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Cumming, GA, US

Pleasanton, California, US

Guiding a talented team of DevOps engineers to support the critical Infrastructure and Automation needs of the Security Products development teams driving PKI and Certificate Authority features. Focusing on release optimization, cloud infrastructure stability, and highest-value business innovation. Also delivering performance visualization and improvements.

- As manager of Deployment Automation Platform, lead a 10-member Software/DevOps team that created/maintained world-class software solutions to deploy full-product software stacks to on-prem private clouds and to Google public cloud targets. Solution deployed to VMs and to Docker microservice containers in Kubernetes cluster. - Successfully migrated.

Weston, FL, US

Lead 12-member Software team to deliver HCM start-up automation. Decreased customer onboarding cycle time by 25%, enabling earlier initiation of customer revenue streams.

Schenectady, NY, US

• For multi-site Power Digital Solutions group, led DevOps project to implement Continuous Delivery pipeline automation and culture for all analytics and related software deliveries. Drove all aspects of program, from.
• Business benefits include reducing manual touch time by 22 hours per daily release, and driving to a vision of world-class CI/CD pipeline cycle time (from GitHub commit to Production acceptance in PaaS cloud)
• Leveraged automation and orchestration tools from XebiaLabs and open-source Jenkins 2.0 (pipeline-as-code)
• Rolled out test automation as part of CI/CD: coordinated Test-Driven Development (TDD) training for multiple scrum teams. Introducing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber/Gherkin syntax to ensure business.

Schenectady, NY, US

Technical and business lifecycle leadership for new Monitoring, Software, and Analytics programs within GE Power Generation Services division

Schenectady, NY, US

• For worldwide Software Solutions Group, led cultural/technical initiatives to drastically improve efficiencies and quality throughout the software lifecycle. Leveraged automation and lean processes to drive “Virtual.
• Drove Continuous Integration (CI) initiative across worldwide sites. Successfully met 100% of milestone commitments over 12-month schedule, improving CI composite maturity metrics from 32% to 91%. Team won 2011.
• Completed Black-Belt project to improve software structural quality – business benefit exceeded $4M
• Collaborated with global Black-Belts to generate $MM annual savings through lean software development* Authored, championed, and deployed CAD automation C# software, eliminating 95% of engineering inspection costs
• Organized and facilitated worldwide forums (with Gartner, Microsoft keynotes) to improve IT/software team culture and tools. Central topics included business goal alignment, tight collaboration on cross-functional.

Beaverton, Oregon, US

• Successfully coached client teams in the adoption of Agile Software to improve time-to-market and defect levels by at least 30%. Drove culture to 2-week incremental deliveries of launch-quality working software..
• After applying just 2 Scrum sprint cycles, back-office Oracle infrastructure that had previously struggled for months yielded technical breakthroughs and successful integrations to enable application deliveries
• Just 3 sprint cycles after introducing Scrum into a client program, reached a predictable team delivery velocity. Was able to project a feasible launch date for the first time in the program’s history
• Evolved towards delivery of launch-intent quality levels every 2 weeks, improving defect counts by 50%

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

• Coached and motivated touch screen User Interface (UI) team to successfully deliver XML-based embedded web services and C++ / Java object-oriented designs over several strategic product launches.Divisional rep on.
• Reduced software defect cycle times by 6X; lowered defect counts by 40%
• Improved stakeholder visibility into project progress from 4+ months to 4 weeks
• Accelerated feature delivery schedules by 30%
• Led UI team across 4 major product launches and 5 maintenance packs, achieving 100% on-time deliveries
• Conducted subcontract negotiations with offshore partner, and managed integration of their Fax software deliveries. Realized 9-month schedule improvement and 30% cost savings

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

Developed C++ real-time application software and expedited delivery of GUI features for world's first digital imaging, multi-function office product.

Delivered digital voice modem protocol and automated radio link protocol firmware to aggressively scheduled high-production communication systems.

Investigated and developed Microsoft C software and digital PWBs for avionics data bus modules. FPGA and software engineer for multi-sensor digital Image program.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Physics