Ian Wesley Email & Phone Number

Huntington Beach, Ca, Us

Tampa, Fl, Us

As Vice President of Product Development reporting to the CEO; directed Bravado Health’s global software development, operations, product implementation and customer support teams.● Built a cohesive development team from the ground up utilizing modern agile processes, emerging trends and a DevOps philosophy to deliver Bravado Health’s new SaaS platform and application suite.● Set the vision and implemented the technical architecture and strategy to meet Bravado Health’s short term and long-term product goals. ● Formulated and executed the multi-million dollar new product development budget.● Partnered with the Product Management team and CMO on the strategy and roadmap for the Ayva SaaS platform and cloud product suite which consists of:o Treat, a SaaS cloud application for EPCS e-prescribingo Ayva Discharge, cloud application to facility emergency department dischargeso Ayva Engage, cloud application to help patients manage their chronic conditions ● Transformed the product development process for Bravado Health with Agile Scrum using DevOps principles for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) supporting a 24x7 production environment. ● Introduced group wide key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure performance, manage risk and encourage process evolution. ● Charted the architectural direction for Bravado Health’s new product using services and technologies with a tech stack consisting of Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS ECS, Java, MySQL, Angular, GitHub, Jenkins and SonarQube.● Ensured regulatory and security standards were met such as HIPAA and the DEA EPCS Interim Final Rule. ● Set the strategic roadmap and managed the daily activities for the cloud operations and product implementation teams.● Evaluated innovative 3rd party technology and vendors to support electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) and data exchange with electronic health record (EHR) systems.● Mentor to the development team and other Bravado Health staff.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Directed the HDX and Receiver global product development team responsible for delivering the end user consumer facing components for Citrix's $2B flagship product, XenDesktop. ● Directed a 105 person globally dispersed team of fulltime and contract directors, managers, architects, developers and QA engineers spanning Fort Lauderdale, Santa Clara and Bangalore.● Spearheaded the successful product development transition from a hybrid release process to agile scrum reducing the release cycles from 12 months down to 3 months.● Coordinated release activities for 10+ releases of Citrix’s flagship enterprise software product, XenApp / XenDesktop growing Citrix from a $400 million to a $2+ billion software company.● Formulated the strategic and technological direction for the HDX team ensuring that Citrix had best in class technology in the remote windows application and desktop space.● Formulated and monitored the capital and operating budget keeping the team under budget every year.● Refocused the team on customer success and product quality leading to a 90% reduction in the defect backlog and an increase in customer satisfactions NPS (net promoter score).● Proposed and drove organization buy-in to change the metrics that were being used to measure product quality. ● Forecasted timetables for release based upon market demand, product requirements and resourcing.● Awarded best demo prize in Citrix’s internal technology expo for merging XenDesktop with google cardboard virtual reality technology. Received a patent from the USPTO for the invention.● Mentored managerial and development staff with personalized coaching including quarterly goal setting and evaluation. ● Built the college and professional recruiting and hiring process for the organization. In this capacity I grew the team from 45 to 70 full time employees.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Facilitated the activities for a product development team of 17 individuals consisting of managers, developers and QA engineers. • Aligned research, development and delivery to market activities for numerous Citrix HDX features and products within Citrix XenDesktop product suite. • Project manager for 5 of Citrix’s core ICA / HDX technology components teams, consisting of 45 individuals, through the release of XenApp for W2K8 R2 using hybrid waterfall / agile development methodology. • Formulated and implemented the end-to-end testing strategy including: unit, system, regression, reliability, scalability and performance testing. • Monitored execution of test functions, project planning, test documentation, metrics and statistics.• Invented metrics to provide visibility at all levels of team progress and component quality.• Led numerous cross-functional product development process improvements with other groups such as product management (PM) to increase product quality and customer alignment.• Managed and maintained budget for the System I test labs which consisted of 1000+ servers.• Hired world class engineers through extensive college recruiting and professional contacts.• Effectively communicated with and managed remote contractors working in Asia. • Coordinated product development participation for the technology lab at Citrix’s annual Synergy conference consisting of 50+ engineers and 40+ demo stations. Consulted with marketing, sales and corporate development to create the messaging, identify the technologies to demo, and secure donated equipment from Citrix partners for the lab.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Set the strategy and direction for all manual and automation testing for XenApp / XenDesktop. Collaborated on design for custom in house framework for testing XenApp / XenDesktop. • Hosted onsite meetings for enterprise customers for multi-day product discussions. Presented numerous times at Citrix customer council events and yearly Citrix product conventions.• Defined forward looking R&D activities for the Citrix Access Suite team. • Collaborated on design for custom in house framework for testing XenApp. • Set the direction and goals for the creation of technical articles, advanced concept guide chapters and whitepapers delivered from product development.• Delivered a 100 page disaster recovery planning and configuration whitepaper for the Citrix Access Suite. Presented to over 400 customers at a Citrix trade conference.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Managed the daily activities for a group of twenty test engineers for an entire XenApp product closedown. Created project plans and time estimates for the team’s feature work. • Interacted with other departments in the products organization on a daily basis. Helped define the quality of the product as a member of the product release team which continually made trade-offs between product quality, resources and time. • Reviewed development functional and design specifications and participated in design reviews to help assure features were being designed with the customer in mind. • Created test plans to assure product functionality according to product requirement documentation and design specifications. • Reviewed test plans from other test teams with a focus on completeness and coverage. • Guided test case creation through idea generation and test case reviews.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

• Contract systems administrator for the University of Michigan. Job responsibilities include Netware, Windows NT, PC, and Macintosh systems integration and administration. • Network administration consists of user education, desktop troubleshooting, security, printing, and account creation/maintenance.

Mba, Business

Bachelors Of Science Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering