SUMMARY:

• Successfully lead 20 projects to completion with budgets from $250,000 to over $5 million.
• Senior experience in architecture, design, development and project management
• Resident of Los Angeles, CA with a Green Card - extensive international, offshore and telecommute project management and lead experience
• Excellent ability to bridge communication gaps between vendors, business, technical and design teams
• Able to identify issues and develop successful resolutions and turnarounds in all phases of business and development efforts
• In-depth knowledge of mobile, cloud, web, application, database, devops with experience in the creation, design and deployment of High Availability/High Scalability cloud systems and legacy system modernization
• Manage software & database development projects. Create best practices guidelines; provide leadership and mentoring for all levels of employees. Develop standards for internal and external project and team interfacing requirements.
• Manage development of software systems using offshore and offsite development teams, ensure teams were productive and identify issues and concerns in order to reduce team stress especially on projects with critical deadlines.
• Work closely with team project leads to ensure that all business, functional and technical specifications are addressed to reduce impacts on project schedules. Implement code reviews and automated continuous integration testing to ensure software quality. Implement use of frameworks to ensure quality and design standards.
• Certified Scrum Master with a Diploma in Project Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning:  some familiarity with TensorFlow, OpenCV, Encog SDK, neural networks

Languages:  C, C++. C#, JAVA, PHP, PERL, Python 3, Visual Basic Eclipse, IDLE, Visual Studio, MotoDEV, Basic4Android Cobal and a variety of legacy languages

Frameworks:  Android, JAVA Swing, Symfony 2, Zend

Database:  MS SQL Server, MySQL, ORACLE, PostgreSQL Teradata, Universe DB, ADODB for PHP, Apache SOLR Memcache, JDBC, MDB2, OCI, ODBC

API’s & Libraries:  AJAX, JQuery, DHTMLX, REST, SOAP, WSDL, XML, Mockery, Android, iPhone, Blackberry SDK’s PhoneGap, Titanium Mobile

OS & Servers:  MS Servers, Linux (Centos, Redhat, Ubuntu) VMWare, Virtual Box, IIS, Apache, Varnish, Squid

Cloud:  OpenStack, AWS product line, Clickr

Scripting:  some AngularJS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Relman, Pkgmake, Histview Chef, Puppet, QuickBuild, Bash, vi, ksh, grep, sed, regex, Powerscript, Appworks, Cobal, Basys, RMS

Project Management Bug Tracking & Source Control:  Agile, JIRA, MS Project, SCRUM Bugzilla, Mantis, SVN, GIT

Testing & Continuous Integration:  Ant, Jenkins/Hudson, jUnit, phpUnit. TAP

Design:  Adobe, Balsamic, Napkee

Platforms:  Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Rightscale Drupal, Mediawiki, phpDocumentor, OpenX, WURFL, WALL, SOA (Software Oriented Architecture) Software Patterns

Software:  Putty, Winscp, Jabber, Skype MS Office (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)

Legacy and Mainframe systems: Prime (now Universe Multivalue), Cobal, BASYS, RMS, COBOL, Fortran

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager 

Confidential, Torrance, CA 

Responsibiities:

• This full lifecycle project integrated Honeywell Vocollect equipment (voice interaction to Honda Manhattan Associate Warehouse Management System for Dealer Stock Orders (DSO) across 9 Honda Part centers in the United States. The project focused on DSO along with export workflow and multi-lingual support. Project scheduled for 2 years 2016 - 2018 with all 9 Honda Part Centers online March 2018. Deliver project on-time and under budget (Planned $3.5 million / Actual $2.8 million).
• Develop and pitch project deck to senior Honda management to secure project in Honda 2016/17 schedule. Develop 2-year project plan with Business and vendor teams; define budget ($3.5 million) with ISD and Business team leads. Lead project discovery and requirements gathering to define project scope and effort. Coordinate design efforts between Business & vendors (NuVizz & Honeywell) to ensure timely delivery of design document to match against 15 DSO workflow requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships with Manhattan Associates (warehouse management systems), NuVizz (voice integration to warehouse management system) and Honeywell Vocollect (equipment) during design, development, testing and implementation phases. Lead Honda teams (Business, Information Systems, Networking, Finance and Procurement) to ensure project tasks completed as per Honda J-Flow methodology and schedule. Migrate project from Honda J-Flow Waterfall to Agile Sprints to accelerate design, development and testing phases after Honda yearly budget review reduced budget to $1.75 million in 2017.
• Participate in vendor and Honda Finance and Procurement meetings to gather requirements and assist in creation of Requests For Quotes (RFQ’s), Statements of Work (SOW’s), Purchase Orders (PO’s) and adjustments as project moved from equipment purchases to leasing.
• Present weekly, monthly and quarterly status reports to senior executive team (CTO, VP, Director level), present demonstrations for Japanese executives.
• Manage development team for eQuote Project Manager to ensure timely delivery of Phase 1 of eQuote system (Parts Management implementation built on .NET, Angular JS, MS SQL Server and interfacing with mainframe systems)

Confidential, Corona, CA

Project lead 

• Integrate GIS mapping system to provide delivery routing and customer mapping processes for distribution division. Develop project and technical specification for production facility and distribution freezer network for Internet of Things (IOT) integration, inventory and delivery integration with Android tablets.
• Development of IOT strategy document with CEO for 2017 project

Confidential, San Jose 

Adobe Cloud operations and developer

Responsibilities:

• Discovery, analysis, and audit of Adobe Cloud Business IT Operational and Security procedures and practices
• Lead a team of four business analysts to investigate the current state of Adobe Cloud operations and develop an operationalization specification for the Adobe Cloud Business IT business group. Work with Adobe teams consisting of onshore, offshore, nearshore devops, security and network administrators to provide definition of parameters for the operational processes and procedures relating to Adobe cloud imaging standards, current and missing security requirements and the creation of system profiles to aid in development of a more secure cloud environment. Work with devops teams to define operation deployment management process using a standardize toolset based on Atlas.
• Present Adobe IT Cloud Services Security and Operations findings for “best practices concerning Continuous Integration/Continuous Development and Cloud Security recommendations” to the executive team leading the Adobe IT Cloud Service department.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA 

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery and system specification design for CDN cloud architecture and processes across all DirecTV projects that required CDN services and integration. Ensure DirecTV programs align with ATT Cloud initiatives during preliminary due diligence processes.
• Lead discovery of technical solutions and implementation of CDN networks for over the top (OTT) content delivery, live streaming, video on demand (VOD), interactive services, recommendation engines, dynamic ad insertion and analytics projects with a focus on scalability, high performance, and rapid deployment
• Review and analyze use of CDN APIs (Akamai, Level 3, LimeLight Networks, Verizon Edgecast and Octoshape) and reporting tools (Conviva). Use Conviva to review CDN metrics and performance. Manage onshore and offshore integration of Apache Traffic Server to deploy a CDN skunkworks project.
• Develop white papers for DirecTV CDN executive management in particular relating to the use of Neural Networks to manage integration of Recommendations, traffic flow and patterns and redirection of traffic.
• Collaborate and lead meetings with cross-functional teams to direct the implementation strategy of solutions for DirecTV 2014/2015 NFL Sunday Ticket, Asset Intake & Management, Analytics and Content Delivery Networks.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager

• Product Manager for Intelligent Directory, leading teams in Toronto (Canada), Vancouver (Canada), Philadelphia (USA) and Chennai (India). Intelligent Directory (IntDir) is a next generation registry service to create a trusted web presence for a domain registration with the services and tools to facilitate buyer engagement with domain name registrant. 
• Report to Ram Mohan (Executive VP of Business Operations, CTO and owner of Affilias) and Uma Murali (President/CEO of Names Beyond) with weekly progress status updates for the Intelligent Directory project development.
• Collaborate with James M. Galvin (Vice Chair at ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee Director, Strategic Relationships and Technical Standards at Afilias) to decompose high level business requirements for Intelligent Directory into technical specifications for offshore development, develop project plans, work breakdown structures (WBS) and project resource allocation requirements
• Remotely lead development teams and provide Shadi Mosaed (Project Manager at Afilias) and David Wu (Scrum Lead) SCRUM/Agile updates.
• Successfully take over management of the Phase 1 prototype development. Completed development and delivery of Phase 1 prototype of Intelligent Directory platform based on existing Technical and Functional specifications. Result was client (pir.org) proceeded with development of production version Phase 2.
• Developed technical specifications, created Statements of Work (SOW’s), development project plans, workflow and wireframes and leading software and database development for Phase 2 system. Develop API interfaces using Mockery to test calls to a RESTful server. Develop framework code for offshore, all Unit test code and manage offshore and EC2 AMI’s. Provide coding assistance, training, and mentoring to junior developers.
• Project lead for Phase 3 system to implement system as a Platform as a Service (PaaS), architect and develop API for commercial client integrations, lead development of backend system administration and integration with internal billing and customer service systems.
• Paas Project won CIO award (news release on request - see August 2014 issue)
• Project lead for the FLY9 integration (Domain Registrar software) and integration for Emerald Registrar, Ireland. Setup and deploy QA and production Amazon EC2 AMI. Develop Continuous Integration build process for offshore team. Create deployment packages and documentation for QA testing. Develop Puppet, Chef Scripts for deployments.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Lead remediation development effort for Clear Channel web system servicing 850 radio stations across the United States
• Develop Solution Design documents to detail project requirements and scope, create timelines and develop project plans to assign tasks to onsite and offshore contractors. Lead development sprints, lead development and business requirements gathering meetings. Coordinate between Director of Web Development, Director of Database Systems, the New York PMO and Canadian and Indian development teams on project progress.
• Redesign Data Access Layer from diverse internal system and replace with ADODB PHP library. Implement Memcache to reduce database traffic, implement error logging to aid system operations in finding database errors quickly. Update all classes to leverage new DAL. Increase stability and performance of web system serving 850 radio station web sites. Memcache usage increased to over 68% on deployment of DAL. Reduce errors by over 90%. Reduces average error location from 12 minutes to <1 minute.
• Re-factor classes within the framework to remove legacy & commented code, clean up and reduce extraneous functions, implement standardized functions, methods and Clear Channel coding practices. Implement code commenting using phpDocumentor tags.
• Manage update to MySQL to convert from MyISAM to INNODB, migration of older administration applications to new releases (third Party updates). Implement SOLR search engine for News Feeds, create bash/php cron scripts to ingest news feed data
• Lead remediation effort for 10 million photos in image repository implementing a variety scripts (cron bash/php) to analyze, de-duplicate and report on images.
• Development via LAMP (Red Hat Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) running on VMWare environments. Agile SCRUM sprint development management via JIRA
• Lead deployment from development to production by coordinating between teams (source control, build, QA, production) and ensuring all deliverables properly tested and bundled for builds. Manage build list for code, database updates and changes, new dependencies (3rd party specific installs) and coordinate between the development team leads to ensure nothing is missing.
• Manage offshore and onshore team developers, architect solutions and review with Clear Channel team members (Dan Thom - Director of Web Development & Peter Teitelbaum - Director of Database Systems)