Van Ly Email & Phone Number

Medina, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I am the manager of a large distributed software development team working on complex automation solutions for the utilities industry.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

I was the Lead Developer, Scrum Master, and manager of a 7-person agile team.Some of my key responsibilities included:• Leading team to continuously improve on Scrum, Lean, and XP practices. • Continuously monitoring and coaching team to improve quality and empowering team to refactor and improve the code while meeting commitments.• Leading initiatives to improve team efficiency, processes and education.• Performing regular one on ones, performance evaluations, and promotions.• Meeting with other leaders weekly to discuss engineering principles and improve on aligned autonomy across teams.• Hiring and training new software developers.• Guiding team in use of Acceptance Test Driven Design (ATDD), applying object-oriented principles (OOP), SOLID, Clean Architecture, and C++ coding standards.• Contributing to all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including estimation, design, development, integration, verification, exploratory testing, documentation, software release, defect resolution and maintenance.Some of my key accomplishments included:• Selected as technical lead for the newly established CDL Systems US Headquarters (2010) to set up software development infrastructure. Duties included network setup, software configuration, workstation setup, software development tools configuration, Jenkins continuous integration configuration and maintenance, and SonarQube code quality server configuration.• Established a new Agile software development team focused on developing a new ground control station software solution called Mobile Ground Control Station (mGCS) that was sold to various military and commercial customers around the world, including USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UK, and Norway.• Aided team in CMMI level 3 accreditation using Agile artifacts as proof of compliance.• Automated several processes using scripts in Perl, Python, Bash and Batch scripts.

Calgary, Canada Area

I developed intuitive C++ based GUI software for unmanned aerial vehicle control.Some of my key responsibilities included:• Designing, debugging, troubleshooting, testing and enhancing control station software for the U.S. Army’s RQ-7B Shadow, MQ-5A/B Hunter and MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV projects.• Incorporating NATO STANAG 4586 (UAV Interoperability Interfaces), 4609 (KLV Metadata), 2500B (NITF) into products.• Incorporating United States Military Standard (MIL STD) 2525C (Symbology) into products.• Contributing to peer and code reviews.• Contributing to resume screening and interview of software developer internship students (12 to 16 month term)Some of my key accomplishments:• Gained proficiency in Qt, OI, C, C++, Java, XML, Regular Expressions, Unix Shell Scripting, and Perl. • Transitioned from Waterfall-based to Agile software development.• Recruited, trained, and supervised software developer internship students.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Designed, debugged, troubleshoot, tested, and enhanced firmware and software. Application coding primarily in Visual Basic and C. Firmware design included modifying wireless interface firmware to use analog modem instead of pager, development on real-time operating systems, graphical menu design, data transfer protocols, wireless protocols, and serial communication protocols. Duties also included technical support and documentation.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering With Minor In Computers

Engineering