Paul Guidry Email & Phone Number

United States

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Directed a project management department overseeing six product lines, ensuring streamlined operations and effective coordination.• Increased on-time delivery rates from under 40% to 94% by implementing robust estimation, roadmap, and commitment processes.• Enhanced requirements gathering processes with acceptance criteria, decreasing rejection rates 15% and paving the way for automated regression testing systems.

• Oversaw the successful development and support of five products, delivering contracts exceeding $100M and contributing approximately 40% of corporate revenue.• Increased team productivity by 25% through comprehensive restructuring of team dynamics and process optimization.• Implemented automated testing strategies, leading to the development of 50,000+ unit, acceptance, and UI tests within a continuous integration framework.• Elevated product quality by implementing behavior-driven development (BDD) to improve the requirements gathering processes, resulting in reduction of defect rates.

Chandler, Az

• Formed a global, distributed development team across 5 sites responsible for developing Intel's Enterprise Access Management system that provided access for over 120,000 users.• Improved automated test coverage and consistently maintained a first pass rate in functional test above 90% over two years.• Transitioned engineering processes to agile methodologies, incorporating Test-Driven Development (TDD), crafting user stories, and establishing iterative release cycles to optimize software development processes. Achieved 50% automated test coverage in the first 6 months.• Orchestrated the seamless integration with over 400 applications, handling in excess of 1.8 million annual access requests.

Chandler, Az

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to facilitate requirement gathering, design, and development processes for a suite of server management products, achieving the successful delivery of eight product releases including early delivery of a key release resulting in a 125% division bonus target.• Instituted System Change Request process, which focused development efforts on critical issues, resulting in improved schedule adherence and performance.

Chandler, Az

• Provided 1st and 2nd level support for over 100 applications and hardware (Windows, Unix, and VMS) across a 1200 member Technology Development factory.• Devised reuse strategy resulting in $150,000 cost savings and optimized Computer Room space by 20%.• Implemented a capital expenditure review process that identified and eliminated redundant equipment purchases, resulting in savings of $110,000.• Optimized database integration processes, resulting in a 50% reduction in merge times.

Chandler, Az

• Managed the development and global implementation of warehouse and shipping management systems across six international locations, awarded the ZERO Downtime Initiative Award for achieving all release targets and reducing critical incidents from 4 per week to zero over a 20-week period.• Directed the Short Lead-time Availability of Materials (SLAM) program, enhancing customer satisfaction by enabling same-day shipments which doubled annual orders to $4.5M, reduced customer inventory over 50%, and maintained perfect on-time shipment records.• Devised a 'Day One' acquisition strategy for corporate acquisitions, delivering cost-effective solutions that bypassed the need for full logistics suite implementation avoiding approximately $800K in potential implementation costs.

Chandler, Az

• Led automation and equipment development projects, enhancing semiconductor assembly and test procedures; significantly improved worldwide process matching from 30% to 85%.• Doubled machine output capacity from 40,000 to 80,000 units per week through continuous improvement initiatives.

Master'S Degree, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science