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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Sr. Product Manager of SIG's software analysis platform, Sigrid™Responsibilities include:- Ownership of product roadmap for SIG's software assurance platform: Sigrid™- Leading Sprint rituals together with multiple development teams in an agile environment: Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, functional refinement of product backlog tickets- Conducting product demonstrations to relevant stakeholders on feature release- Conducting user research and compiling user feedback on features to steer development on new and existing product functionality- Defining product workflows based on user personas and use cases- Defining user journey and stories for product roadmap tickets- Defining and documenting product requirements- Constructing product designs in collaboration with front-end engineers and fellow UX/UI designers- Conducting triage and prioritization of product requests from external partners and internal leadership- Collaborating with POs, marketing, sales, engineers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure on-time and complete delivery of product features- Creating and actively monitoring product KPIs to help steer development direction- Mentoring and coaching new hires

Capability owner / R&D fellow of SIG's software analysis model for measuring the quality of the system architecture and maturity of development team organization.Responsibilities include:- Keeping up to date on the cutting edge of Software Architecture developments- Revising model properties and defining new methodology for measuring of software artifacts- Collaboration with internal Research teams for R&D endeavors - statistical analysis and benchmarking, publications, etc.- Product ownership in application of the model in SIG's SaaS software assurance platform- Assisting in proposition development and marketing efforts- Conducting both internal and external trainings in the application of the quality model- Market research involving stakeholder interviews with Enterprise Architects, Software Developers and IT Business Managers

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

In my function I see a multitude of different software ecosystems and development teams on a daily basis, ranging from embedded software to mobile applications to multi-technology back-office portfolios. I assess and provide actionable recommendations for improvements over both newly built systems and systems that have been in operation for 40+ years; from start-up to legacy. In order to provide fact-based and context relevant advice to clients, I combine the use of:- In-depth source code analysis- Architectural design reviews including deployment strategy and logical implementation- Technical debt assessments and developmental effort estimation- Thorough qualitative analysis through interviews with Developers, Tech Leads and C-Suite executives alike.- Development process assessments and refinement with dev teams - R&D in devising new quality models and strategies for assessing software systems- Maintenance and new feature development on our analysis toolsetIt is challenging work requiring a high degree of adaptability, insight and determination to make sure I obtain the right insights, in the right context for the right people.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Technical advisor to IT leadership regarding software engineering best practices, technical debt alleviation and technical design improvements. Recommendations based on qualitative and technical analyses of different software systems / landscapes, ranging from embedded software to mobile applications to multi-technology back-office portfolios. Software quality assessments performed via the use of:- Manual inspection and automated code review- Configuration and development of software analysis tooling- Software Architectural Analysis (dependency analysis, coupling risks, identification of key knowledge holders)- Conducting interviews with Developers to C-level alike to understand culture, implementation and current impediments hampering the development of new and existing systems- Conducting development process assessments to understand how teams are working to identify potential bottlenecks and productivity leakage.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Developed a model for measuring the incurred technical debt and quality impact of a developer's contribution to an existing software system. Expanded functionality of well established software quality tooling to measure developer feedback, following best practices of full-stack development in a Java + Angular Typescript landscape.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Operated and maintained semi-automated thermal coating processes. Processes included thermal booth pre-coat preparation (HVOF and Plasma), ABB and Fanuc Industrial Robot parameter setting (RAPID / Karel), fixture setting, masking of materials for coating, unit preparation and post-coat processing (weighing and de-burring). Performed both pre- and post-coat inspection.

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate Of Science - As