• Firmware Competency Leader, responsible for managing processes, tools, and initiatives for the North Americas firmware organization, as well as training the engineers within the competency.• Improved team engagement metrics, and spearheaded a recognition initiative, yielding 5x peer-to-peer recognition.• Manage a team of 10 direct reports, leading team members through professional growth road mapping, performance reviews, objective planning, conflict resolution, and personal support.• Manage 6-12 different new product development initiatives, including appropriately staffing and prioritizing.• Work with counterpart managers in Indiana, Colorado, and Bengaluru to support all projects.• Heavily support our ‘Women In Tech’ employee resource group, helping to organize and send 30 women and allies to the SWE conference in Houston, TX.• Managed several business-critical part shortage efforts, including a product which provides $1.2M revenue/week.• Participate in Allegion’s Mentorship program.• Took initiative to implement new hiring processes for my team that have yielded significant impacts on key diversity metrics within my team.

• Participated in the strategic decisions with regards to critical part shortage mitigations.• Organized and led the development team in initial proof of concepting.• Managed firmware competency initiatives as the Firmware Competency Leader at Allegion.• Managed hiring activities, including creating new requisitions and phone screening.• Successfully negotiated hire of promising new firmware team member.• Continually motivated project team members through tough circumstances, including unclear and changing requirements.

• Mentored, assessed, coached, motivated, and developed interns for two summers.• Effectively managed and coordinated development activities, including sprint planning, resource allocation, and feature development workflows using tools including Azure DevOps and MS Project.• Negotiated transition of products through SDLC from ideation to post-production sustenance.• Conducted analysis of AWS IoT field data for new anomalies found in the field using MS Power BI.• Institutionalized the use of new process tools for the firmware competency, including Open Source and Static Analysis• Lead team of 6-8 engineers from multiple sites to develop Z-Wave+ residential lock.• Lead team of 6-8 engineers from multiple sites to develop Next-Gen Wi-Fi residential lock.• Overcame significant architectural design challenges while developing Next-Gen Wi-Fi residential lock.• Worked closely with external mega-tech company to implement new access control methods.• Implemented an Android Mobile Application to unblock our FW development as our partner’s schedule slipped.

• Developed firmware in support of industry leading Schlage Encode Wi-Fi smart lock. (ARM M4, M0+ processors)• Spearheaded entire development on new capacitive sense keypad.• Conducted environmental data analysis to understand rainfall use cases with regards to capacitive sense keypad.• Developed new test method for validating rainfall intensity effects on capacitive sense keypad.• Created new deadbolt position sensing and motor drive mechanism and algorithm. (Patented)• Created several software modules to promote code re-use and maintainability.• Lead migration of our product lines from MQX RTOS to FreeRTOS.• Lead migration to Azure DevOps for CI/CD of firmware development.• Guided our teams to agile development methodologies, and taught others how to plan that in Azure Devops.• Drove new process and tools initiatives, automating software continuous integration and deployment, and creating static analysis and open source analysis plugins to help ease-of-use for the rest of the engineering organization.

• Developed firmware in support of multi-family and single-family residential electronic lock product lines.• Supported products through their entire life cycle, from proof-of-concept to sustenance.• Implemented NFC low power card detection for access control. (Patented) • Developed drivers for many technologies, including Wi-Fi.• Worked closely with cross-functional engineering disciplines including systems, hardware, and mechanical teams.• Implemented AES 128/192/256 encryption algorithm before we used open-source libraries.• Created software simulation for a Mobile App before the actual Mobile App was ready, so our corresponding FW development was not blocked.• Pioneered new command-line interface for hardware validation on our products.

• Developed firmware in support of automotive active safety features, including collision-mitigation-by-braking, cross-traffic-alert, and blind-spot-detection.• Used waterfall development methodology.• Successfully accomplished assigned tasks while requiring minimal guidance.• Participated in regular design reviews and code reviews.• Created and implemented software and architecture design documents.• Verified software designs with unit testing, integration testing, and system testing.

• Designed software to automate several different measurement devices.• Created multiple Graphical User Interfaces to improve test efficiency.