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Director of Engineering, Sears Holding Corporation, Hoffman Estates, IL, 6/10 to present• Current (3 months): Continuous integration, automated end-to-end testing, performance and load testing, production monitoring and alerting, public cloud migration• 1.5 years: CTO staff – drove 2015 and 2016 holiday readiness (disaster recovery, reliability, load testing for 140 applications & services), owned CTO’s weekly staff reporting for the CEO, established metrics-driven process to improve on-time delivery of business commitments, eliminated $1M annual project tracking cost with simpler tools and processes. • 9 months: Improved mobile site performance through focused attention on customer experience and real-time user metrics. Delivered 100% mobile uptime during holiday 2014 with 50% increase in traffic.• 2 years: Developed mobile point of sale (used by sales associates on iPad) and mobile web sites for iPhone and Android, back-end platform for all mobile commerce (product detail, promotions, inventory, cart, checkout, and payments) • 9 months: Recruited and built mobile development team, educated new teams on agile development expectations, built and delivered functional iPad app for consultative sales associates in consumer electronics.• 18 months: Managed development of new back-end order fulfillment services for online.Director of Engineering, Grass Valley, Salt Lake City, Utah, 6/06 to 6/10.• Responsible for all aspects of software development; project portfolio management, strategic initiatives, operating budgets, contract management, human resource development• Managed development of real-time, embedded control systems for video and audio routers• Built a unified team from 3 separate teams after merger of two previous competitors• Canceled development and maintenance of old product lines resulting in $1M increased revenue of new products.• Led adoption of agile development, reducing release cycle from 2 months to 2 weeks at half the cost.

Responsible for all aspects of software development; project portfolio management, strategic initiatives, operating budgets, contract management, human resource developmentManaged:• New Development for Real-time embedded control of video and audio routers• 42 software engineers located in Utah, California, and IndiaAccomplishments:• Improved efficiency in software development – maintained the highest revenue per engineering dollar in the business in a declining economy – $700,000 revenue per engineer, 60% higher than the closest business unit.• Convinced the business to discontinue old product lines to save on software support costs. This saved us an estimated $300,000 that was spent in developing new products, which resulted in $1M increased revenue per year.• Promoted agile development methodology to reduce development time while increasing software reliability. This reduced our legacy release cycle from 2 months to 2 weeks; this allowed us to release software twice as often for half the cost.• Established and tracked metrics to drive business decisions on where to invest development resources.• Successfully managed merger of two development organizations: Previous competitors with strong personalities and different development philosophies reduced morale and productivity; I established mutual trust and respect through monthly visits to remote sites, team building exercises and one-on-one interaction.Responsible for all software development contracts including individuals and companies