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- Maintain strong relationships across multiple departments, leveraging exceptional communication skills and technical expertise to demonstrate accountability- Track key performance indicators which inform data driven decision-making, enable value driven prioritization, and help to mitigate risks and guarantee deliverables- Mentor product & project team on Agile software development, change management, branching strategy, stakeholder messaging, and cross-functional risk mitigation- Conceptualized and in 2 weeks implemented new cross-functional events to ensure project alignment and awareness, increasing internal new feature engagement and feedback by 100%- Reduced release time by 60% in 3 months, utilizing Agile and CICD frameworks to establish efficient processes

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

- Responsible for entire Getac product portfolio currently sold: Azure Cloud SaaS Evidence Management, CMS (case management system), and all current generation connected devices- Knowledge base for internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrated aptitude in translating high-level business initiatives to technical requirements- Reduced inherited customer found defect backlog and defect rate by 75% in 12 months. Built a more efficient maintenance process leveraging scaled agile framework (SAFe) ceremonies

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Partnered with federal law enforcement agencies to build the roadmap, ensuring that business brought customer centric products to market as a startup focusing on growth- Aligned interests with two $100M annual revenue organizations to integrate products, generating three separate $1M new business opportunities in 1 year- Researched, prototyped, proposed, and managed the implementation of two major feature sets which won $1M in government contract business and reduced infrastructure costs by 50%

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Added several enhancements and innovations to a Video Management System (VMS) related to camera control functionality- Implemented a number of new camera drivers, pan tilt drivers and communication protocols in order to communicate from a Video Appliance to cameras from various manufacturers- Implemented coordinate translation algorithms which convert from internal coordinate logic to cameras of various display formats and pan/tilt/zoom coordinate systems- Aided in conceptualization and development of various additional system features

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Quality assurance- Involvement with early-stage feature design and specification, and product management.- Integration of existing security applications with the system.- Demonstrating and explaining the product to potential partners (integrators, sales) and end-users.- Product marketing and lead generation.- Troubleshooting, and support.- User/Administrator training.- Technical writing and documentation for end-user ease of use and internal use.- Researching third-party security applications (both hardware and software) for the purpose of possible integration.

Bloomington, Minnesota

Specialize in comprehensive testing of user applications, software development, build process design, technical writing, and quality control.

Bloomington, Mn

Hands on experience with high-end surveillance hardware and software.