Director Software Engineering
Current* 10 years of management experience leading cross-functional teams, collaborating with other development teams, designing and coordinating cross product and integrating with third party software.* Currently leading a team of 15 engineers and other disciplines responsible for the server side portion of Forcepoint's UAM product which is responsible for over $100 million in revenue. The UAM product is designed to process and store millions of records per hour in an Oracle database.Instigated, evangelized, and participated in the successful adoption of Agile Scrum methodology across Salt Lake development team* With a peer, led, designed and gained executive sponsorship for a successful adoption of Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Grafana, Prometheus, Helm, Ansible, CI/CD pipeline tools, Git and other technologies to further the vision for the Forcepoint UAM product to be more scalable and cloud native.* Participate on the corporate and business unit's architecture boards, with responsibility to collaborate on ideas and strategic architectural decisions among a small group of technology leaders and architects at Forcepoint over the past 5 years.* Promote and provide a high level of customer focus and responsive support, including working with customers directly on support issues, holding customer trainings and presentations in technical exchange conferences.* History of mentoring team members and encouraging a desire for technological skill improvement to benefit both the individual’s career and the team’s success. * Handled HR responsibilities, including hiring, reviews, promotions, discipline, and compensation.* Highly focused on delivering well tested, automated, purpose driven software with a focus on test driven development.* Received Technical Honors Recognition, awarded for excellence in technical skills, leadership and contributions.* Other positions: Senior Software Engineering Manager, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer