Manager Engineer
Resume:
HENNING J. SMITH
** ****** ******, ******, **, **756
*******.*****@*****.*** http://www.linkedin.com/in/hjsmith/
SUMMARY
Software engineering professional with experience leading and developing
Engineering teams in distributed locations, and managing multiple projects
simultaneously from inception to delivery. Extensive experience in the IT
industry ranging from System Administration to Engineering Management. In-
depth knowledge and experience in storage and systems management,
networking, firewalls, operating systems, security applications and product
integration.
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Agile Scrum Master
Certified Unicenter Engineer (CUE),
Certified Desktop and Storage Specialist
Certified Unicenter TNG Architect
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Operating Systems: Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux
Programming/Scriptin C++ Programming, Shell Scripting, Java
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Web Technologies: AJAX, REST, SaaS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
CA Technologies: CA CloudMinder, CA Identity Manager, CA User
Activity Reporting Module, CA Audit
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CA TECHNOLOGIES Framingham, MA 1998 - 2014
Senior Director, Development 2010 - 2014
Senior Director of Software Development managing multiple projects across
multiple teams and geographies.
. Overall engineering responsibility for the development and delivery of
a new SaaS based Security service offering. CA CloudMinder is based on
multiple on-premise solutions developed in multiple locations
worldwide (USA, Israel, Australia, India). All development was done
following the goal to "Develop once, deliver twice" (SaaS and on-
premise).
. Managed forward development for an Identity Management product. In
this project the core infrastructure was completely redesigned and
rebuilt to adopt a new services-based architecture. Worked with an
external design firm to develop a new User Interface for the project
that will also be leveraged in the broader SaaS solution.
. Managed a performance project to improve the overall performance of
the Identity Management product and resolve several critical customer
escalations.
. Member of the CA Security Patent Review Board evaluating new
inventions before submission for legal review and patent application.
Director, Development 2006 - 2010
Director of Software Development for a new product in the Security
Information Management space focusing on high-volume log management and
compliance reporting.
. Responsible for taking a new idea and developing it in-house to a full
product that was sold into several large institutions in its first
year of availability with multi-million dollar revenue. Started with a
team of five developers and grew it to a large international team able
to fully support and develop an enterprise product.
. Overall ownership for creating and managing the budget for a
development group consisting of Developers, QA Engineers, Managers and
Directors on three continents, as well as approving and tracking all
expenses based on current budget availability.
. Participated in corporate wide Engineering Excellence and
Configuration Management Excellence groups that focused on refining
and reworking processes, procedures and document templates to be
adopted across the whole company as a new standard.
Senior Manager, Development 2004 - 2006
Second Level Development Support Manager for two major security management
products.
The products are used by large Fortune 500 companies to ensure they comply
with internal and external auditing standards.
. Directly supervised developers in multiple locations.
. Assisted with resolving the most critical customer issues and
architectural problems.
. Managed weekly cross-functional meetings to ensure consistent
communication between multiple departments
Senior Software Engineer 2003 - 2004
Development and Level 2 Manager for a product that integrated IT and
physical security.
Team Lead for audit log collection agent development.
Developed audit log collection agents for 3rd Party software.
. Selected to develop an integration package on-site in Greece in 2003
and 2004, which was used during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens to
manage the security of all the IT Systems in use during the games.
Programmer 2001 - 2003
QA Engineer 2001 - 2001
Pre-sales consultant & Architect CA South Africa 1998 - 2001
Maintain the Virtual eBusiness Centre and Field Services Group (FSG) Lab in
South Africa, which included hardware and software installation and
advanced implementations of various CA packages (Network and Systems
Management and Security) to simulate client environments. Create or review
architecture for CA solutions proposed to clients.
South African National Parks Pretoria, South Africa 1996 - 1998
Database Administrator 1997 -1998
Security Administrator (Daily maintenance of Firewall). Solaris and Windows
System Administration. Backup Operator on Unix and Windows. Installation,
setup and maintenance of Help Desk System. Installation, setup and
maintenance of Enterprise Management System.
. Developed the first Web site for SANP
Network Technician 1996 - 1997
Provided Network, Hardware and Software support for SANP Head Office
EDUCATION
Coursework in Electrical Engineering
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Coursework in Computer Science
University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Global Future Leadership Development Program at CA Technologies
Leading Successfully (Management Training)
Managing Remotely (Remote Management Training)
LANGUAGES
English
Afrikaans
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