Targeting full or part-time senior project manager roles. Strong skills in team building, driving cross-functional matrixed areas of responsibility, project management, and agile methodologies.

Managed 80-person team across 3 locations to develop and deliver $10M portfolio of elastic caching software, SaaS, and appliance offerings. • Delivered complex projects on time and budget by coordinating with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams for user experience, performance analysis, quality, documentation, translation, accessibility, intellectual property, test, validation, packaging, deployment and service.• Drove 3 major product feature releases per year concurrent… Show more Managed 80-person team across 3 locations to develop and deliver $10M portfolio of elastic caching software, SaaS, and appliance offerings. • Delivered complex projects on time and budget by coordinating with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams for user experience, performance analysis, quality, documentation, translation, accessibility, intellectual property, test, validation, packaging, deployment and service.• Drove 3 major product feature releases per year concurrent with continuous updates on multiple service streams, achieving sustained quality improvement of 30% reduction in field-reported defects year-over- year.• Transitioned teams from waterfall development to Agile and continuous delivery methodologies which increased feature delivery cadence three-fold.• Achieved consensus with internal and external stakeholders, offering management, and sales channel by reengineering customer enhancement request workflow, implementing clearly defined SLA’s and organizing regular playback sessions. • Managed, configured, and integrated Rational CLM tooling for agile planning, code delivery, build, and quality management. Designed custom dashboards as communication portal for executives, stakeholders, and development teams.• Coordinated IBM WebSphere Division’s presence at Impact 2012 and 2013, premier conference for IBM Software Group during which shared future roadmap with key customers and industry analysts. Managed complex logistics from initial call-for-papers with 2000 submissions and 400 speakers to final conference schedule with 150 sessions and 55 speakers across 8 technical tracks, while satisfying numerous stakeholders, including executives, technical sales, and key customers.• Received patent for novel method of interacting with complex business data on small devices that supported IBM’s strategic shift to mobile platforms. Show less

Led 50-person team dispersed across 5 international locations through initial acquisition of ILOG by IBM, integration of disparate corporate cultures, rebranding of product line, and successful delivery of 3 major feature releases. The most complex acquisition that IBM had executed to date, met business metrics set by acquisition and transition agreement, retained and grew existing customer base, and improved capabilities of IBM product line by embedding in more than 90 products.•… Show more Led 50-person team dispersed across 5 international locations through initial acquisition of ILOG by IBM, integration of disparate corporate cultures, rebranding of product line, and successful delivery of 3 major feature releases. The most complex acquisition that IBM had executed to date, met business metrics set by acquisition and transition agreement, retained and grew existing customer base, and improved capabilities of IBM product line by embedding in more than 90 products.• Improved quality of product by establishing quality plans, increased test coverage, and organized collection and reporting of metrics, leading to 15% year-to-year reduction in problem reports.• Contributed to quality software engineering workgroup on developing and disseminating best practices for Agile methodologies within IBM which improved velocity and coherence across product teams.• Advised BizTech smart city control center project, prototype for smart management of water resources for cities of Rotterdam and South Bend, IN and served as proof-of-concept for IBM’s initial foray into IoT. Show less

Led multi-national development team to successfully deliver 9 major product releases of JViews visualization product suite that satisfied 50+ corporate clients such as Oracle, Sabre, and I2. Owned and drove schedules, monitored and reported progress, and coordinated checkpoints with cross-functional teams.• Led several taskforces that promoted development best practices across software organization, improving agility, code quality, and planning accuracy.• Lectured at JavaOne 2000… Show more Led multi-national development team to successfully deliver 9 major product releases of JViews visualization product suite that satisfied 50+ corporate clients such as Oracle, Sabre, and I2. Owned and drove schedules, monitored and reported progress, and coordinated checkpoints with cross-functional teams.• Led several taskforces that promoted development best practices across software organization, improving agility, code quality, and planning accuracy.• Lectured at JavaOne 2000 conference and led BOF sessions at JavaOne 2003 and 2005. These served as important touchpoints between company and open source community. Show less