Manager Engineer

KIRK D. WELLS

**** ****** *****, *** ****, Ca ***35

Phone: 408-***-**** Email: ****.*****@*********.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To pursue and grow my career as a Senior Manager/Director to contribute and lead highly skilled organizations in the

high-tech industry.

SPECIAL SKILLS

• Proven leadership of cross-functional (i.e. engineering, marketing, testing, etc) teams to manage business critical

engineering programs and projects

• Leader in adopting new processes and tools for enhance team collaboration and tracking engineering projects

• Highly skilled at management in a highly diverse and rapidly evolving technological environment

• Experienced in managing large, distributed, diverse, cross-functional project teams

• Multiyear experience owning and driving business relationships between large engineering companies

• Solid foundation of both hardware (chip, CPU, etc.) and software (driver, OS) development environments

• Vast experience in leading large scale program and projects

• Excellent communication skills

Experience

Oracle Inc - Principal Program Manager, x64 Platform SW Engineering

February, 2010 – Present

• Currently manage key relationship with outside CPU/GPU/Chipset company

• Interface with outside vendors on ongoing engineering programs and projects

• Manage all capital and expense purchasing, planning and tracking for organization

• Lead cross business unit programs and projects including CPU/Chipset Support, Storage, Networking, Fault

Management, etc.

• Interface with International engineering teams

• Contributed to release of Solaris 10 Updates, Solaris 11, and Solaris 11 Updates

Sun Microsystems Inc – Program Manager, Solaris Software

December, 2000- February, 2010

• Managed relationship with key engineering partner and technology provider

• Managed Solaris performance and scalability programs

• Drove automation and documentation of many key processes for Solaris organization Procured, developed, and

maintained internal web based server and collaboration software suites to increase cross team and cross company

productivity and communication

• Managed team working with third party company to evaluate viability of company’s software solution as well as

investigate possible company acquisition

• Successfully executed and tracked the Linux Application Environment Technology Preview

• Managed key virtualization programs

• Organized and facilitated business unit program/project planning and funding

• Coordinated multiple releases of technology to OpenSolaris community

• Managed cross business unit programs and projects

• Contributed to release of Solaris 8 Updates, Solaris 9, Solaris 9 Updates, Solaris 10, and Solaris 10 Updates

Linuxcare, Inc. – Senior Certification Engineer (Linux Component Certification Manager)

March, 2000 - December, 2000

• Created and Managed Linux Component Certification Program including offerings ranging from Component

Certification to Enterprise Solution Certification

• Built from ground up Linuxcare Component Certification test suites and procedures.

• Managed team of certification engineers

• Engineering Lead in creation and launching of extensive Linuxcare Labs service offerings. These offerings included

Standard, Enterprise, and Mission Critical certification. Also launched Software and Solution Validation

• Established Linuxcare as founder of the 1st Annual Linux Hardware Plugfest

• Extensive involvement of corporate events such as Linux World Expo

Adaptec, Inc. – Certification Program Manager (Microsoft/Linux Certification Liaison)

March, 1998 - March, 2000

• Managed all Microsoft and Linux certifications for Adaptec products (i.e. SCSI, RAID, NIC, Fibre Channel, etc.)

including scheduling and coordination of testing, document control, and actual submissions (achieved 100% pass rate

on all SCSI submissions)

• Primary liaison between Adaptec and Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) for submissions,

engineering issues (i.e. testing bugs, etc.) and specification issues (i.e. problems with Microsoft design guides, etc.)

• Consultant to numerous Linux companies and organizations on architecting and implementing component

certification programs and storage component testing

• Coordinator for company-wide activities including industry plug-fests, System Test Implementers specification

reviews, design guide reviews, and logo certification transitions (i.e. PC98 to PC99)

• Primary interface for Adaptec’s engineering/marketing and certification teams

• Developed and implemented process improvements in the following areas of focus:

o Reducing testing cycle time

o Automated document management and approval process

o Improved communication channels between business and functional units

• Drove self-certification efforts

Adaptec, Inc. – Test Engineer

June, 1996 – March, 1998

• Project lead for all new board/BIOS/ASIC compatibility testing

• Wrote test protocols, plans and reports for tested SCSI products

• Coordinated with design engineers to resolve issues found during testing

• Supported company-wide involvement in PCI SIG, Intel and Microsoft plug-fests

EDUCATION

1999- 2001 University of Phoenix, Bachelors of Science in Business

1990-1991 Chico State University, Bachelors of Science in Business Administration (Management Option)

1988-1990 De Anza Community College, General Education Credits

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