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Belle Haven, Va, Us

Mclean, Va

Full Lifecycle ownership of multilayered product offering: CorasNow is a flexible, code-less, cloud based development platform that allows customers to build or extensively customize apps in the cloud or on-premises to meet their business needs quickly. Introduced and coached team in adoption of Agile/Scrum methods to improve Software Development Lifecycle. Resulted in improved collaboration, predictability and transparency. Acted as Scrum Master for the team, as well as significant participation, and coaching for Product Owner role.Introduced Quality best practices at multiple stages of the delivery process to incorporate a Quality mindset from the earliest stages of work, consistent with Scrum practice. Augmented team with Quality engineering expertise to share knowledge and accelerate adoption. Result: immediate increased defect find rate leading to improved quality.Negotiated and engaged partner to provide cost effective scalable staff augmentation with highly skilled QA and development services to improve business flexibility. Result: improved team skill diversity.Key Technologies: C#, MongoDB, JavaScript(Knockout, React), Windows via AWS, Azure or VM, Jira

Herndon, Va

Operated in a similar capacity with CA Technologies following Acquisition of Xceedium by Ca.

Herndon, Va

Managed all aspects of the Engineering & Support Process including Development, Quality Assurance, Sustaining Engineering, Customer Support and IT for the Xsuite Privileged Access Management Product. Secure Identity Management for privileged User Accounts to secure on-Prem., Cloud and Hybrid IT Environments. Led the team through transformation to an enterprise Agile / Scrum (SAFe) process. Substantial improvements from the improved structure and collaboration encouraged by the process. Result: Improved Transparency, accountability and morale. Delivered multiple product releases adding strategic new security capabilities to market in support of growing business and strategic partnerships, while blending tactical improvements to address existing customer needs ==> Worked closely with Product Owners to continually ensure transparent, prepared backlog to keep team moving and focused.Engaged Quality specialists to address backlog of test automation needs and integrate into the Agile delivery process. Prioritized addressing quality and test automation from the start of implementation to stop the growth of automation debt. Result: Shortened test cycles, expanded test coverage, Increased early detection rates and vastly improved quality mindset adopted across the team. Built a repeatable, Sustaining Engineering, and patch release process based on Kanban process to provide responsive updates addressing customer needs in a timely basis. Result: decreasing customer support backlog. Developed and rolled out employee performance management process to foster employee feedback, and career growth dialog.As a result of successful and steady business growth, culminated in the acquisition of Xceedium Inc. by CA Technologies in Aug 2015Key Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, C++, Pearl, Java, ICEFaces, Apache, Tomcat, Linux (Suse), Jira, Agile Central (Rally), Version OneOperated in a similar capacity with CA Technologies following close of the Acquisition.

Northern Virginia

Led Software Development activities across server and native Mobile Device Platforms including Android and iOS secure containers. Global team located in 3 US locations plus India.Restructured the engineering process and team organization to significantly improve the execution by adopting SCRUM/Agile practices. Exceptional results achieved: improved quality, first release delivered ahead of schedule, massive improvement in team morale.Formulated a Customer Response Engineering process to focus effort on tactical customer issues, and strengthen customer focus on the team. Result: Customer backlog reduced by 80% in the first 5 months of operation. Narrowed delivery model to increase focus on Architectural improvement and eliminate distraction from un-utilized offering. Result: Narrower focus, improved velocity and improving quality. Key Technologies: MS .Net, C#, C++, iOS, JAVA, MS SQL Server, Version One

Alexandria, Va

(2007 - 2010)Lead all aspects of the software engineering lifecycle for the Symantec Security Information Manager Product Line including product development, quality assurance, content delivery and customer response.Planned and executed transition to a hybrid-offshore organization to leverage skills and diversity of team members in Alexandria Va, Los Angeles Ca, and Pune, India. Highly successful transition, highlighted with the first product release 3 months following transition, and a Gold Award by Information Security Magazine following transition of the team.Introduced Scrum / Agile methodology, with first release delivered on-time with quality noted by early adopting customers.

Newport News, Va

(2000 - 2007)Lead all engineering activities for Symantec’s Gateway and Groupware Security product line including 5 Enterprise Security Products. Responsibilities include development, quality assurance, documentation, project management and the entire software lifecycle.Grew the team from a small “start-up mentality” team of 15 into a world class enterprise software development operation with over 100 employees in two countries. Planned and executed a transformation to a global development strategy, off-shoring a large portion of the development to team members in India. Ultimately resulted in the ability to re-allocate $3+ million to more strategic initiatives, both within the team and outside of it. After identifying common capabilities within the Mail Security products, led the development of a reusable component to encapsulate shared functionality. Resulted in the elimination of over 70% of the integration and certification effort across the integrating product lines.

Toronto, On, Canada

(1999 - 2000)Successfully managed the delivery of the final full release version of Symantec WinFax, and Symantec Mobile Essentials.

Responsible for all aspects of the corporations internal application development, quality assurance and support activities.