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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 core Open Source sensor technologies (Zeek & Suricata) for Corelight’s appliances, virtual and cloud offerings. These sensors provide the ability to view insights of all network traffic from a North/South and East/West perspective. Spearheaded Smart PCAP team, engaged in building critical PCAP functionality within our portfolio, which allowed organizations to only capture the specific data they care about. This data could be stored via iSCSI, Local Storage, or Object Storage (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and allows analysts to identify critical components of data breaches, vulnerabilities, and traffic patterns across their network.▪ 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” model I implemented, which is a weekly rotation of engineers to dedicate effort towards support issues. This model reduced distractions, removed knowledge silos and resolved issues quicker.▪ 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.

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 platform. Focused on: company & product strategy, cross team collaboration, improving efficiencies across the engineering department and ensuring customer success. ▪ 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.

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, compatibility, server/client performance, continuous threat detection validation. Partnered directly with remote teams across globe to deliver services.▪ 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.

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 immediately sharing relevant data between endpoint, gateway, and other products by enabling security intelligence and adaptive security.▪ 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 execution.▪ Partnered with remote team in Argentina; prioritized development; delivered on-premise/Cloud features.

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, tracking burndown, coordinating Sprint demos, executing retrospective meetings. Coordinated actions; removed impediments across teams.▪ 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 triage/resolve issues.▪ Collaborated with remote team in India to deliver new product features and improve communications.

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 process. ▪ 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”.

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 blackbox automation tests.▪ Visited customer sites (Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, ON-Semiconductor, PSU) for consultation/ePO installs.

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.

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 test automation.▪ Led design/implementation of new QA lab while managing existing cross-platform QA (13 servers and 30 clients).

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 testing.▪ Conducted localized testing in French, German, and Japanese. Accurately completed on time/within deadline.