Vice President Of Product Development Resume
Plano, TX
SUMMARY
- IT leader with over 15 years of experience delivering transformative solutions that enable top line revenue growth and bottom line profitability.
- Proven software architect who possesses strong strategic and tactical business skills.
- My goal is to shape the IT and development vision for the organization and play a key role in realizing its success.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Proficient in: Microsoft Visual Studio C#® (2003 - 2013), Visual Basic.NET®, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, SQL Server T-SQL, VB Script, ASP, JavaScript, XML, PL-SQL
Familiar with: Java, Microsoft Visual C++®, Xamarin, XCode, HTML5, AJAX, JSON, Angular
Database Tools: SQL Server 2000-2014, SSIS, Oracle 8.x, SQL Server Profiler, SSRS
Platforms: Microsoft Windows® 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2000-2012, familiar with Linux
Other: VSTS, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SalesForce.com, Subversion, Tortoise SVN, IIS 6.0 - 7.0, Test Track Pro, GIMP, Microsoft Project, Visio, familiar with Apache
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vice President of Product Development
Confidential - Plano, TX
Responsibilities:
- Managed the 18 month Product Development Roadmap along with the development budget for 10 developers and analysts, as well as external development contracts for consulting services.
- Successfully influenced Executive management to convert the existing waterfall development environment to Agile using “Scrum” methodologies (certified Scrum Master 2013).
- Managed the development and release of 2 mobile applications for iOS and Android. The first is an internal app for service technicians. The second is a customer-facing site management app which includes service management, device history and ability to view remote video.
- Successfully transitioned Company-wide CRM system from Salesforce.com to Microsoft Dynamics CRM for sales and service, including development of multiple integrated custom applications for the enterprise.
- Reduced Interface’s monthly spending for CRM consulting services by 82% by moderately growing our internal development staff.
- Designed and sourced Westec’s next generation Digital Video Recorder featuring mobile application, megapixel IP camera technology, and remote health monitoring.
- As Development Manager for Westec Intelligent Surveillance, managed a team of 5 local developers, up to 16 offshore developers, 1 technical writer, and 2 support personnel.
- As a Senior Developer, designed and developed several successful software projects for the business, resulting in promotions to Development Manager, and then Director of Product Development, and ultimately the sale of Westec Intelligent Surveillance to Interface.
- As a Senior Developer, designed, developed, and deployed a suite of applications known as C3 Operator to replace the legacy off-the-shelf alarm automation software. Operator became the standard for all video verification alarm companies and has been actively pursued by multiple alarm automation software companies.
- Analyzed Westec's site installation processes and found ways to cut over $620,000 on average per year from the standard CCTV installation hardware.
Senior Developer
Confidential - Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Joined a team of 10 developers and 10 analysts to extend the functionality of a legacy foreclosure application. This application processed 95% of the foreclosure cases in the state of Texas.
- Built several Web Services to serve various needs of the firm. All services built using C# and ran on IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003.
- Designed and developed a generic service management engine. This service was built to allow the dev team add new services "on the fly" without recompiling the engine. Used reflection to dynamically invoke class libraries containing the service business logic. The service was written in C# and the queuing system was driven by an Oracle database.
Senior Developer
Confidential - Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 6 developers to create a web-based Healthcare Provider management system.
- Designed and developed the application framework within one month (object model, database design, and ASP.Net Framework).
- Implemented a strawman prototype by the end of month two. We were practicing continuous delivery before we knew what continuous delivery was allowing the system to give us feedback of specific needs through feature toggles during development and testing.
- Features included a secure encrypted login system, billing management, patient management, file uploader, interactive patient diagnosis model and patient/physician scheduling system.
Senior Programmer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Worked with 2-4 developers on a one year project to create an web-based Budget Projection System for the Internal Revenue Service's internal use. The system handles queries from thousands of offices and is responsible for allocating accurately the IRS's 12.8 billion dollar budget.
- Designed and developed a web-based insurance underwriting application. Features included quote and invoice generator, online payment system, and dynamic pdf generator for official insurance certificates.
- Developed key features of a web-based payroll system. Features included permission-based feature matrix, excel and pdf exporting function, and payroll forecasting.
- All projects were ASP or ASP.NET based with SQL Server databases.