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Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

Promoted within 9 months from Manager to Director and within 3 years to Senior Director.Directs all application development and maintenance, DevOps, cloud, infrastructure, budget, resource and technology planning and management. Forms highly efficient onshore/offshore teams and applies LEAN development methodologies ensuring the highest ROI on all development projects. Develops and executes short- and long-term vision and strategic plans in alignment with business plans, opportunities, products, operating requirements and efficiencies. • Nominated for the Best Internal App CITE Award.• Planned and executed over 50 major technology initiatives significantly reducing costs.• Migrated 3 Tier, ASP.NET/SQL systems from local datacenter to AWS cloud within 3 months. Updated all reporting features from Crystal to SSRS capitalizing an annual infrastructure and licensing reducing expenses. • Leveraged cloud technologies to reduce infrastructure cost by over 40%. Enabled self-sustaining technology principles in support of organizational goals.• Established highly secure, fully automated, fail-safe infrastructure including cost efficient disaster recovery and backup. • Created highly-efficient, auditable DevOps processes automating all initiatives including reporting and response mechanisms.• Prototyped BI data warehousing utilizing Amazon Redshift and Analytics using Google Cloud Compute Engine. Prototype analytics providing fundamental insights for business leads and outside clients; interactively visualized using Tableau.• Proposed and executed global Mobile Field Automation replacing paper with tablets.• Established audit trails and process acceleration from over 10 days to almost instant. Realized direct and indirect yearly savings of over $1M. • Guided all development teams to transform from outdated and inefficient development processes to highly efficient and motivated Agile--LEAN teams.

San Diego, Ca / Oak Ridge Tn

Promoted. Performed project and product analysis by building strong relationships with stakeholders and customers. Translated requirements into technology solutions and work packages. Supervised implementation. Hired, developed and coached IT staff. Monitored budget and executed key projects to maximize ROI. Established and led high-performing, cross-functional teams. Executed project management from early analysis to field support of released products. Established and ensured compliance with software development and IT procedures and methodologies. Improved overall quality of products by defining and monitoring SDLC execution. • Introduced and established highly-efficient SCRUM software development methodologies. • Created environment to execute small to large software initiatives in a fast-paced environment meeting schedules and quality requirements of stakeholders and customers.• Analyzed key requirements of stakeholders and customers, proposed, prototyped and validated solutions to ensure deliverables are met according to customer timelines. • Managed customer expectations, budget and timelines.• Devised and executed SaaS implementation enabling instant and reliable communication between deployed instruments in the field and central command. Key sales feature led to over 30% increased sales.

Bad Nauheim, Germany

Organized and executed complex software projects as member of a globally distributed software development team. Coordinated expectations, scope and schedule with functional and project managers, stake holders and Director of R&D. Delivered results meeting requirements and schedule constraints. • All products were successfully introduced to market and are now major contributors to business revenue.

Dipl.-Ing., Civil Engineering; Civil Engineering

Ms, Applied Computing