Director / Senior Director of Engineering Resume

SUMMARY:

Very strong leader with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation, and resolution.
Effective problem - solver, applying analytical, design, and technical skills.
Use collaborative style and excellent interpersonal communication skills to help development teams succeed.
Expertise is in bringing together software teams, product owners, architecture, and business, for better overall product.
Guide, mentor, and assist direct reports.
Keep big picture in mind while helping prioritize development work load and bugs.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Languages: Java, Angular, Elasticsearch, Node.js, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Scala

DBS: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB

OS: Linux, OSX, iOS

REST: Web Services, Hadoop, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Director / Senior Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

Membership web functionality for Association of Confidential Veterinarians.
Document management, Conference Speaker and Proceedings tools using Angular, Node.js, MongoDB.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Director / Senior Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

Delivered numerous releases of server-side Java and Scala products, driving metadata, navigation, and video to company’s set-top box and consumer device products, averaging 2 production releases per week over 6 products.
Advanced Elasticsearch functionality. Drove iOS and Android development teams through multiple mobile releases of our Confidential apps.
Spearheaded Agile introduction in company’s development teams, adapting Agile processes to individual team needs, increasing employee engagement, and improving product performance and innovation with minimal downtime or churn from bugs.
Helped drive scaled Agile framework across company to allow for seamless interaction among different development teams, enabling multiple unique development groups to communicate and work together, removing development silos and strengthening team interaction.
Hired full-time employees (FTEs), contractors, and off-shore development to staff teams and managed yearly $5M contractor budget, creating exceptional work environment, leading to virtually nonexistent turnover amongst FTEs.

Senior / Principal Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Created VOD management system based on subcontractor C++ system, converting from C++ to Java, and Solaris to Linux.
Oversaw ultimate rollout through all 45 divisions in Confidential nationwide system for use by more than 12M customers.
Led software development and team for Confidential project, bringing metadata sources and market data into central national core and providing services to client applications.
Spawned rest of services to serve metadata and ImageServer for common national image repository to multiple clients.
Created testbed for Agile Methodologies in Confidential, launching company’s first fully Agile team.
Experimented with 100% theoretical Agile team and pragmatically pared down to great working Agile methodology, driving other development teams into Agile Development.
Product Owner for Confidential -based projects.
Acted as Agile Product Owner for multiple products, emphasizing communication between business stakeholders and development teams.