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Cork, Ireland, Ie

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Bloomington, In, Us

Provide technical leadership and serve as the strategic functional leader for all development operations. Responsible for building and leading an agile software engineering team with a focus on development efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Irvine, Ca, Us

As the software quality architect for the company, my primary responsibility is to manage the health of test automation throughout the various project teams. I work as a liaison between teams, a mentor for QA, and a trainer for the organization.• Lead the technical design and implementation of a new, 3-tiered system to securely generate activation codes for the company development, support and sales teams using WCF, MSSQL, and the Entity Framework• Direct the QA teams responsible for developing automated tests for the entire Double-Take product line• Provide training in writing test cases, analyzing software risk, testing requirements, developing a test matrix, and writing automated tests in C#• Provide regular metrics to management on the state of automation within the company

Irvine, Ca, Us

As the project manager for the software quality automation team, my primary accomplishment was successfully reversing the downward trend towards less automation and gaining buy-in from management and development by completely restructuring the automation tool and providing relevant metrics to management.• Managed a team of five developers responsible for the development of automated tests for the core Double-Take engine and products• Facilitated test planning and automation needs of various teams within the company• Designed and implemented the primary automation development tool in use by the company

Indianapolis, In, Us

• Managed a team of three developers responsible for the development of the embedded Windows machine control application ‘Winmax’ for all Hurco Mill products• Worked closely with the systems design team to develop the hardware specifications for the computer system embedded into the CNC machine• Responsible for the restructuring of legacy monolithic software into re-usable, easily testable component libraries• Worked closely with clients on-site in their facilities across the country in debugging embedded controls, establishing problem specifications and enhancing system designs

• Producer for Stunt Drive Spectacular, and Caterpillar Construction Tycoon video game titles• Assisted in the design and development of the video games: Stunt Drive Spectacular, Caterpillar Construction Tycoon, John Deere American Farmer and John Deere American Builder titles.• Implemented complex 3d camera controls for graphical level editor• Implemented node-based A* path finding algorithm• Supervised development teams of 4-8 people

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Supervised a build team of two engineers• Improved the nightly build time from sixteen hours to nine by coordinating the effort of rewriting DMAKE into a multi-threaded build system and managing the procurement of new build hardware• Provided training and support of the Perforce SCM system to over one-hundred developers• Advised management on build procedures and revision control practices• Managed the development lab of forty workstations

• Supervised development teams of 12-20 artists, programmers and level designers• Wrote product design documentation and system requirements• Worked directly with producers, publishers and executive management in overseeing the personnel, budget, timelines and deliverables of a variety of video game titles.• Implemented the multi-player networking code for various video game titles, including Deer Hunter 4• Implemented code in c++ for the video game titles: Deer Hunter 4, Deer Hunter 2003, Wild Wings, Wild Wings 2003, Duke Nukem ‘Manhattan Project’ Carnivores III, Airport Tycoon II, and B-17 Gunner• Salvaged a $400,000 dollar project by stepping in to replace the producer, re-aligning the development team and re-negotiating with the publisher