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Internal project manager in charge of scheduling project driven work for two different teams of engineers.

Lead the technical and business resources of projects ensuring the effective delivery of assigned customer engagements. This includes coordinating the work of Delivery Engineers, QA and Training resources.

- Market research specialist for Salesforce.com field productivity apps- Requirement gathering for portable application development- Prioritize feature implementation for product demonstrations and product upgrades

- Create detailed legal disclosures and customer notices in SSRS and Visual Studio used for student loan origination processes.- Work with development to create complex stored procedures used in legal disclosures, emails, and customer documentation for new loan applications.- Develop and create rules for a Business Rules Engine (BRE) to integrate with a C#/.net based website.- Create and refine requirements alongside new clients to create new loan origination software.- Practice Agile methodology using both Kanban and Scrum flows to implement requirements on time and according to a strict customer schedule.- Provide bi-weekly demos to customers and gather feedback on new software enhancements and defects.- Define and implement test cases for requirement verification and system regression testing.- Create and manage system documentation and train users on current and changing process definitions

• Subject matter expert in competitive processor marketing for ARM based processing applications• Owner of competitive data sheet analysis and training information for sales and customer design opportunities• Create benchmarks for Xilinx boards and kits and direct competitive market boards and kits• Present competitive training collateral for sales and engineering teams

• Serve as the Testing Lead for Siebel Oracle pricing system upgrade project through 4 stages of detailed testing and final system release• Support end-to-end price process questions and resolve issues in a time sensitive environment• Lead requirement gathering and system definition interview sessions across sales, pricing strategy, business operations, channel operations, finance, and product marketing for Pricing System Upgrade Project• Administrate Quality Center (QC) to Define and implement test processes for requirement verification and system regression testing• Create and manage system documentation and train users on current and changing process definitions• Manage multiple system integration teams to ensure a timely price transmission of all product prices used for quoting, customer order management, financial tracking, distributor pricing, and cost analysis each quarter.• Train sales operations and customer sales on pricing strategy, price look up analysis, and market segmented product positioning• Distribute pricing to sales, distributors, business operations, channel operations, and marketing teams through internal Oracle based systems and Business-to-Business file transmission• Manage secured price sensitive data sets using EMC IRM (Authentica)• Generate, manage, and distribute macro intensive excel files used during sales quoting, negotiation, and price-to-cost margin analysis• Manage SharePoint pricing page with schedules, documentation, and system descriptions• Develop and manage Siebel Oracle database systems using SQL, excel, and VBA• System Administrator for Vendavo, Siebel Oracle Pricing System, and EMC Information Rights Management (secure documentation management)• Develop and manage large data systems using SQL and Toad for Oracle• Manage and write new code using Visual Basic (VBA) to convert large data sets into charts and user reports

• Provide technical guidance to the development team by communicating customer developments in technology and product compatibility • Coordinate with sales staff and marketing to develop and implement strategies that create product awareness and demand in the market• Provide technical support and training to customers and sales on current industry standards, competitive product awareness, and new technology developments• Support customers in pre and post sales development throughout design cycle activities• Troubleshoot customer product design and process issues, and provide recommendations based on experimentation and debugging results• Simulate Microblaze and PowerPC based core designs using ModelSim and Isim• IP design and debugging including logic placement, timing analysis, and timing closure• C, C++, and Assembly code optimization and application profiling• Author Xilinx Application Note 1020 (XAPP1020) – Post-configuration Access to SPI Flash Memory with Virtex-5 FPGAs• Answer and address incoming technical support phone call questions and route to appropriate work flow queues• Coordinate with marketing, engineering, and sales to promptly resolve and prioritize tier-1 high priority customer issues• Document and publish webcase resolutions to external knowledge database website• Contribute, moderate, and manage online technical support forums• Interview new-hire candidates and participate in employee selection processes• Mentor and train new-hires on embedded processor applications• Serve as the subject matter expert of various categories including embedded SPI drivers and interfaces, bootloader processes, uboot, Embedded Design Kit (EDK), Xilinx SDK, and memory interfaces• Contribute to validation testing for ARM Cortex A-9 processor release

• Qualified the functionality of HDD, OCM, and video output for custom designed set-top boxes• Maintain an updated bill of materials for 2 set-top box families• Verify ADC, DAC, integrated circuit blocks with extensive use of oscilloscope measurement techniques• Qualify Seagate, Western Digital, and Fujitsu Hard Drives verifying data sheet specifications under varying temperature and voltage ranges• Coordinate test sample deliveries and obtain all testing materials