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Fort Collins, Co, Us

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

● Monetized InstrumentStudio by expanding its value proposition to address more hardware engineers’ needs and aligning strategy with NI’s strengths to generate new revenue and simplify the product portfolio● Launched the InstrumentStudio Professional edition in a live announcement on the NIConnect keynote stage as well as creating training, sales enablement content, technical sessions and webinars● Defined user requirements for 5 teams and 4 business units, fostering Agile development processes that delivered better designs, faster releases, and higher employee engagement● Launched NI’s first desktop gRPC ecosystem to solve cross-language, cross-process and cross-computer workflow challenges resulting in business expansion in key NI accounts● Strengthened user-centric development through telemetry reviews, in-product Gainsight engagements, and direct discussions with key clients, yielding alignment with user needs and 33% faster feature completion

Austin, Texas Area

● Replaced proprietary SystemLink dashboards with Grafana, enhancing data insight capabilities, freeing engineering resources, and securing a multi-million-dollar sale● Led the creation of SystemLink’s Parametric Data Viewer in one quarter using deep understanding of user needs, delivering SystemLink’s most-used and stable test data insight tool● Released a SystemLink platform update to use PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB, enabling 50% faster queries and on-demand time parametric analysis on terabytes of data● Managed SystemLink backlogs and defined milestones for teams, ensuring clear requirements and reliable execution over years of quarterly releases

Austin, Texas Area

● Initiated and released test tools that enabled the creation and reuse of config-driven testing, reducing hardware test development time by >40% and execution time by 20%● Developed and released an automated imaging tool with Norton Ghost, enabling 80% faster software changeover for universal test systems and 20% increased system utilization● Mentored and supervised multiple developers as tech lead for the test development services group

Austin, Texas Area

● Led, developed and released a new test framework for all new hardware products at NI, ensuring reliable testing, reduced maintenance costs, and standardized data collection for billions of dollars in hardware● Mentored and supervised multiple developers as tech lead for the test development services group

Austin, Texas Area

● Developed the image acquisition kernel and user drivers for NI’s framegrabber PCI/PXI boards and smart cameras● Released 8 driver releases over 4 years as the image acquisition driver project manager● Developed a replacement test framework for testing hardware driver builds resulting in 75% more reproducibility

Austin, Texas Area

● Developed the image acquisition kernel and user drivers for NI’s framegrabber PCI/PXI boards and smart cameras