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Duluth, Georgia, United States

• As Director of Software Products, I lead market research initiatives into IoT, LTE, and cloud technologies, enhancing software product offerings to penetrate new customer segments and incorporate modern technology into.
• Excelled at a triple-functional role as Software Director, Software Product Manager, and Software Sales Engineer, spearheading comprehensive management of all DataPath Software Products.
• Boosted team performance and project velocity by incorporating Agile best practices, leading to a significant increase in sprint success rates and accelerated stakeholder feedback.
• Re-engineered the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to boost efficiency and surpass previous customer satisfaction benchmarks, fueling organic growth from existing customers.
• Achieved annual savings of over $1M by integrating multiple software products from another DataPath group without requiring additional resources.
• Secured over a dozen high-value software project bids annually valued at $5M+, targeting mission-critical government and commercial customers by crafting precise solutions, estimations, pricing, and presentations.

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

• As Director Software Product Owner, I secured RFPs totalling over 6M units, blocking a fierce competitor from entering the market and preserving dominant market share.Below listed are a few of my key achievements:
• Successfully managed the completion of over 10 software development projects utilizing.NET, Jira, HTML, and SQL, with project budgets ranging between $2M and $10M+, delivering on time and within budget constraints.
• Improved Agile team efficiencies by implementing simplified tracking methods for project and budget estimations across software development and quality assurance, reducing sprint and release reporting times by 33%.
• Optimized Agile practices by consulting with development teams to ensure methodology implementation, leading product demonstrations/retrospectives, and resolving action items while supporting the technical team in.

Lawrenceville, GA

• As Director of Software Engineering, I pioneered cost-effective software systems across multiple vendors for DOCSIS 3.1, Voice, Routing, WiFi, and Battery functionalities. Moreover, I led the implementation of IoT.
• Generated over $10M annually by orchestrating a cross-functional team of 20+ software engineers, system administrators, sales leaders, QA engineers, and product managers in IT application development, application.
• Secured $390K in savings for the company through effective Statement of Work (SoW) and Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) negotiations with third-party vendors, leveraging strong negotiation skills to achieve favorable.
• Led a global software development project across Europe and Latin America with a team of 10 members that streamlined organizational technology processes, sold over 4M devices annually, and significantly cut company.
• Integrated the Cisco team with the Technicolor team post-acquisition, creating a cohesive and collaborative environment that maintained market share and boost staff productivity.

Lawrenceville, GA

• As Engineering Manager, I led a team of 8 software engineers in local and remote locations, including Belgium and China, while directing multiple third-party development teams in Taiwan using a tiger team approach to.
• Introduced Agile methodologies, defining scopes, managing resources, and overseeing schedules to align with stakeholder and project owner specifications, which significantly enhanced the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Established a new self-organizing engineering team by training in Agile fundamentals and coaching for sustained adoption of changes; implemented Agile processes for re-platforming and re-hosting data projects to meet.

• At Cisco Systems, I resolved critical software and network issues for key accounts such as Comcast and Time Warner, addressing and escalating project issues effectively.Some of my contributions to the organization.
• Enhanced productivity by 27% through coordination of software system installations and collaboration with the user experience team on the design and implementation of new features, identifying and optimizing software.
• Minimized downtime and recoding needs by identifying areas requiring regression testing following software updates, system changes, and functionality adjustments.

• Designed, tested, and supported SIP VoIP and E911 CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) products to increase BellSouth's overall market share by 26% and boost revenue earnings by $345K annually within the data communication.
• Decreased time to market for various DSL and E911 CPE products with efficient organization and intelligentregression of test case execution and documentation.