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Carlsbad, Ca

San Diego

Managed the day-to-day development and scrum tasks of four separate product development teams, including the gathering of the initial product requirements and producing the product roadmap. Kept development on track and focused, driving revenue up over 200%.

Greater San Diego Area

Managed the day-to-day tasks, motivating a staff of 20 engineers to complete the design and development of a new website monitoring software, releasing on a two week schedule using Agile. Developed knowledge in a variety of software such as Javascript, MongoDB, Python and Ruby.

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Managed and led a global project team to rebuild the hardware infrastructure and software support systems for Accenture’s communication backbone WAN/LAN throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa. Using a Agile/SCRUM based methodology, the success of the project allowed an increase in the client base and an increase in revenue of over 75%.

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Converted the website development and release process from Waterfall to an Agile/Scrum environment. This reduced the service issues by 65%, shortened coding requirements, reduced bug-count and increased customer demand by 210%.

Greater San Diego Area

Directed a project to reduce PETCO’s corporate technology infrastructure costs by $2.2M yearly by introducing new datacenter construction and design and the reduction of difficult to maintain satellite datacenters.

Greater San Diego Area

Managed an 18-month project to redesign and reconstruct the facilities and IT infrastructure of the entire organization. No downtime was allotted during this $14M project, which included managing over 700 concurrent tasks involving over 200 internal personnel and external vendors. The project was completed within the budget and time parameters set by management and provided a 35% increase in internal efficiency.