Andy Smith Email & Phone Number

Andy Smith is a Senior Engineering Group Manager at Cognex Corporation. He possess expertise in software engineering, software development, perl, unix, cloud computing and 23 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Andy is a very diligent and detail oriented professional. He is an exceptional Manager and Engineer. He has great experience managing both established and early startup teams. He excels in both and has proven himself time and time again. Andy is extremely knowledgeable and experienced in all the facets of the storage domain. Highly recommended!", "Andy Smith worked for me at DellEMC VMAX for almost four years. During his time on my staff, he was involved with two separate products: VMAX Cloud Edition and VMAX Embedded Application Infrastructure. As a team manager, Andy was very effective in rebuilding a team that had seen a lot of attrition. He successfully coached and mentored junior and senior developers to own the eApps infrastructure space, implement new features, and support features in the field. In particular, Andy impressed me with his ability to listen and lead a cross functional development team that had many established members while introducing new members and executing on a future vision. Andy understood what opportunities helped his team members thrive and what challenges they needed to overcome, ultimately creating a team culture of trust and collaboration. He also partnered with other teams to create local and global collaborative relationships that became a win-win. Accordingly, he cross-trained developers so that important skills and expertise were available whenever needed. As a project and portfolio manager, Andy always displayed a strong commitment to deliver. He partnered well with Product Managers and created realistic plans that were able to succeed. Andy took on ownership for a complex space with many challenges and methodically worked through addressing the issues in his own area and also by holding others accountable. He has brought vision and new ideas to building and testing the system. Andy has consistently been an honest, transparent and dependable manager and leader, one who motivated his staff and delivered quality work at the highest levels.", and "I had the pleasure of working with Andy for three years at DellEMC, collaborating on several projects. He is one of the most amazing managers I have worked with. I was particularly impressed by his traits of decision making and the way he handles his team and mentors them in any situation. He is brilliant at organizing and bringing people together. He is very dependable, reliable and has the ability to make a dramatic difference in the productivity level of any team. Very knowledgeable, approachable, open to ideas and, in addition, provides all the support in their pursuance. Andy is very respectful towards his team members, gives them the feeling of being valued and builds a personal relation with each of them. He is an active listener and provides constructive feedback to help the team members grow. Leadership, confidence, calmness and flexibility are other qualities which I really appreciate in him. Any organization will be happy to have Andy on their team and he earns my highest recommendation as a manager."

Listed skills include Software Engineering, Software Development, Perl, Unix, and 24 others.

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  Bucknell University

  Computer Science And Engineering