David Mullins Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, CA

Company underwent significant downsizing and layoffs in July and August 2015.SENIOR DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY (8/14 – 8/15)Promoted by CEO to manage all technical teams (88 employees and contractors in the U.S., Europe and India) until company downsizing in August 2015. Immediate direct reports consisted of: Director of QA, Senior Development Manager.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

PROJECT TEST LEAD (Contract Position—Caesars Entertainment)Project managed largest Agile-based marketing analytics testing project at Caesars (designed to decrease costs and increase revenue generated by patron marketing campaigns). Developed and implemented user stories and other key improvements in testing quality standards, best practices and test.

Los Altos, CA

Company underwent significant downsizing and layoffs in June 2013.SENIOR TEST SERVICES MANAGER (1/10 – 6/13)Initiated and led QA engagements with SDT clients in the Insurance, Healthcare and Gaming industries until company downsizing in June 2013. Responsible for new business development, supporting the SDT sales cycle (demonstrations, presentations) and.

San Francisco, CA

PROJECT COORDINATOR (Contract Position for Software Development Technologies)Coordinated and led team of 16 test engineers based on site at major California insurance client for both Global Logic and SDT. Provided hands-on direction for two of the five major testing projects on client premises. Created and met project schedules, created test plans, project.

Santa Clara, CA

Due to economic downturn, company was sold and all employees were laid off in January 2009.SENIOR QA MANAGERHands on QA manager at 50 person storage technology startup utilizing Agile-based development and testing methodology. Managed QA testing group of 6 QA Engineers in Santa Clara with 3 reports in Novosibirsk, Russia (1 Manager, 2 QA Engineers)..

San Bruno, CA

ENGINEERING MANAGER (QA)Selected to revitalize and accelerate productivity of multiple Ironport QA teams. Teams were embedded-system Web Security testing groups (7-21 staff in San Bruno, the Ukraine and Bangalore). Key testing focal points included research oriented development efforts and high visibility production-focused development efforts tied to.

Foster City, CA

SENIOR QE MANAGER, PACS Radiology QEManaged QE testing group for rapidly growing PACS Radiology division with 28 reports (including 2 team leads, 1 manager) based in Foster City and offshore in India. Successfully expanded the QE group size from 10 to 28 utilizing Agile-based testing and development. Proposed, budgeted, initiated and guided the formation.

Sunnyvale, CA

• ENGINEERING (QA) MANAGER, Yahoo HotJobsManaged QA testing group for the HotJobs property at Yahoo with 23 reports (including 1 manager and 1 team lead) based locally in Sunnyvale, CA and offshore in Bangalore India..
• Using extensive team coaching, brought the offshore team to parity with the Sunnyvale QA team which, for the first time, allowed the full group of 20+ QA engineers to be applied to business-driven projects, whether.
• Over 7,000 bugs were discovered and submitted by the improved HotJobs QA team in an 11 month period of testing.
• Introduced a clearly defined SDLC process that significantly shortened management’s product release readiness assessment cycle by reducing the ambiguity formerly inherent in making transitions from one stage to another.

San Mateo, CA

TradeBeam Inc., acquired SupplySolution in April 2004 and was one of the top 100 Logistics IT Providers of 2005. SupplySolution was a privately held company with nearly 100 employees which held a dominant position in developing supply chain management software for the automotive industry providing daily, just-in-time, shipment forecast and inventory.

San Mateo, CA

(SupplySolution Inc. prior to acquisition by TradeBeam, 4/04)DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERINGManaged department of 12 (6 QA engineers, 1 Development Engineer, 2 Release Engineers, and a Maintenance Engineering Manager--managing 2 maintenance engineers). Directed QA testing of new feature releases of company's J2EE based supply chain management application. Managed.

Santa Clara, CA

Due to cost cutting measures resulting in the transfer of QA testing offshore, QA testing staff and QA management at Brio were subject to layoffs in February 2003.SENIOR QA MANAGERManaged QA testing group with 8 direct reports and 6 indirect reports responsible for testing Brio's Java based Business Intelligence Portal, as well as I18N, L10N, and Section.

San Jose, CA

Due to a planned acquisition of Agile Software in February 2001, all director level positions in the Development organization were eliminated in conformance with the new direction of management.DIRECTOR, SUSTAINING ENGINEERINGManaged department of 14 (5 Sustaining QA engineers, 1 Sustaining Engineering Manager--managing 2 build/release engineers, a DBA, a.

Santa Clara, CA

PROGRAM MANAGER, SOFTWARE RELEASE (QA & Support)Managed department of 12 (2 software QA managers--managing 8 QA engineers, and an Advanced Support manager and engineer) in a rapidly growing biotechnology company on the leading edge of gene research. Responsible for QA, production of bug fix releases, departmental budget, mentoring of junior managers and.

Menlo Park, CA

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER ("Advanced Support Manager") (10/96 - 2/00)Working manager of multi-platform C-language development group, directing 8 senior maintenance engineers. Responsible for departmental budget and hiring and management of senior engineers. The group's function was to add and test features or major code fixes to Informix'.

Palo Alto, CA

SOFTWARE DEVELOPERLead developer and tester of personal finance applications (for major client, USAA insurance) written in C++ using OOD (Borland C++, Rogue Wave). Company was 8-person startup engaged in the development of sales and marketing software tools.

San Jose, CA

PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER (10/88 - 1/92)Product Manager for the CTOS micro-kernel, client-server operating system product following the merger of Convergent Technologies with Unisys. Responsibilities included product definition, pricing, and guidance through all phases of development, creation of marketing strategies, presentations to domestic and.