Head Of R&D, Optima Business Unit
Chesterfield, Mo, Us
Head up the development of the Amdocs Optima product (BSS and E-commerce) geared towards traditional telco customers and non-telco SaaS; as a member of the management team, participate in strategic decision-making, roadmaps, budget management, and optimization.Supervise global teams with 350+ members including Product Architects, Application Designer, Developers, Testers, and others. Unified R&D teams from ACC, Kenan, and Comvers units under a single SDLC process; removed silos and promoted team cooperation.Approve designs of key technologies and functional developments; implement Devops methodologies to reduce TTM and cost of deployment for on-premise and cloud installations. Transition teams to work with modern technologies including open source to provide cutting-edge user interfaces and facilitate integrations to customer eco-systems. Delivered as per plan and budgets, postpaid/pre-paid projects for multiple tiers.