In charge of a high-performance Firmware design team (currently an organization of 35+ developers and testers at different competency levels). New product introduction activities overseeing the following technologies and processes: C, C++, C#,visual basic scripting, python, SVN, GIT, Bamboo for CI/CD, tracealyzer, Jama Contour, JIRA, and Scrum. Managing, staffing, coaching and mentoring for the Firmware teams. Prioritize activities in line with business partners, product owners both internal and third party, upper management, and marketing. Requirement definition, negotiation and clarification for a broad portfolio of home comfort products. In charge of the Product Acceptance Test team.

Manage development and support activities for several groups of high performance developers to ensure all resources are being leveraged adequately. Prioritize activities based on road-map definitions and negotiations with business partners keeping in mind the financial impact and the company's strategic direction.Negotiate requirements, provide solutions and maintain a high level of productivity within the teams.Maintain high quality standards in all operations including documentation efforts for reference material.Encourage engineering practices to create robust solutions adequate for high stress environments.Cost reduction, cost avoidance and process redesign.Partner with HR for the recruiting efforts and career path definitions considering skill sets, market compensation levels.Provide employee feedback and template definition.

Manage development and support activities for a team of high performance developers. Responsibilities include ensuring that Commercial Services, E-commerce B2B, E-commerce B2C and Marketing systems are adequately monitored, maintained and expanded minimizing issues.Prioritize activities based on negotiations with the business partners keeping in mind the financial impact and the company's strategic direction.Build a high performance team able to work under pressure with minimal supervision by ensuring collaborative leadership practices and maintaining the communication channels open.Maintain high quality standards in all operations including documentation efforts for reference material.Encouraged engineering practices to create robust solutions adequate for high stress environments.Cost reduction, cost avoidance and process redesign.Partner with HR for the recruiting efforts and career path definitions for existing developers considering their skills, market compensation levels and interests. Providing employee feedback and template definition.

Managed and supported the Commercial Services team to ensure quality of development by closely monitoring the programming standards, change processes and documentation efforts.Development and support duties that insured production systems were adequately monitored for performance issues, recoveries and scheduling needs.Researched IT issues reported by the business, defined and designed solutions accordingly. Provided design documentation and made recommendations for re-writes, infrastructure changes or improvements when necessary.Prioritized problems based on negotiations and discussions with the business considering the financial impact and ensuring alignment with the strategic direction.Cost reduction, cost avoidance and process redesign. Definition and tracking to achieve the tasks described before.Employee feedback and template definition.

Analyze business problems requiring a technical solution and based on this, design computer application software to solve an identified business problem .Utilizing a programming language, design a solution to automate a business process or resolve an identified business problem.Ensure quality of developed software by exhaustively testing the written programs as a unit test followed by a systems test. Write test plans to serve as a check list for all possible data scenarios that this software might encounter in a production environment.Implement new/revised software into a production run time environment: Produce necessary documentation, identify and communicate scheduling and recovery requirements, monitor initial runs to ensure success.Recommend and evaluate Computer Based Information Systems Solutions based on articles read in trade journals, interacting with other development teams and business users, demonstrating software tool & utilities.

Design support and maintenance both corrective and preventive to all AutoZone Inc. Store Support Systems.Diagnostic and solution of high level problems.Enhancements and repairs on functional systems.Projects for new application design.