Direct globally distributed teams to provide tooling and enablement to maximize engineering productivity.Develop foundational quality measures for the organization, informing product and engineering decisions and driving continuous improvement initiatives.Foster effective cross-functional partnerships to establish product quality and prioritization models, yielding risk-based assessment that inform business priority.Establish dedicated teams to build custom productivity and performance frameworks, including supporting infrastructures for release validation.Own and drive quality strategy and components; incorporating an ACC viewpoint to standardize product test planning and quality risk, including executive review and alignment.Operationalize all aspects of engineering productivity skills training, The Engineering Academy, to accelerate adoption of key skills and systems usage.

Lead all Quality Engineering functions across rapidly growing and globally distributed team of 30+ engineers.Transform the organization and develop multi-year roadmap including milestones and KPIs.Develop organizational strategies including test architecture and comprehensive quality metrics.Define and implement a test automation tooling strategy to increase development efficiency and discover product issues earlier in the SDLC.Develop and implement technical career ladder to up-level the Quality Engineering Team in support of organizational objectives and to provide definitive career development pathing.Improve testing processes to increase efficiency and consistently achieve on-time releases.

Leadership of the Quality Engineering Team consisting of globally distributed engineers.Establishment of the test strategy to support the entire SDLC from unit through system testing.Define product release criteria and supporting metrics to ensure targets are achieved.Manage offshore partner activities to enhance product coverage and deliver automated 
regression testing.Develop comprehensive test architecture to maximize test coverage and product testability.Establish, oversee, and manager the Customer Support Team associated SLAs and 
escalations.Implement Closed Loop Corrective Action (CLCA) processes to enhance product reliability.

Responsible for Element OS Platform qualification activities including vendor relations and quality engineering validation plans for SolidFire storage systems.Establish test and verification strategy for Cloud delivery model of SolidFire products for Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI).Develop hardware platform test plans and risk mitigation strategies through sustaining 
activities and comprehensive feature coverage models.Define targeted platform test suites designed to qualify various hardware server and storage components.

Responsible for product release quality and platform hardware qualifications for state of Tier 1 enterprise storage systems.Management of test engineering staff providing career planning, development, technical training, and performance reviews.Ensure comprehensive automated test coverage including both functional and non-functional product components.Develop and track quality metrics to enable predictable release cycles and product coverage.Drive continuous improvements to test cycle times ensuring product reliability and quality metrics are met or exceeded.

Leadership of globally-distributed engineering organization for HP’s converged storage 
solutions including OpenStack, HP OneView, and CloudStack offerings.Provide organizational design to establish a global team of engineering resources including recruiting, onboarding, and aligning team members with key program stakeholders.Manage all partner engagements by defining project deliverables while monitoring project scope and cost.Develop test strategies for complex, distributed solutions including API, GUI, mobile apps, and service layer run-time components.Coordinate project requirements and distributed teams to architect server, storage, and networking component topologies.Manage $3M annual equipment budget to ensure test infrastructure satisfied all Tier I field deployment configurations.Champion quality initiatives including the establishment of a comprehensive Quality Plan, defining key metrics, tools, and processes throughout the SDLC.Introduce Failure Modes Effects Analysis tools and processes into design and release 
program phases, resulting in exceptional quality and increased development efficiencies.Gather, analyze, and track key performance and quality metrics for executive review and quality monitoring.

Managed ‘Software Development and QA Services’ division, functioning as the technical interface between clients and Business Development Managers to assist in transforming opportunities and aligning service offerings to client requirements. Managed the implementation and execution of new service offerings, including business development activities surrounding global solutions architecture, networking and software development, recruiting and facilities. Overall responsibilities include Engineering Management for clients including Hewlett-Packard, Apple Inc, Activision and others.Tracking and management of engineering services capabilities and capacitiesLeadership of 100+ engineering resources across 30+ projects. Responsible for sourcing and management of resources, including performance management, on-boarding and off-boarding, and training. Evaluate client requirements to qualify solutions, identify risk, define scope and cost, and deliver targeted solutions within strict deadlines. Subject matter expertise in software development and quality assurance life cycle, tools, and processesProvide thought leadership and drive key strategies to maintain high-value service offerings and market differentiation. Led regional corporate facilities initiatives, gathering requirements and working with real estate brokers to establish state-of-the-art engineering facilities

Management of the ‘Hardware/Software Engineering Services’ global project delivery teams at Hewlett-Packard across 40+ projects nation wide. Development of business management tools, processes and methodologies used to deliver consistent levels of service and increase delivery efficiencies. Providing leadership over a distributed team of project managers and staff.

Established a high performing and cohesive team of 20 test engineers to provide support and quality assurance to R&D engineering teams across all phases of the product development life cycle. Supervise all aspects of the support team’s deliverables, develop recruiting strategies and drive implementation of key tools and processes to maximize quality and enhance overall R&D lab operational performance.Proactively and effectively, facilitate technical information to and from the engineering and project management staff to ensure the QA team’s alignment with the requirements of each program. Development of state-of-the-art digital camera performance testing. Including all aspects of test design and methodologies as well as customized electronic measurement equipment. Act as an interface between R&D support team into QA and manufacturing organizations to maximize an efficient transition of both products and knowledge to achieve highest possible quality output. Implement processes for measuring, analyzing and communicating project test data R&D and executive teams.