Michael Klobe Email & Phone Number

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading, enhancing, and maintaining engineering and IT projects and technologies. Advocate for innovation, modernization, and security for product lines, data center architecture, and company polices. Collaborate with other departments and R&D partners to ensure alignment and high-quality results that achieve business goals.

Austin, Tx, Us

Led both software and firmware organizations, utilizing AWS, GCP, and Emmoco with IoT to deliver a retail merchandising analytics solution. Established strong development process encouraging innovation and ensuring accountability between requirements and delivery. Key member of ISO-27001 team and owner of multiple Information Security Management controls. Worked closely with Manufacturing, Data, and Operations teams to ensure holistic support to the entire company.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Expedia acquired HomeAway in 2016 and rebranded to VRBO. Managed multiple eCommerce teams that powered the day-to-day vacation rental businesses of the customer base, processing over $1m daily. Led the notification team, which was responsible for email, SMS, and automated voice messages, mediated communications, and measuring supplier response time. Launched risk management development team to detect fraud and minimize loss throughout the HomeAway infrastructure.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Release manager for Next Generation Firewall program. TippingPoint engineering representative for the ArcSight RepSM product and the HPN Sentinel product. Responsible for ESP Integration implementations including TMC, ThreatLinQ, RepDV, and DVToolkit. Supervised engineering and quality teams in Texas, California, and the UK.

Directed software, firmware, and embedded development teams responsible for PV microinverters, Power Manager monitoring devices, and the cloud-hosted Power Portal. Worked directly with partner companies to develop an API for joint application creations.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Created successful cross-functional agile team to build TeamDefine, a web-based requirements definition tool. Pioneered quarterly release schedule at Borland. Led CaliberRM group to their first on-schedule release in two years and increased product satisfaction for both internal and external customers. Managed the initial release of the Enterprise Cloud Services technology. Supervised quality and engineering teams in diverse locations including California, Georgia, Texas, Canada, Russia, and Singapore.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Borland was acquired by Micro Focus in July of 2009 but remained a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Folsom, California, Us

Led agile development teams responsible for creating and maintaining HR work flow SaaS applications such as applicant tracking, position management, and performance reviews. Increased departmental transparency, publishing iteration plans and progress and growing iteration demos from sparse attendance to standing room only. Conducted performance reviews and provided mentoring in accordance with individual needs and career goals

Led both software and hardware teams in the rearchitecture and development of EdgeProtect, a solution for building access control, video monitoring, and environmental monitoring. Worked with a peer team to make decisions about balancing schedule, budget, quality, and scope for multiple releases through full product life cycles. Changed the engineering response policy for customer support escalations from sheer panic to one that focused on measured response to issues.

Led three separate product development teams including development, QA, and customer support: Servergraph Classic, a web application that manages backup environments; Servergraph Enterprise, a web 2.0 application providing many of the same features as Classic but geared towards large-scale deployments; and Rocket PM for Storage, a plug-in solution for the BMC Performance Manager suite that monitors storage networks and arrays. Created an agile development process that focused on response to changes and shortened time-to-market.

Houston, Texas, Us

Manage product development, staffing, and recruitment. Conduct performance reviews and provide formal training opportunities and informal mentoring in accordance with individual needs and career goals. Led a technical team of product specialists located in four cities and two continents developing enhancements to core BMC product lines (SiteAngel, PATROL Express, PATROL), web-based systems that monitor performance and availability within complex IT environments. Worked with other managers in QA, support and marketing to coordinate product planning and releases. Authored requirement and functional specification documents and designed major components. Maintain project schedules according to priorities, troubleshooting any issues that threaten timetables.

Led the design and development of a third-party integration API which permitted expansion of the company’s web-based fax/voice/email solution (onebox). Instrumental in the design of a nationwide framework to carry voice over the Internet.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Us

Directed the Real-Time Enterprise effort: generic APIs from the company’s early Internet community chat tools (iChat).

Designed a method that permitted the secure connection of ATM networks with FundsXpress Internet-based banking system, developing a framework for encrypted socket communications.

Engaged in design, development, and support of commercial cross-compiler, cross-platform projects. Closely involved with the design and launch of the company’s first web pages. Served as the Technical Lead for JGL, an award-winning Java collections library.

Richardson, Tx, Us

Employed object-oriented analysis and design methods to develop Windows applications and audio/visual control system software. Supported internal and external clients.