SUMMARY:

• An accomplished and highly educated IT, Software Development & QA Leader with over 20 years of experience establishing and managing large, multinational, culturally diverse, worldwide IT, QA, Software Development, Automation and Performance Testing organizations with multimillion dollar budget responsibility, leading departments of 100+ leaders, engineers and staff.
• Established a metrics driven organization with emphasis on reducing time to market while ensuring highest quality.
• Built and managed a 60+ member multinational department spanned across 5 locations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Winnipeg Canada, and offshore in India and Mauritius. Led managers, engineers and staff, qualifying 20+ software releases yearly for 4 Confidential flagship MS Windows, .NET and Visual Basic Web products. Driving software quality initiatives, generated metrics, initiated process improvements. Developed methodologies and best practices.
• Utilized SDLC, SOA, Agile, Rally, MS SharePoint, HP Quality Center (Test Cases repository), IBM ClearQuest (Defects repository) and Rational Robot (Test automation engine).
• Directed engineering negotiations with VMware on behalf of Confidential .
• Successfully led a Software Development and Quality Assurance organization, implemented and qualified VMware virtualization software on Confidential ClearPath and ES7000 32 - way Intel Servers ahead of schedule.
• Managed a Software Development and Quality Assurance organization consisting of multiple groups of software engineers and managers who developed, qualified 2 Microsoft Windows object-oriented web applications, eSkills and eRequests from inception to support under budget.
• Utilized SDLC, Agile, SQL, ASP, XML, IIS, Apache, Flash, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, Java.

CORE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• Software Development Software
• Quality Assurance
• Automation, Performance Test, Metrics Web Application Development
• Policy and Budget Development Organizational Development & Leadership
• Contract & SOW Negotiations & Management Off - shoring & Multinational
• Staff Management and Promotions Strategic Thinking and Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Manager, Dev & QA

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of Software Developers and Solution Architects responsible for Development, QA and Support of the Confidential Messaging Platform (CMP) using Agile, Rally, Scrum, DevOps methodology.
• All digital communications to Confidential customers (eMails, SMS, Texts) where developed and maintained by the team using state of the art .NET technology on a new Message Integration Platform (MIP).
• Established and grew a Software, Automation and Performance Test organization with 40+ members worldwide in Philadelphia, Herndon, VA and 2 locations in India. Led managers, engineers and staff qualifying Confidential Billing products (Vision, eCommerce, Amdocs DDP/ABP, CSG, DST Comtrac, CMS, XH, XSS, AMDD, and Numeritrack).
• Established a metrics driven organization with emphasis on reducing time to market while ensuring highest degree of quality.
• Utilized SDLC, TDD and Agile delivering best of class software releases. Grew the team from 8 to 40+ members in 14 months.

Director, QA

Confidential, Exton, PA

Responsibilities:

• Built and managed a 60+ strong multinational Quality Assurance and Automation Department spanned across 5 locations.
• Led managers, teams of engineers and staff, qualifying 20+ software releases yearly for 4 Confidential Corporation flagship HR products.
• Utilized SDLC, SOA, Agile, SharePoint, HP Quality Center, IBM ClearQuest and Rational Robot (test automation engine).
• While meeting product delivery commitments on schedule, revitalized the Department in 15 months by architecting an integrated and well-functioning multi-location organization.
• Established communication protocols and documented departmental processes which resulted in meeting 100% of project milestones on schedule.
• Trained and promoted 7 staff members to leadership positions while growing the department from 14 to 60+ members in 12 months.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Responsibilities:

• Held progressively responsible leadership positions at Confidential, a fortune 500 computer company with 34,000 employees and $6B in revenue.
• Directed and managed Software and Hardware development projects.
• Managed a multimillion dollar annual budgets, leading Departments of hundred+ managers, engineers and staff.
• Worked closely with executive leadership in delivering state-of-the-art software and hardware products for national and international markets.

Executive Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed engineering negotiations with VMware on behalf of Confidential .
• Successfully led a Software Development and Quality Assurance organization, implemented and qualified VMware virtualization software on Confidential ClearPath and ES7000 32-way Intel Servers ahead of schedule.

Director, Software Development & QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led large Software Development Department with multiple groups of software engineers and managers developing 2 MS Windows object-oriented web applications, eSkills and eRequests from inception to support under budget. Utilized SDLC, Agile, SQL, ASP, XML, IIS, Apache, Flash, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Visual Basic, C++, HTML and Java.
• Directed qualification and testing of Confidential software and hardware Security, Single Sign On, Smart Card, ID Card, Biometrics Finger Printing and Networking products on MS Windows and Linux/UNIX Operating Systems running on Confidential Servers worldwide and under budget.