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Plano, Texas, Us

In charge of a 12-person technical team, geographically dispersed across multiple locations for a company that develops printed circuit board design software, recently purchased by Siemens. Leads all staff hiring, training, development, and performance management, accountable for a $15M IT budget and P&L. ➣ Directs the development, implementation, and ongoing support for web-based global software development, build, and deployment environments for 17 division sites and 500 global stakeholders. ➣ Instrumental in reducing software release cycle timeframes from 5-6 days to within four hours by combining six different internal systems into a single user interface. ➣ Hand-picked to serve as the lead on gathering and tracking each department’s project requirements and presenting to senior leadership for formal budget approval; manages all project rollouts. ➣ Manages the global IT infrastructure budget, presents the annual budget to senior leadership, procurement, and the entire IT organization, and hosts a monthly tracking meeting.➣ Provides 24x7 direction and guidance to remote support and development staff at multiple global sites; develops and evaluates performance criteria that include hiring and firing as needed.➣ Perform requirements analysis, ROI estimates, task definition, resource planning, scheduling, and project execution that includes leading the migration of environments from new acquisitions.➣ Presents regular project status updates to senior leadership and customers; plans and participates in bi-monthly management reviews.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Hired to utilize extensive expertise with software configuration management and defect tracking in a globally distributed environment as part of a $13.1B addition to the patriot missile contract (MEADS). Accountable for a 7-person team that led a high-profile consortium between the U.S, Germany, and Italy. ➣ Implemented and managed the global IT development environment between Alenia Marconi Systems (Italy), EADS (Germany), and Lockheed Martin Corporation (U.S.).➣ Presented regular status updates to the NATO Medium Extended Air Defense Management Agency (NAMEADSMA).

Plano, Texas, Us

Recruited to serve as the sole architect as part of a 10-person team focused on build and release projects. Provided strategic direction, guidance, and ongoing support to the engineering team dedicated to developing, building, and testing environments for all development sites worldwide. ➣ Maintained IT development environments and release criteria for eight parallel software releases across the division; provided process definition and capacity planning for division environments.

Promoted rapidly and held a dual role; traveled 100% of the time to oversee and lead all technical project resources throughout the southeast region. Spearheaded all project management, training, implementations, and consulting efforts. Served as the product SME and trusted technical advisor for customers. ➣ Identified and qualified new business opportunities that involved pre-sales presentations, trade shows, proposal development, and the creation of detailed SOWs and customer proposals. ➣ Recognized by leadership for consistently exceeding aggressive sales revenue targets.

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Accountable for evaluating customer’s systems, influencing methodologies, and closing win/win 3D physics-based simulation contracts with customers nationwide; identified and qualified new business opportunities. ➣ Conceptualized, developed, and implemented the first 3D instructional animation training leveraging 3D CAD models for U.S. Navy contractors and U.S companies such as BMW, Gulfstream, and NASA.➣ Recognized with the Engineering Animation Sales Engineer of the Year Award for FY’99.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Promoted and tasked with collecting and organizing software requirements from the world’s largest shipbuilding companies into a software design specification for the next generation of ship design products.➣ Developed new business opportunities and authored responses for customer proposals.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Brought on board to conduct business development demonstrations, benchmarks, certifications, customer support, and hands-on training for both domestic and international ship design software customers.

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Served as an engineering liaison between NASA's payload project office and Teledyne's Advanced Space Program Division. Designed a programmable multi-zone crystal growth furnace and provided inflight engineering support for the STS-37 protein crystal growth experiment.