Andy Dean Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Program Manager and Technical Project Manager for significant cloud-based projects built on the innovative LogicBlox platform. On these projects I directly managed multiple internal teams (programmers, science, data engineering, QA, devops), served as the primary customer contact, and coordinated work with other departments.• Retail forecasting management system including both machine-learning and time-series forecast engines (scaling to 1000s of stores, 100,000s of products)• ML-based predictive maintenance system for smoke detectors in large particle accelerator complex• ML-based work order prediction system for refinery equipment repairs• ML-based sales crediting system for large networking companyHelped with many other projects in a variety of roles, primarily related to data modeling, data interfacing, performance benchmarking, testing, and building document generation tools.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Technical Project Manager for cloud-based projects built on the innovative LogicBlox platform:• Optimization-based transportation management system for a large US retailer. • Order management system for national grocery chain.• Interactive floor planning tool for retail stores. Served as a mentor for other projects and project managers, particularly with respect to agile methodologies and practices. LogicBlox was acquired by Infor in in 2016.

Greater Atlanta Area

Led full transformation of software development teams to Agile/Scrum practices, significantly improving predictability, quality, and engagement.Managed team of 15 local and 10 offshore developers and testers responsible for the development and delivery of Axioma’s two primary software products, Portfolio Optimizer and Portfolio Analytics, maintaining a schedule of 2 to 3 releases per year.Responsibilities included coordinating requirements and schedules with product management, staffing and recruiting, training and skills development, software engineering practices and standards, as well as reliable delivery of product releases.Promoted a high level of automation to make sure all our processes were reliable and repeatable.Created a challenging and engaging environment for all the individuals on my team by organizing additional activities including a reading group and regular lunch and learn sessions in which team members shared technical information with their peers.

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed team of developers responsible for a variety of web services for internal and external partners.Managed team of developers responsible for Manheim Market Report, a used-vehicle pricing guide for desktop and mobile platforms.Led department-wide efforts to improve software engineering standards. Introduced version control, continuous integration for dozens of projects, standardized build and test automation, static analysis, and test coverage metrics.Organized internal peer training activities.

Greater Atlanta Area

Documented, improved, and extended existing revenue management forecasting system for broadcasting client.Trained new developers on code base and forecasting models.Designed, documented, and implemented the architecture for forecasting and optimization models for multiple revenue management customers.Developed data loading and task scheduling components of revenue management system for global airline.

Greater Atlanta Area

Primary developer of Kiplinger’s Taming The Paper Tiger, a personal file librarian for the general consumer software market (www.thepapertiger.com ).Responsible for product development, testing, documentation, installation scripts, and customer support.

Greater Atlanta Area

Led software engineering team for retail forecasting and inventory replenishment system using client-server, OLAP and multidimensional database technologies.Designed product architecture, select implementation tools, and other similar tasks.Supported ongoing client implementations.Wrote internal technical documentation.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Provided contract development and consulting services for a wide variety of applications, including • timber management, • warehouse optimization, • bank compliance, • multimedia reference CDs

Greater Atlanta Area

Designed and implemented embedded macro language for modeling network analysis and vehicle routing problems.Introduced software engineering practices including version control and systematic testing.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Focused on computational geometry, physics-based models, and subdivision algorithms for computer graphics algorithms.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Focused on Operations Research Co-op Program with Danly Machine Teaching Assistant for IE 220, Statistics