Dave Olsen Email & Phone Number

Radnor, Pa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for the teams and projects for the Privileged Access Vault product line (Vault, Platform, UI) including delivering on commitments, overall organization management, and support in shifting to a more agile approach to software engineering.Specific achievements included:The organization delivered on 90%+ of quarterly commitment goals for customer features and technical debt reduction.Assigned by the SrVP to drive the agile transformation initiative:• Created a detailed agile transformation plan and received approval by leadership to proceed.• Defined a continuous improvement vision.• Identified pilot teams and rolled out the vision and plan to engineering.• Organized and drove an agile process “guardrail” team.• Created and delivered training for “Basics of Agile”, “Basics of Scrum”, “Basics of CI/CD”.• Ramped up the new process for 2 pilot teams and ten moved it forward to the organization team by team.Moved over to the Engineering Operations team to help drive a common approach to agile after Centrify merged with Thycotic. Achievements included:• Supported the Jira to Azure DevOps migration to bring teams to a common scrum and project management tool. Provided ADO training and team coaching on making the shift.• Assigned agile process oversight for the merged engineering organization.• Worked with and tracked teams to adopt better agile and team practices in prep to move to CI/CD.• Organized a process guild consisting of volunteers for addressing process, culture, and tool issues and improvement.Acted as scrum master for 2 teams to better understand the challenges and culture of the organization. This became input into process improvement initiatives.

San Francisco, California, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Senior Director of Software Development with extensive experience leading global, remote software development teams and delivering leading-edge, dynamic technology solutions. Dedicated leader with outstanding technical and management skills and a proven track record of success developing and launching products to market.Product Development & Launch: Proven ability to successfully develop and deliver software solutions to market. Delivered Ellucian products to market generating more than $25 Million in annual revenue.Agile-Scrum Development Leadership & Innovation: Well-developed skills serving as a thought leader in adopting Lean-Agile across all development teams, providing training and coaching, and supporting teams in adopting Kanban and Scrum. Introduced Lean-Agile development practices and served as key champion and mentor for the Lean-Agile development methodology.Cross-Functional Global Leadership: Demonstrated ability to establish, develop, and lead remote teams across organizational and geographic boundaries to deliver integrated software solutionsOversaw the transformation of the portal solution from an on-premise software solution to a cloud-based solution built upon a DevOps pipeline and deployed into Amazon AWS.Successfully directed the transition of the portal products to our overseas maintenance team thereby improving the ROI by 300% and freeing up the local team for new strategic projects.Successfully transitioned a development team from on-premise product development to cloud-based solutions including the transition of skills from Java-based development to Node.js, React, microservices, DevOps, and AWS, and released Tenant Management as the first cloud microservice.Improved my organization’s Employee Engagement score by 120% to rank at the top of our division.

Reston, Va, Us

Stabilized the portal product after inheriting 1600 open defects and constant customer production crashes by focusing on key product problems, changing team approach, partnering with customer action line, and reaching out to 800+ customers to alleviate concerns and rebuild trust.Oversaw revitalization of the core portal product, Luminis Platform, used by 800+ institutions; during tenure, overall life and quality of the product improved through replacement of outdated technology, and delivery of feature enhancements that resulted in growing sales and demand.Introduced agile concepts and scrum master training ahead of the general adoption by the rest of the software development division.Introduced Kanban as an alternative lean/agile method when the standard scrum process wasn’t working well for maintenance teams.

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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us