René Boswinkel Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsible for quality assurance and release management of Uniface; as of 2016, by coaching Uniface's six Scrum teams, and by acting as sparring partner for architects, developers, scrum masters and product owners. Before 2016, in the role of line manager, leading by example for quality analysts and developers.* Member of the Development Lab leadership team. Reporting to VP Technology.* Scrum teams adopted whole-team quality responsibility striving for an always shippable product.* Hands-on to make change happen. * Reduced feature release cycle to two weeks (sprint pace).---Uniface is a software development and deployment suite for enterprise Client Server, Mobile and Web apps for Windows, Linux/Unix, iSeries and more; both on-premise and in the cloud.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsible for quality assurance and release management as line manager for six quality engineers and three software developers. Member of the Development Lab leadership team. Reporting to VP Technology.Aligned QA process with Scrum. Reduced feature release cycle from 16 to 4 months, by introducing risk-based testing (shortening release test cycles/hardening sprints) and streamlining release processes. Product Owner role for the ‘software factory’ (build) team, and for hardening sprints (preparing and steering test, fix & release sprints).

* Hands-on team lead of the Quality Assurance team (with Quality Engineers in each of the Scrum teams)* Scrum Master for one of the (product) Scrum teams, at the forefront of moving the organization from Waterfall to Scrum. Later coach for other Scrum masters.* Reporting to Development Manager.* Set up Quality Assurance team (hiring of Quality Engineers with strong developer skills).

Deventer Area, Netherlands

* Responsible for all product management activities of the entire software suite and for customer specific deliverables/features. Interim lead for development team (local and remote). Reporting to CEO.* Professionalized product management, and development practices which enabled this start-up company to move from ad-hoc to agile, to predictable and reliable release schedules (track record of monthly feature releases)* Hands-on activities included sparring with software engineers, requirements gathering, functional specification and design, acceptance, producing marketing collateral, subcontracting and verifying Dutch, English and French user documentation and user interface translation.---Trinicom (KANA) is a leading software provider in the field of web self-service, e-mail response management, live chat, chat bots, call management and letter-, fax- and desk contact. Trinicom focuses primarily on the development, implementation and support of its core product: Trinicom 5 (T5™). Trinicom can count leading national and international organizations among its clients, including Agis Health Insurance, Albert Heijn, AlbumPrinter, Arke, Cendris, Cheaptickets.nl, De Kindertelefoon, Rabobank, Telfort, Univé, University of Utrecht and Vrij Uit.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Team lead for quality engineers on both sides of the Atlantic: Amsterdam and Detroit, MI (USA). Test co-ordination, test management, and quality assessment for release go/no-go decision (product readiness).Quality Engineer for OptimalJ, with focus on: * Architect Edition - meta-modeling and architecture patterns (coded [meta]model transformation patterns). * Version control support - testing XML 3-way merge, etc. * Test automation - including Java/JUnit ---OptimalJ was a model-driven architecture based IDE to design, develop and deploy J2EE applications.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Tester for the Uniface product. Set up and standardized beta testing programs for customers. Defined policies and streamlined development/verification for 3rd party software/platform support.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Emendo produced the COSMOS product suite, which was a source code analysis & conversion tools for C, C++, Cobol, Pascal, RPG, Assembler and more; Emendo was a fast-growing start-up company operating worldwide. Developed parsers/compilers and code analysis tools (using a in-house object oriented extension on TKL/TK), including quality metrics, data flow tracing, and more. Pioneered, set up and advised “software analysis factories” at customer sites worldwide (The Netherlands, Germany, France, USA, and Australia); this included providing training, supporting customer Project Managers.Customer liaison for Project Managers of our French and US-based customers. From 1998, team lead ('deputy manager') for the Product Management, Pre-sales, and Support team.

Paris Area, France

Development of a definition language and automated data migration tool for large data structures using compilers, parsers (Lex/Yacc) and code generators (programmed in C). This was for a research team of Inria. Inria is the French National Computer Science Institute.

Ing., Business Engineering

Marketing, Project Management, Organization Management, Business English, Business German and Spanish, Law, Accounting, Communication

Ing., Computer Software Engineering

Meta Modeling, Compilers, Architecture, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, Software Design, OO and Functional Programming, Law, Networks

Vwo | High School Pre-University Education Level

Ing., Computer Software Engineering