Thomas Melzer Email & Phone Number

Lisle, Illinois, United States

• Product Owner responsibilities for multiple products in the Mainframe Security Value Stream• Primary focus on Enterprise Data Protection and Compliance• Work closely with multiple Product Managers, Lead Product Architects, and the UX design team to direct the agile development efforts of multiple products and engineering teams within the Mainframe Security Value Stream• Manage all aspects of turning customer requirements into enterprise grade software that is delivered to market. From ideation to design, architectural review to funding, engineering execution to market delivery and messaging, the Product Owner oversees all product activity• Present at industry events (like SHARE), as well as company specific customer events (like the Broadcom Mainframe Technical Exchange) to serve as a SME and product evangelist

Lisle, Il

• Lead Product Owner responsibilities for the Data Content Discovery product• Work closely with the Product Manager and the Lead Product Architect to direct the development efforts of Data Content Discovery• Develop and own the Architectural runway backlog, the UX design team backlog, as well as the product backlog for the development teams

Lisle, Illinois

• Act as the Offering Manager for the Enterprise Data Protection product line• Work closely with Product Management and the Value Stream Leadership team to help define and direct the GTM routes for the suite of Enterprise Data Protection tools.

Lisle, Il

LEAP is a company wide program to identify the top 20 high potential leaders across all of CA. LEAP candidates are pulled from their current positions and placed into 3 different roles for 6 months each to expand their knowledge and prepare them for future positions within the company.• Data Content Discovery is one of CA’s fastest growing organic products• The Offering Manager acts as an entrepreneur, strategist, technical visionary, cross-functional team leader, and client advocate for the Data Content Discovery Product• Specific focus on developing cross functional teams, defining a new DCD SaaS offering, and the management and steering of DCD deployment across the customer base

Lisle, Il

LEAP is a company wide program to identify the top 20 high potential leaders across all of CA. LEAP candidates are pulled from their current positions and placed into 3 different roles for 6 months each to expand their knowledge and prepare them for future positions within the company.• Develop Business Unit level operations plan and metrics to measure success• Run weekly Segment Leadership meeting for the Business Unit – weekly report on the status of the business, materially affect change when required• Drive competitive takeout campaign core team consisting of leaders across the entire company (Sales, Pre-Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Services, and Product Management)

Lisle, Il

Accepted into the LEAP program. LEAP is a company wide program to identify the top 20 high potential leaders across all of CA. LEAP candidates are pulled from their current positions and placed into 3 different roles for 6 months each to expand their knowledge and prepare them for future positions within the company. • Worked with the Product Management team to successfully OEM an IBM product as a new CA SKU (pricing, marketing, branding, install, licensing, solution positioning, initial announcement at CA World 2016, customer demos, press releases, etc.)• Competitive analysis of all Application Development Tools at a feature level to identify both opportunities and gaps in our offerings• Drove team that created the CA world demo for the Application Development group, attended CA World working in the booth presenting the demo to customers

Lisle, Il

• Resumed prior role (Scrum Master/Development Lead) leading the 4 largest DB2 tools development teams responsible for the 10 largest products in terms of revenue• Nominated for the LEAP program (company wide program to identify the top 20 high potential leaders across all of CA). LEAP candidates are pulled from their current positions and be placed into the highly demanding program where they are placed into 3 different roles for 6 months each in to expand their knowledge and prepare them for future positions within the company

Lisle, Il

• Scrum Master for CA’s Big Data initiative • Coordinate and drive four large teams (70+) comprised of employees (California/Chicago/New York/UK/India), students, interns, and consultants to develop a completely new offering in big data space • Project was pulled back under control and budget delivering expected code (beta release of the product)• Managed a successful transition to a newly formed permanent team in Santa Clara

Lisle, Il

• Scrum Master/Product Owner for multiple teams (US and European) as CA embraced Agile Development • Responsible for product direction, feature/story creation and estimation, team commitments, ongoing tracking of team progress, reporting progress (success and failures) to senior management (SVP level)

Lisle, Il

• Manager level responsibilities (performance reviews, compensation, hiring, etc.) for the development staff working on the DB2 SQL Analysis tools group, member of the Mainframe North BU Leadership team • Product lead for Index Expert and DB2 common services• Responsible for training newly formed development teams in Europe • Certified Scrum Master for multiple local teams

Lisle, Il

• Product Lead development position for the Index Expert product. Fully in charge of the product and its direction (product cross functional meetings, product development, product support, and product quality) • Product Lead for the DB2 Plan Analyzer Common Services including code that performs all SQL Parsing, all SQL formatting, SQL Normalization, etc. These services form the backbone of the CA DB2 tool set• Team development lead, Member of the DB2 Tools Architecture Council

Lisle, Il

• Product Lead development position for the Index Expert product

Lisle, Il

• Retained as ‘key staff’ after Computer Associates acquired Platinum Technology. Continue in a similar capacity within the DB2 Analyzer Development Lab

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• Expanded development role within the DB2 Analyzer Development Lab, multiple cross product development decisions made daily

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• Expanded development role for the Index Expert Product, assumed responsibility for common code components shared across the entire DB2 Analyzer Development Lab. Direct all QA efforts, direct resolution of customer issues, future product direction, mentor junior staff

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• Development engineer with expanded role for the Index Expert Product (substantial new product capabilities, internal architecture revisions, performance enhancements)

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• IBM High Level Assembler programming on the Index Expert Product (minor enhancements, bug fixes)

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

• Responsible for quality Assurance for DB2 performance management tools • Developed expert level Application Developer and DBA skills and developed end to end automated tests, verified initial code quality, verified accuracy of all big fixes prior to release

Oakbrook, Illinois

• Led the application software development efforts for the Bankcard systems, Lumber and Building Materials systems, and the Ace Paint Plant