Dave Brooks Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Director of cloud application development, responsible for engineering teams across several regions and outsourcing partners
• Work closely with our product owners to define customer value add feature content - UCaaS, STaaS and Microsoft Teams DR provisioning, both via a Web UI (Next JS/React) and via API (REST) - WebRTC, Chat, SMS APIs to.
• Drive our programs from inception to delivery, working with Test… Show more Director of cloud application development, responsible for engineering teams across several regions and outsourcing partners
• Drive our programs from inception to delivery, working with Test Engineering, Release Management, and operations to ensure timely delivery, with quality
• Manage globally distributed teams, of 40+ engineers in 5 time zones, fostering a positive work environment and collaboration despite aggressive timelines lines and very dynamic requirements
• Look for creative ways to improve developer productivity in a complex docker/Kubernetes environment Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Senior Manager Product Support - GENBAND Jun 13-Present
• Senior Manager Product Support for the EXPERiUS product line world wideKey Responsibilities:- Overall accountability for Tier 2 Product Support - Kandy and NUVIA cloud PaaS - SPiDR WebRTC Gateway - MAS (Media Sever).
• Senior Manager Product Support for the EXPERiUS product line world wideKey Responsibilities:- Overall accountability for Tier 2 Product Support - Kandy and NUVIA cloud PaaS - SPiDR WebRTC Gateway - MAS (Media Sever).

The Web Applications Manager (WAM) is a traditional multi-tier server that provides TV caller-id functionality through both a RESTful interface, as well as a more traditional video infrastructure.As both a design manager, and Technical Project Manager (TPM) for the WAM I was accountable for the successful, on time delivery of its first release. This.

The Media Application Server (MAS) is a multi-media server that provided the base capabilities for voice mail, video conferencing and web collaboration.As a design manager, I was responsible for project co-ordination of new feature content, such as a migration to a DimDim hosted Web Collaboration solution. This involved co-ordination of software delivery.

As the Build Owner, I was responsible for the team that delivered the Versatile Services Engine Platform builds to multiple product teams. This included working with WindRiver (our HA Linux provider) to upgrade our base linux, and coordinate the project timeline, and integration with interested parties.

Work with R&D and Business leaders to create budgets that met the feature content our products needed to be successful, as well as the financial challenges that existed within Nortel during the decline. We were successful in maintaining enough staff to deliver the required content, while making tough expenditure decisions. In part, these decisions helped.

• Design leader of a variety of different software and hardware platforms, ranging from custom routers to off the shelf Solaris NT240 products.As a design manager, I was accountable for feature development, defect.
• In 2008 I was tasked… Show more Design leader of a variety of different software and hardware platforms, ranging from custom routers to off the shelf Solaris NT240 products.As a design manager, I was accountable for.
• In 2008 I was tasked with providing a generic licensing framework for all of Nortel, and do so without an increase in budget
• I provided a plan to drive costs down in one area, such that the staff could migrate to this newer product
• Within 6 months we had more than 10 products across all Nortel LOB’s planning to migrate to this framework, with a business plan that made our product cheaper then any external 3rd party offering.Lean Six Sigma.
• As the R&D leader for this activity, I pulled together teams from India, the US, China, Turkey and Canada, to create a comprehensive project plan and budget. I worked with the project black belt and green belts to.