SUMMARY

• Dedicated, results oriented professional with extensive experience in all phases of product development life cycle of IT, Defense and Communication Systems.
• Over 30 years of experience working in senior technical positions with large corporations in project management, requirements management and analysis, software development, systems design and integration, verification testing, performance analysis and quality assurance.
• Team Player, Leader and Contributor with expertise in managing diverse technical projects from conception through completion with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Expertise in Waterfall and Agile development process and coached new practitioners.
• Devised design strategies, test methodologies, requirements verification, design validation and user acceptance testing to ensure quality products are delivered to the customers.
• Proficient in user - centered agile software development frameworks and methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, user stories, lab and remote user testing and successfully lead a team to delivering results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Product Owner/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Product Owner/Business Analyst for Enterprise Document Management (EDM) and Enterprise Foundation Services (EFS) Systems responsible for formulating customer requirements and managing the software projects for agile development teams.
• Conduct customer interviews and gather business requirements, understand product and marketing strategies, write Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Interface Specifications and user stories.
• Create, maintain, prioritize, and groom the product backlog and identify release candidates and facilitate Release Planning Event (RPE). Provide program level leadership and training/coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to onshore and offshore development teams.
• Global product lead and Scrum Master for domestic and foreign cross-functional Agile/Scrum development teams towards achieving key goals.
• Facilitates meetings, sprint planning, retrospective, review, daily stand-up and successfully lead a team to delivering results.
• Participate in reviews, system test verification, sprint demo, analyze and resolve problems of medium to high complexity. Evaluate ALM software tools integration, current software development QA practices and recommend process improvement for required regulatory compliance and standards.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Software Engineer Staff

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle and System Engineering: analysis of customer requirements, interface requirements, product architecture, software integration, modeling and simulations, integration/system testing, performance analysis, failure investigation, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Integrated software modules into Operational Flight Program (OFP) software load on Unix platform and achieved successful JASSM flights.
• Defined and developed test plan, requirements verification traceability matrix, test methodology, test strategy, test cases, test procedures, defect tracking and test case management for JASSM OFP and Mission Planning software.
• Administered and maintained multi-user Weapon Support Simulator on a windows platform for OFP software testing.
• Spearheaded, coordinated and developed test automation tools using C/C++ on a Visual Studio .Net platform for integration and system testing and reduced testing time by 25%.
• Provided technical leadership, training and mentoring to software engineers in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Interfaced with hardware/software engineers in project planning, scheduling, design reviews, modeling and simulations, system test verification and data analysis for JASSM flight tests.
• Performed integration/system testing, performance analysis and acceptance testing using manual and automated scripts. Acceptance Testing was performed in the simulation and modeling platform followed by verification in the Hardware-In-the Loop (HIL), entailing integration of hardware with software and compliance with QA.
• Published design documents, test plans, test reports and the results of performance analysis to user community showing which goals were achieved and identify improvement opportunities and challenges for the next release.

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting and technical support for Telecommunication Switching Systems and Communication Networks.
• Directed engineers and technicians in a client/server environment, resolving complex switching/network problems quickly. Interfaced with switch vendors and other departments during switch/network outage and restored service quickly.
• Planned, scheduled and coordinated hardware and software upgrades for telephone switching systems.
• Performed system testing, performance analysis and resolved problems to the software and hardware level.
• Evaluated VoIP and VoATM Access products before installation in the Confidential Communication Networks.
• Authorized personnel for administering and provisioning CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) surveillance for Law Enforcement Agencies.