Led the development of Maana’s Knowledge Platform product, as well as multiple professional services engagements. Implemented lean development processes across both engineering and professional services. Managed and mentored project managers across the company.• Implemented a Kanban process more suited to the rapidly changing priorities confronting engineering, enabling the engineering team to deliver across multiple internal and external projects simultaneously.• Deployed a lightweight resource planning system to help executives address resource inefficiencies quickly.• Delivered a knowledge graph, domain model and graph data instance explorer to a major European manufacturer in 12 weeks using a highly focused system of daily and weekly code delivery. The success of this POC led to a production license.• Led the implementation of a documentation classification and entity extraction system based on the Maana Platform for an Oil and Gas services company, enabling exploration of a Well Life Cycle knowledge graph.• Centralized reporting of project status across engineering and professional services projects.• Managed resource escalations across all technical resources

Accomplishments Put together and successfully drove to completion, in less than 5 months, a project to integrate third party data collection software with Rootmetrics extensive countrywide data collection and analysis products.Delivered 3 major update releases of Rootmetrics data collection software, data pipeline and data warehouse, enabling successive, six month data collection and analysis cycles.Ran two new product initiatives from concept to delivery, coordinating the efforts of product mangement, operations, analytics, production and engineering.Imposed a lightweight portfolio management process on top of varied project teams with inconsistent processes, enabling senior management to have at-a-glance status of resourcing and delivery of all significant, revenue-bearing product activities.Responsibilities Serve as project leader on major product releases.Mentor project/program managers in other organizations. Manage product issue escalations. Manage shared technical, analytical and operational resources.Create and maintain productive development and communication processes across the organization.Serve as admin on project collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence)

Accomplishments Delivered 100 releases of 9 products, across 4 different product families across a multinational team.Implemented a Scrum-based, development project management process, leading the organizational transition from waterfall-based processes. Provided transparency of product knowledge and release status to sales, marketing and professional services.Created a communication and goal tracking structure that enabled the home office to better understand the allocation of global resources. Implemented a rational cross team resourcing process that reduced unpredictable and unplanned demands on engineering resources. Responsibilities Supervise project leaders and scrum masters on engineering projects. Serve as scrum master on major product releases.Directly manage both test and documentation teams, up to 25 employees in multiple countries.Manage core engineering projects from conception through deployment. Manage all product release and launch activities. Manage product issue escalations. Manage shared technical resources.Manage partner relationships with Oracle, Informatica, IBM, SAP and other software partners.

Create and implement an SDLC that can accommodate multi-site development. Train and mentor project leads in project management techniques. Provide release management for all products released by Noetix.

Program Manager with end to end product release and deployment responsibilities for an on-demand, web-based, digital document signature application.

Deployed a self-service Business to Business integration portal for Amazons drop ship vendors. Significantly reduced the amount of Amazon resource required for the integration process. Implemented a project management process where none had existed. Enhanced team communications and transparency and expanded developer estimation skills by engaging Development team in Scrum methodology.

Accomplishments Shipped 7 major software releases and 2 new hardware product lines in less than 4 years. Created a project management process that greatly reduced deadline uncertainty and enabled prediction and control of project risk. Created and shipped, in ten weeks, a new line of security appliances based on technology from a company acquired only ten weeks prior to launch. Responsibilities Manage product releases from conception to release to end of life. Create product line roadmap based on market needs and development capacity. Refine market requirements into functional requirements for engineering. Integrate newly acquired technologies into the product line. Represent WatchGuard technology and products at trade shows and to the press.

Revived a failing relationship with a top ten customer who had switched to a competitor’s product. Achieved more than 100% of quarterly sales goals for the region for five consecutive quarters (jointly with Account Manager).

IBM Global Services: Design, develop and test database, Internet and groupware applications. IBM Personal Software Products Design, build and unit test new APIs for the OS/2 Unicode subsystem. Design, code and run functional tests for system management and Unicode components of OS/2.