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Signal Mountain, TN, US

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading collaborative platform for the film and entertainment industry. In this role, identified existing technologies not currently in use at PIX that would enhance PIX's offering to clients.ActionsDeveloped a Command Line Interface (CLI) to the PIX System that enables clients to automate the manual tasks associated with uploading video data and metadata.

San Francisco Bay Area

Hired shortly after the company relocated its online systems to a new data center. Design issues with the infrastructure prevented the system from being stable and scaling to the required level.ActionsLed an effort to re-design the infrastructure in order to first stabilize the system and then provide a base for future scaling.Led the release of the first.

• Early-stage company with typical associated opportunities and challenges. Originally hired to define and develop software architecture, build software development team, and deliver software to complement the hardware.
• Developed software architecture and successfully created software demos showcasing technology capabilities despite lack of hardware product.
• With no prior hardware background, successfully led in-house engineers to create initial hardware prototypes after termination of outsource relationship. To date these are still the best working prototypes the company.
• Prototypes and software demos were major factor in recent success raising a third round of investment financing in a challenging climate for venture funding.

• Acquired by CA in 2006. $10M (post-acquisition) application management software provider, serving Fortune 1000 IT departments, data centers and hosting providers.SituationCompany was beginning to get traction in sales.
• Agile process reduced development cycle from 6 months to 3 releases in 15 months, including a significant redesign that was on a trajectory to take 12 months.
• This allowed the sales team to sell the new release at least 6 months earlier than they expected.
• Revenues grew from $1M to $4M during this period.
• Trust significantly improved between Engineering and Product Management teams.
• Success led directly to acquisition by CA.

• Global QA department with staff of 150 and budget of $15M. Hired to raise quality and service levels significantly and create an entirely new team of >60 QA Engineers in Bangalore, India.ActionsBuilt strong.
• Achieved Quality goals within 12 months including automation of over 90% of all test cases, a 90% reduction in defect backlog, 100% test coverage, and zero known P1 defects at GA.
• Ensured the on-time delivery of the highest quality releases in product suite history, including one major and one minor release of the entire product line and >100 product-specific service packs.
• Led the effort to create new testware development methodology increasing the number of P1 and P2 defects found during testing by >50% and providing greater visibility earlier in development cycle. Methodology was.
• Morale and respect of the HCM QA team was transformed; ultimately people from other BU’s were routinely applying for positions within the HCM QA team.

• Successfully led clients in software development and product releases.

• Initially hired to lead the US team on global project HP was funding to drive its software business. Promoted in <30 days to direct the efforts across all three teams.ActionsIdentified unsolved technical problems that.
• New release was on time, successful, and generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

• Hired to improve engineering processes to correct quality problems and allow for scalable growth. Responsible for product management, software development, QA, customer support, and documentation/training.ActionsLed.
• Reduced customer escalations from > 1 per day to < 1 per week.
• Instituted a formal software development lifecycle to address quality issues throughout development process.
• Re-engineered the product from a client-server application to a web-based application.

• SGI created the first Interactive Television system for Time Warner. Hired to lead architecture, design, development and deployment of server software for the project. Discovered fundamental problem with architecture.
• Gained their agreement, recruited and led a high powered 12 person engineering team, many of whom have gone on to be CTOs and CEOs.
• Orchestrated system operations at launch attended by global media. Product was financially successful for SGI.

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Computer Engineering