Vice President Engineer Resume Santa Monica, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Visionary problem solver with 20+ years experience in the software field and passion for efficient agile process.
Accomplished leader with strength in building and guiding great teams.
Established Software Architect with proven record in extreme scaling and performance improvements of big data solutions.
Dedicated Test Automation evangelist and practitioner.

SPECIALTIES:

leadership, technology strategy, technical project management, software architecture, software development, SDLC, test automation frameworks, scale and performance, cloud services, big data, Cloudera, Hadoop stack, cybersecurity, endpoint protection, mobile apps, lean optimization, agile, scrum, Atlassian stack, Java, Scala, Python
JavaScript frameworks, C, C#, SQL and NoSql, MongoDB, Couchbase, Oracle, Selenium Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President Engineer

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Responsibilities:

Established extremely efficient lean agile process using the Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Stash/Bitbucket Server, Bamboo, Clover).
Collaborate d closely with Product Management, Documentation, SE, Sales and Support.
Achieved extreme scalability (twitter equivalent on 4 node cluster), by being personally responsible for the scale optimization of the big data backend (public/private cloud) based on the Hadoop stack and Cloudera (hdfs, hbase, flume, solr, kafka, spark).
Manage d the UI/UX effort, ReactJS single page application with REST API .
Directed the behavior intelligence and integration with external threat feeds, as well as the experimental features (spark, machine learning, anomaly detection).
Guided the DevOps team in creation of repeatable and streamlined build and release processes.
Mentored the QA team, completing state of the art test automation solution covering every aspect of the product (Endpoint testing on hardware, VMware ESX and Amazon AWS, Cloudera Deployment, Performance, Scale, API, UI, Intelligence and System Tests).

CTO

Confidential, Los angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

Designed revolutionary test automation solution based in the cloud.
Managed the cybersecurity and the IT infrastructure, achieving A+ results.
Achieved extreme scalability, reducing the infrastructure cost by order of magnitude .

Principal Software Architect

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the management, design, development, implementation and maintenance of customized test automation solutions for a variety of Leverage Point clients.
Managed complex projects, using PMI PMBOK principles, to consistently deliver technically sound solutions on time and on budget.
Designed and implemented cost effective test automation solutions across numerous software development methodologies.
Presented the organizations overall automation vision and solutions to prospective clients, existing clients and internal customers.
Delivered successfully numerous automation framework development projects including hands - on experience with keyword driven, data driven, GUI and unit testing approach.
Completed successfully numerous complex projects using a wide-variety of off-the-shelf and custom developed test automation and test management tools.
Developed and delivered comprehensive training plans for both internal and external users.

Test Automation Manager

Confidential, Summerland, CA

Responsibilities:

Achieved faster strategic release cycle by 10x reduction in System Test duration and cost, from 6 weeks x 7 QA to 3 days x 3 QA.
Built the team and created the training program.
Assured that all Internal Quality Standards were met.
Established best project management practices - Project Management and Tracking.
Conducted internal ISO9001:2000 audits as a lead auditor.
Designed and implemented efficiency multiplier solutions for the DevOps and Test Engineer teams.

QA Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

Assured constant process improvement using best practices (ISO, CMM, RUP) .
Implemented best project management practices for Project Management and tracking.
Designed the test automation framework.
Led multiple projects, form medical software to digital entertainment.