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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Otto is a Software Development and Business team – specializing in taking ideas, (and vetting for due diligence) – providing the guidance and skills needed to bring a fully enabled product or service to the market.

Rancho Santa Margarita, Ca, Us

• Function as the Chief Quality Officer / Operations for a Cyber Security startup, actively managing test, services, and customer support teams concurrently.• Create Test strategies, based on the analysis of documentation to achieve the best result.• Foster solid working relationships among interdisciplinary groups including development, support, and product management.Accomplishments:• Recognized as the “operations glue” for keeping the company running efficiently by constantly improving software quality via requirements gathering and testing best practices and creation of standardized tools, processes, and methodologies.• Led the automation transformation within 18 months, resulting in 82% automated coverage of previously 100% manual test effort.• Performed business analysis and served as exec interface to partners including IBM which OEM’d our offering.

Rancho Santa Margarita, Ca, Us

• Worked as an intermediary between sales and development teams, leading to the definition of a new product.• Defined and quantified portfolio and program requests, marketing collateral, sales materials, revenue plans, and targets.• Developed new process design workflows to ensure on-time delivery of all solutions and within the budget.Accomplishments:• Provided the integration solution, implementation, and support of an encryption and cryptographic bit splitting based product suite.• Enhanced company’s profitability through building relationships with multi-national accounts by supporting customers with technical assistance, resulting in additional business transactions.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

• Served as the FVT-development focal point to all development and expanded test and support organizations for the product set.• Handled teams from US, CSTL, India, and Romania labs - upwards of 45 total test resources.• Oversaw department budget, fall plan, staffing, recruiting, and performance reviews.Accomplishments:• Defined and executed a global functional verification plan for a next gen systems management application for Flex and Rack HW of the newly formed EBG of Lenovo.• Introduced process changes to maintain quality as the team increased in size and expanded to multiple locations.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Provided expert oversight to a diverse team of developers, architects, and project managers, spanning the US and Romania labs.• Delivered, enhanced, and supported a product which provides a network, server, and storage setup utility for IBM’s blade product environments, spanning the BladeCenter and PureFlex product lines – supporting all processor families (Intel and Power) and all IBM 3rd party Network Adapters.Accomplishments:• Served as the development focal point to all dependent and supporting organizations, and provide as needed support to Customers.• Identified architectural improvements which resulted in a significant increase of developer efficiency, product reliability, and responsiveness to new feature requests.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• In Charge of HW Management of System x HW and led 40+ person team of developers, architects, and project managers, spanning the US and China (CSTL) labs – aimed to deliver systems management support for PureSystem, PureFlex, BladeCenter and System x Servers and Options within the ISD release train.• Functioned as a focal point to System x for ISD, negotiating Fall Plan and funding levels annually, and mod and train release content.• Worked across ISD and System x to put delivery plans in place for new HW and currency related ISD support. Accomplishments:• Identified and drove cost reductions for incremental systems management support by leveraging an improved vendor engagement model and tool kit, a compliance/certification suite, and a re-engineered and accelerated delivery methodology.• Applied strong leadership talents toward interviewing job applicants, training new hires, and establishing and maintaining a cohesive work climate among teams.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Oversaw the strategy, marketing, and investment prioritization for SW retail products and middleware.• Drove requirements from customer definition to delivery.• Planned and executed projects from inception through implementation in accordance with the company's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology.Accomplishments:• Administered, managed, and presented at semi-annual customer council meetings, with participation by Walmart, Safeway, Giant Eagle, Kroger, BJ's, Costco (US & Canada), Ahold, Weis Markets, and Loblaws.• Successfully managed the development team in deploying point-of-sale POS platform, including ACE, SA, GSA, SIF, DIF, Self-checkout and Retail Management Agent.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Defined, managed and drove the delivery of a leading edge and highly competitive Self-checkout SW solution.• Collaborated closely with multi-disciplinary groups, including quality control, reliability testing, manufacturing, business and operations.• Oversaw project scope, requirements gathering, workflow prioritization, budget administration, resource allocation, and testing activities.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Served as Executive Assistant to IBM VP, WebSphere Development.• Managed customer relationships, Inner Circle relationships, zBLC SWG sponsorship, and coordination with CxO level customer briefings for some of IBM’s largest customers.• Facilitated consumer guidance meetings to conduct tests for market feedback.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managed IBM’s portfolio of Event Correlation and Automation products, which included Tivoli Enterprise Console, Distributed NetView, Switch Analyzer and Risk Manager; two components: Active Correlation Technology and Common Event Infrastructure.• Apps & components were written in J2SE, J2EE, C++, WSDL, running under various platforms which included WAS, AIX, Linux, Solaris and zLinux.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managed IBM’s portfolio of Availability & Business Systems Management products which included the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager (TBSM) and IBM Tivoli Service Level Adviser (TSLA).• Monitored the development and allocation of project budgets, resource assignments, as well as mitigation and resolution of all conflicts and technical issues.• Stabilized the program, field quality, customer sat, while preparing the team for a new architecture for future delivery.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Defined the architecture and lead the Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management initiative for IBM Tivoli.• Led the execution of project from concept through design and implementation of a distributed, Java based application set that leveraged the next generation Tivoli framework known at the time as TKS.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Primary Release Manager for Nways Manager Product Suite - Provides Device & Network Mgmt For IBM Infrastructure Products.• Apps Written in Java & C++; Devices Include Switches, Routers, Hubs - Supporting ATM, Ethernet, Token-Ring, TCP/IP.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Associate Of Science, Engineering Science