Project Manager Quality Assurance

Philip T. Newton

*** **. ****** ***** *******, CA 94517 925-***-****

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SUMMARY

Senior Project Manager with extensive project management experience with

engineering, product teams, and IT. Proven track record of releasing high-

quality products on time and on budget, building high output teams, and

overseeing end-to-end implementation to deliver exceptional financial

results. Experienced as lead project manager in software product

development, computer security, quality assurance, product life cycle,

engineering, system test, documentation, Agile Development, driving multi-

functional teams, and network/system administration, growing business to

$33 million and 8000+ customers.

Key competencies include:

. Project Management

. Software Development Product Life Cycle

. Change Management

. Customer Acceptance Testing

. Quality Assurance

. Global Team Management

. Computer Security

. Mergers and Acquisitions

. Adaptable to Opportunity

. Export Control

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAFENET, INC / ALADDIN (AKS) / SECURE COMPUTING Concord, CA

1999-2010

Engineering Project Manager / Site Manager / Sr. Project Manager

Managed team of 25+ through ten years of growing business from few million

to $33 million in annual sales. Implemented channel-based sales model

increasing business from few hundred to 8000+ customers worldwide. Mentored

and coached other project managers, organized and led cross-functional

teams, drove resolution of acquisitions, mergers, and integration

challenges.

. Drove merger of SafeWord product family from Aladdin to SafeNet,

overseeing resolution of prior failed integration issues, assuring our

annual Sales targets were achieved ($30M +).

. Successfully released 22 consecutive software projects, over 7+ years,

on-time, every time while serving as Senior Project Manager. Members

included Development, System Test, Tech Pubs, Tech Support, Customer

Service, Marketing, Product Management, Production, IT, Sales, Field

Support, Channel Partners. Products released included SafeWord Plus,

SafeWord PremierAccess, SafeWord RemoteAccess, SafeWord for Citrix,

SWforCisco, SWforNortel, SWforCheckPoint, SecureWire Access Gateway

(SSL-VPN), SafeWord 2008, MobilePASS.

. Completed multiple "secret shopper" tests to correct failed Aladdin

backend system implementation resulting in improved customer

experience and reduced tech support and customer service calls by 90%.

. Led cross-functional, and geographically dispersed team focused on

shipping general-availability products, resolving problems with

SafeWord orders, fulfillment, support, RMAs, online activations,

renewals resulting in improved Lead Time Delivery from 20% at 4-weeks

to 90% at less than 2 days within three months.

. Drove transition of SafeWord product family from Secure Computing into

Aladdin Knowledge Systems, preparing for Day One and beyond activities

reducing integration testing time (enforced by McAfee).

. Served as lead advocate among entire team in Concord during multiple

acquisitions helping team maintain positive attitude throughout while

continuing to provide excellent customer care.

. Managed Quality Assurance group for SafeWord product family and

SafeWord hardware/tokens.

. Transformed OEM-ed SSL-VPN product to SecureWire product line

resulting in expanded product line offerings, thus increasing

mindshare of our channel partner, resellers and customers.

. Constantly improved effectiveness and efficiency developing needs

based solutions such as Ant/CruiseControl software builds, and Auto-

Updater technology providing automatic web updates for our customers,

code coverage testing, automated testing tools, web security scanners.

. Supervised up to eight direct reports including Quality Assurance and

Software Engineers. Recently enjoying single contributor role since

SafeNet took over.

. Adapted eXtreme Programming / Concurrent Engineering / Agile

Development methodology for software projects reducing development

costs and timeframes by minimum of 50%.

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SAFENET (continued)

. Initiated and led Customer Surveying programs to determine customer

needs regarding products, making product enhancements based upon

direct customer feedback. Achieved 90+% customer satisfaction ratings.

VARIAN ASSOCIATES, INC. Walnut Creek, CA

1990 - 1998

IT Manager-Network/System Admin / Software Engineer

Functioned as IT Manager / Network-System Administrator overseeing team of

six network and system administrators for all networks (Novell, Microsoft),

servers (Solaris, MS Windows), security systems (McAfee), remote access

solutions (Citrix), telecommuting systems, desktops, laptops, operating

systems (Solaris, MS Windows, Linux), applications for 350 users in support

of the Chromatography Systems Division.

. Developed and provided primary IT interface to all other Varian sites

worldwide servicing 5000+ employees.

. Integrated Sugarland, TX office of 75+ people into Walnut Creek office

in 4 month time period saving division $1000 + per month in reduced

facility costs.

. Served as Software Engineer for GC (Gas Chromatography) team which

developed X-Windows GUI application for Solaris.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INTEGRATED AUTOMATION (Litton Industrial Automation) Alameda, CA

1988 -1989

Software Engineer

CHEVRON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY San Ramon, CA

1985 - 1988

Programmer/Analyst

WANG LABORATORIES, INC. Lowell, MA

1983 - 1985

Software Engineer

TECHNICAL / COMPUTER SKILLS

Hardware: Windows Servers, Desktops and Laptops; Solaris/HP-

UX/AIX/Linux Unix servers

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Unix Scripting, (sh, csh, bash), XML,

Ant, CruiseControl, OpenSource (GNU products (gmake,

gcc), OpenSSL, Apache, Tomcat), J2EE, .NET

Software/Applications: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS

Project), MS FrontOffice, MS SharePoint, MySQL,

Citrix (MetaFrame), MS Exchange Server, MS IIS Web

Server, Ghost, VmWare, Code Coverage (DevPartner

Studio), Automated Testing tools (WinRunner, QFTest),

Web Security Scanners (HP WebInspect, Acunetix), CVS,

AR Remedy, HP Quality Center

Network: TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, OSI, File Servers, RAID disk storage, Cisco

routers and switches, Network Analyzers (Sniffer),

DNS, RADIUS, LAN/WAN, Telecommuting, RDP, Remote

Access Solutions (Citrix), VPNs, SSL VPNs

Security protocols: Cryptography/Encryption algorithms (DES, 3DES, OATH,

SHA256, OCRA), Event Synchronous Authentication,

Challenge-Response Authentication, SSL, PKI (public

key infrastructure)

Tech Security products: SafeWord product family (SafeWord

PremierAcess, SafeWord RemoteAccess, SafeWord 2008,

Alpine token, MobilePASS, SecureWire Access Gateway)

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

BS, Computer Science; BA, Mathematics East Stroudsburg University East

Stroudsburg, PA

Certificate - Unix System Administration, UC Santa Cruz

Certificate - PMP (Project Manager Professional) - expected completion

2010

Certificate - CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional -

expected completion 2010

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