Jared Winston Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

United States

Managed a team of 8 engineers and one manager with direct reports, totaling 15 professionals. Developed staff via weekly 1:1s, annual performance reviews, comp planning, and agile goal setting. Prioritized culture building and collaboration to build a cross-functional high-performance team. Successfully organized and executed a multi-cycle software project, aligning to a time-boxed HW delivery date, that allowed our new RF devices to provide certain functionalities behind a paid license.Spearheaded modernization of a major legacy product, achieving $750k in year-over-year cost savings and implemented a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) model to accelerate customer value by >200%.Influenced and aligned 20+ teams to transition away from legacy product documentation CHMs to a world-class web-first experience and reduce documentation overhead by 50%.Nurtured morale and maintained a high-performance organization that met company objectives amid significant leadership and strategy changes in 2023-2024.

Austin, Texas Area

People managed 6-8 mid-level engineers and one manager with their own direct reports. Coached through annual reviews, consistent candid feedback, situational leadership, regular 1:1s, and annual compensation planning.Directed four global teams of 30 engineers on a project critical to NI's "get-to-Linux" initiative. Orchestrated a 2-year strategy and aligned 4 team backlogs to deliver NI's first C#/.NET/Wine application for Linux, unblocking $200MM in SAM.Received an employee-nominated Manager of the Year award.Guided the strategic implementation of Google’s gRPC framework to swiftly integrate cross-language web-enabled functionalities into all of NI’s C Driver APIs, pivotal components in NI’s microservices modern-lab initiative. Collaborated with leadership to acquire funding and make needed roadmap tradeoffs for expediting this project, now accessible on GitHub.Oversaw a multi-year, multi-team effort creating the NI System Diagram in LabVIEW NXG, a unique C#/.NET/WPF tool for exploring, managing, and configuring connected NI devices in a true-to-life graphical representation. o Emphasized reusable architectures, enabling tool and service reuse across NI’s software products.o Established collaboration frameworks, aligning cross-discipline and cross-geography discussions.o Led Product Owner discussions for requirements and roadmaps, and reported progress, risks, and expectations regularly to leadership.Architected a technical roadmap and secured funding for removing MS Silverlight from all NI’s web-based applications using Blazor. Delivered a full Silverlight replacement in under six months across all Software and Embedded product lines.

Coached and Project Managed a multi-geographic organization of 80+ developers in adopting Agile Methodologies to deliver NI’s first C#/.NET/WPF application for RF Testing in 5G environments, estimated to have a $60MM SAM at the time. o Engaged with senior leadership on agile best practices.o Developed org-wide tracking, reporting, and metric processes in Rally Software.o Project managed risks, blockers, requirements, and execution of a multi-geo organization.Leading a team of Software Engineers developing infrastructure software for National Instruments to enable network technologies and web services on their ethernet-enabled measurement devices. Also interact with product strategists, and senior management to define, direct, and execute on the group's software strategy.Drove the first cloud-based SaaS product within NI, the LabVIEW FPGA Compile Cloud. Led a cross-disciplined team of IT professionals, DevOps leaders, engineers, marketing, and legal to generate and execute a go-to-market strategy, adding $20MM in new revenue.Directly managed 6-8 developers, performing annual reviews, regular 1:1s, candid feedback, career coaching, and compensation planning.

Austin, Tx

Primary role was developing software features for LabVIEW FPGA to allow customers to plugin their own VHDL code into LabVIEW's G code.Late in this role, took on an additional supervisor role, overseeing 2 engineering, which led me into changing tracks from software engineering to software group manager.