SUMMARY

• A highly self - motivated and customer-focused software engineering manager with 13 years professional global experience include both people management and project management.
• As a software engineering manager, I effectively led global software organizations and successfully developed employees who grew as great industry leaders.
• With my leadership, our teams successfully introduced new 0.2T and 0.35T MRI products that create new markets with lower cost, and released quality software avoiding production gaps by ensuring the right project scope and seamless execution.
• As a project manager, I led ~11 global cross-functional teams and delivered projects that reduced production cost, saved business variable cost by 3+M per year, introduced new market differentiation features helping the doctor to see things they could not see, and integrated the latest technology to our product.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Purpose: Design and implement an embedded database system that supports basic SQL92 and hash table technology for better performance;

Language/tools: C/C++, SQL, Linux, C#, ASP.NET,XML, HTML, TCP/IP, Windows.

Language/Tools: ASP.NET, IIS, ORCALE/SQL Server, XML, HTML, Windows.

Purpose: Design and implement 119 information system for the fire department;

Project size: 3 software engineers;

Language/tools: ASP/ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, SQL, Oracle, Windows.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with project/product managers, identified project scope, prioritized different features, translated the business need into specific software technical solutions, allocated engineering resource, and shipped the great software product;
• Set and communicated the project expectation upfront; Defined project metrics and measured them weekly to ensure the success of the project;
• Successfully led development teams through the introduction of new releases for MRI products;
• Managed software engineering operations including project planning, development, deployment and maintenance;
• Overseen the development and maintenance of detailed project plans by creating project operation mechanism and kept the release on track;
• Led global software organizations and defined the strategic vision for the organization;
• Partnered with global system engineering teams, global hardware engineering teams, project management teams, and quality assurance teams and together achieved strategic and tactical objectives.
• Followed the established software development lifecycle (SDLC) process and improved the process from programs to programs.
• Successfully built sustainable software solutions by consistently ensuring systematic technical design review to meet both the short term business need and long term technical strategy;
• Owned budget plan for the software department;
• Constantly drove broad organizational initiatives include process/productivity/quality improvement;
• Provided prompt and effective feedback to employee for improvements;
• Engaged employees; Promoted engineering excellence; Conducted annual performance/salary review;
• Mentored and coached employees effectively by having weekly 1:1 meeting; Helped employee to achieve their career goal;
• Demonstrated hands-on software development experience by designing and implementing web-based Core File Dashboard application that automated the core file investigation and report;
• Prepared the weekly/monthly report and effectively communicated and presented complex technical information to all org levels (technical/non-technical);
• Defined and owned the software roadmap;
• Wrote job description, identified candidates, conducted interviews, and Hired 4 software engineers and 3 software interns;

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Led virtual global cross-functional engineering team leaders(US, India, Japan, China) and delivered 2 major NPI projects, 3 major installed base projects, 3 research projects by using AGILE/Waterfall development methodologies; Those project either introduced world-class life-saving software applications or introduced a completely new innovative product to the market;
• Collaborated with complicated cross-functional team(SW/HW/System) and demonstrated strong problem solving skill in a matrix organization;
• Managed and integrated 2nd/3rd party solution to the product;
• Owned SW integration strategies and strategic plans; Owned the software development life cycle, and drove the execution and the product release with quality; Owned source code version control system by using Clearcase; Owned problem tracking system by using ClearQuest;
• Partnered with other development teams, effectively created software development plan, and successfully executed the plan;
• Demonstrated excellent experience for both Waterfall methodology and AGILE methodology;
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skill and great presentation skills by presenting the project status to business leadership team(technical/non-technical ) weekly;
• Mentored and coached new software project managers, team leaders, interns. Provided effective feedbacks and recognitions timely.
• Demonstrated hands-on software development experience by designing and implementing i18n translation integration tools;
• As a technical leader, successfully introduced a completely new Linux Operating System (Open Suse) to products.

Lead software engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the team and delivered Ovation 5 project on time and within budget;
• Implemented prescan firmware features for DVMR project.
• Designed and implemented Profile5 Service applications;
• Demonstrated C/C++/Java/Shell Script projectming expertise in Linux Environment.

Confidential

Software Intern

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented the Embedded Database System that supports basic SQL92 query for the Mobile device;
• Improved the database query performance by implementing HASH table in the mobile devise;
• Designed and implemented the NET database agent used for the query by the smart phone application;
• Defined the communication protocol between the mobile device and the NET database agent;
• Demonstrated C/C++ projectming expertise in Windows and Linux Environment;
• Language/Tools: C/C++/C#, ASP.NET, IIS, SQL, SQL Server, Linux/Windows, multiple threads.