David Mason Email & Phone Number

Hanover, DE

• External Supplier Manager
• Work directly with Purchasing and external vendors to create Statement of Work; experience with Time and Material and Fixed Price.
• Create Purchase Orders; Review and approve external invoices
• Estimate, review and submit yearly, multi-million-dollar external resource budgets; as many as 7 concurrent vendors, 60+ contractors
• Weekly meetings with each vendor to ensure consistent progress, early identification of risks/issues and necessary mitigation steps.Lean Agile Leader
• Responsible for the development, performance evaluation and career growth of 20+ internal employees.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Software Engineering Program ManagerManage software feature development schedule for team of 44 engineers. 2006 to 2007
• Interface with other Program Managers, Hardware and Software teams to maintain development schedule.
• Drive automated testing framework to reduce feature testing overhead. Manage development of PCB to emulate cellular phone accessories to increase test coverage.
• Generate and analyze estimated vs. actual development resource profiles and recommend adjustments based on program priorities.Software Engineering Section Manager 2004 to 2006Managed software development team of 6.
• Review and maintain software delivery schedules and commitments based on dynamically defined priorities. Track record of delivering on time and with quality.
• Member of Change Control Board responsible for reviewing and assigning software Change Requests.

• Software development for wireless data communications and supporting applications.
• Designed and implemented transaction simulator to test TCP/IP based switch.
• Designed memory queue for TCP/IP based switch.

Holmdel, New Jersey, US

Bsee, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Msce, Computer Engineering

Aaseet, Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician