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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

I’m so thrilled to work here!!Through our global network and deep customer focus, Boeing Global Services seeks to provide solutions that are simple to use, supported by an advanced digital operation — delivering services with the speed, flexibility, reliability and predictability our customers rely on.Simply put, we are focused on keeping the world’s fleet flying safely, efficiently, and sustainably through data-driven innovation. We do this by creating customer value with each offering as a result of thoughtful, transparent conversation that drives us to develop the outcomes-based solutions our customers need now and for the future. We have a wide array of solutions for airline or government operations, as well as business and general aviation customers — for every phase of flight, for every fleet, worldwide.

Greater Seattle Area

Transferred Innovation and research programs, products, services and teams to Avaya's main product engineering organization to drive recurring revenue in the market. Now part of the core engineering organization, was responsible for managing development and delivery engineering teams in the areas of artificial intelligence, analytics, and workflow. Managed over 200 engineers spanning the globe. Worked with cross-functional areas within the company including sales, product management, operations, and leadership.

Greater Seattle Area

Within Avaya' s Innovation group our mission is to develop and incubate innovation that differentiates our business from the pack, adopt and leverage best practices, showcase our outcomes, and fold the best back into Avaya's mainstream product portfolio.Managed a global development team responsible for the Avaya Conversational Intelligence (ACI) cloud service. Major work included bringing an acquired 'science project', industrializing it and delivering to the market a robust, revenue generating cloud based conversational intelligence service. ACI is a voice-centric, real-time contextual awareness capable service that leverages deep artificial Intelligence machine learning technologies .

San Francisco Bay Area

General Manager for Avaya's Commiunication Platform as a Service (CPaas) solution (formerly Zang Cloud) - transforming a back-office platform acquisition into a multi-tenant, sustaining revenue generating SaaS solution for the business while mentoring a highly efficient and dynamic cloud team in the process.

San Francisco Bay Area

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE and DESIGNThis is my passion! Led an experienced architecture and systems design team into technical and business research of cloud opportunities for the business. Specifically providing a path towards the more long term viability and sustainability of cloud-first architecture concepts versus the short term benefits of typical cloud-enablement approaches so many have been followed. Results of this research was provided in various forms including consulting, education, acquisition due diligence and recommendation, white papers and presentations for the benefit of corporate decision making. Established as resident expert in areas of:• Cloud service models• Cloud deployment models• Cloud-first centric design• Cloud governance• DevOps best practicesNEW TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONProvided an 'outside-in' perspective balancing technical and business insight and needs for the business. Accomplished through acquisition due diligence investigations, prototypes, and presentation materials to business stakeholders for incorporating into company product roadmap. Most recent areas of focus include:• Cloud Computing• Unified Communications as a Service• Contact Center as a Service• Social Media• Mobility• AnalyticsProvided ongoing consulting of architecture topics for various product development groups within the organization.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYAwarded innovation patents.

Greater Seattle Area

NEW TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONDelivered due diligent investigations, prototypes, and presentation materials to business stake holders regarding new technology appropriate for incorporating into company product roadmap. Most recent areas of focus include:• Cloud Computing• Social Media• Mobility• AnalyticsMICROSOFT ROADMAP TRACKING, ANALYSIS & INTEGRATIONCreated and maintained Aspect product integration roadmap of Microsoft technologies. Continuously adjusted and aligned delivery schedules of various products to meet business expectation and efficiencies. Repeatedly represented Aspect at Microsoft main campus (Redmond). PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE CONSULTINGProvided ongoing consulting of architecture topics for various product development groups within the organization.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYAwarded several innovation patents.

Greater Chicago Area

PRODUCT AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONSProvided principal architect and program management duties for businesses seeking to significantly transform mission critical and/or flagship products and their creation environments into market leading, cost efficient revenue generators. • Identifying and managing architectural and technology risks• Preparing cost-effective choices of architectural and technology elements for customer• Negotiating gaps between objectives, tech and delivery in a cost-effective, agile way• Define and develop technical, structural and management architectures for software• Defining migration and integration strategies• Assessing development and deployment activities• Establishing best practice approaches with the customer• Ensuring a standard, methodology are followed providing formality and sustainabilityDEVELOPED AGILE OUTSOURCING PRACTICEBuilt U.S. practice to allow U.S. customer base to leverage Herzum’s European outsourcing development and solution centers.DEVELOPED AND MANAGED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PRACTICEThrough sales support and consulting best practices, was able to double group size of the organization and increase revenues while maintaining company expected utilization levels.

Greater Chicago Area

PRODUCT ROADMAP GENERATIONDeveloped product line roadmap and architecture for major cable broadcasting management provider.• Conducting assessments for divisions in the U.S. and Europe• Roadmapping transformation of product suite from the current state to desired state• Staffing and structuring the organization to deliver component based software• Mentoring and reviewing execution of tasks during the iterations of the project

Greater Chicago Area

IMPROVED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT EFFICIENCIESCreated, tested and delivered an agile development environment that enables software developers to deliver high quality tested software components in a timely manner. Leveraging proven open source tools and processes, the new continuous integration environment was extremely low cost; its development approach covered the entire development lifecycle for both internal and outsourced development groups and was scalable for any size project. MARKET RESEARCH AND VALIDATIONGathered and documented contact center marketing requirements from major telecom service providers, among others. Requirements were used to validate with major analysts and research firms in the form of presentations and strategic meetings with their approval.FEASIBILITY STUDIES AND RECOMMENDATIONSConducted intensive yet broad feasibility studies which enabled the business to reach conclusive decisions on how to proceed on several development projects. Selected key technical and business staff, assigned roles and responsibilities and developed a plan which, when executed, resulted in comprehensive reports providing in-depth cost, schedule, staffing and requirement analysis with options for the business to act on

Greater Chicago Area

STRATEGIC ROADMAP GENERATIONConceived, prototyped and promoted a new product line architecture that provides a roadmap for the business to migrate from its traditional telephony solution suite to a more open, visionary IP enabled product line. Utilizing the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as its base, this services oriented architecture (SOA) leveraged several open standards integrating carefully selected ingredient technologies (open source and commercial) in a component based fashion to best fit within a customer’s IT centric environment.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GENERATIONProvided significant contributions to intellectual property activities. Participated in think-tank groups for the sole purpose of generating new and innovative ideas that can become patentable and provide profitable differentiation for the business in a highly competitive market.

Greater Chicago Area

MANAGEMENT AND MENTORINGSuccessfully managed development team and delivered SOA Component Framework in conjunction with above accomplishments. Responsibilities included managing both outsourced and internal staff, educating all levels of the business in new technologies and development approach, selection of key engineering staff, project plan development and final reviewer of all architecture and technology decisions. Projects were delivered on time and within budgetary limits.PRODUCT/APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGMENTSuccessfully managed a development organization covering all engineering lifecycle activities for three major product lines of the business. This staff of 35 engineers and 5 managers required managing expenses within budget of $8M with several development projects executing simultaneously. Majority of products produced were of a highly available and reliable nature (>99.999% uptime) and enterprise centric.OUTSOURCING MANAGEMENTInter-national - Successfully managed multiple development projects with teams of engineers outsourced in multiple locations in India (Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, and Bangalore) and Ireland (Belfast). Besides managing internal project resources, travel to on site locations included activities such as staffing selection, project status and training, and reviewing technical and product related requirements. Typical project size ranged from $750K to $3M.Intra-national - Successfully managed and provided technical leadership in multiple projects outsourced within the United States (North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New York, Colorado). The largest project, at $5.2M, was completed within budget and ahead of schedule. It involved two teams of developers (one local, the other remote) working together as a virtual team providing an application building platform that was the core of all application building for the business.

Greater Chicago Area

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTDesigned and developed world class contact center products (ACD, routing, application servers, real time monitoring, etc.) for major contact center solution vendorsCUSTOMER FACING TRIAGESuccessfully fulfilled role of Engineering Liaison focused on front line problem solving in a ‘war room’ alpha and beta environments.

Greater Chicago Area

Software development (design, code and test) of banking software. Support responsibilities for software artifacts, mentoring peers and new hires in best practices.

Bs Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (Aa)