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BUSINESS RESULTS •Delivered 460% bookings growth in 3 years ($10s of millions) •Entered Enterprise Market expanding reach into the enterprise by 920% •Drastically reduced customer churn by 74% •Expanded registered user base by 359%, driving up monthly unique visitors by 220% across 193 countries •Addressed a poor 95% site uptime/availability to 99.99%TECHNOLOGY •Delivered new technology stack (SOA SaaS platform) with 3x faster ramp-up thanks to high quality •Delivered new SOA platform & application, drastically improving scalability & robustness •Directed sync, sign, share development for expansion into business content collaboration market •Directed feature development for entry into the Enterprise market •Created public developer API program, driving dozens of valuable partner and customer integrations •Expanded development into mobile markets •Cultivated and maintained key relationships with technology partners like Yahoo!, WinZip & RicohMANAGEMENT •Grew engineering from 17 to 90 employees •Effectively managed $12M engineering budget, yearly OPS plans and program road-mapping •Formed Information Services Group to deliver accurate business metrics leveraged by exec teamPRODUCTIVITY •Established and led Program Management Organization •Founded, socialized and drove SDLC and Agile processes resulting in engineering productivity up 300%+ •Achieved 100%+ of commitments in all releases •Replaced quarterly waterfall releases with agile weekly feature releases •Developed hourly deployment process for on demand site changes & A/B testing •Architected and coordinated effective communication mechanisms like quarterly business reviews, weekly project reviews, engineering wikis, daily scrums, engineering all hands and tech spotlight awards •Implemented stress, load & build automation, unit testing, find/fix rates analysis, tracking systems, code reviews, design reviews, sparse matrix testing, proof of concepts and more

Engineering manager coordinating the development and delivery of QuickBooks desktop software (QuickBooks SimpleStart, Basic, Pro & Premier 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) and SaaS web framework (2007 to present.)Coordinate multiple features teams that include development engineers, QA engineers, content writers, UI designers, product managers, etc.

Directed multiple feature development teams for WebGain Studio, VisualCafé 4.5.x and VisualCafé 7 Java IDEs. Coordinated staffing, budgets, new feature development and maintenance work.Managed multiple business contracts with Sun, Intel, HP and others.

Engineering manager responsible for feature development and QA for multiple shrink-wrapped development tools (IDEs) including: VisualCafe's Database edition, VisualCafe Professional Edition, dbANYWHERE jdbc complient database middleware, Enterprise Developer 4GL development tool.Senior (Lead) developer of C++ working on Enterprise Developer.

C++ developer in a startup developing Enterprise Developer 4GL database development tool (competing with PowerBuilder.)Company was acquired by Symantec.

C and C++ developer on multiple versions of BankTran, a form builder application used by banks to create teller entry systems. Developed on Unix against main frame data systems, mini-computers and networked PC systems. Rewrote new banking system, A+, to replace BankTran on Windows 3.0 operating system. Developed international versions, including a Hebrew Windows version. Acted as engineering liaison to teams in Italy.Originally company was named Bunker Ramo which was acquired by Olivetti and merged with ISC, a competing teller system.