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Palo Alto, CA, US

Santa Cruz, California, US

• Lead multiple local and offshore development teams responsible for delivery of global Agile Automation Strategy, major UI technology refresh and performance, scale and load product testing for industry leading video.
• Research and delivered new global model for agile software automation execution in continuous integration environment. Received accolades from global software quality organizations on transformative approach
• Recipient of Polycom Engineering Innovation award for leveraging Agile / Lean practices to organize and execute largest and most complicated new product offering

San Jose, California, US

• Selected to lead engineering activities for newly formed global response team dedicated to resolving Polycom’s most critical, highest profile customer escalations. Notable contributions:
• Recovered one of Polycom’s most visible customer escalations of 2014. Transformed customer into Polycom’s gold standard for achieving highest global utilization and availability for video conferencing infrastructure
• Reduced number of critical customer escalations by 65% within first 9 months
• Recipient of Polycom STAR award for outstanding performance
• Provided regular progress reports to executive staff including CEO

San Jose, California, US

• Define and drive all release planning functions on behalf of Polycom’s worldwide engineering organization. Lead key initiatives to develop comprehensive long-term roadmap outlooks and release planning, monthly.
• Drive development of a cohesive, efficient, and effective process for development of quarterly release plans including process improvements and the utilization of software systems as required
• Improve the organization’s ability to track and report on resource allocation, capacity, and utilization through process and system improvements
• Utilize improvements to annual planning, budgeting, resource reporting, and other areas to create monthly/quarterly cadence of reporting to senior management regarding release plan against current status
• Improve alignment across the product organization
• Identify opportunities for alignment by eliminating barriers and driving synergies

San Jose, California, US

• Promoted to serve as high profile Program Manager for a large geographically distributed product development and delivery teams. Lead the newly formed wave/solution program for Polycom’s Video Division; overarching.
• Evangelized the need for a unified development and release process across the globe. Built support and buy-in from diverse stakeholders while managing large-scale corporate change to the release process.
• Developed program best practices for the development, test and release of common features across geographically distributed products; methodologies include reference architectures, requirements elaboration and.
• Synchronized definition, design and delivery of 10 product releases. Reduced release cycle time from one year to six months by using enterprise Agile, Lean and Waterfall methodologies. Led 5 of the company’s largest.
• Delivered first solution release for Department of Defense UC-APL certification.
• Delivered first-of-kind Cloud-based video collaboration and conferencing software solution for private and public clouds within 5 months of inception.

San Jose, California, US

• Hired to a newly created job to manage/own the product requirements process for the world's most widely used solution for on-demand audio conferencing services, an IMS-compliant application server, and a development.
• Developed requirements for transformation of a first-in-industry audio-only solution into a unique network-based virtualization application for managing and distributing video calls across collaboration networks.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Selected to lead a 20-member cross-division evaluation team to analyze and recommend a next-generation online knowledge-centered support platform; managed a $2.5 million budget as well as vendor contracts, technical.
• Achieved 87% customer approval rating after delivering the initial online support system.
• Negotiated $2 million enterprise contract with an online support vendor. Selected/deployed technology division-wide.
• Met 100% of critical project objectives; served as a liaison to business and engineering teams responsible for critical review of technical architecture and business requirements.
• Developed expert knowledge of natural language search solutions and contributed to developing a strategy for Sun based on extensive industry research.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Recruited and managed a cross-functional team responsible for analysis and specification of technology solutions used by the customer support division. Managed relations with key stakeholders for high profile projects.
• Promoted to Senior Architect.
• Collaborated with Sun’s top architects to rapidly develop a new utility storage program. Achieved early implementation for the customer utility storage initiative (datacenter) which predated cloud computing.
• Selected to serve as a member of a nomination-only high profile Customer Engineering Technology Council which analyzed strategic technology choices. The Council was comprised of Sun’s top technology leaders.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Moved to Sun’s Professional Services organization which delivered a customized Learning Management Solution to customers. Served as a liaison to customers while also collaborating with the engineering team to drive.
• Served as a consultant to customers to ensure customer satisfaction with the Educational Services solution.
• Following Sun’s acquisition of a Learning Management Solution, worked extensively with the new site to test technology and make recommendations for effectively customizing the solution for customer needs.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Transitioned to a Program Management role with responsibility for leading implementation teams and coordinating development for an enterprise-class multi-tiered e-learning portal. Served as the functional manager for the 40 member engineering group and core product team charged with technical and engineering development.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Recruited to lead an 8-member software design, development and testing team in Sun’s newly launched Colorado office. Supplied component plans and architectural specifications as a designer for client-side and.
• Promoted to Lead Architect.
• Developed an online Java certification testing solution which became the fastest-growing corporate e-learning offering at Sun and the only Java certification training program in industry.
• Team served as initial adopters of leading edge Java technologies and communicated with Sun product development teams to ensure continuous improvement.

Global, US

Led development of key workforce management software components at major telecommunications service provider. Furnished systems management, security specifications, and detailed design for enterprise-wide client/server application. Created project plans and COTS product specifications. Selected and organized technical teams charged with C++ and Tuxedo.