SUMMARY

• Improved delivery and cycle time by 20%: Led PMO and managed design, development and execution of first ever high risk Motorola reusable platform and reference architecture in a complex matrix organization. The program expanded across SDLC from cost/requirements negotiations to integration, release and support. Partnered with global QA to address all quality processes and activities related to the platform.
• Improved organization maturity by 3x: Managed development and delivery of a global process and methodology transforming a hardware oriented business into leveraging software technology into its products offerings. As a change agent transformed organization maturity level from SEI CMM level 0 to level 3 in a span of 3 years.
• Transitioned waterfall development process to agile/scrum development: Managed and transformed a waterfall development organization into Agile/Scrum process both in a financially regulated organization and in a software Service organization. Trained development, BA and PM teams using Scrum process. Created a hybrid of waterfall/ Scrum end to end organization and development process.
• Enhanced products offering by 5x and sales opportunities by 3x: Directed and managed strategic planning, roadmap and development of enterprise wide web based lifecycle management suite interfacing many ERP systems, including SAP, while developing and employing continuous improvement processes. The SLM suite is designed based on SOA and reuse principals and contains a BI, Analytic and Data Warehousing module. It can be configured as SaaS business model for the respective markets.
• Increased sales by 3x & prod offering by 5x: Developed release planning process, created product strategy & roadmap. This improved sales opportunities by 3 factor
• Improved quality by 5x: Led and directed process improvement effort in core product team in line with SEI CMMI
• Improved business market share by 50%: Spearheaded and managed design and development of hundreds of innovative next generation 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G cellular multimedia and security content management applications with budget of >$15M and headcount of >150 at >10 worldwide sites. These applications improved Motorola’s market share by 50%. Used processes were targeted for achieving SEI maturity level 3.
• Managed design and delivery of a Business Intelligent/Data Warehouse solution; Categorized as best in class and leader in BI by IDC MarketSpace: Managed and directed design, development and delivery of a Cognos end to end solution that included creation of a data warehouse and customized analytic cubes and reports.
• Successfully managed delivery of projects in highly regulated environment: Rolled out a global BI and Data Warehouse in a highly regulated financial environment; Managed implementation of IBM MDM solution and global regulatory standards, demising hundreds of systems retrofitting them with the latest global systems.
• Managed design/development of a Telematic solution; Saving the business $1B over 7 years; featured in WSJ: Managed development and rollout of an Infrastructure Telematic Satellite/Mobile solution (HW, SW and GUI) from inception to installation of the solution in Agricultural and Construction equipments as part of the standard offering.
• Established global teams and grew development effectiveness by 10x (with low 1%-2% turnover for 4 consequent years): Provided key leadership role in creating, operating and managing domestic and foreign based high performance software teams in Australia, Russia, China, India, Italy, Israel, South America, and the US, with over 150 developers and over $15 million in annual budget. Planned appropriate training to match the needed skill set for the organization portfolio, allocated resources across product releases and customer/clients customization requirements and needs. Created retention and allocation strategy, developed resource profile and roadmap.

Process: Agile/Scrum, PMI, SEI-CMM, SAFE, Lean Six Sigma DMIAC, IEEE, ISO and DOD standards

PM Tools: TFS, MS Project, Teamplay(er), QSM, COCOMO, McCabe complexity, QuickBase, Clarity, etc.

Languages: HTML, Java, XML, C, C++, Visual C++, C#, CSS, JSP, SOAP

OS/Servers: Windows, WinCE, Unix, Linux, JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, DB2, Oracle, SQL

Applications: Cognos & SAP BI, MDM, DDTS, TestDirector, AppPerfect, CC/PVCS/SVN, Apache Ant, Drools, FindBug,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder; executive Program Manager 

• Technical Program and Release Manager - Confidential transformation program; Managing design, development & rollout of an IBM MDM module, as golden source of Confidential customer information, across multiple sites as part of a massive Confidential bank transformation strategy. Managed onshore/offshore resources including vendor resources, creating/managing budget and resource profile by months/development phases over multiple releases; Prepared/managed release of FATCA Compliance & Customer Due Diligence across all workstreams / line of businesses; out Confidential Business Intelligent/Data Warehouse upgrade to global enterprise solution architecture (Cognos, Teradata) in a highly regulated environment. Responsible for resource profile, managing budget, plan, risks, design, development & release
• IT Software Development and mgmt. Scrum Master; Created Agile/Scurm training module and a workshop; Coached and trained three scrum teams with all scrum ceremonies, story creation, backlog creation and management, story grooming, release/sprint planning and management; Created a hybrid of waterfall/scrum processes to merge and transform organization waterfall to scrum architected; Supported and provided guidance on new software development to facilitate for Continuous Integration, TDD, Mobile, SOA and Cloud computing
• Portfolio Manager; Supported Sr. mgmt in this new entrepreneurial company to develop its portfolio; Created and strategize on its analytic and big data solution; Create visualization & backend API for its analytic & BI strategy

Global Program Manager and Software Development Director

• Developed release planning process, Created product strategy & roadmap. Increased sales by 3x & prod offering by 5x
• Developed a global diverse development team with proper skill set. Expanded the team & its effectivity by 10x
• Planned appropriate training to match the needed skill set for the organization portfolio, allocated resources across product releases and customer/clients customization requirements and needs
• Managed/directed design, development and delivery of Cognos BI/Data Warehouse as well as customized analytic cubes and reports based on direct customers’ requirements. This module was categorized as best in class and Leader in BI by 2012 IDC MarketSpace
• Rolled out enterprise Service Life Cycle suite of products in an Agile, fast-paced, environment in key int. markets. Directing QA/PM teams’ efforts. Increased deployments by 4x. Led and process improvement, Improved quality by 5x

Sr. Telematics Program/Operations Mgr

• Delivered (HW, SW, GUI App) Telematics solution in a high profile cooperation with QUALCOMM Inc. Over $1B over 7 year savings and revenue; featured in Wall Street Journal; In addition, managed group operational activities.

Biometrics Consultant

• Created and established common products platform and product architecture.
• Consulted CEO and board of directors in creation of an effective engineering department with efficient processes and methodologies to deliver homeland security biometrics and location based tracking projects.

 Head/Sr. Engineering Resource Manager, Mobile Devices

• Established high performing global team across US, Russia, Australia, India, China, Israel and Italy (150+ resources)
• Created resource profile and strategy, hired/acquired/trained needed skill sets, managed resources across global sites
• Led QA team and delivered key differentiator apps: Audio/Video Player, Camera, high profile Apple iTunes integration, etc. Achieved cellular market leadership; Featured in key cellular publications
• Collaborated with marketing, sales, customers and end users to define and negotiate their needs and requirements.
• Managed rollout of quality features to high-profile global customers: i.e. T-Mobile, Vodafone, China Unicom & Verizon.
• Initiated and sponsored drafting and submission of technical patents and process improvement across the global team
• Led SEI level4 assessment.

Principal Engineering Program Manager

• Planned and executed memorandum of understanding worth over $20M
• Developed and allocated necessary resources to the program and managed their ramp up/down profile
• Led successfully the key partnership between Motorola, Microsoft and British Telecom (BT) to integrate Microsoft Mobile Enabled web solution into a Motorola handset, a key project for BT’s e-Business solution.

Senior Engineering Program Manager

• Successfully prepared enterprise systems for Y2K transition. Zero systems’ failures at the stroke of the millennium
• Set IT strategies, Managed executions across portfolio. allocated/released resources to the pool as needed
• Managed implementation of the CALEA feature into the iDEN infrastructure to meet federal government mandates.

Global Process Improvement Manager/SEI CMM Authorized Lead Assessor

• Developed a global SW development process and methodology and rolled it out across 7 WW sites with over 600 users
• Developed key SME global resources to develop/rollout the process. Developed a training plan to retain key skill set
• Developed corporate level process, SEI-CMM software maturity, software metrics strategies and reuse initiative/strategy
• Planned/developed strategies; supported product portfolio; performed salary forecasting & performance evaluations.