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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed all projects across an international team of architects, developers, and testers. Designed and maintained a common platform on which was based more than a dozen telecommunications products, both internal to NSN.
• United development teams across four locations and two continents to support an increased number of consumers, at a time when the staff was reduced by greater than 50 percent.
• Managed key vendor relationship through multiple acquisitions, including re-contracting and reintegrating business tools.
• Supported divestiture of two product teams from NSN, while continuing to support their products in both active development and field deployment.

• End-to-end responsibility for new product development projects. Provided high availability common telecommunications platform used in a dozen products. Interface to third party vendors and contracted for customized.
• Initial commercial release of 6 new products in 8 years.
• Established common platform management methods, which allowed support of an increased number of products when staff was reduced by 80% while increasing products 2x.
• Introduced process optimizations and redesigns, primarily in the area of Configuration Management and Project Management, reducing PMO costs by 80%.
• Formed cohesive international project teams across multiple organizations, which allowed 11x reuse of a common platform across 12 products.

• Managed software development teams on multiple products. Managed two teams of research engineers to investigate the application of new technologies to new products. Oversaw the design and development of a common.
• Created dedicated technical team to support internal and external customers. Reduced impact to development staff by 80%.
• Led a technical team focused on applying cutting edge technologies to internal start-up projects.
• Created, through hiring and coaching, a new engineering team instrumental in developing a highly successful common platform product.
• Member of management team responsible for passing department’s first TL 9000 audit.

• Software development and testing of new and legacy telecommunications products. Responsible for field installation and customer acceptance of new products. Developed new and optimized organizational processes.
• Established new processes to optimize development and test cycle time, by reducing required effort and increasing communication.
• Instituted new technical process and tools to modernize organizational Configuration Management capability, reducing effort and defect introduction.
• Investigated common platform options to reduce development staffing by greater than 75 percent.
• Presented technical papers at two Motorola Software Symposium based on active project research and data analysis, comparing and contrasting methods of process optimization.
• Worked closely with customers in the field while introducing several new product releases on-site at international customer locations.