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Sacramento, California, United States

- Manage complex Client system implementation of projects and programs.- Leading, attracting, hiring, retaining, and developing high-performing teams and individuals.- Leading a collaborative and agile software development approach that improves velocity, while maintaining a strong focus on reliability, security, legal and regulatory compliance, quality.

Rancho Cordova, California, United States

• Managed development of the Smart Display Platform from embedded to cloud while mentoring engineers in four countries. Software engineering manager, senior software engineer, and product owner.
• Defined the strategy and directed the software development from embedded to cloud to successfully launch four new display product families.
• Integrated a new secured / security development lifecycle to successfully pass internal ISO27K security certification audit.
• Redefined LED system to achieve industry recognition winning the Infocomm AV Technology Best of Show award for two consecutive years (2022 and 2023).
• Improved system architecture to reduce video latency by two-thirds.
• Implemented a new user experience dramatically reducing user errors, greatly decreasing maintenance turnaround time, and drastically reducing damage to display equipment.

Rancho Cordova, California, USA

• Expanded the Infinipix platform with a focus on integration into customer infrastructures and supporting cloud services while guiding development across three countries. Software engineering manager, senior software.
• Define strategy and roadmap for product.
• Built up internal engineering team to replace outsourcing and decreased development costs by $200,000 annually.
• Led the software development across multiple layers of the system to successfully launch 5 new display product families with the new world-class Barco LED Image Processing.
• Managed the project to keep within time and budget.
• Directed the user experience (UX) team to improve the user interactions and workflows.

Rancho Cordova, California, USA

• Complete redesign of the Barco LED system introducing the renowned Infinipix processing while overseeing development teams in three countries. Software engineering manager, senior software engineer, project manager.
• Established outsourced development team of over 20 developers.
• Migrated development process from waterfall to scrum reducing project overhead cost by 30%.
• Implemented automated continuous integration build system
• Reduced costly customer project design mistakes by training, supporting, and providing expanded documentation to service and sales teams.
• Created infrastructure and product implementation for licensing saving an annual overhead cost of $150,000.

Beijing, China

• Managed the development of the RMS management software including interfacing with customers and partners while overseeing development teams in Belgium and China. Software engineering manager, senior software engineer.
• Expanded software development team to include China.
• Reduced annual development cost by $300,000.
• Streamlined cooperation between the software and hardware teams.

Kuurne, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Feature development, production support, and package deployment of the industry leading XVS playback system. Analysis, design, and implementation of application software: UI, data storage, security, and business logic.
• Designed deployment strategy, defined host platform and created software deployment Packages.
• Migrated version control to a single platform facilitating code reuse and reducing developer costs.
• Collaborated with technical writer to create 100s of pages of supporting user documentation.
• Trained service and customers on system.Skills: requirement analysis, deployment and production transition, C#, WinForms, Managed C++, WCF, WF, SQL Compact Edition, Java, C++, CORBA, Oracle 10, WSDL, XML, UML.

Logan, Utah, USA

• Software engineer for Barco’s large video display playback system XVS. Performing high quality video rendering and effects.
• Implemented rendering engine, proof-of-play reporting system, and parts of UI including the WYSIWYG rendering plug-in.
• Redesigned deployment packaging reducing installation time from one hour to 15 minutes.
• Created training syllabus and material for training courses.