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Oakland, Ca

Working with software developers, QA, and Product folks to enhance software development practices and bring a new product to market.

Guiding Software Development, QA, Release Mgmt, and Customer Success teams.Improving Development and Customer Support Processes.Enabling team/product to be an Enterprise Product as well as the current SAAS offering.

San Jose, Ca

Appvance's Unified Test Automation Platform is the first automated software test platform for DevOps teams that handles all forms of testing: unit, functional, performance, load, synthetic APM, database and advanced application security in a single platform. - Handled all aspects of software development, QA, and release management.- Work closely with Sales and Customer Success teams to ensure the customers are delighted.- Added appropriate process where it improved the overall efficiency of team.- Grew team by 50% in 3 months in Costa Rica and India.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead all facets of Product Design and Development for Mobile/Cloud based product for the Real Estate space.

San Francisco

2011-2014Lead the Mobile Development teams for the Retail side of the bank. Award winning iPhone, iPad, Android Phone and Tablet, MS Windows 8 apps, SMS/Text Banking and corresponding server website that support millions of transactions every day.- Drove multiple small teams of 60 developers with minimal management layer directing a combination of FTE, contractors, and SOW vendor resources. Increased team by 30% in 2 years.- Built great Onshore/Offshore SOW Vendor team to increase development capacity.- Built team of 15 Mobile device testers to improve the quality supporting multiple devices and OS's.- Met ambitious delivery schedules for development on over 50 concurrent projects. - Strong focus on performance and availability for Mission Critical site available 24x7.- Strong focus on security ensuring customers have confidence using our apps.- Cross matrix management to ensure delivery across multiple groups involved in the process.- Good business sense to provide prudent recommendations balancing impact to Customers and Wells Fargo based on technical factors.- Website utilized J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, HTML, CSS3, Javascript/AJAX, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, Hibernate, Oracle.2004-2011Responsible for several teams handling high profile, high traffic customer facing web and mobile applications serving our Wholesale business customers. - Lead the technology team that handles the mobile applications for our Wholesale business customers making our Treasury Management applications available on mobile devices, including an iPhone application.- Leading teams doing R&D work in the mobile space including iPhone, iPad, Android, RIM, and other mobile platforms.- Lead R&D efforts including social media, speaker verification, and speech recognition.- Lead teams developing new forms of online and mobile payments.

San Francisco, Ca

Zone Labs is the industry leader in end point security providing Firewall Security products for Enterprises and Consumers that protects user’s computers from malicious programs. Product works with Gateways, Anti-Virus solutions, and VPN products to provide appropriate enforcement of security policy compliance and authentication.• Led team building a Web Based site that provided information to 10 million clients in multiple languages using Apache/WebLogic/HTML/JSP/Java/Oracle on UNIX. • Led a team of 15 developers building a new Enterprise Server product capable of handling 1000's of clients relaying their data to the Enterprise servers. • Server built using Java/Struts/XSL and other open source software with Apache/Tomcat front end and works with DB2/Oracle/SQL Server/JDataStore databases that runs on Linux or Windows.• Firewall Clients and Client simulator used for performance testing built using C++/Windows APIs.• Helped resolve critical technical issues to enable the launching of the web store for Zone Labs that handled 6 million hits/day which was the company's primary source of revenue.

San Francisco, Ca

· Managed the development of SaaS site, available 24x7, to handle over 70 client companies with 5 million users with different presentation for each client company user.· Built engineering staff to over 20 developers, technical leads, and architects in less than 3 months; Mentored 5 developers to be quality technical leads.· Managed offsite development in Los Angeles (20 person Accenture team) and India (15 person AppLabs team) working out deliverables, development schedules, and delivery criteria.· Project Managed full life cycle development from Design to Development to Product Delivery for consistency and predictability in Product Releases using MS Project.· One of the Lead Architects that built Portal Presentation software providing Personalized delivery of content through a Web Interface built using Java/J2EE/JSP/servlets and XML on App Servers, such as BEA WebLogic application server and Apache Tomcat, using JDBC to call Oracle/MySQL on UNIX and NT.· Created Agile Development processes to maximize output while providing consistency.· Developed Black box and White Box testing strategies.

San Francisco, Ca

Company provided the ability for consumers to store files on an Internet file system.• Designed and implemented Object Oriented C and C++ client software to synchronize files/directories between Windows and MAC clients and server using XML passed to Java Servlets.

San Francisco, Ca

Engineering Manager Indus developed Enterprise Asset Management Software that was utilized by Power and Utility companies, as well as large manufacturing plants. • Built Web client in Java/JavaScript/HTML and supporting Web Server infrastructure for EAM software as the principal Architect and Designer. • Managed staff of 6 engineers and a release engineer working out timelines and deliverables to ensure timely and quality release of new features.• Earned Top Gun Award for outstanding contributions to the company.Senior Lead Developer• Led team of several developers developing customer specific applications in the realms of Financial Management, Asset Work Management, Inventory Management, Purchasing, and Utility Management Software as the main technical problem solver and client technical liaison.• Owned the schedule and estimates for 6-person development team for timely delivery.• Earned Top Gun Award for outstanding contributions to the company.Senior Client Application Developer• Mastered emerging new Windows Technologies of COM, Active/X, Visual Basic and Windows Programming using C++/MFC to develop Active/X controls.Senior Developer• Ported a 1300 screen CICS/COBOL/DB2 application to UNIX/COBOL/Oracle.• Built numerous tools to aid in the development support of multiple platforms written using REXX, sed, awk, and UNIX shell scripts. Software Developer• Developed several EAM(ERP) applications such as Financial Management, Inventory Management, and Purchasing on a CICS/COBOL/DB2 platform on MVS and UNIX.• Product Analyst working with client to develop specifications for Contract Setup System.