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Managed two teams concurrently with a mission to improve the supportability of all of Tableau Software’s products, developing each team into a center of excellence for their particular missions, built up the vision for expanding each team's services and scope, managed and curated their backlogs, defined governance for all their data, drove engineering excellence and process improvements, and successfully led the teams to high output in spite of a fully remote workforce.The Product Supportability team develops libraries and frameworks to capture crash dumps and log files in all Tableau products, frameworks for easy to use error codes, error dialogs that help customers get contextually relevant support with one click, and other features to identify problems and handle problem artifacts to send home for analysis and troubleshooting to reduce time to resolution of customer issues.The Customer Data Platform team develops a scalable, robust, highly available pipeline for crash dumps and product logs and processing services to analyze these support artifacts and make them available to Tableau's support teams and software engineers as they solve customer problems and fix product bugs. Developers supporting the Tableau Online environment can see, within minutes, the file, code line number, and count, of all Tableau process crashes.Managed the migration of Tableau's entire customer data pipeline from an on-premise data center to AWS public cloud, delivering scalability, availability, reliability, and push-button serviceability ahead of schedule, and managed the replication of the crash reporting and processing pipeline in GovCloud for Tableau Online's expansion into new cloud environments.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed requirements and features, developed road maps, organized and directed developers in the execution of product plans for an engineering system team over the course of 2 years. Managed the downsizing of on premise labs as engineering system workloads were moved to Azure. Led a v-team in the specification and development of monitoring for our engineering system components._Accomplishments_• Drove the downsizing of on premise computer labs, driving spending from over 10M/year down to under $300K/year• Managed a Data Group-wide effort, working with multiple product teams, and with VP level visibility, to implement security requirements on all Azure subscriptions used by product teams.• Worked closely with over 10 Microsoft product teams in the Data Group organization to capture their Azure-based, engineering system requirements, and then planned project milestones and organized the v-team to begin migrating their workloads from external customer facing data centers to R&D-centric data centers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed multiple software development teams over the course of numerous years. Delivered numerous developer and tester productivity systems, gated checkin systems, live site monitoring systems, and improvements to engineering system availability in the Data Platform Group. Shipped a regular cadence of improvements based on customer feedback and telemetry. Managed customer relationships and frequently filled in as program and product manager for our products. _Accomplishments_• Managed and mentored a team that delivered a scalable, parallel, gated check in system that allowed the SQL Server org to increased code velocity significantly and reduced check in times from 6 hours down to 60 minutes for the SQL Server Azure and on-premise products.• Managed and nurtured a team that developed and maintained the test platform for the SQL Server organization, driving improvements that enabled the execution of millions of tests every week. • As manager of the developer productivity tools team, drove tooling and process changes to get the number of code branches down from over 700 to 4 for the SQL Server and Business Intelligence product teams while improving code quality and throughput, enabling continuous shipping for Azure products.• Initiated and led a maturity model review for the SQL Server engineering systems team and then led the improvement effort that took the system's overall availability from 95% up to 99.9%.• Built up developer loyalty and improved developer satisfaction rating from a 2 to a 4 by creating customer focus groups that listened and learned from our developer-customers and then ensured we were working on the right features.

Brought software development experience, standards, and team leadership to a small-sized, commercial software business. Mentored junior engineers, developed new data entry synchronization tools, added security features, and improved user experiences in general._Accomplishments_• Brought discipline and processes to the development lifecycle resulting in the highest quality software release in the history of their entry level product.• Hired and managed the development group in a satellite office enabling the company to keep a presence in Wilmington, NC.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed new data acquisition and data management system for nuclear fuel rod measurements. Develop Excel applications to digitize manual work processes and to capture data for nuclear fuel component examination tasks. _Accomplishments_• Saved hundreds of engineer-hours per year by developing software tools to precisely meet their needs with complex Excel sheets used in nuclear fuel rod leak analysis.• Architected a real-time, nuclear fuel rod measurement system that would enable data collection and analysis in days rather than weeks.

Piscataway, Nj, Us

Revived the defunct local chapter of IEEE in Wilmington, NC. and led it for two years.

Corning, New York, Us

Provide expert computer support for manufacturing research and development initiatives. Lead investigation, development, and division-wide collaboration efforts to standardize advanced process control opportunities. Lead a team of software engineers to deliver real time embedded control systems software in an ISO 9001 certified production environment. Supervised and managed work of 4 contract personnel _Accomplishments_• Developed and operationalized significant improvements to the real-time, embedded software used in generation 5 of the fiber making processes, enabling faster development, easier testing, and reducing the cost of new software releases by approximately $90,000 per release.• Developed algorithm that compensates for glass blank thickness in optical fiber manufacturing.

Arlington, Va, Us

Developed and supported software models for a real time Flight Engineering Simulator. Created computer models of Boeing 777 electrical and mechanical components for use in flight simulators and mechanical and information systems test benches.Accomplishments• Developed software simulations of the mechanical and electrical components of the hydraulic system in the 777 airplane for the Integrated Airplane Systems Laboratory (IASL).• Initiated the use of a source control system (SCCS) in the team to protect our code investments.• Developed and pooled automation scripts to enable concurrent development of a large code-base controlled by SCCS

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

As, Engineering