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La Cañada Flintridge, CA, US

Brooklyn, New York, US

Developing next generation system for cutting energy use at legacy steam heated buildings, while improving the comfort of the people who live within them.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Built a world-class R&D Software team in less than eight months.Trained team in best in class agile and continuous delivery practices.Developed architecture for a unique system propelling millimeter scale therapy-delivery devices within the body using external medical imaging and magnetic propulsion.Successfully delivered device into animal testing.

Schaffhausen, CH

Implemented a collaboration centered team process, increasing team delivery pace six-fold.Took an organization that failed to deliver a product for the previous two years and delivered seven product releases in fifteen months, creating over 10 million USD in new annual revenue.Lead improvements of existing products, cutting the reliability incidents in one.

Pasadena, California, US

Delivered product firmware on-time for critical demonstration, providing leadership and hands-on code development.Introduced test-driven development, revealing significant memory and concurrency issues, while creating hardware independence.

Los Angeles, California, US

Revitalized the software process, dramatically improving delivery speed and product quality.Improvements enabled a 5x sales increase.Uptime grew at least 10x and bug count shrank to near zero.Delivered first on-time software releases in company history.

Mettawa, IL, US

Leading developers creating a new critical-care ventilator.Involved in all aspects of planning, scheduling, architecting, implementing and testing the design.Created a unique functional-programming-based GUI framework.Data-driven approach allows the GUI to support new ventilation features with zero GUI code-changes.Implemented a lightweight development.

Performed hands-on project management and leading other project managers for a global team with developers in California, China and Malaysia and QA in India, China and Illinois.

Shifted organization to Agile Development, improving delivery timelines and quality.Defined all practices.Trained and coached team, refining processes and propagating best practices.Managed Quality Assurance, leading groups in the U.S.And Philippines.Created frameworks for testing front and back-end.Formed strong ties across geographically dispersed teams.

San Jose, California, US

Initiated use of Extreme Programing across three software organizations.Coached teams during adoption and provided ongoing mentoring; Led a team in two states.Created software for robotic motion control.

Led development of an SDK with industry-leading object recognition and navigation features.Supervised development team, implemented code, defined requirements and schedule.

Pasadena, CA, US

Arlington, VA, US

Led development of Common Test Language avionics validation tool for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program, validating tested code against a DOORS requirements database.

Assumed leadership of firmware and electrical engineering teams, trained and motivated engineers, and created a new project development plan to meet aggressive release schedule.

San Jose, California, US

Managed team creating a Gigabit Ethernet to SCSI Ultra-160M bridge, with NDMP and iSCSI protocols. Utilized embedded Linux and Extreme Programming (XP) development process. Delivered product on-time and on-budget.Led multi-disciplinary team developing software architecture for next-generation tape libraries, from requirements generation through.

Led development of a motor-control board for an existing high-speed tape recorder.Created adaptive motor control software that dramatically improved tape-handling characteristics.Introduced C++ and object oriented techniques, company-wide.Developed firmware for touch-screen control panels used in multiple recorders, from low-level drivers to GUI.OTHER.