Richard Bash Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Managed Security Services (MSS) Engineering. Leading a team of Platform Engineers (security professionals).

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Managed staff development, project staffing, and technical leadership of mobile operating systems development team. • Led Mobility line of business through Honeywell equivalent of CMMI Level 5, including directing weekly development meetings with 5 teams, resulting in levels 3, 4, and 5 being achieved on schedule over 3-year period and increasing software quality and schedule predictability. • Coached 8 teams on use of quantitative analysis, root cause analysis (RCA), and process improvements, reducing cycle time.• Presented quarterly quantitative performance data from all Mobility projects to LOB executives, demonstrating continuous improvement across software team.• Leveraged resource pipeline and individual team member strengths to create a cohesive global software development team with 12 direct reports and 20-person offshore engineering team. • Documented existing / desired processes and tools, ensuring combined teams were using common processes, toolsets, and terminology. This included using Agile/Scrum.• Created cyber security documentation WIKI that drove required security development practices across Mobility engineering teams.• Oversaw the work of 8 external software partners and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) by holding regular meetings them, to ensure compliance with schedule, cost, quality, and key performance indicators. One important aspect of this was weekly self-reporting of all key metrics by the partner.Technology developed by operating systems team: Android, Windows Mobile 6.5 (WM 6.5), Windows Embedded 8 Handheld (WE8H), Windows Embedded Compact 6 (WEC6), Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7), Windows Embedded Standard (WES) 2009 and 7, Windows Embedded Industry, and Windows 7. Platforms included Qualcomm Snapdragon, Texas Instruments OMAP, and Intel ATOM.Technology developed by the Mobility line of business: Mobile operating systems, mobile applications, customer facing APIs / SDKs, and mobile management tools.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for leading all software development and testing, supporting over $100M in mobile computer sales annually.• Leveraged internal resources and 2 ODMs to concurrently develop and release 2 vehicle mounted terminals (fork lift mounted) and 2 hand held terminals running mobile Windows.• Software management sponsor on a team to develop a software download portal for end customers. Worked with diverse teams to define logic governing the ability to download only properly licensed software.• Led a software team of 7 including New Product Introduction and sustaining, mobile computer operating systems, mobile applications, and remote management.• Testing team of 3 included all Engineering Validation Testing and Software Qualification.Technology developed by the software team: Windows CE 6, Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, WES 2009, Windows XP, Windows 7, mobile applications, customer facing APIs / SDKs, and remote management tools. Platforms included Intel PXA 320 and Intel ATOM.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Staff development, resource loading, budget administration, NPI technical oversight, tactical project management, and leading sustaining efforts.• Changed software team from primarily in-house development to primarily ODM led development, resulting in 100% increase in number of mobile platforms being developed concurrently.• Implemented a process improvement to do quarterly release of software modules across all released hardware models, resulting in better overall quality test coverage and improved release efficiencies.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for staff development (hiring, training, process improvement) and technical oversight for a team of 8-12 software engineers. • Implemented an automated tool for generating software BOM releases to reduce release times by over 90%.• Technical oversight for all software projects. Included major projects delivering operating systems and applications on mobile devices.• Project managed 100’s of small and medium sized tactical software projects• Managed prioritization and completion of change requests for field support. Communicated status weekly to all stakeholders. In many cases, I was the contact with customers to aid in problem isolation. Efforts helped drive additional revenue.• Contributed to successful completion of ISO 9001 certification and maintenance.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Team lead and architect for a SNMP agent and MIB for mobile DOS terminals to allow configuration via standard tools like HP Openview. • Key contributor on a prototype to put Linux on a MX3 terminal platform. Contributions lead to company rewarding me with a paid trip to Cancun for a week.• Led a team to develop a remote configuration tool for mobile devices that allowed cloning configuration settings from one mobile device and setting up other devices similarly.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Developed key portions of a VT220 emulator built from scratch using Object Oriented development in C++. This emulator ran on mobile DOS computers used in the logistics and supply chain market.• Led a 5 person team to re-use the VT220 emulator code to re-implement an earlier LXE proprietary emulator called LDS, which was widely used in the field. Acted as architect and technical lead to successfully launch the product.