Manager Software

Ray Kraus

(Software Development Manager)

Crockett, CA 94525

Mobile: 510-***-****

Email: ********@*******.***

Professional Summary

Software development manager with fifteen years' professional software

development and management experience in environments developing Windows

and Macintosh software. Primary experience is developing commercial

software for use in biotech applications.

Accomplishments

. In 2006 implemented a project to study user interaction and usability

as it applies to instrumentation and its support software. This

project was done with an eye toward building a "usability" capability

at Bio-Rad that would study and address and improve user needs as they

apply to instruments and software. The idea was to design this

capability in such a way that it could be eventually ported to product

lines outside the department. (Bio-Rad)

. Migrated the ProteOn Manager software development team from offshore

to Hercules, California and was responsible for staffing that team

from scratch. The transition was completed on time and budget and the

current team consists of five developers assisted by another five SQA

staff. Most of the team was hired from outside Bio-Rad. As a result,

was also responsible for developing a structured candidate

interviewing program. Using this program resulted in successful hires

in every case. (Bio-Rad)

. Was responsible for team that successfully implemented new user-

intuitive and automated software to support Bio-Rad's new StainFree

Imager system. This software was implemented as a cross-platform

Windows and Macintosh solution using the Qt application framework.

. Project management for Quantity One image analysis software releases

from 2000-2004. Consisted of: requirements gathering and management

coordinated with marketing and SQA; project planning including work

breakdown and scheduling; release to manufacturing. (Bio-Rad)

. Related to project management, became expert and was responsible for

executing project plans according to Bio-Rad's New Product Development

SOPs. These SOPs are a component of Bio-Rad's quality plan which is

in turn a key part of its ISO 9001 certification. The software

versions of these SOPs describe a waterfall form of the Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

. Studied FDA Regulation 21 CFR Part 11 and then participated in

implementation of components for imaging software. Was primarily

responsible for design and implementation of audit trail components.

(Bio-Rad)

Professional Experience

Jan, 1998 - Jan, 2009, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, California

Software Development Manager (2005-2008)

Managed a department of software developers composed of teams supporting

three product lines: gel electrophoresis imaging software, BioPlex Manager

immuno-assay analysis, and ProteOn Manager bio-molecular interaction

analysis. The department was composed at times of as many as 17 technical

leads, developers and SQA testers. These three software products share

common characteristics: desktop applications that communicate with

instruments, acquire data from the instruments, and analyze and report the

data on behalf of the end-user.

. Department level budgeting - developed the skills to plan multi-

million dollar budget and bring in at or under target.

. Served as purchasing agent for software department. Primarily

development equipment, software licensing negotiation and purchase,

training, and travel coordination.

Bio-Rad Software Development Manager (continued)

. In 2005, the software department was a flat structure with 14

developers and testers all reporting to the department manager. Over

the next eighteen months, restructured department into four groups

with three product development groups and one SQA group. Each group

had a group lead. Managed those group leads by defining on-going job

duties and setting annual objectives. Those group leaders in turn

were responsible for managing the duties and objectives of their

staff.

Software Project Developer (1998-2004)

Responsible for project management and ongoing feature development of

Quantity One, the company's principle 1D electrophoresis imaging software

application. The imaging product line consists of a series of instruments

used primarily to image electrophoresis gels. Feature development required

conversion of a proprietary C library to an object-oriented C++ application

framework.

. Designed and developed a reporting engine used to quickly prototype

and represent bio-molecular analysis data: displays table data and

graphics; previews and prints in full color; exports to spreadsheet.

. Designed and developed a two-dimensional graphics module that is able

to integrate and animate up to three images simultaneously. This

feature allows the laboratory scientist to quickly detect small

differences between nearly identical images.

. Implemented prototype improvements to Quantity One's object finding

and lane-band definition algorithms. Portions of these algorithms

were ported to Bio-Rad's StainFree Imager software - ImageLab.

1995-1997 Senior Software Engineer Coolhand Interactive, Mountain

View, California

Windows coding in C++ for strategy games. Using Visual Studio, graphical

user interface (GUI) features added to proprietary object-oriented

application framework.

. Designed and implemented game subsystems including commodities trading

and espionage simulations.

. Wrote video player using Windows Media Control API.

. Integrated Windows DirectX APIs into the framework: DirectSound;

DirectPlay; Internet Lobby.

1993-1995 Senior Software Engineer 360 Pacific/IntraCorp, Bryan, Texas

Managed and coded port of Harpoon II naval battle simulation from DOS to

Macintosh. Developed application framework based on Think Class Library

. Introduced innovative features including palette animation to simulate

backlighting of graphic objects.

1982-1993 Classroom Teacher Wichita, Kansas and Austin, Texas

Taught math and computer science in public and private secondary schools.

Tools & Technology

C++; Standard C++ Library and Standard Template Library (STL); Software

design methodologies - object-oriented analysis and design; Visual Studio;

Visual Sourcesafe; Perforce version control system; Manage and code review

in C#.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Biology: Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas

Status - United States Citizen

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