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New York, New York, Us

Sleeves rolled up, leading and contributing to the team that owns the product delivery infrastructure for Collibra's development pipelines. Pivoting to become a developer-productivity team. GitHub, Jenkins, Sonarqube, JFrog, Sonatype Nexus, Jira, Confluece, AWS, GCP, Azure, and many more...

Burlington, Ma, Us

Interview and hire new engineers, introduce and shepherd agile scrum methodologies, conduct performance evaluations, meet 1-1 with engineering staff, set project priorities, recommend 3rd party services to accelerate our development and increase quality, responsible for onboarding.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Onboard new DevOps engineers, initiate observability and CI/CD projects, focus on automation, respond to incidents, support multiple cloud platforms including AWS, Google, and Azure as well as Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

- Led a distributed team of full stack developers and QA engineers in improving our agile scrum process in order to increase team throughput and quality. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, career building, coaching, and other team lead activities.- Led my team through a transfer of responsibility of one of our 2 business lines to an offshore team in order to align with business goals and achieve greater focus and scalability.- Applied software development expertise to architecture, design and troubleshooting conversations with the team in order to help guide the team towards sustainable, robust software deliveries.- Shepherded the onboarding of new external partners onto our platform, including external REST API support, exchange of eligibility rules, and review of the customer experience designs in order to increase revenue and market share.- Created development plans through weekly 1-on-1 discussions of performance, expectations, and goals, building rapport with each team member in order to help direct reports make team and career progress.- Led initiative to identify and reduce technical debt in order to sustain our ability to rapidly update our software with high quality.- Led the QA team in continuous improvement activities in order to ensure the delivery of quality software releases on time.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Set vision and strategic direction, mentored, and provided technical leadership for a high-performance, customer-focused development team in order to deliver value-added automation tools and services to Nuage Networks SDN customers and partners, including a CI/CD system for test and delivery. Includes hiring, training, delegating work assignments, reviewing performance, and giving feedback.- Supervised the research and selection of appropriate software architectural techniques in order to guarantee the quality, extensibility, and maintainability of our software. This includes the adoption of best practices and continuous improvement.- Worked with other organizations in order to increase information sharing, reduce duplication of effort, and coordinate services delivered to customers. Includes collaborating with service delivery teams and product managers in order to create and foster feedback loops to ensure high ROI.- Established relationships with customers and partners by delivering in-person and remote presentations in order to demonstrate the value of our team’s services - including presenting at public events such as Nokia’s SR Experts conferences.- Led the SDN Professional Services team in Turkey and India in order to deliver installation, upgrade, and integration services to SDN customers.- Led the SDN Portal Application Software Development team in Canada that builds auxiliary applications in order to add customer value to compliment SD-WAN as-a-service- Created budgets for capital and operating expenses in order to ensure that the team had the resources it needed to deliver with high quality and consistent velocity- Created a plan and negotiated with IT teams for migrating testbed assets from the US to Canada in order to ensure operational continuity in the face of an impending facility closure- Led the team through an unexpected transition from one business unit to another in order to provide open communication and continuity during uncertainty

San Jose, California, Us

- Initiated and developed integration with the OPNFV (Open Platform Network Function Virtualization) consortium in order to provide Spirent with a competitive edge in NFV - Provided technical leadership to the development team that delivered methodology-based testing services for Spirent’s STC product in order to reduce training and accelerate adoption by our customers- Mentored junior and peer engineers in order to promote their skills and development

Round Rock, Texas, Us

- Provided technical leadership to the development team that delivered embedded software for simplified storage provisioning in order to give customers speed and consistency with a minimum of training.- Delivered “train-the-trainer” sessions in order to enable delivery teams to meet their customers’ training needs- Contributed in various roles to the development of new products in order to improve the company’s top line revenue- Delivered presentations from the stage at multiple EMC World conferences in order to win mindshare among customers and partners- Delivered user-centered designs, personas, user stories, and usability tests, in order to ensure “ease-of everything”

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

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Associate'S Degree, Engineering

Usability Bootcamp Certificate

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