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Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Responsible for managing three Scrum teams of developers, architects, and QA delivering features for multiple Java Web applications. Responsibilities include:• Providing hands-on management, troubleshooting, mentoring, peer review, and coaching of developers• Providing software technical direction and support to product development, business analysts, quality assurance, and product development teams• Leading the development organization’s agile transformation including Scrum best-practices and evolution to Scrumban• Working with business users, external customers, and development staff to investigate and resolve project issues, application defects, and production incidents• Managing resource assignments and tracking releases to ensure on-time delivery of new software within budget

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for technical management and leadership of multiple teams of architects, developers, and QA analysts using agile development processes. Teams sizes vary from 10 to 20 people. Responsibilities include:• Leading the design, development, maintenance, and support of the Business Service Manager (BSM) product and its components for DevOps monitoring using Java, Eclipse, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSL, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, Derby, Hudson, and Subversion. This product consists of Web, client, and server components running in both Windows and Linux operating systems. • Leading the maintenance and support efforts for the Enterprise Synthetic Monitoring product for application performance monitoring. This distributed product is developed using Visual Studio technologies including C++ and VB. • Consulting with field organizations on new customer deployments and improving domain knowledge within technology organization.• Providing technical customer support and assisting key customers in the migration of their existing implementations to new releases.• Building a solution-wide testing lab and using it for validation of overall product readiness and customer value on Windows, Linux, VMware, Azure, SQL Server, Oracle, and Web platforms.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Responsible for leading the short- and long-term architecture efforts for new product releases and providing strategic technical leadership to the organization.• Lead the development of long-term, solution-wide architecture roadmaps and the execution of short-term objectives towards these goals• Evaluate technical designs and implementations in context of solution goals and approved technology frameworks• Work with technical consultants to leverage their expertise in delivering solution to the market• Provide input to product management in development of both short- and long-term product visions• Help communicate solution vision to technology organization and architecture vision to product management• Provide technical expertise to product-line executive management• Assist in the creation and execution of development processes• Lead weekly cross-product technology captain status meetings• Represent the technology organization in both internal and external interactions

Detroit, Mi, Us

Responsible for product research and design for a suite of APM software products. Worked with Product Management to create release definitions and prototypes for new product releases based on market requirements. Interacted with sales staff and customers to identify new requirements. Created high-level design specifications and made presentations to high-level management and peers to obtain project approval.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Managed multiple teams of software engineers in architecting, implementing and supporting enterprise software products, including five years on Compuware’s most successful distributed product line where total product revenue grew at an average annual growth rate of 25% from $46 million to $112 million. Team sizes ranged from five to eighteen people. Wrote product release definitions, implemented and tracked development timelines, and negotiated feature sets with development leads and product management. Projects included a distributed network performance monitor written in C++, a multi-platform application fault analyzer written in C++ and Java, and a Web-based reporting application written in ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and SQL. Additional responsibilities included: performance and salary reviews, interviewing, project plans, technical leadership, and software design reviews.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Responsible for product research and design for distributed software development tools. Worked with Product Management to create release definitions and prototypes for new product releases based on market requirements. Interacted with sales staff and customers to identify new requirements. Assisted in the evaluation of outside technology and companies for possible acquisitions and/or partnerships. Created high-level design specifications and made presentations to high-level management and peers to obtain project approval.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Supervised small to medium sized teams in the development of a software developer's workbench. This client/server workbench consists of nine components that run in Windows and MVS. Projects consistently delivered on time, meeting or exceeding expectations. Team members included developers, support reps and technical writers. Managed and worked with the development team through all product phases including: requirements, design, development, beta testing, delivery and support. Also involved in the design and development of new functionality in C/C++, and provided on-site customer training and technical support.Additional responsibilities included: performance/salary reviews, interviewing, project plans, monitoring project status, technical leadership, and software development/maintenance.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Worked on team to design and develop software used to build event-driven, distributed applications. Designed and implemented an object-oriented framework used to create cooperative objects. Created documentation for the architecture and the framework, and gave presentations to management and other development teams on the use of these tools. Provided consulting and design assistance to groups using this technology to develop their products. Also worked with an attorney to create a patent application.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Taught courses in graduate and undergraduate business and technology schools with a focus on critical thinking, technology leadership, and software development processes. As Area Chair, worked with academic council to ensure quality of curriculum and promote communication among department faculty. Developed and conducted faculty and student training courses. Performed faculty reviews and assessed new faculty.

Maynard, Ma, Us

Software Engineer in the Advanced Technology group of Low End Diagnostic Engineering. Responsible for researching, designing and implementing software solutions to problems in diagnostic engineering and providing simulation engineering support to product development groups.Worked on team that created a tool used for the development of power-up diagnostic software. Participated in all phases of this project including the marketing of the tools to other groups. Also designed and implemented relational databases to store and analyze data from software simulations. Wrote programs in C and SQL to create the database, parse the simulation data and to automatically store data and generate reports.Defined and implemented a software development environment, which included structured analysis and design tools, structured testing and hardware simulation. Provided consulting to other groups on implementing this approach in their organization.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Technology Management