Toby Burton Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

* Leader of ITOM R&D Global Program Management Office* Currently managing product release cycles across 40+ products including both on-premise and SaaS offerings* Manage product release strategy and release activities across multiple VPs of Engineering and Product Management* Directing the Release Management organization for on-premise products* Responsible for the Global Product Supportability Program (ie Level 3 support)* Owner of the R&D Operations tool development efforts

* Led multiple Systems Management and Platform Product engineering teams across different GEOs* Led the creation of new products like Security Configuration Manager and Web Performance Monitor* Led key successful product features for Server and Application Monitor: AppInsight for MS Exchange, AppInsight for MS SQL Server, and AppInsight for MS IIS * Introduced the Orion Platform to Orion Agent capabilities initially supporting Server and Application Monitor* Directed product development unit as large as 50 engineers while mentoring multiple Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and other engineering staff members* Recruited and interviewed multiple candidates across different functional areas including Program Management, Product Management, User Experience, and Engineering positions* Promoted and established Agile software development and project management best practices through leadership, mentoring, collaboration, and example

Project leader of a software development team charged with creating SoldierEyes. See http://www.textronsystems.com/products/advanced-information/soldiereyes• Within 6 months, led a software development team in transforming an R&D prototype to the Overwatch SoldierEyesTM product• Led a demonstration team through multiple concurrent Army Field Evaluation Exercises demonstrating R&D prototype utilizing Mobile and Semantic Web Technologies.• SEI/CMMI – Level 5 Organization

Lead multiple systems management and server provisioning projects utilizing technologies such as IBM Tivoli Framework, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Tivoli Security Compliance Manager, and Maximo.• Lead Architect charged with managing the development of a globally deployed security compliance tool (operating system, database, and applications security compliance, remediation, inventory, software / patch management, and audit reporting) • Developed and communicated business and technical strategies to IBM Executives• Transitioned a worldwide virtual development team from IBM Global Services to Tivoli business unit development processes, procedures, standards, and best practices• Assumed technical lead position of five failing global development project teams and restructured into a successfully executed release plan

Mse, Engineering Management

Ba, Computer Science