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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Led a team of 175+ technical people building, testing, and delivering multiple products.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Led a team of 40+ managers, developers, QA, and DevOps engineers.- Directly responsible for products delivering $50M in annual revenue and more than 30% YoY growth.- Contributed to the due diligence process leading to a successful acquisition by Thoma Bravo- Implemented SOC2 compliant processes and helped pass a SOC2 audit.- Provided architectural oversight

Consulting on various engineering and technology needs:- Software engineering team building and leadership (including offshore teams)- Agile software development- Data analysis and time series forecasting- Scalable architectures using cloud platforms

- Bootstrapped a distributed engineering organization of several teams supporting the delivery of ~$3M dollars of software development and technology services using different tech stacks and addressing different business verticals including personal finance, lean/six sigma, insurance, construction, custom jewelry, project workflow management and philanthropy.- Formed a business entity in India that served as our main center of engineering. Established all core office functions for this office including HR and accounting. Negotiated various contracts including those for the office space and buildout.- Provided hands-on architecture, UX and engineering team leadership for several different projects including those leveraging cloud and mobile technologies. - Created project proposals and cost estimates based on customer requirements.- Evaluated and implemented various tools across engineering teams for agile software development.

Led the engineering team through the delivery of several significant features and performance improvements of OrangeSoda's service delivery platform Valencia. These features included improved reporting and dashboards to help customers understand the performance of the PPC and SEO services as well as workflow and performance improvements to scale the system to support more users. Also led efforts to use test automation and increase unit test coverage. Contributed to architecture and UX/UI design decisions. Improved engineering team adoption of agile development processes. Improved the cost structure of the engineering team by bringing in offshore resources.

Participated in the development, design and coding in C#, JavaScript and JQuery, of a new social media product being launched as a spin-off of Mozenda.Developed the Client Connector with C# .Net which provides client information to the back-end servers and also initiates tasks on client computers.Performed code reviews and taught company coding styles to junior programmers.Wrote unit tests using NUint to automate part of the application testing. Provided second level support to customers.Helped deploy software updates and configure system servers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Ominture acquired by Adobe see Ominiture experience for this role.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Developed various tools to help manage system resources.Researched and reported on ways to save the company over a million dollars through better server configuration. Used tools to manage the allocation of system resources such as datacenter servers.

San Jose, California, Us

Manage the installation and product delivery teams. Lead in the creation of product and process requirements related to installation and product delivery for the Symantec Management Platform and related products. Lead architect for the Symantec Installation Manager which provide day one usability for enterprise software that usually took customers days to get running. Provide education through presentations, email, Wiki articles and web meetings to help product teams learn the features and usage of the Symantec Installation Manager and supporting utility applications. Implemented a Scrum development process improving the team's project efficiency, quality and predictability. Direct the prioritization of project development tasks and provide regular updates to senior management on the status of the projects. When problems or risks arose provided senior management and project stakeholders with proposals to remove or reduce risk.

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Manage a team of developers and testers developing a new installation and configuration process for all Altiris products. Participate in producing product requirements. Responsible for the creation of functional specifications, and for establishing and enforcing good coding practices. Provide accurate estimates for development time. Take ownership of development projects and meet milestones on time with minimal supervision. Provide regular status reports to VP of Development and CTO. Conduct interviews for hiring of new development staff. Prepare presentations and other media to communicate company wide initiatives dealing with install and configuration. Member of the User Interface Committee. Successfully released a major first release product designed to save millions in support dollars. Work with major partners to resolve issues. Be customer minded and detail oriented to develop a quality user experience.

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Hired to remedy problems with a struggling Palm based project. Quickly identified problems and used experience to make fixes and get the project back on schedule. Created functional design documents. When company priorities changed led team of developers and testers on a new high visibility project to address top customer support issues. Later officially promoted to manager.

Provo, Ut, Us

Develop a system for automatic extraction of index information from digitized genealogical microfilm. This system will make significant improvements in the speed and manner in which people accessgenealogical microfilm.

Worked for CodeMagic since its beginning. Performed many tasks in addition to those typical of a software engineer. Solely responsible for the sale, specification, design, coding, installation, documentation, and support of several custom software and hardware solutions. The solutions developed supported various customers business critical processes such as inventory tracking, work-in-progress (manufacturing) and sales order taking, order picking and shipping. Assisted in the management of a team of workers for the production of a 1.8 million dollar system for the worlds largest video duplication company. Responsible for the company's website development. Setup and maintained the network and office’s computer equipment.

Created Bizjetpilot.com the company website which provides a way for business jet owners and operators to findpilots and crew for their aircraft. Developed a desktop application to handle the inventory, sale and rental ofaircraft parts. Maintained the office computers.

Designed and produced the companies website. Sold custom Windows software and hardware systems. The systems all involved bar code equipment such as scanners and printers. The systems supported business processes such as inventory tracking and work-in-progress. Managed a temporary staff for the assembly of 100+ symbology reading systems for a 1 million dollar international project.

Wrote, designed, and produced organizational management software for the California Nurses Association. Also worked in conjunction with the management in the California Nurses Association to analyze current procedures and determined ways to make improvements.

Graduate Courses, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science