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San Ramon, California, Us

Challenged to lead the continuous development, deployment, and delivery of an integrated suite of software and services offerings for the Asset Performance Management (APM) Industrial IoT product. Manage a team of +15 software developers, quality engineers, and technical product managers.Select Accomplishments:—Redefined and re-factored the architecture of a SaaS/IIoT product platform to increase reliability (zero downtime), and executing database schema updates with no impact to customers, turning around an underperforming product, and ensuring software is always ready.—Established a master branch push-to-production environment, turning quarterly deliveries of product features into weekly, playing a key leadership role in transforming the software development and delivery philosophy.—Led the delivery of full-stack micro-services using REST APIs and a web-based UI to manage stored data, deploying services through a CI/CD pipeline to the cloud—with zero downtime and zero impact to customer operations.—Changed the perception of release quality and established credibility with DevOps team, driving continuous improvement through the execution of feature flags, enhanced automation, metrics, and early feedback to developers. —Established a reputation for delivering strong software release structures and teams, implementing a DevOps culture of product ownership—from inception through development and testing, and on to deployment and support.—Introduced lunch-and-learn communication sessions, advancing collaboration, shared learning, and productivity across a disparate set of Scrum teams.

San Ramon, California, Us

Challenged to establish and lead a shared services organization—to drive quality and process standards across a disparate set of 30+ Scrum teams—in support of software development across core business units. Managed a team of 40 to 80 DevOps engineers, technical writers, and quality engineers. Select Accomplishments:—Created a collaborative culture across a team of quality assurance and DevOps engineers, and technical writers, delivering quality and standard practices to 30+ Scrum teams.—Challenged the status quo, and drove conversations focused on accountability and release preparedness, turning a negative and punitive conversation about quality into a positive and supportive one.—Introduced and instilled quality and standards to software release process, establishing metrics, and implementing and leveraging a number of scanning tools—enhancing automation, and providing early feedback to developers.—Introduced new tools and leveraged existing ones to improve engineering accountability and release quality, instilling key metrics and processes to identify bad patterns, validate code coverage, and trigger build fails.—Developed a culture of collaboration and respect through the management by walking around (MBWA), communicating organizational vision, identifying and validating value-added behaviors, and promoting successes.—Identified and executed creative strategies to develop and motivate people, creating “Lead” roles, and utilizing performance as evidence for the next level of promotion—maintaining a low attrition rate throughout tenure.—Transformed personal skill set and capabilities—from embedded systems software development to cloud-based software development, applying knowledge and skills to improve software processes and standards in shared services.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Challenged to lead the planning and execution of quality initiatives across six software and hardware product families—to drive an increased focus on quality processes and standards. Managed a team of eight quality engineers.Select Accomplishments:—Performed a quality analysis on an underperforming product—and delivered a recommendation to stop the proposed recall, delivering savings of more than $1M to the bottom line.—Turned around an underperforming quality organization—from reactive to proactive, initiating important conversations related to quality to change perceptions and mindsets, and increasing the overall quality of products.—Developed and delivered performance metrics to drive down the cost of quality, implementing and leveraging tools to increase automation, and drive efficiencies across quality processes.

Alameda, Ca, Us

Challenged to lead a team of 80 engineering professionals in the development of operating systems and hypervisors—targeted to safety and security applications. Supported the planning and execution of engineering operations (build and release), development tools, intellectual property, and lab infrastructure.Select Accomplishments:—Played an important leadership role in securing safety certifications for a new product—Hypervisor, managing multiple internal engineering organizations, a university research team, and a national government agency to collaborate on the MILS kernel—delivering multiple iterations to customers on time and within budget.—Led the delivery of an operating system certifiable to DO-178B DAL-A for safety applications, ensuring virtualization of VxWorks hosting applications.