Lead developer and architect for the large ‘NerveCenter’ network management product, a multi-platform, multi-threaded C++11 / Java / JavaScript / Perl / Python application suite that is employed worldwide to monitor mission critical networks of telcos, financial institutions and service providers. Responsible for product teams and product deliveries, yet remain a hands-on developer involved in product evolution as well as maintenance. Leading off-shore and US-based teams to develop and implement product enhancements. Responsible for staffing (C++11, JavaScript, Perl, and Python developers, QA testers, off-shore manager, and documentation writer), functional designs, managing sprints, and meeting delivery schedules. Engaging customers to keep abreast of their interests and issues by hosting monthly customer panel discussions. The result is ensured direction and deliveries that meet customer needs. Improved code quality by implementing inspection practices. Using the thread, code and performance analyzers provided with Oracle Developer Studio 12 and Microsoft Visual Studio. Created guidelines for adoption of C++11 features into NerveCenter’s existing C++03 code base (500,000+ lines). Provided means for effective communication across widely separated work teams by standardizing project and development workflows around Atlassian JIRA, Confluence and bitbucket. Implemented development sprints and customer issue tracking within JIRA.Standardized product cross-platform and cross-language interfaces to rely upon either JSON or Google Protocol Buffers, thus abandoning older proprietary communication methods.Substantially reduced monthly, annual and recurring capital expenses by migrating corporate infrastructure from physical office locations to AWS (EC2, S3). Advanced NerveCenter support of SNMP v3 to include AES-128/192/256 privacy and SHA-2 authentication protocols. Evaluated customer interest in NETCONF and options for its inclusion.

Responsible for continued product evolution and management of the Development and QA teams following company reboot.Upgraded C/C++ sources from 32bit to 64bit, handling both Windows ILP32-to-LLP64 and Linux/Solaris ILP32-to-LP64 migrations while maintaning single code base.Created and oversaw management of customer facing websites for documentation and community forum. Wrote and revised product documentation and collateral material.Implemented and delivered trap-forwarding revision of NerveCenter. Sold as 'TrapCenter', this product variant led to rejuvenated customer interest and resulted in several sales within months of its roll-out. Provided a threefold product load improvement by substantially reworking logical and protocol layers of product's polling engine. Delivered a second threefold performance improvement by parallelizing trap handling mechanism.Responsible for handling company IP: software sources, documentation sources, internal databases, virtual images, and product delivery and maintenance procedures.Administrator of office LANs and services (user accounts, routing, WINS/DNS/DHCP, F/W, NAT, VPN, vSphere & VirtualBox environments, system backup/restore, cabling). Automated monitoring of infrastructure and services.

Lead developer in the NerveCenter product development team. Responsible for rewriting product SNMP stack, designing and implementing C++ library to encapsulate BRASS and EMANATE products from SNMP Research.Worked extensively with Customer Support on product defect analysis and resolution, including travel to customer sites for briefings.Spoke at Atlanta area IT user group about trends in Network Management and development plans for NerveCenter.Managed product platform upgrades to Solaris 10 and HPUX 11i, and management platform upgrades to HP OV NNM 7.5x, IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and NetView integrations.Upgraded C++ sources and build system to consistent level across Microsoft Visual C++, SunStudio CC (Solaris/SPARC&AMD64), HP aCC (HPUX), IBM xlC (AIX) compilers and 'make' environments.

Led project teams building modular add-ons to 3Com "3NS" network management application. Implemented extensions to Java code base. Ported product to Solaris from Windows.Contributed to development and testing of 3Com "Transcend" network management platform. Worked with Bristol Technologies "Wind/U" toolkit and Microsoft "MFC" C++ library in providing uniform cross-platform implementation across Windows, Solaris, AIX and HPUX. Tracked issues in ClearCase and worked extensively with QA to unit test product functionality and open management platform integration.

Contributed to development, testing and enhancement of Xyplex 'ControlPoint' network & device management product. Using Bristol Technologies "Wind/U" toolkit, assisting in porting and testing large C++ code base from Windows NT to HPUX10/PA-RISC and Solaris2/SPARC platforms. Assisted Customer Support in analyzing, reporting, and resolving field issues. Worked with Microsoft "MFC" and RogueWave "Tools.h++" C++ libraries.Assisted onsite with product installation and setup for customers in Boston, Seattle and Vancouver.

Implemented device and network management software, written in Eiffel for execution on Sun workstations, for Bytex "maestro" Token Ring switching hub. Worked with QA team to unit test device and management software releases and patches.Presented findings of product's object-oriented software development process at TOOLS USA 1995 conference in Santa Barbara, CA.

Developed software for turnkey library automation system widely used by public, private and academic libraries. Ported and later enhanced large 'C' code base from VAX11 to DYNIX (Sequent Corp).Assisted as part of onsite team performing product hardware and software installation at several libraries in Massachusetts and the public library in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ported in-house DMA driver from Sequent DYNIX (4.2BSD kernel) to Altos Unix [aka 'SCO UNIX'] (System V kernel).