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Bozeman, Montana, Us

Manage largest deployment in the company’s history, a $50M software development project for the Oman Ministry of Defense; comprehensive enterprise application suite consists of 10 different applications, including reporting and business intelligence tools, deployed in their own container.Lead international team of 20 Software Engineers, Quality Assurance personnel, Product Owners, and Experts, facilitate standups, team, and 1-on-1 meetings to communicate progress, address issues, and ensure deadlines are met, and lead annual personnel performance evaluations and reviews.Develop and execute IT project plans, partner with leadership to outline long term business goals and project budgets, develop short term priorities and determine needed resources, and lead ongoing project meetings to ensure progress and budget adherence; reduced sprint cycle from 4 to 2 weeks, improved software quality, and decreased system test cycles.Work with Schedulers to develop Integrated Master Schedule, lead meetings to track program progress and deadlines, identify and eliminate risks, and communicate updates to teams; instilled consistent operating rhythm, minimized project risks, and ensured consistent project delivery and quality over the long term. Direct project budgets, review business requirements, identify risks, calculate ROI, and cultivate relationships with vendors, contractors, and service providers; successfully reduced IT spend, developed more accurate spending forecasts, secured more favorable contracts from partners, and gained quicker buy-in from executives. Partner with Leadership, develop and deliver reports to stakeholders in Business Process Review meetings, keep project team up to date on program direction and progress, and contribute to comprehensive Project Management Reviews twice annually.Asked to take on additional role due to proven success as Chief Engineer and advanced technical knowledge as well as project leadership abilities.

Provide assistance and oversight to project teams; review ideal technical approaches for various requirements, lead one on one meetings, and facilitate group collaborations to review and finalize functional aspects of products; able to grow working knowledge of Engineers and improve quality of delivered software. Onboard new Software and QA Engineers, responsible for conducting interviews, providing ongoing training and coaching, and leading performance management and reviews; successfully hired over 20 new employees to date.Manage integration projects, partner with Enterprise Architects to update integration approach to leave core product untouched, and standardize process for application to other projects; enabled teams to deliver changes without affecting core products.Developed Distributed Operations project utilizing Oracle EBS, Servicemix, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, and internal APIs; full technology stack includes Spring, Hibernate, and Dependency Injection. Lead code reviews and sprint retrospectives, identify logic flaws, pinpoint alternate approaches, and make recommendations on improvements and provide constructive criticism to individuals; greatly improved code quality and cultivated better collaboration within Software Engineering teams.Member of technical team to architect new product using Microservices Architecture, provide functional leadership to determine scopes the microservices, and work with teams to identify most impactful features to prioritize; able to successfully deliver microservices quicker while contributing to overall program outcomes.Contribute to enterprise proposals, review requirements, recommend solutions, develop prototype databases, and lead workshops to present solutions for proposals.Updated SDLC and Agile processes, documented and formalized steps in MS Visio, launched searchable wiki page, and trained personnel in new approaches; implemented unified template for all programs and provided valuable central repository.

Leader of technical team that customized and implemented flagship Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul software for multiple military bases of the Royal Saudi Air Force, valued at $30 Million; managed technical teams, developed deployment architecture, and acted as team and client liaison.Acted as a liaison between Product Development Team, Software Implementation Team, and client stakeholders, communicated business processes, oversaw technical implementations, identified and eliminated functional risks, and provided on-site support.Led on-site surveys of all bases, facilitated technical and functional discussions with customer, gathered business requirements, and translated them into software functionality.Managed cross-functional team of 20 Software Engineers, Product Owners, Quality Assurance and Functional Experts to develop and deploy software.

Managed local and offshore SCRUM Team using AGILE Methodology, supervised project teams to ensure successful project completion; successfully completed project to convert legacy application to a web-based product utilizing Java and Web 2.0 components while adhering to all timelines and budgets. Built offshore development team from the ground up, traveled to India for 3 months, led hiring, training, and hand off actions to ensure individual contributors were productive and effective.

Mcs, Computer Science

Bcs, Computer Science