Management Development
Resume:
Walter P. Scott
Cary, NC **519
Mobile: 919-***-****; email: **********@***.***
Results oriented PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & ENGINEERING EXECUTIVE with a successful track record of improving
product release predictability, product quality and P&L.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Executive leadership for organizations with $175M sales. Demonstrated P&L improvements.
• Accountable for organizations with staffing of 300+ and $30M budgets.
• Functional responsibility for WW Professional Services & Support, System Architecture, R&D (Hardware & Software), QA,
Program Management, Technical Publications and IT
• Experienced in building successful, efficient multi-cultured organizations with measurable improvements in P&L, product
delivery, quality and morale.
• History of successfully integrating offshore (India & Taiwan) teams into organizations.
• Experienced in successfully managing large complex programs from their conception to release.
• Implemented process and controls that included CMMI, configuration management, change control and resource planning.
• Responsible for successfully managing strategic partnerships.
• Defined and implemented quality initiatives that demonstrated a measurable increase in customer satisfaction
BMC Herndon, VA 2010 - Current
Senior Director of Product Development
• Responsible R&D & QA, for BMC’s Service Automation BU’s: Atrium Orchestrator, Network Automation and Client
Automation Product Families
• Defined quality improvements through out Product Families.
• Managed staff of 150+ located in USA and India.
Broadcom Morrisville, NC 2007 - 2009
Senior Director of Software Engineering & Professional Services
• Responsible for all Network Switch BU software development including R&D, QA, WW Professional Services and Customer
Support.
• Managed staff of 200+ located in USA, Taiwan and India. Delivering 10+ releases in parallel.
• Managed Professional Services that worked closely with customers in order to understand and implement their requirements
resulting in a turnkey “ready to ship” solution.
• Championed a new agile software development model, quality initiatives, organizational changes, development and test tools, and
software development methodologies resulting in improved feature velocity, quality and team morale.
• Defined and implemented quality initiatives that demonstrated a measurable increase in customer satisfaction.
• Managed the development, architecture and QA for FASTPATH Networking Software embedded software which includes
switching, routing, QoS, multicast, security, wireless and management software packages.
• Responsible for 24/7 customer support.
Walter P. Scott
LVL7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom) Morrisville, NC 2005 –2006
Vice President of Engineering & Professional Services
• Member of LVL7 Executive team responsibility for overall P&L, product strategy, definition and roadmaps, partnerships and key
customer accounts.
• Responsible for Professional Services P&L. Worked closely with sales to win new business and customers to understand and
develop their requirements.
• While at LVL7 demonstrated measurable results in product delivery times, P&L and quality.
• Team of 200+ located in multiple US locations as well as India and responsible for R&D, QA, technical publications, IT,
professional services and support. (Refer to Broadcom roles and responsibilities).
• Played a major role during Broadcom’s acquisition of LVL7 Systems.
Alcatel Calabasas, CA 2000 – 2005
Senior Vice President of Engineering
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Member of executive team responsibility for P&L ($175M Sales), definition of mission, strategies and tactics, evaluation of
acquisitions and partnerships, product definition and roadmaps, and liaison on key customer accounts.
• Responsible for Alcatel Network Infrastructure BU’s product development with budget responsibility of $30M+ and staff peak of
300+ located world wide. Accountable for the development of network management, switches, routers and security products
which includes system architecture (CTO reported directly to me), software & hardware development, QA, program management
and technical publications.
• Highly successful track record demonstrated by progressive scope increases of responsibility from network management &
security product lines, to the addition of embedded software development and QA and then the development responsibilities,
including hardware, for the entire enterprise data product lines within a 4 year time frame.
• Championed and transitioned to the ODM and merchant silicon model resulting in improved time to market and significantly
reduced development costs.
• Successfully outsourced, India, the development and sustenance of legacy product lines resulting in reduced engineering costs.
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Successfully implemented CMMI.
Cabletron Systems Rochester, NH 1989 –1999
Senior Director of Software Engineering
• Original architect for Cabletron’s SPECTRUM Network Management System including key contributions to SPECTRUM’s
Inductive Modeling Technology (IMT); the core of SPECTRUM’s award winning fault isolation solution.
• Responsible for the architecture and development of Cabletron’s, award winning, SecureFast VLAN Manager and Smart
Management Applications which are a suite of JAVA, client/Server and directory enable applications that provide Network
Security, QOS Provisioning, VLAN Management, Topology Management, IP Accounting and Network Diagnostics.
• Responsible for the development and architecture of Cabletron’s Virtual Network Server and Management Applications. Provides
connection services regardless of the underlying network infrastructure (Ethernet, ATM). Services included call set up, routing,
quality of service, policy management, provisioning, call tap, directory and call accounting.
• Responsible for the development and architecture of Cabletron’s ATM Services Manager, SmartLANE and SmartLANE
Management Application.
EDUCATION
Walter P. Scott
• Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., BA in Mathematics
• Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., Classes towards a Masters in Computer Science.
• New Hampshire College, Salem NH., Classes towards MBA
Walter P. Scott
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