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San Jose, California, US

Creating Digital Products People Love!

Austin, Texas, US

Built and managed several cross-cutting teams in support of internal engineering within Tricentis. These teams included; Global Release Management, Cloud Operations, Product Security, PMO, and Compliance.

Austin, Texas, US

Built and managed several cross-cutting teams that support internal engineering within Tricentis. These teams include; Global Release Management, Technical Documentation, Cloud Operations, Product Security and Compliance.

Austin, Texas, US

I led the Global Release Management team at Tricentis. This team helped produce Tricentis's world class Continuous Testing and Automation Platform, helping testers, developers and businesses at large on their missions.

San Francisco, California, US

• Lead role overseeing multiple teams of high performing engineers and other leaders targeting improving software production through fast, efficient and scalable processes and methods for all engineers.
• Implementations enabled Splunk engineers to spend more time innovating without fighting the tools and processes.
• Directed organization and teams to implement and maintain CI/CD consistently throughout Engineering; Splunk now uses a CI/CD based process for engineering, which led to massive improvements in product quality, delivery.
• Engaged directly with sales team meeting and multiple customers demonstrating Splunk's software as an integral part of CI/CD pipelines; several large (6 and 7 digit) deals were closed, increasing revenue for the company.

San Francisco, California, US

• Selected to assemble a new Engineering Productivity team, managing a $5 million investment – a direct result of successfully rebuilding the Release Engineering team.
• Assumed leadership of the Splunk Product Security team, as well as Engineering Services team, managing a total staff of 27 engineers within three organizations.
• Built the Engineering Productivity team with the mission of maximizing the amount of time Splunk's software engineers spend writing code versus struggling with the tools needed to do their jobs.
• Stepped in and managed the team during a search for a replacement for The Director of Product Security.
• Successfully led and grew the team and actively participated in multiple security related incidents during a search that took over 1.5 years.

San Francisco, California, US

• Successfully spearheaded the restructuring and build of the Release Engineering unit.
• Provided ongoing leadership to a high performing, deeply engaged team of engineers.
• Inspired to deliver high quality products through process of scaled building, testing, and deployment platforms resulting in the company's preeminence as a marketplace leader.
• Worked closely with Engineering to quickly settle on a plan; began execution of a multi-year effort.
• Accomplished the project on-time and within budget and positioned the company for future engineering growth utilizing a modern source code management system.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Assumed corporate-wide leadership role overseeing development of worldwide release engineering staff, both domestic and offshore, releasing Autodesk software products.
• Managed a combined team of 40 build engineers and managers while providing strategic leadership and technical guidance.
• Worked closely with multiple levels of engineering leadership to facilitate exchange of best practices, plan for future needs of clients and raise corporate standards for SCM and build and release activities.
• Oversaw equipment purchasing, including hardware to successfully support client's build, release and SCM initiatives.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Promoted to senior role leading the development of worldwide software development staff, both domestic and offshore. Managed combined team of 15-20 software and build engineers.
• Directed code review team while providing strategic leadership and technical guidance.
• Raised and maintained best practices for developing robust software on time and within budget.
• Took lead in improving AutoCAD Shanghai development team's best practices for AutoCAD products.
• Oversaw equipment purchasing, including hardware necessary to successfully accomplish all of goals and milestones.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Promoted within two years to join technical management team handling development / production of company’s flagship, world-renowned AutoCAD product.
• Hired, trained, and managed team of eight software engineers adding new features and improving all aspects of AutoCAD products annotation sub-systems.
• Led team through three successive on-time and on-budget releases of AutoCAD product.
• Schedule development and execution; set goals and milestones for delivery; oversee purchasing of equipment, hardware, and software required to successfully accomplish goals.
• Managed delivery of complete rewrite / objectification of AutoCAD dimension sub-system on time and within budget.
• Ensured all daily and weekly builds were delivered on-time with a high degree of quality and filled dual manager-producer role as top bug-fixer.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Tasked with building team of software engineers to produce new Mechanical CAD version of AutoCAD.
• Handled all aspects of recruitment and hiring of technical candidates and subsequent management including resource allocation, scheduling, implementation, and product delivery.
• Presented product development plans to senior management team and mediated agreement.
• Rapidly adapted to consistently changing goals and deadlines.
• Specified hardware / software configurations and served as point of contact for overall product development.
• Helped define initial product requirements. Help clarify and better define technical requirements.