SUMMARY

• Resourceful Senior Leader and Engineer experienced in leading distributed, multicultural teams and effectively prioritizing activities to achieve objectives for start - ups to large-scale and highly complex environments.
• For the past 21+ years, I have contributed to the analysis, design, planning, execution and support of complex software, system and product development projects.
• With exposure to numerous industries including: Automotive, Food Delivery, Service, Printing Industry, Information Technology (IT), Consumer Electronics (Audio and Video Processing), Internet, Plastics Processing, Logistics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Technology, Pharmaceutical, Quick Service Restaurants, Retail, and Facility Management, I have maintained consistency, organization, and positioned myself as a dependable performer with flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities.
• I am a confident public speaker poised in delivering technical material to diverse audiences and end-users. I have been recognized as a skilled change manager improving the team performance by the introduction and support of empowerment, accountability and transparency.
• I am seeking an opportunity to share my abilities and growth in either hands-on development, software architecture or leadership.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROGRAMMING: ABEL, Assembler, Basic, C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, MS .NET, Objective C, Pascal, PHP, PLCLANGUAGES: PS/SQL, SQL, TSQL, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic .NET, VHDL

DATABASES: BDE, Big Data, Cache, FileMaker, GUPTA SQLBase, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, PostgreSQL, xBase

FRAMEWORKS: ActiveX, AForge.NET, AJAX, Android SDK, ATL, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Aurigma LIBRARIES, Graphics Mill, AVI, AWS SDK, BlueTools SDK, Codejock Software's Xtreme ToolkitPro, COM, combit

STANDARDS: List & Label, Component One Studio Enterprise, CSS, DaVinci, DCOM, DevComponents DotNetBar for Windows Forms, dlSoft dBarcode.NET, FFmpeg, Frauenhofer MP3-Lib, Graphics Server, Guifreaks Open Source .Net Controls, HTML, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, iOS SDK

PROCESS: Atlassian Butbucket, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, CA CCC/Harvest, FogBugz, git, Kiln, MS SharePoint, MS Team Foundation Server, MS Visual SourceSafe, MS Visual Studio Team Services, Rational ClearQuest, Rational RequisitePro, Seapine TestTrack, Serena TeamTrack, Subversion, Together, Trello

OPERATING: Android, iOS, Linux (Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu), Mac OS, Mac OS X, MS DOS, MS Windows

SYSTEMS: Server), MS Windows Embedded Compact (Embedded CE/CE), MS Windows IoT (Embedded), MS

SOFTWARE: Adobe PageMaker, microtech Buro Plus, Mindjet MindManager, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Open Office, Parallels Desktop, QuickBooks, VMware (Fusion, Player & Workstation)

SOFTWARE: Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis, Apache HTTP Server, JasperReports, microtech Buro Plus, MS Dynamics CRM 4.0, MS Hyper-V, MS IIS, MS Project Server, MS SharePoint Portal Server, phpBB, Red Hat JBoss AMQ, SAP Business One, SaaS, TYPO3, VMware Server, Web Services

CLOUD: Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis, AWS, cPanel, Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides, MS Azure, MS Office 365, STRATO HiDrive

COMPUTER: All computers executing Linux, Mac OS X or Windows

NETWORKING: Dynamic DNS, Ethernet, FTP, Internet (Routing, etc.), TCP/IP, VPN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR OF DATA SERVICES

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulting of top level management on technical decisions
• Conceptual design (Architecture) and development of instrument control software
• >90% hands-on coding
• Introduced release and deployment process with bi-directional traceability of code changes.
• Improved host computer reliability by introducing watch dog services for hardware, software and internet connection.
• Improved overall system reliability. Uptime is now >99.5%.
• Improved administration tools to perform periodical task from within an UI with error checking instead of directly with SQL.
• Automated periodical administrative tasks.
• Introduced operational reporting to foresee problems and identify possible system improvements.
• Improved backend service from processing max. 1,200 files/day to max. 325,000 files/day (so far) by introducing WCF and optimizing the MySQL databases.
• Improved data quality by reducing duplicate data with unique indexes.
• Improved client phasing reporting by introducing freely configurable reporting engine.
• Implementation of client web pages incl. design.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conceptual design (Architecture) and development of instrument control software
• 100% hands-on coding
• Automation of build and deployment process
• FFmpeg integration
• Restricted mode for Rack System
• Remote image viewer via WCF

MANAGER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improving department performance by empowerment, accountability and transparency
• New employee hiring and onboarding (1 st delivery to customer within 2 months)
• Support of product management in the area of requirements definition
• Definition, introduction and coaching of software development process
• Definition, introduction and coaching of release management with artifacts from 5 national and international locations (Foster City, CA; Ypsilanti, MI; Germany; Italy; Ukraine)
• Conceptual design (Architecture) and management of multiple software development projects (e.g. printer automation, laser automation, iOS remote, ...)
• Part time coding (MS Visual C# 2010)
• Re-introduction of Seapine TestTrack
• Department reporting based on TestTrack data