Neil Barber Email & Phone Number

Monrovia, Ca, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

Focussing on developing build and release tools used by the production teams that make the movies we all know and love.Heavy focus on Python and Go. And it's all done using scrum.Also Kafka, Zookeeper, Storm, Elasticsearch, Kibana, AWSCredits:Moana 2 (2024)Wish (2023)Strange World (2022)Encanto (2021)Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)Frozen 2 (2019)Ralph Breaks The Internet (2018)Moana (2016)Zootopia (2016)Big Hero 6 (2014)Frozen (2013)Wreck It Ralph (2012)Winnie The Pooh (2011)Tangled (2010)

Londonderry, Nh, Us

Used agile techniques to lead the development of business critical software projects.• Developed key components for a range of high visibility document scanning products, resulting in their exponential market growth over a number of years.• Defined product scope, functional requirements, timeframes and future needs through continuous communication with marketing, sales, QA, OEM partners and end users.• Secured a twenty fold return on investment within eight months by forecasting a future product requirement and persuading senior management to commit to its funding.• Succeeded in enabling a multi-million dollar deal by fostering a team-based approach. Created an excellent customer relationship and developed a unique solution to satisfy specific requirements and prevail over the competition.• Developed integrations with document & content management systems, fax servers, cost recovery systems, fingerprint recognition. Examples: Documentum, Worksite, Sharepoint, Worldox, Fortis, NetDocuments, SureClose, Kofax, DocuShare, Laserfiche, Equitrac, DigitalPersona, RFIdeas and many more.• Mentored 15 team members and performed reviews to ensure consistent code quality and ease of maintenance.• Subject matter expert for engineering custom solutions.• Successfully trained partners and customers on the use of our SDK and frameworks.• Secured new channels of revenue by presenting proof-of-concept demonstrations to business prospects.• Simplified quality assurance process by acting as the key engineering contact to the QA group.

Londonderry, Nh, Us

Led the quality assurance effort for a range of web and desktop based printing products.• Significantly reduced cost and improved quality by developing automated testing techniques on a range of scanning, printing and internet based products.• Achieved 80% decrease in man hours during test cycles.• Secured multiple nominations for EFI's “One In A Million” employee competition by transforming the entire organization's approach to Quality Assurance.• Ensured timely problem isolation and resolution of software bugs through effective communication with engineering groups.• Fostered team level consistency during test cycles by developing well defined test plans.• Established alpha, beta and first article entry points to ensure required quality levels at defined milestones.• Accelerated QA process through delegation of tasks to individuals.• Defined product feature sets by participating in design reviews and developing functional requirements.• Improved group productivity by identifying skills gaps within the team and developing action plans to address shortfalls.• Minimized downtime by devising an imaginative solution for heart beat monitoring of our hosted products.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• Managed technical aspects of the product launch process for Windows and UNIX based Raster Image Processors throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.• Identified optimum product configurations for initial launch phase and managed problem resolution during early customer trials.• Ensured solid action plans were in place to correct software and hardware issues.• Executed initial training classes for field based sales and support personnel.• Facilitated communications and information distribution worldwide.• Hosted forums for international knowledge sharing.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• 3rd level software technical support role to an internal customer base spanning Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.• Core specialty areas were Windows, UNIX, VXWorks and Mac OS based Raster Image Processors (RIP) and the network environments they resided in (IP, Appletalk, Novell).• Page layout and graphic design applications (Quark, PhotoShop, InDesign)

• A field based role servicing and maintaining PC’s, servers and office equipment.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• A telephone “hotline” support role.• Supported Xerox desktop publishing systems including the Xerox 6085 and the pioneering GlobalView software.

• A summer job prior to commencing college education. Involved maintenance and repair of amusement arcade games. My friends will tell you I also had to clean the zoo animal's private parts. But that simply is not true.