Khoa N. D. Dang Email & Phone Number

United States

5/2023: participated as a speaker at the Autodesk TechX global event in Dallas (Texas), and delivered a presentation about the solution for piracy detection based on binary tampering.2022: solutioned, coordinated execution and successfully delivered a new piracy detection mechanism based on binary tampering. This innovative solution has been designated as an Autodesk trade secret.- Working closely with the engineering and product managements in devising multi year strategic plans- Overseeing planning, executions and delivery of quarterly business and engineering initiatives of the team.- Continuing leading the Genuine team, contributing to both high level solutioning and hands-on coding.

2/2020: building and leading the engineering team that owns the end-to-end technical solution for the new and growing Autodesk Genuine program: https://www.autodesk.com/genuine/overviewAssuming wide technical and project managerial responsibilities to ensure success for project planning, solutioning and execution.- The program aims to introduce non-genuine users to paid subscriptions to fully leverage the functionalities in Autodesk product offerings.- This technical solution requires coverage over vast application development paradigms that include C++ native Desktop client for Windows and Cloud Native service application on the AWS Cloud, to provide a data platform that collects and enriches several data points from a growing number of sources such as machines, users, licenses and web content analytics. These data are critical inputs for business analysts and data scientists who are the intelligence force that drives the Genuine program success. - The lean team under my leadership was formed completely during the calamities of the Covid pandemic, has been promoting a high trust environment to overcome unprecedented collaboration challenges in the new hybrid working mode.We so far have done quite a feat in ensuring technical sufficiency and resource availability for various development and operational demanding needs, and developing deep understanding of our consumers' data needs to continuously meet business priorities and strive to drive engineering advancements of the platform.5/2018: Autodesk TechX 2018 Speaker, Detroit, MI (Internal company wide event focusing on engineering, product management, and design)Invited to present on an automation strategy for rapid delivery of integrated UI features.- leverage internal functional tests as automated testing-as-a-service to external partners in the software supply chain- supercharge UI delivery with pro-active quality assurance for layered component integrations across teams and CI/CD processes

2017- Leading a team, delivering SDK's that enabled the Marketing department to deploy various business strategies encompassing software licensing, application analytics, and integrated User Experience.- Spearheading project planning and execution, interfacing with internal stakeholders and external teams, designing and implementing cross-platform GUI components and service API's;- Contributing successively to 3 different projects as a versatile engineer, implementing native (C++) and web (C#/MVC/Javascript) integration SDK's for Autodesk desktop and service teams, which enable new business driven experiences such as in-product marketing and purchasing to millions of Autodesk professional end users.- Project: Cloud License Manager v2, a multiple process architecture licensing solution.2015- Project: Cloud Licensing for Cloud Apps, implemented integration SDKs for bringing licensing and purchase capability to Autodesk Cloud Rendering users.- Leading a team, architecting/implementing a solution for a collection of C# and Javascript SDKs that can be integrated into existing ASP.NET service and web application. The SDKs transparently consume 3 internal services and inject into the host application new UX workflows for executing paid tasks using the new Autodesk "Cloud Credits".2013- Project: Cloud License Manager v1, a key enablement in transforming Autodesk business model from perpetual license to subscription; Member of the core engineering team of 4 that decided architecture/design/integration API of the Licensing framework on Windows/Mac/Linux for use by all Autodesk product teams.2012- Implementing UX features for the Autodesk Install Framework that powers installation of all Autodesk desktop projects.- Using multithreading to reduce hours of run time for a key build tool that prepares highly compressed downloadable product image (as large as 60 GB in size) for web installation; a project with high complexity in size and performance.

Worked closely with the company founder and president, building up the team, implementing the first VoIP product prototype that later evolved into a full application suite that was branded with the "Cisco Unified" and "Cisco Smart" product lines and sold worldwide by Cisco Systems.Technologies: C++/GUI/Win32/MFC, Client-server architecture, Win32 service, SIP, browser and MS Office plugin, IPC, ActiveX.- 2011: Delivered the Cisco Smart CallConnector Advanced Client (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-callconnectors/data_sheet_c78-655142.html)- 2009: Delivered the Cisco Smart CallConnector Operator solution (reference:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-callconnectors/data_sheet_c78-655143.htmlhttps://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-callconnectors/data_sheet_c78-655141.html)- 2007: Delivered the Cisco Unified CallConnector solution (reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucallconnectors/1-5/RelNotes.pdf)