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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-dewar/1/69/8b0

Profile

Highly motivated leader specializing in organizational effectiveness; with over 22 years of experience working within all facets of the product life cycle. Expertise in working with large and small organizations to establish workflows, ensuring all functional areas perform to their optimal levels.

Qualifications

Project Management

oWaterfall and Agile

Risk Management

Service Center Management

Customer Support

Software Engineering

Requirement development

Software Test

Traceability

RCA

Pre-sales

Release Management

Training

Workflow optimization

Technical Skills

MS Windows

Visual Basic (Excel Macros)

Linux

C#

MS Office

XML

MS Project

Jira/Confluence (user and administration)

Java

Wireless

Subversion

CMM

Professional Experience

Venture Design Services 2011-2017

Project Management/Release Management

Customer Support/ Service Center Manager

As a project manager for wireless measurement test receivers, defined workflows in Jira for both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Workflows emphasized a data driven approach, having content owners provide details during each stage of the process, which then was ported into generic dashboard formats for executive review. This method eliminated unnecessary interview times with content owners, allowing for focused discussions on key topics. The dashboard was provided using confluence, allowing executives to monitor progress on demand. Projects include:

Process definition and optimization

Hardware release for several boards on the receiver

FW release for SW managing the receiver

Several PC based applications which support the receiver

Wireless forensics backpack (for use by the FBI and other agencies)

oBOM support

oRequirement generation

oSoftware support

oSolution management

oMain interface for partner

oSolution Test

Introduction, installation, and management of Jira and Confluence

Division-wide training for Jira and Confluence

Budgeting and finance

oPO generation

oPurchasing/Ordering

oLocal financial audits

Asset management

oCreated an Asset management workflow in Jira to track flow and status of local and remote assets

Test Strategies and Automation

oTrained QA lead on how to define test strategies; this increased their effectiveness in their test workflows and implementation.

oCreated a test automation platform in C#, which interacted with signal generation equipment and measurement receiver. Platform provided a quick and intuitive method for the test engineer to define tests. This platform reduced the test time from 6-8 weeks to 2-3 days.

As a Release manager defined, documented, and implemented release process and procedures which defined solution sets for multiple product lines:

Build management

Sanity Test

Release Notes

Distribution (to internal and external customers)

As a Service Center Manager developed service workflows, inventory control, and processes:

ESD Compliance

Integrated Inventory management with service workflows (custom projects, workflows, and schemes in Jira)

Develop process and procedures for incoming and outgoing process and procedures for customer units

Customer management

oCustomer PO management

oWeekly reporting

oQuote generation

oIssue management

As customer support worked with customers to define release content, track issues:

Weekly calls and meeting minutes

Manage loaner equipment (for pre-sales support)

Prioritize defects to ensure fixes in place to meet customer needs

Alcatel-Lucent

Technical Project Manager/System Engineer /Product Line Manager 2004- 2010

Defined and managed several $1M+ projects for the Large Scale Release Manager which migrated system software on broadband providing network elements: ISAM (AT&T U-Verse), and GPON (Verizon’s fiber to the home). Generated project plan: negotiated, and prioritized schedule content, coordinated design and test efforts spanning multiple sites and product groups. Ensured compliance with all facets of the PLC.

Close requirement gaps via design review and demonstrations with Program Manager.

Create overall product architecture and responsibilities by product group.

Fill test gaps utilizing requirement allocation, backward traceability, and review.

Generate and execute test plans

Report status of projects on a weekly basis to executives and stakeholders.

Continual process improvement following the CMM model: code review optimization, agile planning process.

Received $1000 superior contribution award as assessment team member for CMM level 4/5 accreditation.

Perform RCA on field issues and provided cause and improvement plans to correct.

Created training programs for customer focus labs, NPI teams, support teams, and internal test teams.

Support Sales teams and worked directly with customers to understand business and operational needs, leading to customer contracts.

Received $2000 Executive level award for surpassing customer management expectations on the Verizon GPON network

Alcatel

Software Manager / Software lead 1998-2004

Managed next generation management software for the Litespan 7201 Digital Loop carrier, and upgrade software for the Litespan 2000/2012. Lead reviewer for product requirements, estimated and provided schedule estimates to project management, and key provider for test strategies. Lead developer for legacy CRAFT product.

Produced accurate schedules employing historical data and expert estimation.

Used mentoring and quantitative measures to grow team members, producing principle engineers for the organization.

Generated and executed integration tests plans.

Performed RCA

Continuous process improvement used to close gaps in design and review methodologies

Supported effort to realize a multi-million dollar sales objective by producing software to upgrade legacy broadband line units with newer versions.

Received several $500 “High-Five” awards for customer management and high product quality

Education

B.S. Computer Science; minor Mathematics. Sonoma State University 1995

Professional Development

Situational Leadership

CMM

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