Software Manager

Raffaele Lembo

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Norwood, MA ****2

Phone : 781-***-****, E-mail : *****@*******.***

Summary Of Qualifications

Software Engineering Management professional with over 18 years of

experience in the software industry, including functional line management,

program & project management, sustaining & support management and software

release management. Proven capability in all phases of software product

development, from requirements analysis and concept level specifications,

to testing phase and customer acceptance.

Engineering Management

. Software development process definition and implementation

. Strong management of people and processes

. Strong planning & organization skills

. Cross-functional project roadmap definition and planning

Project Management

. Managing multiple projects simultaneously

. Negotiating requirements and/or specifications with stakeholders

. Planning and driving all project activities

. Joint effort and outsourcing of software development projects

Key Areas

Engineering Management, Program & Project Management, Software Robustness &

Reliability, CMMI, ISO, SPC, Quality Assurance, Software Release

Management, Customer Technical Support, Technical Writing, End-User

Documentation, Root Cause Analysis, OOP, C/C++, UNIX (Solaris/Linux), VB,

Windows, X/Motif, UCM & ClearCase, Distributed Databases, SQL, Scripting

Languages, Open Source

Experience

Teradyne Inc, North Reading, MA 2006 - 2008

Software Sustaining Manager, Core Software Sustaining & Support Group, May

07 - Nov 08

Managed software project teams focused on software reliability and

sustaining. Teams consisted of in-house and outsourced resources in the

United States and India. Managed core software sustaining activities for

Teradyne's Flex semiconductor test system.

. Led team which reduced the customer bug backlog by more than 70%.

. Led the development and deployment of a strategy focused on software

robustness. Managed key project responsible for improving software

reliability from 78% to 90% clean user session rate.

. Managed project focused on boundary test coverage which resulted in the

reduction of incoming bug rate for the targeted sub-systems from 40% to

less than 15%.

. Drove software development process improvements by performing selective

bug injection root-cause analysis to identify and close development

process gaps.

. Technical support manager for key Asian customer. Managed all software

support activities and drove customer's software defect backlog down by

90%.

Software Release Manager, Software Sustaining Organization, Jan 06 - May 07

Managed the development of large software product releases and patch

streams used as the software component for the Flex and J750 semiconductor

test systems.

. Managed all phases of product release including development, integration

test, alpha, beta and final test periods to assure release met quality

software metrics and customer software satisfaction goals.

. Key liaison with Product Management, Development, Marketing, QA,

Sustaining, Field Applications and other groups to ensure successful

deployment of software release.

. Enhanced software patch delivery process and quality of software by

maintaining a rigorous bug fix selection process and testing methodology

resulting in a 50% reduction in bug introduction.

. Developed a new software release patch strategy to better align customer

needs and internal processes and therefore reduced the need for patches

by 30%.

LTX Corporation, Westwood, MA 1990 - 2006

Software Engineering Manager, User Interface Software Group, 1998 - 2006

Hands-on manager providing technical guidance, mentoring and functional day-

to-day support to a group of 15 software engineers responsible for new

development and maintenance of the enVision core software system that

controls and operates LTX's Fusion family of tester platforms.

. Led a software robustness effort which resulted in the reduction of

software problems and improved customer semiconductor test floor software

MTBF by 100%.

. Led requirements gathering effort by working with other engineering

groups and key customers to identify usability shortcomings and drove

software usability projects to improve software look-and-feel.

. Authored CMMI based software development process guidelines and templates

as a member of the software development life cycle definition and

deployment team.

. Supported field-deployed software releases and responsible for

prioritizing and planning of bug fixes and feature enhancements to the

product.

. Participated in engineering organization software roadmap definition and

met with cross functional departments and key customers to finalize and

prioritize software projects.

. Managed key strategic software development projects in a matrix style

organization across geographically distributed software teams.

Senior Software Engineer, User Interface, 1994 - 1998

. Project lead and individual contributor for one of three main projects

being run in parallel for the development of the next generation enVision

software to run on LTX's Fusion SOC tester.

. Key driver of the definition and implementation of the top level GUI and

API interface to our system.

. Participated in development of user interfaces on SUN/Solaris utilizing

both WorkShop & GNU development environments. User interface development

was done using X/Motif.

. Individual contributor for enhancing and maintaining LTX's system

software for the operation and support of the Synchro Mixed-Signal tester

platform. Development was on SUN/Solaris using C/C++.

Software Engineer, Networking Information Group, 1990-1994

. Technical lead responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of LTX's

statistical process control and analysis software product. Designed and

developed 3-dimensional graphics subsystems, including Multi-Variable

Histograms, Surface Plots, Line Graphs, and Wafer Maps. Product design

included X/Windows and relational database on UNIX workstations in a

distributed client-server environment.

. Authored end-user product documentation, including help systems, for

several releases.

. Technical lead responsible for the design and development of several

releases of a real-time test floor automation product, connecting LTX

testers to Host via Ethernet based on the OSI Network Model.

Numerix Corporation, Newton, MA 1988 - 1990

Software Engineer, System Software

. Developed a software control API in C on VMS. Design included real-time

process control and interface for access to an Ampex high speed digital

recording system.

. Developed diagnostic software in FORTRAN on VMS for testing Numerix's

line of vector processors.

. Developed Configuration Management System for suite of diagnostic

software.

EDUCATION

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Various professional, technical, and management training courses including:

. Microsoft Enterprise Program Manager

. Project Management Training

. Software Verification & Validation

. Project Schedules & Software Requirements

. Management Role in Predictable Software Development

. ISO 9001 Training

. Management Development Training

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