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Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States

Software development Supervisor for on site and remotely based engineering personnel. Responsibilities include software project management, process development, architectural & detailed software design, software coding and debugging and software review.

Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States

Software development lead for remotely based engineering personnel. Responsibilities included architectural & detailed software design, software coding and debugging, software review, and process development.

Malvern, PA

• Engineering director and hands-on technical lead for global, cross functional teams focused on the development of new high security coin validation/recycling products and sustaining of current generation products for.
• Led a cross functional 16-member development team creating the next generation flagship coin validator/recycler product for the Vending industry. Team consisted of embedded firmware, hardware and mechanical engineers.
• Led two major quality improvement projects achieving combined cost of poor quality (COPQ) savings of >$3,000,000
• Proposed and oversaw implementation of an innovative low cost fraud prevention solution to eliminate a potential damaging issue across the European customer base.
• Implemented Kanban based agile system to maximize sustaining resources and support reporting metrics to upper management. Later implemented and trained other engineering teams on Kanban methodology.
• Active member of global engineering leadership team, helping to define and align processes, systems and associate development across the multiple design and engineering sites that formed the newly created CPI.

West Chester, PA

• Software development leader for an internationally based team of embedded software engineers, focused on developing and sustaining embedded software products for the Vending market.
• Built team from 1 to 7 members, including recruitment, training and mentoring in all aspects of product knowledge and software development processes. Team was acknowledged by upper management to be among the top.
• Led software development effort for four major new product development projects for the Vending vertical, delivering $20 million in sales growth over 5 years. Oversaw the development and management activities of all.
• Developed and managed global sustaining activities for Coin products for the Vending vertical, supporting a fieldbase of > 2million units in 49+ countries. Responsibilities included planning, prioritization and metric.
• Proposed and managed implementation of new acoustic based algorithm for monitoring coin levels. Solution was provided in < 4 weeks to prevent loss of a major account.
• Achieved $300,000 annual savings by identifying a creative solution to replace an aging micro-controller whilst maintaining full compatibility with product firmware and support tools.

Reading, United Kingdom

Responsible for the software design and development of payment systems and transaction electronics, primarily coin and smart card payment systems.Languages - C, Assembler, Awk

United Kingdom

Software Engineer responsible for the design and development of real time embedded software for residential wireless security systems.languages - C and Assembler

United Kingdom

H.S. Sports was a subsidiary of Seiko Corporation, specializing in providing high end sports timing, measuring, television graphics and display equipment for world class sporting events, up to and including Olympics games.Responsibilities included design, testing and commissioning of timing equipment and stadium level scoreboards.