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Portland, OR, US

Denver, Colorado, US

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San Francisco, CA, US

• As a member of the Engineering Leadership Staff reporting to the Chief Development Officer, I managed two software development teams. One team, Network Traffic Insights, was responsible for building and maintaining.
• Drive change and influence Stakeholders to introduce multiple process improvements across engineering to standardize efforts and provide better transparency across the organization. One example is the “Support Hero”.
• Partner with Corelight Labs to define and enhance processes for quicker and higher quality content releases.
• Manage near-shore contractor relationships to help migrate our monolithic classic sensor to our next-gen Kubernetes based microservice sensor.
• Scale the organization by aggressively recruiting, interviewing, hiring and on-boarding across the globe.
• Converted a struggling team to a high performing team by leveraging career advancement, enablement, hiring and firing.

Portland, Oregon, US

• Managed CRM & Data Management Team (10 Software Engineers, 1 SDET, 1 QA Engineer and 1 Tech Writer) to deliver & sustain CRM integrations (Salesforce, Netsuite, Sugar, MS Dynamics) with the Act-On Marketing Automation.
• Saved company $500k/annually by managing the effort to move from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Amazon EKS.
• Partner with executive leadership to define company and product strategies and to drive high quality outcomes.
• Manage vendor relationships for tooling and licensing across engineering.
• Collaborate with Support to ensure customer success by decreasing open escalations and average age to resolution.
• Manage 50% increase in engineering resources by interviewing, hiring, on-boarding & mentoring top talent.

San Jose, California, US

• Managed Service Team (3 Software Engineers) and Operational Success Team (1 Manager, 5 Software/DevOps engineers) to deliver multiple interoperability services to product development teams. Focused on: CI/CD.
• Saved company millions of dollars; increased NPS scores to enhance Gartner Magic Quadrant placement. Built, enhanced, and maintained internal service, Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA) due to lack of standard CI/CD.
• Re-organized/built dedicated team for support, validation, and DevOps due to growing CDA requirements; enabled expansion of CDA while ensuring core dev team resolved more issues efficiently/achieve quick releases.
• Built/maintained an internal Software Development Kit (SDK) consisting of REST APIs for development teams to integrate their automation into our Continuous Delivery Architecture service. Improved efficiency/team morale.

San Jose, California, US

• Managed team (3 Software Engineers, 3 SDETs, 1 User Experience (UX) Engineer) to deliver innovative, real-time, bi-directional communications fabric. Ensured fabric provided product integration simplicity resulting in.
• Achieved higher-quality product due to slowly introducing Agile Scrum methodologies resulting in more predictable features and timelines as well as allowing time to successfully bake quality into the development cycle.
• Led team to implement/execute an automation strategy to enable CI for higher quality deliverables. Utilized BDD approach and leveraged TeamCity and Behave to provide feedback on unit/functional tests, and code coverage.
• Increased automated functional/code coverage across C++ and Java Server/Client side components. Led team to define quality metrics as well as delivered nightly builds with automatic functional verification test.
• Partnered with remote team in Argentina; prioritized development; delivered on-premise/Cloud features.

San Jose, California, US

• As a ScrumMaster, led 7 key stakeholders across Development, QA, and Tech Pubs to produce high-quality features for each sprint while maintaining high velocity. Focused on PSI & Sprint planning, backlog grooming.
• Successfully led initiative to implement transition plan from Waterfall to Agile development to deliver high quality and faster deliverables. Partnered directly with QA manager to coordinate QA resources/meet milestones.
• Drove continuous process improvement to increase team velocity and deliver high-quality stories. Participated in code reviews to ensure quick identification of issues. Acted as main QA point of contact to.
• Collaborated with remote team in India to deliver new product features and improve communications.

San Jose, California, US

• Led QA team (7 QA Engineers) to deliver McAfee’s enterprise security management platform (ePO Version 5.0) running Tomcat & Apache (Microsoft SQL backend). Partnered with remote team in India. Key member in team hiring.
• Successfully defined new Agile/Kanban process for Sustaining efforts; ensured quality, on-time patch releases.
• Increased efficiency/decreased costs due to developing ePO install tool; utilized Autolt to automate installs.
• Q4 McAfee Security Management Employee of the Quarter due to continuous outstanding performance.
• Author/speaker: Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference - “Automating Build Installs Using Autolt”.

San Jose, California, US

• Led QA team (6 to 11 Engineers) to deliver ePO version 4.5 & 4.6. Partnered with remote team in Bangalore, India. Defined processes/guidelines for posting products to download portal. Trained junior QA staff. Created.
• Visited customer sites (Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, ON-Semiconductor, PSU) for consultation/ePO installs.

San Jose, California, US

• Built test plans/cases and conducted testing on enterprise platform. Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams.
• Successfully sustained existing enterprise management platform to deliver patches/hotfixes in a timely manner.
• Created QA tools using C# and practical training documentation to consolidate processes between teams.

Portland, OR, US

• Led team (5 QA Engineers) to deliver digital asset manager for a dynamic web publishing e-commerce module using IIS, Apache, Webstar servers. Built schedules, managed resources, tracked projects, and used Eggplant for.
• Led design/implementation of new QA lab while managing existing cross-platform QA (13 servers and 30 clients).

Portland, OR, US

• Built test plans/cases and conducted testing. Collaborated with cross-platform product development team. Utilized Windows/Macintosh client-server testing, Oracle & MS-SQL databases, FileMaker Pro, Perforce and WhiteBox.
• Conducted localized testing in French, German, and Japanese. Accurately completed on time/within deadline.