James Caudill Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Planned, executed and delivered around a dozen small to medium projects (<500K and <1 year) with 5 engineering teams spanning the quality org; triage eng/ops, metrics, automation, release
• Wrote detailed user stories for developers and linked them to Gantt charts for critical path tracking
• Set team OKRs/KPIs then built SQL dashboards to track progress and derive actionable insights
• Facilitated fun and engaging agile sprint sessions, tracked dev velocity and burndown

• Owned product backlog and roadmap for a key engineering tools (internal and customer facing) in Confluence and Smartsheet
• Ran stakeholder feedback sessions, taking care to aggregate suggestions and highlight key areas for future development
• Documented user requirements and built out tasks, stories, epics, sprints, and dashboards in Jira to track work completion
• Coordinated with design on UX for key features, ensuring user stories are well represented
• Wrote technical documentation and user guide for multiple large scale JavaScript and Python applications
• Organized and executed successful product launches to 100s of users, usually spanning 1-2 weeks

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Servant leader and sprint facilitator to agile team of 6 engineers which delivered a JavaScript app to increase throughput and accuracy ~55% in daily operations for 60+ core stakeholders
• Managed communications, engagement, scope, and quality control with weekly focus groups of customers: collect feedback utilizing active listening, emotional intelligence and conflict resolution
• Delivered MVP product on schedule, with user engagement and acceptance ~25% over target
• Integrated heavily in the CI/CD process as a global reviewer for code landing all over the repo
• Organized software trainings for all team members and documented learnings on PMIS and LMS

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Wrote JavaScript using a version of React UI to build out RCA tool for engineers to identify on-road failures
• Instituted test driven development and build management as a part of our CI/CD process in repo
• Delivered multiple key features and bugfixes on time with high customer satisfaction
• Built out AWS cloud environment to enable web hosting and script execution routing with Lambdas and API Gateways

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Lead engineer on JS web app utilizing graphQL and gRPC to replay logs from past vehicle tests
• Led an agile scrum of 4 software devs using Jira, Confluence, Git, AWS, and SQL-based analytics
• Managed engagement and communications with a 50+ user-base of engineers and analysts
• Led weekly product review and release meetings, bug/feature deliberation, requirement breakdowns, synthesized milestone reports which increased stakeholder buy-in to 100%
• Led documentation and training efforts for all testing teams, managed a wiki of processes
• Active in employee resource groups to support women, minorities and those with disabilities

San Francisco, California, United States

• Created and led truck simulation team: built, tested, and evaluated 1000s of simulation scenarios configured to stress autonomy performance and capture defects in programming
• Built a python codebase enabling devs to create and validate simulations with 7x speed; consisting of 5 fully-supported interactive python programs with over 30 unique operations and 99% code coverage with multiple.
• Performed requirement analysis for simulation generation scripts and metric analyzers
• Interfaced with Autonomy developers to build release gating automated testing frameworks
• Managed AWS-hosted test management using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and S3
• Integrated with Test Eng teams manage risks during track simulations of our structured tests

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Managed Cal Poly's entire DNS system, assigning and allocating addresses in the large class B network.
• Handled requests from over 200 IT staff members and assisted in many major upgrades to the main Cal Poly wired and wireless internet system.
• All DNS/DHCP configuration and maintenance was done with Acatel Lucent QIP software. I assisted in building and maintaining the wireless networks by provisioning and managing over 1,500 access points using Aruba.