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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, and scalability.- Grasp new concepts and technologies and adapt to changes and demands in a fast-paced, dynamic environment- Clearly communicate technical vision and direct members of the Software Development team.- Implement new best practice software development practices, standards, and tools.- Establish work plans and staffing for each phase of various projects and programs and arrange for assignment of project personnel.- Have a great attitude in high pressure situations with ability to negotiate, influence effective outcomes, and drive results to ensure projects are on schedule and within budget- Review status reports prepared by projects and programs and modify schedules or plans as required- Build relationship in a cross-functional environment with a demonstrated ability to bring peers and partners together for the successful implementation of initiatives- Strong analytical skills with the ability to build business cases and analyze results- Coach reports to grow a high-performance team- Manage Azure DevOps for team across projects- Manage Azure resources for various projectsIndividual Contributor on Client Projects: Lead Software Engineer, Product Owner, QA Lead, Release Manager

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.• Launched a new value mapping process which increased marketable value of increments.

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 engineer, project manager, and product owner.• 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, and product owner.• 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, and project manager.• 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, DevExpress WinForms, InstallShield

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.