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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Directly manage software development, product strategy/roadmap, project management/business analysis, quality assurance and graphic design teams.• Utilizing resources, technology, tools and DevOps to effectively and efficiently scale our solutions.• Evaluate, manage and control the resources within the Web Development department including people and tools required to complete objectives.• Provide leadership and ensure team alignment and engagement with Channel Fusion Core Values and business objectives.• Implement and develop career development of staff through coaching, reviewing, and recommending/assigning training/learning opportunities.• Oversee project management and deliverable schedule.• Work collaboratively with project and client management to ensure client IT needs are met.• As necessary, work collaboratively with client counterparts as well as internal IT teams.• Participate in creation of quotes for clients based on project estimates. Work with project management and web development teams to provide and deliver estimates to client for proposed projects.• Participate in design review as necessary and testing to a level necessary to ensure quality of product delivered to client.• Sustain and increase operational effectiveness in a .NET web environment.• Collaborate with client management to continually define/improve work process from client management to technical project management handoff.• Implement and lead code review process for web development team.• Work with executive management to determines and measure the results of web development for the purpose of continuous improvement of services and team. Establish department goals and objectives for web development, QA, project management and graphic design team through collaboration with necessary stakeholders.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Directed managers both locally and remotely. Allocated 75+ cross-functional project resources in Iowa, Washington, Mexico, Czech Republic, China and India. • Provided leadership of development teams in delivering solutions that drive efficiency in business workflow with amazing user experiences including: cloud solutions, IoT analytics infrastructure, web, SaaS, mission critical n-tier solutions, embedded software, and cross- platform mobile applications targeted at Windows, Android and iOS operating systems.• Motivator in bringing agile methodologies to the organization in 2006, transforming the engineering organization from Waterfall to Scrum. Evangelized best practices to the entire organization. Coached Agile/Scrum teams.• Defined and set standards for the organization to follow a continuous delivery model: including tools, code reviews, solution testing, automated test and builds, unit tests, code coverage. • Collaborated with Staff Engineers, Marketing, Field Engineers, and customers to maintain technology roadmap, platform architecture and product strategy for software solutions. • Performed competitive analysis of products or solutions for Marketing. Reviewed success factors, feature/function, and performance.• Drove innovation and motivation of engineering teams: Celebrating our Success Stories, Hackathons for Innovation, leading the organization in number of intellectual disclosures.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Position entailed both direct staff management and program portfolio management. Software development in support of Intermec’s System Solutions: Device Management Software (client/server) Mobile Applications extending the customer's enterprise to mobile solutions. WWAN Solutions Client/Server Communication Solutions Embedded software• Lead software line of business, including: Product Strategy, Dev/Ops, system engineering, and solution development teams. • Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Marketing, Field Engineers, and customers to maintain technology roadmap, platform architecture and project strategy for software solutions. • Lead development projects including: cloud solutions, IoT analytics infrastructure, IT/web integration, SaaS architecture, embedded software, and cross-platform mobile applications.• Collaborate with the User Experience Team to innovate and create world class UI and application workflows.• Define and set standards for the organization to follow a continuous delivery model, including : code reviews, automated test and builds, unit tests, code coverage. • Manage the Enterprise Architecture team to evaluate the latest tools, technologies and techniques.• Motivator in bringing agile methodology to the organization in 2006, transforming our engineering organization from Waterfall to Scrum. Continually working with the engineering organization on best practices, evaluations/scoring, and coaching of Agile/Scrum Teams.• Allocate 75+ cross-functional resources in Iowa, Washington, Mexico, Czech Republic, China and India.

• Directed engineering program for hardware and software communication solutions. • Led multi-site teams developing vertical solutions for the mobile workforce: mobile applications, enterprise integration, device management, data synchronization.• Oversaw call center operations. Facilitated monitoring and improvement of customer service, implementing time-to-solution measurement, onsite troubleshooting, and quality initiatives.• Performed vendor analysis, negotiations, and SLA management.• Accountable for hiring, training, talent development roadmaps, scheduling, forecasting, and budgeting. • Contributed in annual sales; led design for Norand’s flagship mobile client/server communications solution.

• Contributed technology that powered market share capture, deploying 7K+ systems carrying data communications and application deployment of 500K mobile devices. • Created differentiator integral to multiple competitive sales wins, designing innovative architecture for communications server. • Piloted engineering team in sustaining and development of client/server-based solutions and device firmware, directing integration with vertical-specific client applications.

• Recognized as Communication Design expert, spearheading training programs for system engineers. • Contributed to design and execution of customer systems, including integrating mobile to enterprise solutions.

• Measured and improved performance, creating and implementing multiple performance metrics and quality initiatives. • Drove collaborative solutions with Engineering, Manufacturing, and customers.