Manager Process Improvement

Bruce Pedersen 818-***-**** **************@*****.***

Venice, CA

[pic]

Core Competencies

. Client-focused team player who develops and inspires creative, productive

local and remote groups

. Lateral thinker who adapts and thrives in dynamic, challenging

environments

. Effective mediator, conflict resolver

. Rapid assimilation of new technologies and concepts

. Strategic planning & development of new technologies and tools

. Budget planning, development & control

. Process design, implementation & integration

. Organizational Training & Mentoring

. Statistical Process Control

. Technical depth in all aspects of high-tech product development

Professional Experience

NavCom Tech., Inc., a John Deere (Fortune 500) Company, Torrance, CA

2005 - 2010

Leads the industry in providing Global Positioning System (GPS) products to

both the agricultural and land survey market segments.

Process Improvement Manager

Aug 2006 - Feb 2010

. Invented the strategy, developed/lead the cross-functional

infrastructure, procured the tools, to minimize business disruption

and practitioner push-back of successfully implementing Capability

Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) level 4 framework requiring the

cultural buy-in of 75 software and hardware engineers and PM's.

. Created and institutionalized a hybrid software defect reduction

process, based on key aspects of CMMI, Scrum, and Six Sigma, resulting

in the reduction of customer reported software defects from 17% to

1.6% in the 1st year of implementation (20,000 units fielded).

. Spearheaded the collaborative development and deployment of CMMI level

4 common processes across 5 globally dispersed John Deere enterprise

sites (including Pune India) requiring the cultural buy-in of

approximately 400 engineering and program management personnel.

. Drove the development of a web-based training program to support

enterprise wide practitioner training of new processes saving ~$270K

in 1st year training costs.

. Identified and corrected cross-functional product development process

deficiencies (i.e. software, hardware, SQA, & program management

groups) resulting in 100% on-time product shipment during the 1st year

of implementation.

Manager, Software Engineering

June 2005 - Aug 2006

. Managed and mentored a team of 16 embedded SW Engineers developing

innovative navigation/signal processing algorithms (using C++ and

MPC5200 assembly) for the next generation GPS Receiver engine

resulting in first year sales of 10 million dollars.

. Drove the creation of a System Test Group (Test Manager + 6 engineers)

to formalize and add more rigor to regression and baseline testing

resulting in a 45% reduction in software/hardware defects found during

product post-release testing.

. Championed and institutionalized the DOORS requirements

development/maintenance tool resulting in a 45% reduction in post

development requirements churn, and 70% more accurate estimate of

requirements change impact based on 6 projects over a 2 year period.

Mykotronx, Inc. (SafeNet), Torrance, CA

2001 - 2005

Leads the industry in providing IT data security products for both

commercial enterprises and government agencies (NSA).

Process Improvement Manager

Aug 2003 - June 2005

. Spearheaded the process improvement efforts of a 150 person company to

be successfully compliant with Capability Maturity Model (CMM) level 3

requirements in half the time as the national average (2 yrs).

. Developed and implemented the strategic plan for CMM key process area

implementation, resource allocation, required infrastructure, process

development, deployment, metrics collection, analysis and both

incremental and final appraisals.

. Personally authored and institutionalized 20+ processes including the

metrics needed to map process improvement progress towards meeting

associated business goals.

Manager, Software Engineering

April 2001 - Aug 2003

. Managed and mentored a heavily matrixed Embedded Software Engineering

department (22 SW Engineers) supporting 8 concurrent IT security

product projects written in C++/C#.

. Championed the use of rapid prototyping for testing proof-of-concept

of new cryptographic algorithms resulting in a 1st year 40% schedule

reduction in time-to-market for 3 product lines.

. Drove the use of Scrum in the development of .NET Java applications to

perform acceptance testing on internet security products resulting in

a 22% savings over projected test schedule.

Allen Osborne & Associates, Inc., Westlake Village, CA

1992 - 2001

Pioneered the development of high accuracy GPS receiver products for both

commercial and military applications.

Director GPS Military Product Development Aug

1996 - April 2001

. Provided technical leadership to a cross-functional team of 6

software, 2 ASIC, 2 hardware, and 2 radio frequency (RF) engineers

supporting 7 different product lines of government GPS receivers.

. Nurtured strategic client alliances that grew the military product

portfolio over a 4 year period eventually accounting for 70% of the

company's overall business.

. Lead the development effort of a 3 million dollar Air Force contract

to upgrade their globally dispersed GPS Monitor Stations resulting in

a 10X improvement in worldwide position accuracy as seen by the GPS

user.

. Lead the development effort of a 1 million dollar next generation

United States Naval Observatory (USNO) 12-channel precise GPS Timing

Receiver including on-site integration.

Manager, Software Engineering Sept 1992

- Aug 1996

. Managed a 5 member software development team in the development of

survey, timing, and high precision government GPS receivers written in

C and AMD 29000 assembly language.

. Personally developed the necessary decryption algorithms, necessary

for accurate position determination, leading to 20 million dollars in

total GPS Receiver sales over a 5 year period.

. Lead the approval efforts with the USAF Joint Program Office (JPO) in

being one of the first GPS manufactures to produce security

semiconductor (SAASM) based GPS Receivers.

Interstate Electronics Inc., (L3), Anaheim, CA

Jan 1986 - Sept 1992

Provider of high accuracy GPS receiver products for the Navy Trident

Submarine and Joint Program Office range applications

Senior Software Engineer

. Developed embedded software (written in C and NS32000 assembly) to

support decryption of satellite signals (SA and Y-code) for the D5

Trident Submarine and Range Applications JPO GPS classified receivers.

. Lead a team of 4 engineers in successfully field testing the companies

1st GPS Receiver at Yuma ARMY Proving Grounds and USAF Cape Canaveral

Florida.

Skills

All aspects of SDLC, RTOS, SQA, risk and metrics analysis, root cause

analysis, ASIC development, VHDL, OOD, UML, FMEA, Unix, .NET, C++/C#, Word,

Excel, Project, Visio, CMMI, Scrum, 6 Sigma, ISO 9001 and Agile

methodologies

Education

MS Computer Science, California State University Northridge

BS Engineering (Cum Laude), California State University Northridge

Certificate in Program Management (PMBOK) University of California Irvine

6 Sigma Green Belt

Certificate in Microprocessor Hardware/Software Engineering, UCLA

Carnegie Mellon University Certificate - SEI, High Maturity with Statistics

Commercial Pilot License, multi-engine, instrument, with 4500 hours total

time

Published

Prioritizing Process Improvement and Ignoring the Rating - Presented at the

European Software Engineering Process Group Conference, Munich Germany,

June, 2008

Passionate, proactive, persistent, quality leader with +15 years experience

as a cross-functional/site bridge builder inspiring collaborate synergy

focused towards reducing high-tech product development cycle time while

increasing total product quality to the customer. A broad engineering

background coupled with a situation leadership style facilitates building

top-performing software, hardware, ASIC, RF, mechanical and test

engineering teams leading towards maximizing ROI vs. product development

costs.

Contact this candidate