-I get to be part of a really high powered team at Pitney Bowes. With the Director role, I focus on cross-team initiatives, budgeting, overall quality, automation, continuous delivery and integration, and requirements management. Having a solid group of manager, architects, project managers and BAs makes my job easier.-Prioritization and planning for products in the Customer Engagement, Communication Management and Analytic Intelligence domains.-Plan the budget and coordinate resources for various product lines. - Responsible for understanding both business and customer needs and balancing those with prioritizing the projects in accordance with Product Management guidance.- I work hard at communicating and fostering smooth interactions within my team and the rest of global PB Engineering and building rapport throughout the organization

- Manage a great group: cross-functional, geographically diverse Agile product team that includes Java Developers, QA, Docs, and UX- Delivering high-quality software on-time and on-feature to customers and users. - Mentoring and coaching individuals in technical and non-technical aspects of product development. - Project management and departmental budgeting- Guide and support project execution, ensuring priorities, coordination, and predictable schedules. - Managing more junior staff, global teams, recruitment & staffing.

Responsible for understanding, prioritizing, planning and overseeing all new product development requested by new and existing clients as well as internal users/departments. Manage team of 12 developers and 6 QA.Development area was a Microsoft shop (TFS 2010, C#/,Net, VB, SQL). We built and extended dozens of XML interfaces, and enhanced core systems for loan origination, document creation and management, and supporting applications for the back office.

Director of Product Development-Worked with clients to coordinate scoping, timetables, support and testing.-Gathered requirements and turned them into specifications for suite of financial industry products. -Worked with executives on strategy and priority through mortgage industry crisis.-Built SDLC and documentation standards. -Built team of Business Analysts, PM's, QA, and Developers

-Manage vendor relationships. -RFIs, RFPs and SoWs for custom development and enterprise sales.-Create development specifications and release schedule.-Expansion to international sales (Canada, Mexico, Australia/NZ)-Directed marketing efforts (media, trade-shows, sales kits)-Crafted reseller agreement. Maintained channels for dealers OEM and direct sales.-Product demonstrations and contract review for enterprise sales and implementation.-Board presentations: responsible for staffing, sales,budget and profitability.

-Customize and deliver technical sales demonstrations.-Manage implementation and support staff.-Escalation point for customer issues.-Perform dealer and staff product and sales training.

-Requirements analysis and interaction design.-Technical writing.-Marketing and business case development.

Senior Sales Engineer-C-level technical sales demonstrations to Fortune 500 clients.-Represent product at trade-shows and annual FOCUS conference-Attend industry meetings to plan new feature development.-Create technical documentation from FAQ's/Knolwedge Base entries to implementation manuals and sales PowerPoint decks.-Travel to client sites to oversee implementation.