Walter O'Brien Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, US

Walter O'Brien is the founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services. The company specializes in:Efficiency & Cost SavingsProject TurnaroundDue Diligence - Vendor evaluation current and futureDue Diligence - Private Equity Investment (VC & Angel)Governance & ComplianceRisk MitigationMaturity in Quality, Process, Tools and MethodologySoftware Architecture.

American Environmental Energy, Inc. (AEEI) is a publicly traded renewable-energy corporation integrating diverse, complimentary technologies to produce sustainable Renewable Energy Parks on a global scale.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Walter O'Brien was responsible for designing and implementing SDLC Process and Compliance Risk Mitigation, Software Quality Assurance and Configuration Management. Capital Group Companies, parent of “The American.
• Executed organizational transformation in the areas of QA, Development, Configuration & Change Management for multi-tiered high volume transaction & Order Management Systems (OMS). Managed over 400 SDLC release cycles.
• Conceived & implemented corporate road map for Common Services Delivery Department, QA Data Centers, QA Automation Frameworks & IT Control Governance.
• Interviewed, hired, trained and mentored 30+ staff from intern to senior & rated “above expectations” in performance reviews, Recognized as a strong leader who effectively influences & motivates others into taking.

• Private Equity Venture Capital Advisor performing due diligence analysis on corporate viability for companies such as DotMd, E-HQ, DotWS, GRSI, Peachdirect, 101com.com and Point360
• Bank-driven corporate turnaround analysis and due diligence for the Kibel Green Issa Consultancy Group

• GLOVIA competes in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) space against such companies as ORACLE, SAP, Baan, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards. Customers included Fujitsu, Panasonic, Caterpillar, Dell, Ericsson, NSK and Breed..
• Globalized the ERP software product from US English into 24 languages increasing sales in Asia and Europe.
• Responsibilities included staffing, training and managing the following departments: Quality Assurance, Release Engineering, Configuration Management (CM), Internal Tools, Technical Documentation and Localization.
• Managed a $6m yearly budget with tracking and forecasting responsibilities

• Uniscape is a leader in providing Globalization tools & services to fortune 500 multinational corporations. I accomplished the following:
• Successfully conceived and executed product development of company flagship software including Architecture, Development, and automated testing. Implemented a formal release process workflow with automated web.
• Managed a development and test team of 10, and generated over $10m in revenue thru product sales.
• Product release management, training, sales support, third party integration testing, tech support and trouble shooting diagnostics, formed and facilitated customer feedback groups.
• Enforced coding and industry standards(XML, EDI, ebXML, xCBL, OCI, WAP, Bluetooth, 802.11b) in the software development life cycle(SDLC) and managed the corporate source control repository.

Austin, Texas, US

• For this World leader in Database Software, the second largest Software Company in the world after Microsoft, I achieved the following:
• Designed, developed, tested and deployed complex language translation tools and repositories for ORACLE’s Worldwide Translation Group. Which allowed them to distribute their product to 250 commercial markets in 49.
• Reduced time to market by 5 months, saved $5m in translation costs due to optimizing language translation reuse.
• Contributing member of the Software Localization Interest Group (SLIG) with industry piers in Symantec, Lotus, Corel, Isocor, Berlitz, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.

San Mateo, CA, US

• For this World leader in the production of email, server and network systems and protocols, I achieved the following:
• Automated Quality Assurance testing across all product lines, designed and implemented source control and release management solutions
• Created the localization and development tools department and provided global technical support to customers.

For this bank software security and encryption company I developed, tested and administered their software inventory database.

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