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Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Wayne, Pa, Us

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Leading up to six development teams spanning three continents, delivering software, firmware, hardware, and Matlab-generated models for Baxter's Acute Renal Care product lines. Actively training and mentoring Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and developers/testers as well as leading an agile "Community of Practice" across several Baxter sites. Working with PMO to ensure work is prioritized and milestones are met.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Served on 4-person agile leadership team, establishing and monitoring agile practices throughout the company while coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and other agile practitioners.• Acted as Agile coach/Scrum Master for 3-5 Discovery/Delivery teams for the highest priority IT program at the NMDP. • Incorporated team members from Ireland and Belarus into local delivery teams, while also coordinating with teams comprised completely of off-site members towards common program objectives.• Conducted training for the PMO, development teams, and others on pertinent topics relating to agility.• Administered and customizeed Jira/Confluence tools for Teams and Stakeholders, including setting up workflows, dashboards, etc.

Maple Plain, Mn, Us

Served in Scrum Master and/or Project Manager roles for various enterprise-scale projects.• Initiated a proposal which transformed the development organizational structure around stable, domain-centric development (Scrum) teams. • Led a corporate initiative to integrate customer-facing commerce systems/websites between Proto Labs and a recently acquired subsidiary (Fineline Protyping). Responsibilities included stakeholder identification and alignment, policy synthesis, architectural strategy, and feature prioritization/road mapping. Simultaneously served in a Scrum Master role for the Minnesota, North Carolina, and European development teams.• Acted as Project Manager for a large, multi-year program to design and build a next-generation, custom ERP system. Worked closely with consultants to use this project as a template in helping Proto Labs refine their agile practices.• Led several other small/medium development projects in a Scrum Master role, utilizing domestic and international (U.K.) team members.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for establishing procedures, tools, methodologies, and product requirements, and for leading and overseeing design & development activities for several Neuromodulation software projects.- Introduced and lead team to incorporate Agile/Scrum development methodologies, acting in both Project manager and Coach roles.- Spearheaded mHealth/Connected Care system architecture and requirements, reaching out across the corporation and with multiple vendors to arrive at a proposed solution which is currently going through an RFP process.- Recently successfully lead team to on-schedule parallel delivery of four software applications in support of the “Sure Scan” MRI-conditionally safe product family release.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for all software/firmware development in Cardiac Surgery business unit. - Simultaneously managed and contributed technically to software development projects for as many as six product lines, keeping all on track for successful and timely releases.- Led software effort for a major software release of the BioConsole 560 product. Responsibilities include requirements gathering and management, selection and oversight of two outsourced development teams, leadership of a cross-functional human-factors/user interface design team, and technical leadership for all software design and implementation. The product received accolades from the field as one of the most exciting new product releases for the business in many years, specifically calling out the new User Interface design as best-in-class.- Completely overhauled Cardiac Surgery Software Development Process, rewriting Operating Procedures to allow for a more agile development cycle. Identified and incorporated supporting tools managed by other groups within Medtronic in order to automate and better manage much of the process.- Nominated for Reasoning 2005 Code Quality Award program for producing defect-free software for Magellan 3.0 release.

Taught Programming and Project Management evening courses

Led system design/firmware development for 2600 Digital/Analog Base StationCompany announced relocation to Texas in late 2003

Riga, Lv

Responsible for requirements, feature & user-interface design, software design, and implementation. Utilized Visual C++ and PEG (an MFC-like library for embedded systems).- Designed and implemented Graphical User Interface for new automotive scanner applications. - Led preliminary software effort for new WinCE-based automotive tester.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Served in both a managerial and technical lead capacity, leading a team of 5 - 13 engineers through four CDMA mobile phone projects (Sprint “Touchpoint” series). These phones received much industry acclaim, including the TP1200 being named one of the “Top Products of 1999” by Business Week, and DENSO was touted by Sprint as having superior software quality in all of their products. - Won approval as Project Manager for ~$1,000,000 project starting up a new web-based business venture for the company (downloadable phone ringers & graphics).- Worked with Marketing and the customer to develop all feature specifications, priorities, and requirements. Worked with team members to create project/feature schedules and to distribute assignments. Reviewed and provided guidance for all User Interface/Application designs. Played a proactive role in organizational process development. Also heavily involved in directing business development and pursuing corporate partnerships. Architected software based upon ROOM object-oriented concepts utilizing a hierarchical state machine engine, timer services library, and linked list library which I designed and implemented.- Designed & implemented several features, including Short Messaging Service (SMS) filtering, games, phone management/security features, and support for data/fax calls.Invented & prototyped SMS-based protocol for delivering content to mobile devices was adopted and standardized by a major wireless carrier.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Derived requirements for, designed, and implemented Data Link layer and other subcomponents of Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) protocol for infrastructure and subscriber equipment. Made recommendations to the ETSI standards body which were incorporated into the DECT specification. - Implemented several features into the SuperCell Transcoder platform while meeting or exceeding all deliverable goals. - Responsible for the design, simulation, and implementation of audio circuits. Performed a series of channel simulations utilizing a digital signal processor in conjunction with audio breadboards.- Active in several process-related teams which led to an organizational “level 3” SEI status.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering (Communications Emphasis)