Michael Finelli Email & Phone Number

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States

I am a "special ops" Program Manager, taking assignments for key programs that are in trouble or require my specific skillset. I have worked across organizations and been added to assist the Oracle Pandemic Response team that is part of Operation Warp Speed. I lead a high performing team that handles not only Program Management, but works to make data and analysis of that data self-service and automated where ever possible. Our Cloud Native organization is one of the up and coming teams well recognized by Oracle leadership.

Morrisville, Nc

Morrisville, Nc

Durham, Nc

- Lead Quality Assurance organization consisting of 115 testers and managers located in four US sites, Bangalore, India, and Dalian, China.- recognized Strength - team/talent development - for newer teams in the US and China, developed a skill set matrix to normalize how talent is evaluated versus the more experienced sites; also used to determine development and training plans for growth. This was a first for the Workplace Investing QA organization.- Implemented several new processes that improved QA efficiencies and helped improve SDLC deliverables.- Worked closely with development and business partners to identify areas of duplication and ways to improve.- Worked with the automation program to increase automation implementation.- Teams consistently delivered projects on time and on budget.

Director of Test Engineering - Oversee all Product Verification planning and execution for the following major LTE programs: Diameter Signaling Router, Subscriber Data Management, Policy, and Service Broker. - Test staff totals about 120 engineers and managers, located at sites in Morrisville, NC, Montreal, Canada, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Nanjing, China. Responsible for talent development of newer sites as well as talent merging for acquired sites.- Completed integration of acquired companies’ product verification teams; taught teams appropriate processes and approaches to improve test coverage and SW delivery to key customers- Additionally manage a team of tools and automation engineers responsible for creating state of the art test tools for product verification efficiency and coverage.- Previous responsibility also included SS7 signaling and monitoring product verification management.

- Senior Manager of Product Verification Team for the flagship EAGLE Product family, including the next generation XG products. Full responsibility for product quality, ensuring requirements are successfully tested.- Lead and continuously develop an organization of about 75 reports (managers and testers) in North Carolina and India. - Lead interface with key customers for ensuring project status, customer-testing status, and customer needs are properly heard, elevated, and responded to.- Met over 90% of all project deadlines within a week of projections- Analyze additional business requests and determine how to best overlay new projects without impacting main product plan- Lead all key strategic customer lab demonstrations resulting in customers consistently selecting Tekelec versus a competitor- Manage a team of 6 local tools and automation engineers plus a manager. Implementation of certain projects has enabled product verification team to increase workload without increasing staffing- Invited to present at the 2009 QUEST Forum; topic titled “Utilizing Automated Processes in Product Verification” - Received CEO Performance Award (1 of 5 company wide) in 2006.

Morrisville, Nc

- Consistently ranked in the company’s top 10 most critical resources.- Develop test plans to cover telecom specifications customer requirements- Design and implement appropriate test beds for features and for system test execution- Review feature requirement specifications and provide feedback to Product Management and Software Development