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Pleasanton, Ca, Us

Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 300 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. For more information, visit www.veeva.comWe are currently looking for experienced and passionate engineers to join our fast-paced team working on our industry leading cloud-based document management system, Veeva Vault. Please check out our careers website -- https://www.veeva.com/meet-veeva/careers/ .

Dublin, Ca, Us

Led two global engineering teams at SaaS sales performance management enterprise software company. Reported directly to CTO. Managed first projects to build unified platform for 12 separate product companies that had been recently acquired. Oversaw all aspects of projects including product management, development, QA and deployment.Technology Advancement:• Pioneered scalable, multitenant, highly available architecture• Drove big data and analytics initiative to collect information across multiple product lines and customers, and provide transformative insights• Architected and lead Single Sign On platform to create unified login experience across 12 products• Piloted new dev-ops program to automate deployments and make all pre-prod environments more like production, reducing QA and operational cycles• Introduced monitoring and alerting infrastructure to identify issues before they became customer escalationsIT Practice & Process Improvement:• Acclaimed by operations for instituting a dev-ops process, with both teams working closely together throughout the SDLC, leading to operational improvements which are being introduced to the rest of the organization• Beta tested company’s new agile process, resulting in ability to release once every 2 weeks, improving over previous process of releases once every 4 monthsTechnologies: Java, Tomcat, MyBatis, Spring, Maven, JUnit, JavaScript, jQuery, Ember.js, LESS, Bootstrap, HighCharts, SOA, Web Services, REST, OpenAM, OpenDJ, Oracle, Hadoop, Vertica, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, Linux, Agile Development, Scrum, SDLC, JIRA, JMeter, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading engineering team at fast growing SaaS consumer social referral marketing startup. Recruited to establish team and build out technology infrastructure for analytics portal. Promoted to Director, and then VP of Engineering, guiding engineering, development, QA, and operations through organizational restructurings. Technology Advancement:• Led strategic re-focus on core platform, guiding teams in full redesign using an asynchronous backend coupled to a CDN which has scaled to 1,000x previous load with no new infrastructure, and dramatically improved uptime.• Managed phased transition to new platform, now 75% of revenue, with projected Q3 2014 completion.• Overhauled data warehouse and business intelligence reporting mechanism to improve visibility and veracity of data eliminating tier 3 support requests, and reducing tier 2 support by 400%.• Minimum viable product designed to grow into intuitive self-service offerings for analytics, management of advertising campaigns, messaging, and social channel effectiveness.IT Practice & Process Improvement:• Accelerated release cadence from 2 months to continuous delivery, with deployments multiple times daily by replacing Waterfall with Kanban Agile Development.• Took over engineering operations team and slashed production deployments from 18 hours to < 1 hour.• Instituted stringent QA practices with test case development, execution, management, tracking, and review.Team Development & Leadership:• Assembled platform analytics team and led turnaround of engineering, operations, and QA organization.• Unified disparate teams into a cohesive unit, infusing culture of excellence dedicated to transparency and problem resolution.Lead adoption and operationalization of Java, Tomcat, MyBatis, Spring, Maven, JUnit, Gradle, JavaScript, jQuery, Require.js, Backbone, Marionette, SASS, Foundation CSS, SOA, REST, Kafka, MySQL, Hadoop, Redis, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, Linux, Agile Development, Kanban, JIRA, Crucible, Testrails

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead global teams in all aspects of solution design, development, QA, and support. Collaborated with client executives and business stakeholders from Fortune 1000 companies to develop vision, identify needs, and architect applications. Defined project scope, milestones, deliverables, and project plans. Prepared and presented project status reports. Remedied quality defects. Trained and mentored junior developers.Worked on projects for high profile clients including Oracle, Wells Fargo, Safeway, McKesson, PG&E, Chevron, Equinix, Workday, KCI, Commerce Bank, and Silicon Valley Bank. Encountered a wide variety of company cultures and SDLC methodologies from waterfall to Agile.• Directed and managed teams of up to 45, introducing design and development best practices and creating high performing teams used to grow and train new technical leads• Co-invented 2 patented innovations• Conceived and piloted technical architectures which have become foundations for new enterprise development at multiple clients• Expanded and extended Primitive Logic’s contracts and revenue with clients through consistently successful delivery and building trusted relationships with executive stakeholders• Encountered and mastered a variety of heterogeneous technologies including Portal, ECM, J2EE, .NET, BI, SOA, and SaaS.

Collaborated directly with the CEO in a start-up like environment to define and achieve strategic vision. Performed architecture, design, development, testing, and support of manufacturing applications, e-commerce, and general business processes and solution enhancements. Examined end-user needs to devise strategies. Coordinated ongoing solution analysis as well as change and release management activities. Prepared and presented solution proposals to stakeholders and executives.• Slashed manufacturing times by 60% through creative mathematical and computer science algorithms leveraging graph theory, linear algebra, and NURBs (B-splines)• Opened new markets and sales channels by designing and developing the industry’s first online automated ordering capability for custom manufactured goods• Designed and deployed Web-based CRM tool with workflow management capabilities to improve administration of complex phone and email sales orders• Improved developer productivity by 75% by instituting reusable development and coding templates• Optimized application performance by 80% through database and query optimization initiative• Reduced production defects by 95% by created large dataset-based regression testing scripts• Decreased code complexity by 30% through refactoring, improving maintainability• Gained expertise in an assortment of technologies and design methodologies including C#, ASP.NET, C++, C, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Microsoft SQL Server, OOD and AOP.

Achieved a quick promotion to Programmer Analyst by suggesting and implementing IT projects such as a Linux based firewall, in-house email server, and suggesting improvements to CAM software