Manager Engineer

JefF Rick

OVERVIEW

I am a senior managemer with a strong track record of building,

leading and managing software development groups. In addition I

have strong hands on experience in highly scalable and available

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) architecture and design.

Experience and Accomplishments

2009 - Current RezzMap

Bedford,NH

Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer

Pre-Funding startup that provides aggregation and relevance

services for Email, Social Network and RSS Feed data. Company

produced a private beta but has failed to gain traction with the

VC and Angel community.

Architected, deisgned and implement prototype versions of product

in Java using a MySql database, JQuery AJAX framework.

Lead the migration of the prototype to Beta version of product

written using Grails framework, MySql database for content,

JQuery AJAX framework and HBASE for the RezzMap preference data.

Authored the open source Grails Sharding Plugin

(http://www.grails.org/plugin/sharding)

Identified an outsourcing company to help with Beta version

Managed Nepal based engineers in finishing final verion of Beta

for timely delivery

Co-wrote business plan, pitch deck, financial plan, etc

Assembled various engineering and operations budegets

2007 - 2009 Cisco Systems

Burlington, MA

Senior Engineering Manager

Top 10% Senior Manager at Cisco Systems, Inc.

After the acquisition of WebEx Communications by Cisco Systems,

took over the management of a group of eight Quality Engineers

and Quality Engineering Manager in addition to the 17 person

Software Engineering group.

Grew the combined Software Development and Quality Engineering

group to 36 engineers.

Re-organized the group, moving four Senior Engineers in to new

positions as Engineering Managers.

Trained the new Engineering Managers to be effective managers

while still contributing to the success of their projects.

Lead a global team of 100+ engineers in Boston, California, China

and India to bring the Connect Product to market.

Rolled several new initiatives through the development group

including, automated unit tests, virtualized test beds and 100%

automation of web service APIs.

Worked to end-of-life the IntranetsKK service (Japan) and closed

down the development group supporting it.

Continued to support the existing Web Office product with minimal

distraction to the new Connect project initiative and with an eye

towards migrating the customer base and sales and marketing

efforts to a Connect based Web Office.

Completed the transition of the software engineering group from

working in a DotNet environment to a Java and Dojo based

environment.

2005 - 2007 WebEx

Burlington, MA

Software Development Manager

After the acquisition of Intranets.com by WebEx Communications,

took over the management of a group of 11 Software Engineers

responsible for the Intranets.com/Web Office product line.

Recruited and grew the group to include 17 Software Engineers

while managing the typical post acquisition turnover.

Managed the rollout of the several releases including a new

WebMail service.

While managing the development of the Web Office product line,

joined the management team working on the early-stage development

of a new product initiative, WebEx Connect.

As a member of the management team provided feature requirement,

system architecture and design guidance on the new product

initiative.

Began the move of the software engineering group from working in

a DotNet environment to a Java and Dojo based environment to work

on the new WebEx Connect product initiative.

2000 - 2005 Intranets.com

Burlington, MA

Principal Software Engineer

Lead developer for Intranets.com, a dotcom ASP founded in 2000

that serves over 250,000 paying users; acquired by WebEx. During

this period, I assisted the company in transitioning from an

advertising revenue model to paid subscriptions and led the

successful effort to convert the product from ASP to the .Net

framework. In addition, I served as key developer for or

consultant to almost all high profile feature development

projects at Intranets.com.

Successfully led a team of eight developers to integrate the

Intranets.com and WebEx products following the acquisition by

WebEx.

Lead developer on the project for Columbia Accident Investigation

Board (CAIB). This project required customization of our product

to coordinate all requests between the CAIB and NASA.

Lead development member of the cross-functional site operations

group, developed the disaster recovery plan for the product and

executed several tests of this plan.

Designed and developed the billing system that the company uses

to bill over $1 million a month in subscriptions.

Principal Engineer for all of our SQL database issues. I oversaw

the schema, stored procedures and queries against our system.

1998 - 2000 Client Server Engineering Services

Corp. Boston, MA

Software Consultant

Wrote, tested, implemented and supported a dynamic web-based

table editor for Fleet Investment Management.

Assumed responsibility for a high-volume production reporting

system that required significant redesign and implementation of a

quality control system to monitor the accuracy of the reports.

Lead system consultant for a major multinational software

development client, establishing replication services between 13

multinational SQL Server databases.

1993-1998 Harmonic Systems, Inc.

Minneapolis, MN

Network Engineer

Operated and maintained a nation-wide TCP/IP based credit card

network for chain merchants including Musicland, The Gap, Pier 1

Imports, Barnes & Noble, Bugle Boy and The Buckle.

Education

1996 - 2000 Tufts University Medford, MA

B.S., Computer Science from the College of Engineering

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