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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Leading the Product Management team towards success by understanding our customers' needs and our market all while helping to set the product strategy for our best-in-class software solutions.

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Managed and directed 3 independent software development teams (48 staff total) for newdevelopment and support of Family Support and Enterprise applications. ● Worked with other senior managers to establish strategic goals and policy● Determined appropriate KPIs to measure success for teams.● Led initiative for standard operating procedures for Development, Quality Assurance, and BusinessRequirement gathering.● Mentored subordinates on proper development and QA principles.● Reduced internal infrastructure costs by over $500k/year.● Implemented metrics on team performance to justify internal spends for projects.● Co-chaired the Employee Engagement Leadership Committee to improve working environment.● Championed a ‘product-focused’ development methodology using the Kano model.

Brookfield, Wi

Responsible for leading all new software development projects. Managed 29 engineers across multiple software products using in-house, near-shore, and offshore resources with an Agile/Scrum methodology. JIRA/Confluence Admin.* Defined and implemented the Agile SDLC for the company.* Managed individual sprint teams to deliver quality software during 4 week sprint cycles.* Increased the velocity of the development team by almost 80% through better story definitions, SOPs, and strategic mentoring.* Created additional capacity through better allocation of resources and streamlining.* Established and led technical feature definition reviews with product team and business stakeholders. * Took over the Quality Assurance team and established automated test scenarios. Documented and oversaw performance, regression, and critical path testing as part of the sprint cycle.* Frequently presented project and department metrics to the Executive Team.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Responsible for the vision, strategy, releases, and design of all products and services. Worked directly with the CTO to build a Product Management division and convert to an Agile/Continuous Delivery development model.• Established and led a Client Advisory Board.• Completed enterprise-level SaaS web application deployments from ideation to support stages.• Created complete Go-To-Market strategies for all products.• Conducted an analysis of our Client Services department procedures resulting in an optimization for FTE gain.• Developed a continuous improvement plan for the entire company.• Researched client needs and market trends to build an 18-month product, development, and release roadmap.• Collaborated with Developer/Engineers on design, architecture, topology, and data structures for all software application development.• Implemented JIRA, Confluence, and AHA! tools for Product/Engineering teams.

Sussex, Wisconsin

Director of North and Latin America technology solutions:* Provided technical direction and business analysis for US and North American projects.* Developed client onboarding strategy for SaaS product sweet.* Managed and prioritized multiple concurrent professional service projects and teams in Brisbane, AU from the US.

Role: Manage Software Developers and QA professionals through the entire SDLC.Goal: To improve the Quality and Consistency of all software releases, documentation, and develop employees professionalism and autonomy. Duties:While moving from San Jose, CA to Brookfield, WI, I created and presented a complete gap analysis of ProShip's products, market strategy, and resource allocation that projected at least a 19% increase in revenues over 1 year due to expansion into new markets, new products/feature offerings to existing customers, and increased brand recognition outside of the narrow market previously targeted.Provided capacity analysis and made recommendations for strategic changes in policy and personnel within the company to maximize professional services revenues.Once domiciled in Wisconsin:* Determined Product Roadmaps and product visions* Analyzed and Prioritized all development projects across the department to maximize resource allocation.* Acted as Project Manager for all development projects.* Documented BRS, SRS, SOW, and FRS for development projects.* Coordinated release and sprint planning.* Provided superior mentoring for both technical and interpersonal issue resolution.* Monitored, evaluated, and scheduled employee performance* Implemented Project management software and procedures to improve project/sprint effectiveness, efficiency, and provide status to all necessary parties within the company.

Techmart, Santa Clara, Ca.

Oversaw all engineering resources in US and India. Provided a cohesive vision for the two main software suites offered as logistic solutions within SAP and windows-based .NET architectures.Created and implemented a global vision for Software Development that improved existing product offerings into newer technologies including HTML 5, CSS, and mobile OS platforms. My goal was to implement a Project Management driven, value-add professional consultant services as part of our software deployment methodology. I was able to accomplish this in under 7 months.Increased software quality and implemented a QA team with full regression testing.Established a full Project Management team to oversee all deployments following PMP and PMBOK standards using Agile (SCRUM), and Waterfall methodologies.I personally managed customers including American Express, Applied Materials, Disney, Intel, Red Hat, Pacific Biomedical, and Philips.

Techmart, Santa Clara, Ca.

Coordinated and deployed Centralized Enterprise Shipping and Logistic software platforms.Managed Engineering and Development teams through the entire SDLC.Managed the Project Management team for customer implementations, documentation, and specifications.

Custom integration programming and consulting across a wide array of ERP customer host systems

Redwood City, Ca

Computer Software Engineering

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