Manager, Engineering
North Reading, Massachusetts, Us
Blink for Home, the home video security wireless solution was acquired by Amazon in 2017.Following our acquisition by Amazon I built the Engineering Services team from two to forty engineers, much of it in the midst of the pandemic and despite a very competitive job market. I successfully hired, and developed within, strong leaders to lead four specific units including Information Systems Engineering, Quality Assurance Engineering, Quality Control Testing, and Automation Solutions.InfoSysEng reduced Engineers' downtime through our full stack support, augmenting Amazon IT services, and building a dedicated test network infrastructure including first of kind secure, stable access to our overseas contract manufacturing partners.QA Engineering developed comprehensive test suites while continuously increasing test coverage driving Blink through transition to Agile test methodology.Quality Control team developed QC tests reducing customer found defects, and saving customer experience from exposure to manufacturing escapes.I conceptualized and drove development of the original hardware automation test solutions enabling my Automation Solutions team to increase test coverage by 120% and reduce time to completion from weeks and days to hours.