Career Summary
Software Professional with 19 years of progressive software management experience, primarily in embedded systems. A strong strategic and tactical leader with proven results creating a healthy workplace and getting successful products out of the door on time and on budget.
Professional Experience
2003-Present
Senior Director, Software Development
Director of software development and verification & validation for a market leader of large, highly complex, laser control systems. Leads all company product SW development and test. Products are written in C, C++ and JAVA. Manage a staff of Managers, Function Heads, and outstanding contributors with up to 37 exempt reports.
· Built reputation of accountability and meeting commitments within a challenged environment.
· Transitioned SW to reliable performance and predictable deliveries.
· Inspired individual excellence in my staff.
· Actively managed new developments in new product lines as well as huge extensions of legacy products.
· Consistently lead a broad range of project activities on a daily basis.
· Attracted and retained talented people, contrasting crippling turnover issues in other groups.
· Mended and expanded solid relationships with other departments.
· Developed and executed software strategies.
· Integrated software processes with the company's product development model.
· Unified sustaining and new development and focused combined software organization on performance and success.
2000 – 2003
International Biotech Company that supplies software tools for Drug Development.
Senior Director, Software Development
· Directed exceptionally talented team in highly speculative, complex product developments within the genetic/proteomic research market. Reported to Senior VP. Technologies included JAVA, EJB, C++, OO, Oracle, SQL, Client/Server, JBOSS, Solaris, NT & Linux. Mutisite-multinational operation. Grew from leading a small group to leading all Discover Center product line development.
· Orchestrated group of 24+ developers and several scientists operating at six sites generating a geographically seamless process.
· Directed many concurrent development efforts that spanned international sites and technologies resulting in on-time/on-budget deliveries.
· Produced large-scale, data intensive product that was optimized for ease of customization.
· Grew through positions of Director of Frameworks and Director of Component Development to become Senior Director, Software Development.
· Focused the performance of prolific development team challenged by an undefined market.
· Led effort to formalize our development methodologies leading to a lightweight process.
· Managed the basic reengineering of core product, resulting in renewed market interest and far superior quality to its predecessor.
· Attracted superb talent and retained key personnel during adverse conditions achieving an extremely low turnover.
1998 - 2000
$1 billion Blood Diagnostics Division.
Software Manager
· Director of all site software product activities, including development, verification and validation, budgeting and scheduling. Full manpower responsibilities. Managed staff of 60 personnel with an annual budget of $6.5 million. Technologies included Solaris, NT, C, CMM, SEI, Oracle and large-scale embedded systems. Also was Project Manager on a separate, large, complex, international Bio-Medical Instrumentation Project.
· Unified a large development team and maintained a healthy work environment. Achieved personnel turnover rate that approached zero, compared to a national rate greater than 25%.
· Directed activities on numerous, concurrent large-scale embedded systems.
· Fostered an active respect for marketing, and other teams leading to improved relationships between disciplines.
· Realigned goals of marketing and development to dedicate a major instrumentation release based on improved stability over feature enhancements. This involved championing a $4 million hardware upgrade. The upgrade dramatically improved system performance and allowed for future feature development. Customer impact was an increased MTBF.
· Resuscitated neglected project and functioned as Project Manager of large (>$25MM) Instrumentation Project that added in vitro Allergy diagnostics to existing blood diagnostics product. Coordinated multifunctional efforts over numerous U.S. and European sites. Disciplines represented on team included Electrical, Systems, Reliability, Mechanical, Software, Test and Manufacturing Engineering as well as Technical Communications, QA, SQA, Regulatory and chemists. Product has been successfully launched.
· PACE (phased development) Core Team member for multiple large product developments resulting in broad product involvement.
· Initiated SEI-CMM initiative leading to broad engagement in process improvement and a controlled, yet responsive, development environment.
· Orchestrated internal preparation to critical FDA audit concluding in excellent results (no significant findings).
$100 million telephony company serving a niche market in the financial industry. OO, Objective C, Solaris, embedded systems.
Manager, System Center
Responsible for a software development group within a UNIX SUN environment including software manufacturing and overseeing network administration.
· Managed the expansion of 1.25 million-line legacy product through several extensions.
1984 – 1997
$28 million annual instrumentation and control business focused on power plant systems.
Manager, Software Engineering (1990–1997)
Responsible for all management aspects of software department, including customer contract negotiations, project management, system design, development and test. Full personnel responsibilities for a staff of 32 professionals. P & L responsibilities for Software organization. Assembly, C, PLM, embedded systems.
· Grew department while individuals exceeded their goals and the team developed into a major profit center.
· Built outstanding customer relations by teaming directly with Customer engineers.
· Key member of Contract Negotiating Team. Active on all major customer negotiations. Performance on all major contracts resulted in maximum negotiated profit margins.
· Directed ISO-9001 certification for software. Initiated CMM processes that helped manage our effectiveness during exceptional growth.
· Steering Committee member for cross-division integration.
· Nurtured several skunkworks resulting in successful products, including a new product line featured in Eaton Corp. Annual Report.
· Marketing handled as a collaborative staff function. There was no separate marketing function or activity. Virtually all of my team dealt directly with customers.
· Eliminated nearly all competitors.
Software Project Supervisor (1986–1990)
Full project management responsibilities on projects with software budgets ranging up to $8 million.
· Met maximum contractual profit caps on virtually all projects.
· Reliably achieved initial schedules.
Software Engineer (1984–1986)
Developed major Automated Test System and other various Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for flight hardware. Designed software for a microprocessor based flight unit. Prepared standards and procedures for new software department.
Education
MS Computer Science (1990)
BA (1978)
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