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▩ My name is Darren, and I own a leadership background in a variety of environments--I am excited to share with you a summary of my rewarding career feats and skillsets—welcome to my LinkedIn profile!▩ I’m a resourceful business strategist who drives efficacy by concurrently managing essential SaaS and information systems, staffing and onboarding, asset inventory, and improvements—leading all affiliated parties using time management, collaboration in the workplace, and innovative software engineering as catalysts in successful leadership.▩ I take pride in ensuring my peers and assigned project teams have a supportive and encouraging culture to establish and develop their fundamental and unique career aptitudes. I excel at delivering hands-on, collaborative learning experiences that drive my counterparts and strategic stakeholders to prosper. ▩ I look to apply my educational framework within Natural Sciences, Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics to aid the betterment of enterprise solutions. The Technical Project Stewardship I exhibit usually spans across all operations—delivering rapid, measurable results. ▩ A key detail in being a successful leader amidst IT, program, and people management is cultivating and leveraging essential relationships and by building and reinforcing a positive brand (internally and externally) my teams and I increase goal attainment, drive revenue and offer beneficial, mission-critical services. ➜ $800M+ system development and deployment for Jaguar Land Rover, P3 North, Sirius XM, Ericsson, and more➜ Strategic Direction / Service Development / Cost & Price Analysis / ROI➜ Networking / Digital & Cloud-Based Solutions / Communications➜ Human Resources / Information Delivery / Team Development➜ Policy Development / Office Administration / Corrective Actions➜ Cohesive Strategy Development / Team Empowerment➜ Diverse industry experience with leadership among Telecom, Aviation, Automotive, Satellite Navigation, and GPS projects
Darren Benjamin Work Experience Details
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Director Of EngineeringArray Aug 2023 - PresentNew York, Ny, Us⚡ Array is a financial innovation platform that helps digital brands, financial institutions, and fintechs get compelling consumer products to market faster. Our suite of private label offerings helps our partners drive revenue, increase engagement, and empower millions of consumers to achieve their financial goals.⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Managed and provided leadership to a team of managers✦ Lead the design, implementation, testing, and operation of Array’s My Credit Manager & Identity products✦ Introduced cross-company processes and tools to enable Arrays’s future growth ✦ Retained, mentored, and grow the existing distributed development team✦ An integral member of the technical leadership team reporting to the CTO⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Restructured the team I took over and grew it to twice its existing size while quadrupling the products the team is responsible for✪ Transformed my team into a strong Scrum team able to consistently meet their committed timelines and goals✪ Integral to rolling out a growth framework for Arrays’ distributed engineering teams -
Senior Engineering ManagerArray Dec 2022 - Aug 2023New York, Ny, Us⚡ Array is a credit data company helping people know more about their financial and credit health, to help those users buy, borrow, and get access to financial services. Array offers a platform that works to increase data accessibility with security, privacy, and consent built into the platform to protect sensitive data.⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Lead the design, implementation, testing, and operation of Array’s My Credit Manager & Identity products✦ Introduced cross-company processes and tools to enable Arrays’s future growth ✦ Retained, mentored, and grow the existing distributed development team✦ An integral member of the technical leadership team reporting to the CTO⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Restructured the team I took over and grew it to twice its existing size while quadrupling the products the team is responsible for✪ Transformed my team into a strong Scrum team able to consistently meet their committed timelines and goals✪ Integral to rolling out a growth framework for Arrays’ distributed engineering teams
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Vp Of EngineeringQrad Technologies Mar 2020 - Present⚡ QRAD Technologies offered novel solutions in Quantifying Risk and Accelerating Development supporting diverse industry clients to optimize processes and streamline quality metrics through advanced automation, integration, and production-level code development and testing innovation⚡ In this "between permanent positions" role, I supported operations and work with clients to understand their needs, discover challenges, and clearly understand their goals. Through collaborative processes, we at QRAD leveraged a network of subject matter experts to deliver timely solutions to complex problems- both company- and customer-facing. ⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Partnered with business leaders to define and understand their pain points, analyze their data, and create customized tools that aid the formulation of quality metrics; leverage continuous feedback pipelines to implement valuable improvements.✦ Combined my experience with that of subject matter experts to present the best solutions that are attentive to joint creation and collaboration at all stages of SDLC. ✦ Developed the CI/CD Pipeline using modern technologies (e.g. Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Consul)⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Applies advanced executive leadership, DevOps, and software innovation skillsets to support company and client goals.✪ A noted expert in automation and integration within production-level code practices; specialized in custom workbench creation and resource management to remove roadblocks and sustain program consistency and stability.✪ Cut the launch time for the community edition by 50% -
Senior Engineering ManagerFig Tech Jun 2022 - Oct 2022New York, Ny, Us⚡ Fig creates technology for the 1/2 of Americans shut out by the traditional banking system. Our team is driven by our passion to create a financially inclusive world for all. ⚡⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Lead the design, implementation, testing, and operation of all of Fig’s products✦ Introduced new processes and tools to enable Fig’s future growth ✦ Mentored and grew the existing distributed development team✦ Integral member of the leadership team⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Implemented Kanban and all its ceremonies in the first weeks✪ Reworked the onboarding processes including all tooling to ensure “productive by your first afternoon” for new developers or existing developers needing to re-install their machines -
Senior Software Engineering ManagerDave Jul 2021 - Jun 2022Los Angeles, California, Us⚡ Dave (sometimes known as Dave.com) is a digital banking service. The service emphasizes no overdraft fees and provides loans to individuals' accounts at their banks for overdraft protection. ⚡⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Led the design, implementation, testing, and operation of Dave’s banking products✦ Introduced processes and tools to manage Dave’s hyper-growth stage ✦ Retained, mentored, and grew the existing distributed development team⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Doubled the size of my teams in less than two months✪ Transformed one team from delivery features every 6 months to one (or more) deliveries each month✪ Introduced multiple new technologies (e.g. graphQL, RTK, Push Provisioning) -
Manager Of Software EngineeringSimple Finance Jul 2020 - Apr 2021Portland, Us⚡ Simple Finance was wound down when PNC acquired the North American assets of BBVA USA.Simple was an American neobank based in Portland, Oregon. The company provided FDIC-insured checking accounts to US citizens through a partnership with BBVA USA. Products launched on the Simple Platform pioneered the way for implementation in other parts of the BBVA franchise. ⚡In this role, I directed all aspects of software development for two Scrum teams to optimize existing product features and develop new product features for Simple's highly regulated banking platform. To deliver at speed required tight cooperation and collaboration with all areas of the business.⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Leading the design, implementation, and testing of new product features✦ Raising the bar in operating Simple’s services in the most cost-effective manner while delighting our customers✦ Recruiting and mentoring existing engineers all while clearing roadblocks and empowering them to do their work✦ Working with all areas of the business to make decisions, with minimal direction and data, and prioritizing resources across multiple competing demands⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Rolled out Scrum and doubled my team size, to 16 direct reports, creating two vertically integrated Scrum teams made up of Front-End, Back-End, iOS, Android, and QA engineers ✪ In Collaboration with Legal, Marketing, Customer Operations, and Product Management, launched multiple self-services product enhancements✪ Lead the team that migrated the first services from a homegrown AWS platform to an AWS CloudFoundry platform -
Senior Development Manager And Branch Office ManagerJaguar Land Rover Jan 2016 - Mar 2020Coventry, West Midlands, Gb⚡ Jaguar Land Rover Limited, a British multinational automotive company with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom; Jaguar Land Rover builds vehicles in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, & the UK ⚡ In this role, I deliver strategic direction and oversight of operations at the Portland Jaguar Land Rover location. Using many methods to track my work, along with the teams and projects I manage, I am accountable for software lifecycle management and office procedures including managing staff, internal admin/executive processes, and required reporting. ⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Integrate new software technologies such as Virtualization, CI/CD, IoT, and Alexa to provide continuous evolution of product suite; develop customized software solutions by merging technologies in adherence with set policies and user requirements.✦ Serve as a key catalyst in the organizational transformation of Jaguar Land Rover into a Global Software Development Organization spanning China, India, Ireland, the UK, and the USA. ⟨ Successes ⟩✪ A noted advocate of the “Leaders of Tomorrow”; holds a firm belief that anyone can lead regardless of seniority and uses leadership, analytical, and interpersonal skills to restructure processes, blending accountabilities across joint workflows.✪ Advanced the driver-assistance systems (ADAS) as well as autonomous vehicles (AV).✪ Delivered elements of a next-generation in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI).✪ Assimilated the architecture and implementation of the Telematics Control Unit (TCU) for the Land Rover Defender.✪ Developed and launched in-vehicle and mobile applications.✪ A track record of compliance and influential leadership managing critical operations including system architecture, back-end and front-end software development, DevOps, UX/UI design, PMO, and overall operations. -
PresidentGenivi Alliance Aug 2016 - Mar 2017San Ramon, California, Us⚡ GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit automotive industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software and providing open technology for the connected car⚡ ⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Supported brand and operational growth through hands-on representation. ⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Nominated and elected by the Board of Directors to serve as President; represented Jaguar Land Rover while promoting GENIVI. -
Management ConsultantP3 Group Apr 2014 - Jan 2016Stuttgart, Deutschland, De⚡ P3 North America offers strategic consultancy services, as well as software development and engineering services and serves the automotive, aviation, and construction industries worldwide. P3 Group is now known as umlaut⚡ In this role, I served in roles working cross-functionally--System Architect, Lead Product Engineer, and Operations Team lead managing the Next Generation Infotainment Systems. I was Project Lead for a variety of vehicle prototyping and also acted as Team Manager overseeing P3NA SoCal.⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Formulated statements of work (SOW), service level agreements (SLA), and data quality (DQ) metrics development.✦ Reduced employee turnover increasing retention, performance, and strategic relationships with internal/external staff.✦ Administered budgets, ongoing improvements, and required reporting aligned with established policies and regulations.✦ Tier 1 and Tier 2 selection including onboarding and supervision of both local and international suppliers; evaluated performance and sought ways to support, improve, and advance supplier management practices. ⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Served as a P3 Open Source Champion as well as selected to represent North America operations at P3 world events.✪ Served as a member of the steering committee working with executive teams to achieve mutual goals.✪ Increased staff numbers from 8 to 40+ leveraging interpersonal and talent management skills.✪ Validated supplier implementation of new architecture aligned with specifications achieving best-in-class experiences.✪ Proven success in inspiring all staff to be leaders and pilots of projects/action plans; encouraging transparency, delegation of process accountability, and bringing all teams together regardless of title or seniority. -
Director Of Engineering & Group ItNabla Communications Inc. Jul 2004 - Apr 2014Morisville, Nc, Us⚡ Nabla was a leading supplier of infrastructure solutions and value-added services to telecommunication operators supporting global customers with network services, call completion solutions, enterprise services, mass calling systems, and real-time charging enablers⚡ In this role, I supported daily operations for Nabla Communications, Inc., Teligent Telecom Group, Altruist Group, and RelayStrategy. I also managed direct and indirect reports located globally in the USA, UK, India, Germany, Morocco, Romania, and Sweden. ⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Served as a critical team member during critical M&A, operations, and projects; supported the integration of Teligent Telecom AB into the Altruist Group as well as aided the buyout of Teligent AB assets by Teligent Telecom AB.✦ Oversaw team workflows with met/exceeded SLAs for 102 emergency service nodes deployed with AT&T and T-Mobile.✦ Managed operations and processes including fixed and wireless telecommunications (Deaf Telephone, IDA, IVR, LCR, Mobile Office, MRS, NTS, UM, VM, VPN, VCC, and Voice Chat), Healthcare (510K, HL7, Medical Devices, Mobile Apps, PACS, EHR/EMR, HIPPA Compliance, and Patient Engagement), eCommerce and Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile applications and games (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile), Consulting and Outsourcing (Website Development, Testing and Quality Assurance).. ⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Drove seven consecutive years of 50%+ net profitability reported.✪ Established the Philippines subsidiary office located in Manila.✪ Increased market penetration in North America by 20%.✪ A record of all projects managed meeting and/or exceeding performance, timeframe, budget, and quality targets. -
Regional Solution ManagerTeligent Ab 2002 - Jun 2004Danderyd, Stockholm County, Se⚡ Teligent is a leading custom software development company⚡ In this role, I directed many operational aspects including overseeing software engineering, quality assurance, integration, production support (2nd/3rd line), and pre-sales. ⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Shaped solutions and concurrently managed successful market segments including Fixed and wireless telecommunications (Number Translation (NTS), Indirect Access (IDA), Virtual Private Network (VPN), Mobile Office (MO), Virtual Call Centre (VCC), and Conferencing).⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Promoted and relocated to Sweden to run a end-to-end delivery team for Teligent AB -
Technical ManagerTeligent Ab Oct 1998 - Jun 2002Danderyd, Stockholm County, SeIn this role, I engaged in and managed operational aspects including overseeing software engineering, quality assurance, and support (2nd/3rd line).⟨ Key Leadership and Contributions ⟩✦ Shaped solutions and concurrently managed successful market segments including Fixed and wireless telecommunications (Number Translation (NTS), Indirect Access (IDA), Virtual Private Network (VPN), and Mobile Office (MO).⟨ Successes ⟩✪ Promoted to Technical Manager and accountable for all software development of Teligent Ltd, subsidiary of Teligent AB.
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Unix
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It Management
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Windows Server
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Unix Operating Systems
Sip
System Architecture
Vmware Infrastructure
Support Management
Rsync
Cyberoam
Bug Tracking
Backup And Replication
Storage Area Networks
Workstations
Testing
Windows Workstation
Darren Benjamin Education Details
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Stellenbosch UniversityComputer Science -
Stellenbosch UniversityComputers Science And Applied Mathematics
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