R&D Division Manager
Yakum, Il
The company develops Homeland Security Systems, including command and control layouts.Within the framework of this position, I was in charge of recruit the development department, defining work processes, constructing work plans; follow up of work plans, defining hardware requirements (development, tests), management of the development layout from the stage of characterization and analysis of the system, managing the budget of the development department, working with the project managers and manage the development department.• Erection and management of a department, consisting of 76 employees (programmers, R&D managers, team heads' DBAs, QA team, Mobile, Big-Data and integration), matrix management of 12 programmers and heads of teams• Scrum methodological assimilation toward the management of projects and software development• Development estimations (WBS) according to SSS documents• Review the SRS requirements with the system engineers• Review the characterization of the SDD system (HLD) and detailed planning (DD)• Managing the budget of the entire development department, including programmers and team heads, outsourcing and procurement of software and hardware equipment• Examination and integration of innovative technologies in products of the company• Basing the systems of the company under the platform of .NET Framework, WCF and WPF (client application)• Constructing a communication infrastructure for a decentralized efficient system, according to the SOA architecture principles• Working with an outsourcing company for the benefit of the development services, including the determination of SOW• Raising notions toward improvement and increasing the efficiency of the development systems at customer site and various development departments• Providing a response to the RFPs toward new projects• Participation in Pre-Sales processes and presentation of demos to prospective clients also work with Pre-Sales on customer solution and proposals