Patrick F. Sheridan

*** ****** ****

Lowell, MA *1852

978-***-**** (Cell)

978-***-**** (Personal Cell)

acga5f@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Proven director, product manager and R&D manager who delivers high quality

product releases on time, within budget across a variety of technology

environments. Confident, intuitive and bottom-line oriented team builder -

possessing outstanding communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

Creative problem solver who thrives on challenges. Broad dynamic range of

experience across multiple technologies and architectures. Accustomed to a

fast pace and multiple projects, fulfills priorities and balances competing

agendas while consistently maximizing business opportunities, relationships

and profits. Strategically focused, metrics and process driven, forward

thinking and responsive software technology executive with a proven history

of success.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Planning - Roadmaps to provide for the transition of current

product to future product, produced by blending of business

needs/opportunities, systems architectures; enabling technologies, and

functional work processes.

Architecture and technology driven - Identify the methodologies that allows

for the transformation of work products across the company. Areas include:

Data management and governance analysis and modeling (Structured, semi-

structured, unstructured), Private cloud, AWS cloud, transition of products

to AWS. Transition of products to SaaS and Data as a Service model.

Technologies: NoSQL, Big Data, cloud platforms, Java, REST, UX, Monitoring

Process focused - Agile methodologies, certified SCRUM master and Product

Owner. Proven CI/CD and Dev/Ops implementer. Implemented CMMI and ISO-

20000 processes and certification.

Proactive Management - Ability to design processes and methods to deliver

optimized product delivery (balancing time, requirements, and technology),

with the talents and resources available. Ability to build processes that

address product releases and training in a timely fashion that meets the

customers' needs.

Business Management - Business planning, budgeting (EVM), and P&L

responsibility, creation of new business lines and overall product planning

and tracking. Merger and Acquisition integration of services and

infrastructure.

Education

2014 MBA - UMASS Lowell, Lowell, MA

1996 MS SW/System Engineering - Boston University, Boston MA

1992 MS Electrical Engineering - UMASS-Lowell, Lowell, MA

1982 BS Electrical Engineering - Worcester Polytechnic Institute,

Worcester, MA

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Nokia Corporation > Microsoft Burlington, MA Dec 2010 to Present

The Data and Analytics group provides big data and NoSQL infrastructure, as

well as services to collect telemetry data and other data sources for the

other Nokia groups and services. Nokia develops and sells cell phones and

mobile web services.

R&D Manager - Big Data Systems and Infrastructure

Responsible for the full life cycle of four major services; DataOS (NoSql

storage system); Nokia Account (NoA); Nokia Analytic Collector (NAC);

Business Intelligence Suite (BIS). Involved in the definition of the

architecture, requirements, design and development, as well as the

deployment and operations. These service were internal services used by

Nokia Consumer services. Managed up to 30 engineers across multiple teams,

teams that were located in US and India.

Active member of the Data Governance board and privacy team as a data owner

and system implementer.

Implemented new processes for product development to include CI/CD and

Dev/Ops, which decreased our product delivery times from months to days.

Nokia Account - embedded SDK for use on the mobile devices, SaaS for direct

access by UI or REST, backend server using memcached and Oracle. Big data

processing - common consumer profile (CCP) and event logs. Thirty Nokia

services were dependent on the product,

NAC - embedded SDK used by mobile applications, REST based collection

server that fed a Hadoop cluster. Big data processing - NAC event record.

One hundred and fifty services are dependent on the Used by over 150 mobile

applications.

BIS - SaaS for general access to Big Data by all of Nokia. Service as

deployed in AWS and included multiple services, Web Interface and security

to manage data access and report sharing.

DataOs - SaaS NoSql private cloud solution for Nokia services, later

transitioned to AWS based using DynamoDB. Eighteen Nokia services depended

on the product.

Technologies: AWS services, highly reliable software, monitoring, S3

buckets, Redshift, Sql, EMR, Netflix AWS tools, encryption, REST, JAVA,

Hadoop, NoSql, CI/CD, UX (Grails, Tableau, PowerBI), Monitoring (Ganglia,

Nagios, Splunk)

Process: Data Governance, data quality, git, Jenkins, cross functional

teams, Dev/Ops, CI/CD,- Agile (product owner, scrum master), JIRA, UI

design

Dynamics Research Corporation, Andover, MA Sep 2008 to Dec 2010

Director, Service Architecture and Software

Responsible for the development of a new business unit to propel DRC into a

lead architecture and software provider, based on cloud computing, SOA

development, and full service lifecycle management. Responsible to the

Senior Vice President for P/L of the group, to include budgeting, bidding

and performing on task orders. Defined the processes to make the business

more turnkey, CMMI Level 3 (working towards Level 5) and ISO20000 service

product catalogue based.

SUN Microsystems, Burlington, MA Sep 2000 - Sep 2008

Sun purchased Storagetek in 2005 and eventually reduced the group to 13

engineers. The product was re-architected to meet SUN standards and

improve supportability in the field. Added support for virtual tape

libraries.

Storagetek, Southborough, MA 2004 - 2005

Storagetek purchased Storability added responsibility to integrate the

Storability product into the Storagetek product line.

Storability Software, Southborough, MA 2000 - 2004

Startup that produced a data center storage - SRM product to operate in a

global deployment mode

Director, Product Development

Responsible for the concept, design, development and deployment of a

customer owned globally deployed data storage manager product used by

FORTUNE 500 companies. Responsibilities included working with customers,

product marketing, SMEs to produce requirements and solve customer issues.

Initial member of the startup engineering team. Managed up to 50 engineers

located in the US and India.

Simplex Time Recorder, Gardner, MA Mar 1995 - Sep 2000

A manufacturer that designs, develops, installs and maintains Fire Alarm

Systems, Access Control Systems, and Time Management Systems.

Director, Security and Interoperability

Responsible to the Senior VP for Security and the VP of engineering for the

Access Control product line, to include the requirements definition,

design, development, QA, Beta testing, Tier 3 and Tier 2 support. Work

included re-architecture of the security product line, to include

peripherals, controllers, application, and support tools. Co-manage the P/L

for the business.

Lead New Controller Architecture

Responsible to the VP for R&D for definition, design, development, of the

base hardware and software architecture for the controller.

Director, Fire Alarm Software

Responsible to the VP for R&D for definition, design, development, QA of

all fire alarm software (application, controller and embedded), including

UL certification.

GTE Government Systems Corporation, Stamford CT, 1987 - Mar 1995

Worked on a number or large scale DoD and NASA contracts. Work included,

business development, proposals and program engineering and management. Key

positions included:

New Product Director 1993 to 1995

Orchestrated the transformation of intellectual product property developed

by GTE for the government into commercially viable products.

National /Theater Missile Defense Engineering Manager 1991 - 1993

Responsible for identifying and coordinating GTE technologies to provide

innovative solutions for missile defense programs. Key basis for the

proposal was the agent based communication schemes in concert with GTE

Labs.

Software Reuse Engineering Program Manager

Responsible for managing the bid on 2 software reuse programs, which

included CMMI level 3 certification.

Software Development Manager

Responsible for delivering the software, QA and delivery and implementation

plans.

Lockheed/Sanders Associates, Hudson, NH 1986 - 1987

Responsible for working on the system design for a Tactical Jamming system

for the US Army

United States Air Force, Hanscom AFB 1982 - 1986

Responsible for the World Wide Military Command and Control System

Integration System (WIS) contract, which included managing the Integration

contract form a technical and program perspective.

Contact this candidate