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Sandpoint, ID, US

• Helped architect and deliver a high-profile, key web-based software project for the customer's flagship program, successfully & incrementally helping migrate multiple major systems to the cloud and delivering on.
• Transitioned a large-scale program (200+ team members) from a legacy DevOps approach (branch-promotion-based release strategy) to a modern Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and App Performance.
• Created a strategic plan to migrate an existing IaaS, on-premises solution to a native cloud-based, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that can be dynamically scaled and expanded globally to support worldwide.
• Crafted architectural solutions for application security, including covering code analysis, authentication and authorization across web apps & APIs, attack surface reduction via correct web standards implementation.
• Developed a suite of custom, secure DevOps tools, dashboards, and integrations that allow anyone across a large-scale program to easily keep track of the status of work incorporated into over 160 separate applications.
• Provided expert training on best practices for Agile/Scrum.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Software and Services Group, Intel Services Division)
• Leveraged Team Foundation Server 2013 tooling to guide multiple Scrum teams totaling almost 40 geographically remote developers and testers to regularly deliver high quality production releases of a suite of mature.
• Educated business teams with sufficient technical understanding of complex cryptographic and security-related topics to be able to adequately represent them elsewhere within and outside of Intel.
• Consulted and worked with various other projects and teams, helping them successfully adopt, adapt and tailor Agile methodologies and tooling (particularly TFS and related tools) to project goals, constraints &.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Software and Services Group, Intel Services Division)
• Trained a newly formed, cross-organizational team unfamiliar with Team Foundation Server 2012-2013, web technologies, Scrum, and Microsoft development tooling to successfully use them in bringing to market the Intel.
• Architected and designed a complex, secure solution for the service, including successfully negotiating integration design and testing across multiple newly commissioned external OEM and ISV services, resulted in an.
• As a result of known widely known expertise, was invited to serve on the side as Scrum Master and Agile coach for a neighboring team, helping them to resolve team dysfunction, achieve a regular, 3-week software release.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Intel Architecture Group, PC Client Services)
• As an Agile and ALM expert, trained & coached a newly formed, cross-geography project team through adoption of both an Agile methodology and Team Foundation Server—modern, integrated lifecycle tooling that enables and.
• Crafted the application architecture for Intel Upgrade Service and Intel Trusted Connect Service, including development of a feasible hosting topology within the significant constraints of the Intel enterprise hosting.
• Managed a master project schedule to coordinating execution & external project deliverables across multiple internal, external, and vendor teams.
• Collaboratively worked with Intel’s internal Security Center of Excellence to successfully enable the Security Development Lifecycle within an Agile project for the first time at Intel. Then documented best practices.
• Later defined and drove a multi-year strategic hosting plan to improve operational qualities of these internet services, including leading a cross-divisional team through two RFQs that identified a better strategic.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Information Technology Group)
• Drove formal approval, funding, and implementation of an Intel-wide instance of Team Foundation Server (TFS) in support of several hundred individual software projects. Provided second-level support for day-to-day.
• Participated as a key contributor for five years on Microsoft’s 20-person Customer Advisory Council for their Team System group of development products, acting as Intel’s primary representative in influencing product.
• Provided intact training on Microsoft Team System & TFS and hands-on help with adoption to over 50 software project teams. Created extensive, widely-used online training materials, including wiki documentation pages.
• Drove growth of this centralized capability across IT and the rest of Intel to include several hundred software projects and over 500 active users across all geographies in the first two years, resulting in an.
• Organized the Intel-wide.NET Community of Practice, providing.NET developers, testers, project managers, and database developers a convenient place to discuss and document software best practices, technology-specific.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Information Services and Technology Group)
• Crafted and implemented a group-wide software reuse strategy using expertise developed in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), design patterns, and supporting technologies.
• Mentored many dozens of software project teams on software architecture, design, and best practices for technologies such as ASP.NET, web services, XML, XPath, XSLT.
• Provided additional training to larger groups by teaching Intel University courses on SOA and software reuse frameworks.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (E-Business Group)
• As System Analyst, delivered high quality, detailed requirements specifications for two major system releases of a complex suite of web applications and services by working closely with dozens of customers, two product.
• As a Product Manager, worked closely with customers to understand diverse usage models and create a strategic 18-month product roadmap accordingly. Also, trained customers extensively on the system in order to gain.
• Assisted technical teams in doing in-depth, low level performance analysis of production performance bottlenecks and provided technical expertise to other unrelated software projects and divisions on XML-related.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (E-Business Group)
• Worked as head architect and team lead for a group of eight developers through multiple major product releases of a complex, distributed software system, including requirements definition, analysis, development.
• Conceived, architected, and implemented a next-generation web site & content delivery engine, a dynamic rules-based site creation and content rendering & delivery system based on XML, XSLT, web services, and the newly.
• Awarded a software patent for the novel web site and content rendering solution.
• Developed and drove standards and guidelines across the division for use of.NET technologies.

Santa Clara, California, US

• (Sales and Marketing Group)
• Conceived and developed a powerful release & configuration management tool that automatically deploys software consistently and securely to hundreds of pre-production and production environments, including version.
• Coordinated day-to-day activities of over a dozen different development teams and their associated applications across a dozen shared pre-production development and test environments in support of Intel’s E-Business.
• Planned and executed highly detailed, multi-day production technical deployment project plans involving dozens of people, numerous servers & applications, and extremely complex data migrations.
• Designed and optimized processes ensuring quality development and deployment of externally-facing web applications. Included heading a design review board and chairing a change control board that regularly reviewed all.