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Leading a group of distributed Engineers from highly skilled to entry level. Helping them to be their best selves and growing teams that make great products. Organizing the work so the team can focus on what they do best. DO-178 DAL-B Leading development teams in use of collaboration and technology tools for architecture, communication, and CI/CD. Working on some of the most challenging "Red" projects to pull them back on track.

Manager of a distributed Software Engineering team. Responsible for managing the technical building of a new Enterprise application across multiple sites. * Building communication channels and focus on value streaming using Agile and Kanban principles* Guiding a team of Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and UX Designers to build an Enterprise application using AWS, Amazon RDS, Angular, C#. Expecting thousands of simultaneous users on desktop and mobile platforms

Manager of several Engineering teams across sites, responsible for up to 25 SW Engineers and indirect reports. Hiring/firing, training, reviewing, coaching, and team building. • Guided successful teams developing for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android using C#, .NET, Angular, and NodeJS. Built complete CI/CD system for all platforms using Jenkins, GIT, Jira, and Confluence• Worked with Product Owner, Marketing, and QA to maintain a well understood product backlog enabling early project risk mitigation, timely estimates, and prioritizing for largest customer value• Maintained alignment of team and personal goals with departmental goals by initiating OKR goal setting framework with SW Eng Department. OKR system improved team initiative, alignment with departmental goals improving team and departmental cohesion. • Implemented Continual Improvement program with regular Retrospective meetings and team health monitors. • Kept the team motivated and focused through regular 1 on 1 meetings, rapid feedback, open collaboration, and gamification. • Builder of consensus through open collaboration, mutual respect, frequent and early feedback

Small business developing power supply controllers. Managed software team building configuration application. • Built from start a team of 6 Engineers. Personally designed C# architecture. • Designed UX focused on customer’s perspective and needs, product extensibility, and test automation• Built up Microsoft TFS system to track progress and bugs and as source control management• New application was 5x more responsive, pleased the customer, virtually no bugs, and met the schedule

Small business manufacturing embedded hardware development tools• C++ / MFC Engineer developing back-end and UI for Windows debugging app• Primary developer for file loaders and debug symbol analysis interpretation• Reduced file load time from 4 minutes to 15 seconds using JIT indexing architecture

Startup company making embedded printer controllers. • Developed embedded software for printer controllers in C/C++• Wrote and supported printer drivers for Windows • Full product testing and documentation in Japanese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish• Designed and implemented product simulators for R&D projects

Software Tools group. I developed applications to test the simulation models for new products.