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Broomfield, Co, Us

San Diego, California, Us

SmartDrive Systems From 2014 To 2016SmartDrive Systems, Inc. is a driver-safety and transportation intelligence company. The company uses video and driver data to monitor driver behavior in commercial vehicles including trucks, buses and trains.• Director QARecruited to SmartDrive to create a highly successful Software Quality Assurance team. Oversaw expansion and integration of the team and provided needed critical leadership, expertise, and guidance. Also identified and successfully implemented best practices allowing QA team to more effectively and quickly contribute to, and support, SmartDrive and its growth and success.

Irving, Texas, Us

Brought needed change and discipline to Engineering group. Integrated QA teams into organization, reestablishing trust and communication between the groups and a path for moving forward. Key member of senior leadership team.

Irving, Texas, Us

Successfully built and grew a highly motivated and focused QA/Test team within a very agile web application development environment. Project was well into the development cycle prior to coming on board. Tasked to review, guide, and implement needed process and frameworks to ensure successful product completion and release. Established highly successful working team environment. Key member of senior leadership team.

Provide leadership and direction for clients in various stages of business and project development. Ensure project and business goals (people/process/technology/financial) are being achieved. Communicate at executive level, set expectations, drive and communicate results.

La Jolla, California, Us

Successful creation, integration, and expansion of Quality Assurance/Configuration Management teams within Brandes IT Systems division. Drove improvement working with existing lifecycle framework allowing QA and CM groups to become an active and collaborative part of the Brandes Systems group successfully supporting overall Brandes use of .Net technology. These teams became integral to the success of Systems meeting and exceeding customer expectations. This was a Director level role and responsibilities.

La Jolla, California, Us

Stepped outside defined role as Systems QA Manager to rescue and manage entire $2.25M upgrade of Charles River trading system and all ancillary in-house and 3rd party applications. This system was successfully delivered within the scheduled timeframe with no downtime after deployment.

Austin, Tx, Us

Recruited to provide critical leadership, expertise, and guidance to software engineering department, both pre and post IPO. Identified and implemented best practices that allowed engineering to actively and effectively contribute to, and support, Websense growth and success before and after public offering.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Brought leadership, consistency, and organization to the Data Center High Performance Computing Group (DHPG) Quality Assurance Team. Introduced and implemented needed best practices and procedures.

Dramatically improved and expanded critical QA and software engineering practices and processes that allowed successful product releases for a company moving rapidly from start-up to IPO.

First senior technical manager hired. Successfully established, implemented, and led critically needed build, test, and release processes for a company transitioning from start-up to IPO.

Cupertino, California, Us

Strong hands-on leadership role in day-to-day operations of Software Engineering Services for Apple Computer’s software subsidiary. Successfully managed and guided unique and diverse technical teams consisting of Core Technology, Human Interface Design, International Engineering, and Japanese Applications. Participated in design and coding of multiple software solutions.

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