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Manchester, Mi, Us

Foster City, California, Us

Support globally distributed teams via agile methodologies to communicate, fostering transformational trust and growth across the organization. Speak with both technical and non-technical audiences, providing expertise and key knowledge/competencies for effective decision-making. Communicate with teams at all levels to achieve tasks at hand. Build/lead a team dedicated to creating new cloud ELT solutions and business intelligence visualizations. Back key stakeholders in product management organization and support/Project Management Office. Contribute to contract negotiations, enhancing deals for all parties to make a difference in bottom line.

Toronto, On, Ca

Created an all-engineering department with a supporting product organization through multiple business changes. Steered the team through an agile transformation, creating and documenting new best practices in an environment of experimentation and collaboration. Oversaw department budget for salaries, travel, and Statement of Work costs.Scaled and redesigned the team to meet the growing demands of the business. Began adding SOW teams in 2019 and started offshoring/insourcing SOW teams in 2021. Established continued success with SOW utilization, resulting in oversight of as many as five contractor teams, working with three vendors. With contractors, managed 100+ individuals during transition, shifting U.S. teams to offshore and SOW to FTE teams. Developed in-house sourcing and offshoring strategic changes to build international engineering teams in both India and Mexico. Directed five international engineering teams responsible for seven products/65+ full-time employees. Chosen to present company technology to users at SYNERGY in November 2021. Built internal and external stakeholder relationships in the Sales, Support, Training, and Product teams. Oversaw internal partnerships that helped to normalize expectations and foster a healthy feedback loop. Maintained customer and vendor relationships based on prior successes with these groups and direct lines to the software development department.Led visible enterprise applications in the Tax & Accounting suite to include compliance, fixed assets, and tax planning, in addition to efforts to migrate capabilities to cloud-native services. Guided a team through several organizational design changes, including building new India and Mexico-based teams while hastening efforts with SOW teams in the Philippines, Ukraine, and India.

Toronto, On, Ca

Created and led visible enterprise application teams in the Tax & Accounting suite to include electronic filing compliance, tax platform, fixed assets, and advisory / tax planning, in addition to efforts to migrate capabilities to cloud-native services. Oversaw department budget for salaries and travel. Scaled and redesigned the team to meet the growing demands of the business. Led three cross-functional, U.S.-based teams handling five products and consisting of a staff of 25+. Restructured team, resulting in adding two PAN-DEV teams in 2018.Chosen to present company technology to users at SYNERGY in November 2017 and 2018. Maintained customer and vendor relationships based on prior successes with these groups and direct lines to the software development department. Built internal and external stakeholder relationships in the Sales, Support, Training, and Product teams. Oversaw internal partnerships that helped to normalize expectations and foster a healthy feedback loop.

Toronto, On, Ca

Leading a Software Development team of 19, encompassing 13 software engineers and six business analysts that oversaw four products. Assigned priorities for individuals/teams while managing projects. Presented developments to stakeholders at a retreat in March 2016, with users at SYNERGY in November 2013, and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, presenting on a global shared tax platform project in April 2016. Managed UltraTax CS platform development staff, CS Connect, Planner CS, and Toolbox CS staff. Drove team engagement and conducted one-on-one coaching/performance management with personnel. Supervised team conducting electronic filing, internal and external audits, agency and compliance requirements, and millions of secure transactions with the IRS and other jurisdictions. Recognized and fostered talent, helping teams to join for maximum productivity and engagement.

Toronto, On, Ca

Led a cross-functional team of 11, consisting of eight software engineers and three business analysts, which handled all aspects of the UltraTax CS platform and CS Connect development and staff. Drove team engagement and conducted one-on-one coaching/performance management with personnel. Supervised team conducting electronic filing, internal and external audits, agency and compliance requirements, and millions of secure transactions with the IRS and other jurisdictions. Recognized and fostered talent, helping teams to join for maximum productivity and engagement.

Toronto, On, Ca

Served as team lead for the department, liaising with management and staff. Supervised an engineering team of 14 to 17 during time as team lead. Identified best practices for internal team use. Acted as technical interviewer for entry-level software engineering hires, gauging both interest and qualifications. Worked with a variety of technologies and programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server.

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science