Ellen Farber Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

As a consultant with Houston SP Services, I help small businesses use technology to streamline their operations. I provide business audits, develop business plans, research and setup technology to streamline operations, and provide monthly service packages to keep a business running.My specialties include: technology setup, schedule/task management, CRM systems, KPI tracking, marketing, automation, budget review, risk analysis

Redmond, Washington, Us

AZURE IOT• Device Management Preview: Drove schedule and plan for preview release of device management features. • MVP Product Definition: Kickstarted the Connected Vehicle Platform effort and defined scenarios for Minimum Viable Product for integration of Cortana, Skype for Business, and Outlook. • Customer/Partner Engagement: Organized and ran 3 multi-day workshops and attended over 10 workshops with partners to communicate Connected Vehicle Platform vision and gather partner scenarios. Organized and ran 4 workshops with customers to get feedback on device management features and roadmap. • New Product Release: Developed release plan and onboarded new product onto necessary tools and internal databases to ensure successful preview release. SKYPE FOR BUSINESS• Execution: Completed full product cycle as PM for feature team of 6 engineers focused on OS image, telemetry, and update for embedded conference room device. Prioritized PBIs, delegated tasks, wrote specs, completed code reviews• Feasibility Study: Worked with CEO and engineers at partner company to assess feasibility of joint collaboration on new hardware device. Reviewed existing firmware to get cost estimate and schedule to productize prototype. Worked with partner CEO to prioritize user scenarios and product features• Manufacturing: Worked with ODM to develop manufacturing procedure for Windows Industry Embedded device

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Partner Management: Wrote spec and managed daily tasks of 7 Flextronics firmware engineers• Manufacturing: Worked closely with ODM (Flextronics) to develop manufacturing procedure, complete EV (Engineering Validation) build, and first article inspection of telepresence robot• Alpha Program: Managed internal alpha program of telepresence devices with over 30 units• Developed Firmware Architecture: Responsible for requirements definition, architecture design, implementation, and testing of embedded software stack for Atmel microcontroller on telepresence robot• Wrote Firmware: Implemented Atmel firmware and C# host application for vendor defined USB HID interface• Device Telemetry: Wrote C# solution to parse log files and create Azure tables for quality metrics, usage data, and runtime errors for deployed devices

Redmond, Wa, Us

• Worked on team of 7 to design and build high atmospheric balloon payload to retire risk on future spaceflights• Delivered software to collect sensor data, store data on flight computer, and send data to multiple ground stations over VHF and WiFi• Designed software architecture and database structure to be used for future flights

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Held weekly office hours and graded homework for over 75 students.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Held weekly office hours, taught online section, and graded problem sets for over 20 students.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed and developed WPF application to allow users to find a meeting location by collaboratively and dynamically editing a common map• Leveraged Lync API and Bing Maps Services to implement the application• Gained understanding of unified communications and software development cycle

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Held weekly office hours, taught section, and graded problem sets for over 20 students.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Used an FPGA to develop remote sensor platform with hardware level data processing capabilities• Wrote communication software to control sensor platform• First place team at the Marshall Space Flight Center Intern Poster Competition

• Designed and implemented a project to test oil pipeline integrity using magnetic flux leakage• Analyzed magnetic flux leakage data using MATLAB• Devised a method to analyze pipeline integrity that is currently used in the lab

Bs, Computer Science

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