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Santa Barbara, CA, US

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Managed the Citrix Endpoint Management iOS Mobile Platform team of 10-12 engineers responsible for developing and maintaining the iOS Citrix Mobile solution for Enterprise customers. Planning and prioritization of.
• Built a team of developers focused on the iOS mobile platform by concentrating on hiring, training, and mentoring efforts, including career guidance.
• Boosted team's productivity by adopting SAFe® Agile development practices including daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospectives, demos, and PI planning sessions as well as improving cross-team cooperation and better.
• Extended team’s technical capacity by contributing to product design and architecture through formal discussions, documentation and review as well as coaching junior developers in design, coding, problem solving and.
• Improved code quality by requiring more design documentation and review, formal test plans, and enforcing more thorough code reviews with mandatory automated unit tests for all new code changes.
• Secured customer contracts by collaborating closely with Product Management teams to align on deliverables, sometimes replanning at short notice to accommodate high value clients or reference point customers in.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Development and maintenance of the Citrix Mobile solution for iOS in Objective-C.
• Assured quality of releases through close collaboration with System Test teams during extensive quarterly closedown by triaging and resolving issues, including day 0 support for iOS updates.
• Decreased times for manual language teams to translate UI strings into 17 languages by building a Perl preprocessor that would audit text strings across 50 files to reduce errors, omissions and duplications.
• Enhanced security posture of injected Citrix dynamic library by integrating Arxan code-obfuscation, anti-tampering and jailbreak detection libraries to prevent reverse engineering.
• Delivered a custom variant of the Citrix micro-VPN for Microsoft's Intune Browser by leading a small team of senior engineers and collaborating with Citrix and Microsoft Product Managers and developers to track project.

Munich, DE

• Developed large, embedded software solutions as team contributor and leader. All phases of software development from requirements analysis through production support for a large IP-based telecommunication soft-switch.
• Created feature interaction analysis as a recognized expert in several key components for project managers, architects and developers when new features were designed or integrated.
• Managed project teams as lead developer, assigning design, coding and test tasks, coordinating reviews, monitoring milestones and providing management estimates and weekly status.
• Increased product value by designing, implementing, and testing, a Java SDK allowing 3rd party developers access to proprietary APIs to write custom call control applications.

Munich, DE

• Enhanced team effectiveness on key projects by reviewing requirements, estimating effort, designing, documenting, and implementing new features, writing and executing component, integration and regression tests. Peer.
• Increased system reliability and robustness by identifying and resolving software defects through log analysis or reproduction. Maintained internal and customer SLA defined by Test and Support teams. Defect tests added.