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Escondido, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

* Received LTI shares for outstanding 2020 performance as part of year end compensation.* Member of Employee Engagement Council 2018-2019* Member of Product Management Community of Practice Stewardship Council 2022 to present. * Conducted team building exercises for FTE’s in the AV2 Org, including hit mix bingo, 2 truths and a lie, secret santa, and more* Setup and developed the Mandalorian AV2 Scrum team.* Performed Scrum master and Product Owner duties concurrently for over 1 year in the Mandalorian team.* Managed multiple scrum teams concurrently, covering for other PO’s out on extended vacations.* Led and managed AV team/s on major release weekends.* Performed product discovery, backlog refinement, and roadmap planning of epics/features.* Managed production issues, defects, and escalations to resolution.* Acted as the voice of the customer in development, revisions, and final acceptance of feature into production.* Negotiated risks/unknowns with teams both inside and outside of LPL to find the most efficient, reasonable, and cost effective solutions to complex problems.* Identified and instrumented efficiencies in the incident escalation process for AV2 and managed the weekly incident calls for review and closeout of work.* Taught team members the CLAR communication technique and how to move disparate parties to consensus.* Taught other POs and peers how to use OneNote to implement GTD techniques for time management.* Performed demos of AV2 for various teams both inside and outside of LPL.* Supported Focus events and helped with Q&A in the AV2 breakout sessions.

San Diego, Ca.

* Provide strong mature leadership and vision to a world wide team of QA professionals ensuring LPL's offerings to the market meet the highest standards of quality, stability, relevance, and security.* Actively manage a 22 person team with a 30/70 split across onshore and offshore respectively.* Implemented ROI Analysis processes for Automation projects to ensure the firm was focused on long term automation returns rather than short term gains.* Through guided direction helped Automation and Prod Support teams develop scorecards to measure and monitor activities to ensure continuous improvement.* Brought Automation team into LPL DEVOPS and ensured smoke, sanity, and gatekeeper backlogs had budget to have repeatable test results.* Wove tighter processes between Prod Support and Automation teams driving down time needed to test on major DC Maintenance events by 30%.* Implemented VirtualBox with Prod Support team to allow for rapid OS/Browser standups and testing, reducing time needed to test by 40%* Drove implementation of Selenium into Automation to expand toolset and integrate with Appium for mobile test support.* Led engineering effort to develop Selenium parallel execution engine for Selenium IDE, Python, and Java. In the end creating a farm of 60 vm’s running thousands of jobs a day. * Managed QA Core Service budget and produced weekly reports for senior management.* Continue Financial Stewardship duties of TCOE while training new staff to take over those responsibilities.

* Member of LPL core contract negotiating team which hammered out the LPL QA Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) agreement with global managed services firm.* Program Manager and Comptroller for LPL QA Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE).* Delivered seven figure savings to LPL in the first seven months of TCoE operations through lower unit costs, scaled work force deployments, and increased efficiency.* Managed 3 million dollar expansion of Home Office applications within LPL QA testing environments.* Developed and deployed processes allowing world wide teams to utilize a "Follow the sun model" for QA/Performance testing.* Managed deployment of Citrix and various encryption technologies to allow remote teams to work seamlessly with LPL resources at various US offices.

Greater San Diego Area

* Envisioned, developed, and deployed multi-user database system for resource planning in the Production Services Division. System supports 300 users, and is the single trusted book of business for resource planning. System reduced business process waste by 75%, increased real time data to managers and PM's by 90%, and decreased project resource forecast errors by 60%.* Developed and deployed policies and protocols, along with corresponding technology to ensure offshore outsourced QA processes we measurable, accurate, repeatable, and in line with internal QA controls and standards.* Continually improved QA automation testing process, accountability, transparency, and instrumentation to ensure the quality of the testing being performed delivers the greatest value at the lowest cost/risk to the firm.* Mentored, coached, and trained other managers within the QA group on developing solid and achievable career goals while still leaving room for stretch goals to enhance their overall personal portfolio.* Lead yearly ROI reporting for the QA group, presenting findings and outlining areas of concern along with future plans of success to Senior Management.* Negotiated NDA's, contract terms, and pricing with outside vendors balancing risk vs reward scenarios and ensuring the proper mechanisms are available if warranted due to project issues.

Lpl Financial Inc.

* Working as a contractor to LPL while employed by Modis Inc. * Managed requirements and deliverables on a number of Data Center infrastructure projects * Trained other project managers as they joined the team, and developed training materials and instruments for measuring success. * Listened, and responded to Senior Management project requests while aligning those requests to project deliverables and objectives.* Excelled at managing customer expectations and negotiating difficult project resolutions.

* Project manager responsible for design of ViaSat's next generation worldwide MPLS backbone and unified SIP services.* Project manager responsible for the migration, consolidation, and relocation of all server computing resources in Southern California to the Carlsbad California datacenter facility.

* Contributing contract author and member of negotiating team for ViaSat-1 satellite's next generation terrestrial support network.* Principal author and MSA/SLA negotiator for ViaSat's Enterprise Desktop Support Agreement.* Project manager for multi-discipline disparate team and lead author of ViaSat's Enterprise Voice, Data, and Cellular RFP.* Technical lead and part of management team that built ViaSat's new state of the art campus datacenter facility in Carlsbad, California.* Project Manager responsible for transitioning ViaSat's mission critical 24x7 customer support center to a fully redundant and fault tolerant Cisco Unified VOIP solution. Project was delivered on time, under budget, and with no impact to critical customers worldwide.

Responsible for engaging with customers to assess needs, gather requirements, develop project plans with expected ROI, and manage the plan to completion. Developed custom applications for datacenter management in LAMP. See resume for more details.

Founder of company. Firm specialized in Competitive Intelligence, Customer Intelligence, Software Development, and Sarbanes-Oxley consulting to Fortune 500 companies. See resume for more details.

Responsible for day to day operations of Information Technology group and its program consultants. Managed IT Directors and contract Oracle Consultants in the field. Led teams on large Oracle Financial implementations. See resume for more details.

Rebuilt Information Technology department and created new infrastructure to speed remote field site food distribution operations, and increase corporate revenues through optimized business and accounting processes. See resume for more details.

Managed IT Web Group for both the corporate site and the customer services website. Led team on upgrading the website to new architecture and integrated various subsidiary groups to make site both more useable and broader in appeal. See resume for more details.