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Melville, NY, US

Charlestown, Massachusetts, US

• Led hardware and software engineering functions responsible for development of the RightPick line of industrial robots, reported to the CEO
• Dramatically increased the velocity of engineering innovation and customer value delivery, by instilling a growth mindset and optimizing team design, infrastructure, code, process, and tools.
• Re-balanced engineering investments, pivoting away from custom engineering, and aligning the organization to build a highly reliably, configurable, and scalable product
• Partnered with Product Management on a daily basis to guide company strategy, product direction, and technology choices
• Increased the transparency of engineering output and available bandwidth, simplifying strategic roadmap trade-off discussions
• Hosted investors, customers, and partners at company headquarters; discussed product strategy and engineering philosophy, and conducted tours and product demonstrations.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led all engineering functions responsible for development of the HPE SimpliVity product, including development, QA, dev-ops, infrastructure and labs.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in large distributed systems, storage, and virtualization.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders, business partners and customers to continuously adapt product vision and roadmap.
• Delivered products generating $350m in fiscal 2019 revenue.
• Lead a global organization of 600+ badged and contract employees.
• Reinforced a culture of servant leadership, empowerment, teamwork and transparency, resulting in a happier, more motivated workforce; 20% YoY increase in employee engagement index.

• Joined SimpliVity as a mid-stage start-up; 100 employees in the company, 60 in engineering
• Led engineering operations, engineering program management, technical writing, and release engineering functions.
• Oversaw the growth of operations during a time that SimpliVity engineering grew from 60 to 500 employees
• Established the SimpliVity program and agile practice, ground up.
• Reduced engineering release cycle time from 18 months to 6 weeks.
• Provided vision, guidance, and thought leadership throughout the agile adoption.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Oversaw a team of project and program managers. Provided strategic direction, set priorities, managed assignments and managed performance.
• Established roadmaps, identified program requirements and developed program schedules.
• Collaborated with executive team and co-led a transformation from waterfall to agile development methodologies.
• Coached and trained an organization of 1600 engineers on agile mindset and scrum principles.
• Improved engineering release cycle time from 9 months to 12 weeks.
• Oversaw the delivery of 30 software releases.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Program managed the development, test and release of the EMC VNX series of Enterprise Storage Arrays.
• Authored program plans and schedules. Ensured completion of all deliverables.
• Facilitated, coordinated, and lead cross-functional teams comprised of various functions including: development, test, escalation engineering, global service, manufacturing and documentation.
• Developed, defined and managed execution of critical program elements.
• Lead priority setting and resource allocation relative to each program.
• Communicated program status across core business units and software divisions.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Planned, managed, tracked, and timely delivered major software development projects.
• Generated project plans and project schedules.
• Ensured that all project deliverables were met on schedule.
• Regularly reported project status to key stakeholders from project inception through post-release.
• Managed and communicated project risks and issues.
• Coordinated task management in a matrix organization ensuring effective workflow between teams.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Designed, implemented, and maintained complex SAN environments including EMC Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage arrays, Fibre Channel connectivity hardware (switches, hubs), and attached servers.
• Designed and maintained EMC Enterprise storage solutions; RAID, mirroring, cloning, snapshot and similar technologies (C, C++). Designed test automation with PERL and shell scripting.
• Developed an expertise in Windows kernel debugging. Excelled at troubleshooting complex hardware and software problems.
• Promoted to technical lead; Became technical point of contact for a software release.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Business

Bs, Computer Science

Computer Science