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Washington, Dc, Us

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Lead multiple Agile teams (~50 members) responsible for designing, building and testing the client applications for the Usher Identity Platform*. This includes mobile clients and mobile SDK offerings (iOS and Android) as well as a self-service web application for creating, configuring and monitoring the customer’s networks (https://go.usher.com) My responsibilities are:- Manage a group of scrum teams: align teams' priorities with the corporate strategy, assist in the resolution of escalations that require coordination with other product areas or upper management. - Provide technical guidance as well as product and business perspective. I also have HR responsibilities over all teams in my group.- Prepare and participate in program reviews with CXOs and upper management on behalf of my group. Acquire and synthesize executive insight and feedback to communicate and align teams' priorities and direction.- Represent the Technology group and act as POC for external interactions with partners, customers and prospects as well as with other groups within MicroStrategy. - Present technology updates and futures keynotes at the annual users conference. * Usher is an enterprise-grade mobile identity platform designed to provide security for every business process and application across an enterprise. It replaces traditional forms of enterprise identity such as IDs, passwords, and tokens, with mobile identity badges securely delivered on a smartphone.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Led a team of 10+ program managers and designers responsible for the functional specification and user experience design of the award-winning MicroStrategy Mobile Platform. MicroStrategy Mobile has been ranked #1 by leading independent analysts for four years in a row. (https://www.microstrategy.com/us/platforms/mobile/why-us#reviews)MicroStrategy Mobile is a metadata-driven application platform that allows enterprise customers create powerful and scalable mobile apps for iOS and Android without writing any code and with the simplicity of a drag-and-drop builder interface. As a lead of the MicroStrategy Mobile team my responsibilities were:- Led and managed a team of Program Managers and UX designers, providing technical and product design guidance.- Managed the product roadmap by synthesizing input from customer requests, marketing analysis, executive direction and technology trends.- Defined priorities for the team according to roadmap, corporate strategy and organizational changes.- Collaborated directly with engineering teams during the inception, design and implementation phases, always staying current and leveraging the latest advances in mobile technologies.- Conducted program reviews with CXOs. Collected executive insight and feedback to align roadmap and team priorities.- Represented the MicroStrategy Mobile Technology team in external facing interactions with partners, customers and prospects as well as with other groups i.e. Marketing, Sales, Education, Legal, and Tech Support. - Present technology updates and futures keynotes at the annual users conference. - Led research of emerging mobile technologies including operating systems, peer-to-peer communications, motion tracking and indoor positioning systems amongst the most notable.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

As a lead of a group of program managers and designers, collaborated in the definition of functionality and User Experience design for the MicroStrategy Mobile Platform.- Contributed to the evolution of the MicroStrategy Mobile product from a basic mobile application framework for iPhone to a functionality-rich, scalable and user-friendly platform optimized for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. - Collaborated closely with engineering in the definition and design of the MicroStrategy Mobile architecture based on the foundation of the MicroStrategy object model but optimized and engineered to overcome the memory and processing power limitations of mobile devices.- Worked together with UX designers and HCI researchers in defining new user interaction paradigms optimized for mobile devices. These new paradigms leveraged the touch capabilities of modern devices which enabled direct manipulation of information on the screen resulting in fluid and intuitive user experiences. - Stayed abreast of the latest advances in mobile technologies and incorporating them into our product to augment functionality or to enhance the performance of the platform. - Collaborated with other groups within MicroStrategy such as Marketing, Sales, Education and Tech Support to develop the corresponding programs to sell and support the product in the field.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Research and application of emerging technologies during the inception phases of new features: - Researched multiple technologies used across various products of the MicroStrategy BI platform such as Extended Data Access (XDA), Data Import and Data Wrangling, Search Engine and Data Visualizations.- Defined functional specifications based on internal requirements, customer feedback and marketing analysis. - Designed user workflows and user interfaces for new features. Introduced formal user-centered design process.- Led the design and implementation of MicroStrategy Visual Insight, a self-service visual data exploration tool that changed the way users created reports and dashboards. The new workflows reduced the time required to create analyses from hours to minutes and also enabled users to create reports and analyses without involvement of system administrators or architects.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Responsible for testing and software verification during the Beta cycle for the full MicroStrategy BI Platform.- Planned and executed tests to validate all features on specific customer environments and use cases- Participated in the final rounds of functional testing to evaluate end-to-end functionality, ensuring that all facets of the product (installation, configuration, documentation, etc.) complied with functional specifications and release criteria.- Performed customer site visits to conduct software tests, troubleshoot specific environment issues and demonstrate new features to all stakeholders.- Developed pre-release materials for education, marketing and field teams ahead of the official product launch. - Acted as Technology POC supporting Education, Marketing and Sales teams for product launch activities.- Created content and presented technical sessions for MicroStrategy's annual users conference.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Master Of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications And Management

B.S, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications