Software Development Manager
2400 Mount Read Blvd; Rochester, Ny
Directed a team of over 60 engineers, scientists, and technicians that developed comprehensive photo system solutions across a worldwide install base.Managed R&D budgets of $10M - $15M annually and met all budget goals for the business.Successfully developed and executed an aggressive recruitment plan to attract technical talent in a highly competitive job market. Created a mobile development team, delivering a world-class Mobile App (iOS & Android) for Social Sharing, Curation, Product Creation & Commerce services with a scalable set of back-end cloud services. Implemented a platform approach for developing products and components that were leveraged across different systems and product groups, saving over $10M/year in development costs and enabling rapid integration. Championed and drove development of world-class image analysis and curation technologies based on artificial intelligence with initial offering in less than 3 months and increasing order revenue by over 5X.Created global security policies and practices, working with CIO and IT, for our digital products to protect our consumer’s information and privacy. R&D liaison for reviewing and refining corporate policies and procedures to balance between engineering efficiency and corporate security. Effectively transitioned the organization to an Agile development process, improving team effectiveness and efficiency by reducing team rework and redesign by over 50%. Drove Advanced Development of Image Science and Software technologies, effectively streamlining the research and delivery of new technologies into commercialization, reducing cycle time by 8 months.Established research agreement with RIT's Center of Image Science to develop technology, IP, and algorithmic solutions in the areas of image aesthetics and video segmentation for inclusion future releases our image understanding system solution.
