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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 product by more than 85%.Created institutional trust in R&D and a happy, engaged team.

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 process, maximizing value of regulatory supporting byproducts, while minimizing costly overhead and interruption.Created continuous delivery environment, using highly automated testing to deliver release-ready code each day.Integrated teams from multiple corporate heritages into a cohesive "new company" identity.Built a positive and encouraging “team-room” environment.Developed an engineering training program, and a highly successful intern program.

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 architecting and prototype development. Effort result is the PX720 library family.Managed development of fibre channel to SCSI bridge. Directed activities of twelve engineers and over twenty others.Architected firmware on GUI Control Panel with substantial reuse across two dramatically different electronic systems.Project manager and firmware architect on multi-unit software. Invented mechanism and directed two engineers' efforts.Co-developed object oriented architecture for tape libraries. Design allowed in-place reuse of over two-thirds of the code-base by seven physically dissimilar devices. Object Oriented Design delivered more reliable product and allowed consistent, best-in-class operation over three generations of ATL products.Investigate improvements in development process and administrated tool suite. Initiated use of C++, object oriented design and extreme programming. Led process, operating system and tool selection, education and maintenance.

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 ACHIEVEMENTSAIRBATTLE GAMES 2002 - PresentDeveloped the strategy game Birds of Prey: Air Combat in the Jet Age, released globally by Ad Astra Games in 2008.The game is a sophisticated table-top simulation of the physics of flight, with nomographs to perform complex math.Generated nearly two hundred pages of rules, scenarios and playaids, plus aircraft and missile data cards.Researched the history and performance of many aircraft and missiles; and created full color illustrations to match.Documents created with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. Simulation modeled in Excel and Maple.TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIESC++, Java, C, Assembly, PythonAgile development processes, including Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum,Subversion, Maven, ClearCase, CVS, RCS, SCCS, PVCS, SourceSafe, Rational Rose (using Booch and UML),Linux, Unix, Windows, Macintosh OS X, VxWorks, Lynx, Thread X, MediaWiki,Microsoft Project, FastTrack Schedule, DOORS, CodeBeamer, MKS, ClearDDTS, VectorCast,Flex, ControlShell, Eclipse, Sniff+, JBuilder, Visual Age, Visual Studio, XCode, CodeWarrior,SCSI 3, iSCSI, NDMP, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital Card, SCSI Medium Changer, SCSI Sequential Access Device,Fibre Channel, PCI, IEEE-488, Servo Controlled Robotics