Engineering director for firmware team developing Jewel, a Class III wearable cardiac defibrillator. * Managed 11 team members responsible for safety critical firmware development and test automation (5 local and 6 remote)* Planned, strategized, and led effort taking benchtop prototype software to production-quality for FDA IDE verification and validation in 13 months* Coached team in writing simple, elegant, readable code which facilitated unit testing, test automation, and effective reviews resulting in significantly more reliable software* Defined workflow for team including build environment, source control best practices, coding standards, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing* Improved communication within the team and throughput of development with the introduction of Slack and online code review tools* Initiated and maintained software best practices such as JIRA for issue tracking, git for source control, peer-review of software via Bitbucket Cloud, Jenkins for continuous integration, and IAR Systems’ C-STAT for static analysis* Improved recruiting by adding defined questions, consistent interview teams, and debriefing process