Donald Dewar

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Software Engineering Manager ◈ Technical Program Manager ◈ Software Process Improvement ◈ Process Automation @ Motorola Solutions
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States, United States
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Technology Professional ◈ Technical Program Manager ◈ Software Engineering ManagerResults and metrics driven, Experience in all phases of software development, hands on, passionate about organizing teams and projects to predictable delivery, adept at cross functional and multi-team collaboration, long-time believer of shifting defects left using early automated multilayered testingDemonstrated Technical leader at various levels building accountable teams that build quality software solutions. Use Agile principals and tools to organize teams focused on delivering results early and often. Focus on meeting key requirements and performance metrics.AREAS OF EXPERTISEAgile, Scrum/Kanban Software Development, Software Design & Development, Jira, Rally, Aha, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, Microservices, Cloud Native Services, CI/CD, Jenkins, Fluxcd, Automation, Python, pyATS, Selenium, REST API, C/C++, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Markdown, Confluence, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Splunk Distributed Computing, Linux, Security & System Hardening, Open-Source Software Development

Donald Dewar's Current Company Details
Motorola Solutions

Motorola Solutions

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Software Engineering Manager ◈ Technical Program Manager ◈ Software Process Improvement ◈ Process Automation
Donald Dewar Work Experience Details
  • Motorola Solutions
    Senior Software Engineering Manager
    Motorola Solutions Mar 2023 - Present
    Gb
    ◆ Responsible for Rave Aware Engineer Development◆ Software Deliverable Planning with internal and external stakeholders◆ Engineering Personnel Administration
  • Cisco
    Senior Delivery Manager - Iot Control Center
    Cisco Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: Organized nascent Kubernetes project to focused effort to deliver production quality results.◆ Served as the Delivery Manager for four programs with worldwide teams, kicked off the K8S ◆ Infrastructure program within engineering, and provided architecture guidance and requirements for the K8S Platform. ◆ Delivered key technical decisions for cloud-native architecture and managed the transition of monolith CDR processing to Microservices on K8S and acquired developer experience as a program manager.◆ Led the program to consolidate AD domains to a centralized controller, influenced decisions to staff programs, and negotiated business agreements with tools vendors. ◆ Established proper agile practices to move efforts forward and established the CI pipeline to build and publish container images.◆ Designed and implemented the product sanity and functional test pipeline and led the team to build CI and test pipelines.◆ Automated tools for compliance and reviewed the product code in GitHub written in Golang, Java, Python, and Ansible. ◆ Collaborated with the team doing POC of Harness.io and fluxed and documented the architecture decision.◆ Served on a team establishing the organization's agile framework, taught the team to use Jira tools more effectively to represent the program status, and led the security review and mitigation of the product security baseline.◆ Served as a governance board member for the Jira Cloud and led the scrum teams in engineering the release team programs.◆ Documented the program launching points and status in Confluence.
  • Cisco
    Technical Leader - Cable Bu
    Cisco May 2018 - Dec 2022
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishments: Automated on-boarding of teams, development tools compliance, and project reporting.◆ Delivered project and process controls for Cloud CMTS on K8S and executed Base CI/CD Infrastructure decisions.◆ Collaborated with CRDC engineers in Beijing to ensure containers were deployable, transitioned from VMware to Bare metal for the user plane, and defined and implemented the operations hub management platform.◆ Architected the development workflow from GitHub to Jira and led the team to rebuild the CI pipeline using Jenkins, pyATS, and Helm for testbed deployment and Jenkins lockable resources to select testbeds.◆ Delivered POC to educate the team on how to package and deploy the product with a single command. ◆ Established developer documentation and guidelines for product development and designed the release promotion & process.◆ Transitioned from Bitbucket/GitLab to GitHub to support sales and demonstrate products to customers (Charter, Time, etc.)◆ Developed tools for easy onboarding of developers adding new developers to LDAP groups, and providing instant access to◆ authorized tools, adding members to mailers and WebEx spaces.
  • Cisco
    Technical Leader - Video Service Provider Bu
    Cisco May 2013 - May 2018
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Selected Accomplishment: Automated deployment of developer Kubernetes clusters to enable developers to have development environments and speed feature velocity.◆ Led the team to build the K8S Cloud Native Infrastructure and used Ansible to deploy OpenShift and K8S targeted Cloud images.◆ Constructed single command deployment tools using Jinja2 and Python scripts and served as a Scrum Leader, creating a microservices starter kit for K8S and tracked work in Rally Agile tools.◆ Served as the onsite Technical Solution Architect for the VM-based video offering, coordinated activities in Verizon with the worldwide Cisco Team, documented operations procedures, and integrated with Verizon Systems.
  • Cisco
    Technical Leader - (Acquired Bni Video)
    Cisco Nov 2011 - May 2013
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: Registered all open source software in Cisco Licensing system so the acquired product could be license compliant and able to be ordered.◆ Led the transition of products, tools, processes to a new team responsible for IP registration for video office products and, executed the transition to Cisco platforms, and created the architecture and design of the video control and delivery systems.◆ Delivered technical leadership and guidance to the Beijing Development Office and built the first development office in Beijing.◆ Served as the Scum Master for the Architect Scrum of Scrums team, authored user stories, and coordinated feature prioritization with the PM.
  • Beaumaris Networks -Bni Video
    Co-Founder, Senior Director Offshore Development
    Beaumaris Networks -Bni Video May 2009 - Jul 2012
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: Led offshore development of product that resulted in company being purchased by Cisco.◆ Established the wholly owned foreign entity development office in Beijing, China, from the ground up and globally presided over the Architect Scrum Team (Scrum of Scrums).◆ Provided architectural input and direction to next-generation video back office and CDN management products.◆ Developed project management tools, methods, and procedures, defined product functionality working with engineers to design and implement, and provided onsite customer support, consulting, and RFI input to customer bids.◆ Oversaw documentation efforts and the Scrum Team to deliver useful documentation.
  • Cisco Research And Development China
    Manager Software Engineering
    Cisco Research And Development China Oct 2008 - Apr 2009
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: led effort to simplify secure development environment to unburden engineers and lead to greater team productivity and satisfaction.◆ Directed developing features for cable and internet streaming products and delivered technical guidance to APAC customers and partners, including OCN and StartTimes.◆ Coordinated activities between global development organizations in China, San Jose, and India.◆ Led the cross-functional coordination between development, QA, and release engineering and added operational reporting discipline within the China Business Unit.
  • Camiant
    Video Architect
    Camiant Nov 2007 - Aug 2008
    Marlborough, Ma, Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: Led development of product that was purchased and transferred to a partner providing needed funds for core product development.◆ Architected a policy-based video resource management solution, provided technical input to customer solutions, including Camiant video products, and acted as a Product Manager.◆ Documented requirements input to the engineering organization and participated in the Cablelabs ERMI standardization effort.◆ Spearheaded the standardization of Cisco/SA VOD and SDV architectures in the industry using RTSP and DSMCC control protocols.
  • Motorola
    Distinquished Member Technical Staff
    Motorola Sep 2006 - Apr 2007
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    ◆ Select Accomplishment: Integrated video server product into Motorola portfolio◆ Authored end-to-end VOD Architecture for the Asian market and co-authored MRD for the end-to-end VOD solution.◆ Trained Motorola China personnel on VOD technologies and the use of VOD products and shepherded the introduction of VOD products into the first Asian account. ◆ Provided presales technical support to the sales team creating customized architected solutions for specific accounts. ◆ Managed customer and technical requirements delivery and provided integration support for partners in Europe and China.Note: acquired Broadbus Technologies
  • Broadbus Technologies
    Chief Vod Architect
    Broadbus Technologies Oct 2005 - Sep 2006
    Us
    ◆ Select Accomplishment: Led development of product that resulted in company purchase by Motorola.◆ Responsible for overseeing the architecture of VOD management and control system and embedded VOD pump as new features and added authored architecture for IPTV VOD products.◆ Evangelized the product and architecture to the China development team and evangelized products to potential customers and partners in India.
  • Broadbus Technologies
    Director Of Software
    Broadbus Technologies Sep 2002 - Oct 2005
    Us
    ◆ Selected Accomplishment: Delivered first 3 release of software for embedded video server deployed world-wide

Donald Dewar Skills

Iptv Ip Integration Telecommunications Agile Methodologies Software Engineering Cloud Computing Distributed Systems Embedded Software Ethernet Embedded Systems Linux Start Ups Mpeg2 Scrum Software Development Mpeg Internet Protocol Routers Java Software Project Management Cable Television C++ Sip Program Management H.323 Video Servers Offshore Software Development Managing Start Ups Software Quality Assurance Session Initiation Protocol General Administration H.263 H.264 Agile Methodolgy Analytics Video Conferencing Data Center Software Architectural Design Jira Ip Switches And Routers Session Management Distributed Databases Early Stage Startups Cable Networks Audio Conferencing Atlassian Jira Confluence Rally

Donald Dewar Education Details

  • University Of Massachusetts Amherst
    University Of Massachusetts Amherst
    Computer Science

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