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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.