsible for providing technical support to messaging and directory customers via telephone and e-mail and for supplying on-site consulting services. Instituted a 24x7 support system for high-end customers. Implemented a consulting service business that, although not envisioned as a profit center, generated nearly $1 million in revenue in just over two years. Duties included staffing consultant and support engineer positions and training new hires as well as frequently acting as an on-site consultant doing installation and configuration work, training, and presenting seminars.

Developed a number of directory-related products, including translators for PC-based mail system directories such as cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail. Developed several LDAP-based clients for X.500 directory browsing and administration using C and Tcl/Tk.

Developed the Mail Integration Services for the Microsoft Mail for Macintosh, cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail for PC, WordPerfect Office, and X.400 portions of AlisaMail, an enterprise-wide store and forward mail system written in C and run on a VAX/VMS system. Acted as lead engineer responsible for all phases of these projects from conception through release. Conceived and constructed the underlying relational database structure for these products using Sybase. Designed, coded and tested the document conversion module of AlisaMail. Wrote several network maintenance tools for the Appletalk for VMS system. Participated in early Beta testing of the Microsoft Exchange product in order to verify its interoperability with AlisaMail.

As software engineer, designed, coded, tested, and documented numerous functions of a highly interactive, user-friendly software system written in FORTRAN and Macro and run on a VAX/VMS system. Modeled and implemented the relational database structure for this system, which ran on a dedicated database engine from Britton-Lee. Provided on-site support for other Sierra products. As systems manager, maintained a local area network of four VAX systems. Recommended and purchased software and hardware; tuned and maintained systems for maximum performance; created and enforced system security measures; installed hardware and software upgrades.

Designed and coded a real-time aircraft navigation simulator developed on a VAX and targeted on an IBM PC/AT. Integrated a digitizing board and data transfer unit with an IBM AT as an update to an existing flight planning system. Performed low-level debugging and patching of operational flight planning software.