Manager Development

Daniel L. Landers

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Woodstock, GA 30188

Cell: 678-***-****

Email: ******.*****.*******@*****.***

Profile

Development leader with extensive technical acumen. Innovative and "out of the box" thinker.

Core Strengths

Team Oriented. Ability to apply new technologies. Increase productivity. Visionary. Budget

conscious. Plan contingencies. Team Leadership. Communication. Motivational.

Experience

LG Electronics – Commercial Air Conditioning, Atlanta, GA.

CAC is a “startup” business in the US for LG.

Senior Manager – Product Planning and Development, August 2014 to present

Responsible for organization planning of new products introduced to the US market. This includes

coordinating the efforts of technical writing, marketing, operations, and service.

Working with Korean and US teams to improve product development processes and create products

relevant to the US market.

Led the organization to successfully deliver over 100 new models to US market in a 4 month period.

Qcept Technologies, Atlanta, GA.

Qcept Technologies is a small semiconductor verification tool manufacturer.

Senior Software Developer, February 2014 to August 2014

Worked with teammates in implementing customer-driven features into the next generation product.

Responsible for improving the code base on several key measurement capabilities.

Assisted in improvement of development processes to ensure more timely releases.

Consolidated Energy Solutions, Toronto, Canada

CES is a small supermarket HVAC manufacturer with emphasis in dehumidification.

Contractor – Algorithm Development, January 2014 to February 2014

Led development of compressor control using Copeland Digital Scrolls using an adaptive feedback loop.

Led development of heating control stage output also with adaptive feedback.

Co-authored the damper control algorithm for CES’ patented multi-path solution.

Mentored team member on adaptive control strategies.

CAMotion, Atlanta, GA.

CAMotion is a small robotics and motion control company.

Product Development Leader, December 2012 to January 2014

Team leader for multiple projects including:

Managing the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Data Management (PDM) selection;

coordinating vendor relations, identifying product differentiators, and gaining buy-in from key decision

makers.

Responsible for the LDP (log de-palletizer) product development and support which was written using

Python against C/C++ libraries through SWIG. Improving the internal knowledge base of known

problem and solutions. Implemented search engine to facilitate more efficient information retrieval from

an unorganized set of documents.

Leading software product enhancements in C++ to add Ethernet/IP, improved scheduling of robot

movements based on external conditions, and moving the database from PostgreSQL to SQLite.

Pushing the team toward consistent release processes, planning, and information transfer to other

parts of the organization. A Python Ethernet/IP simulator was used to prove the Ethernet/IP interface.

The configuration UI was written in Python and used wxWidgets. Customer facing configuration tool

was written in C# using Winforms.

Leading corporate infrastructure upgrades in firewall and networking equipment to better support

personnel growth and new systems (ERP and PDM) across multiple locations.

Managing open source software license compliance.

Emerson Climate Technologies – Retail Solutions, Kennesaw, GA.

Climate Technologies – Retail Solutions produces and monitors electronics to control large scale refrigeration

equipment.

Research and Development Manager, 2010 to December 2012

Manager of the C/C++ port from vxWorks to Linux of Retail Solution’s main refrigeration and HVAC

controller reducing production costs and lowering development effort. The team consists of members in

Kennesaw and Xian, China.

Manager of the implementation of BACnet IP and BACnet MS/TP in the refrigeration and HVAC controller

to enable future HVAC equipment integration in C++. This effort resulted in new business at Walmart (13

new stores). The team consisted of members in Kennesaw and in Lviv, Ukraine. Code generation which

interfaced between the controller and the equipment was created using Python and compiled into Windows

binaries using py2exe.

Managed the development team implementing the features and Web UI of the next generation platform

called G4. HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX and websockets were used. Resources were worldwide

with members in Kennesaw; Belluno, Italy; Xian, China; and Manila, Philippines.

Worked with Emerson Corporate and the ASCO business unit to unify web and mobile development and

guidelines between business units. This sped up development of web and mobile applications and created

a unified look and feel across all Emerson products.

Identified by peers to participate in developing company’s Mission and Values Statements to executive

management staff.

Managed the transition of logic and user interface into a single package that could be uploaded and used

by the refrigeration controller. This enabled customers to receive new functionality in the refrigeration

controller without waiting for a full release cycle. This was done in C++ using a script engine called Pawn.

Managed the integration of Dixell refrigeration devices into Retail Solutions’ refrigeration controller to speed

acceptance of Dixell’s controllers into the US market and introduced a distributed control model which was

new to the US market. Integration involved automated data translation done in Python.

Led research and development effort to enhance failure analysis and improve efficiencies on existing

products. Data acquisition was performed using Python scripts.

All development was planned and measured using agile methodologies.

Senior/Staff Engineer, 2004-2010

Managed the team implementing a SOAP interface into the refrigeration controller. The team consisted of

members in Lviv, Ukraine. The gSoap C++ toolkit was used for this development.

Led the development of SNMP into the refrigeration controller in C++. Python was used to spoof hundreds

of SNMP devices with assistance from scapy and psyco.

Led the development of the “Flexible Combiner” in the refrigeration controller using C++. The end user

enters Excel like functions and can create sophisticated programs to control a variety of applications.

Led the development of the “Enhanced Suction Algorithm” in the refrigeration controller. The algorithm

drastically reduced maintenance costs on compressors by evaluating historical behavior, implementing

least cost switching, and supporting variable capacity compressors such as Copeland’s digital scroll. As

the primary inventor, three patents were issued pertaining to this algorithm. This was developed using C+

+.

Managed the acquisition of a “Refrigeration Management System” which tracked refrigeration distribution

and leakage on site. A SOAP interface was added so Emerson’s enterprise service could retrieve this

information for data aggregation. The system was internationalized for a market in Germany.

eOn Communications, Memphis, TN, Kennesaw, GA

eOn Communications provides call/contact center phone switch hardware and software.

Professional Service Technical Group Lead, 2002 to 2004

Wrote Statements of Work and managed projects from gathering requirements, through execution, to

delivery. Work centered on “screen pop” development, IVR enhancements, and performance reporting.

Led developers in improving eOn’s Softphone application that is used for remote agents, allowing these

employees to answer calls with the same experience as being in the call/contact center.

Managed development of .NET based “screen pops” for customers providing them with customer

information when an agent received the call.

Led development in several ActiveX controls using Active Template Libraries (ATL) in C++ enabling

customers to integrate call information into their own systems.

Led team in the internationalization and localization of the Softphone application for Korean markets.

Engineer/Project Lead, 1999 to 2002

Led a team of seven developers in a Java based client for supervisors to immediately see the status of the

agents they were responsible for. The supervisor could also see instant reports, control manpower load,

and coach agents during a call. On the server side, the development was C++ on Linux using pthreads

and PostgreSQL.

Active part of a team that created the “ePlayer” which was a unified message client. Voice mails could be

retrieved and manipulated from your PC without a phone. The client was written using Microsoft

Foundation Classes (MFC) and Visual Basic for the GUI.

Previous Experience

Hardware and Software Developer Lead at Innovative Communications, Memphis, TN

Technical analyst at AutoZone, Memphis, TN.

Project lead at Cardone Industries, Philadelphia, PA.

Skills

C/C++, ActiveX, COM, ATL, C# (ASP, WPF, Windows Forms), Python, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX,

Apache, Linux (Debian and Fedora), mySQL, postgreSQL, SQLite, socket programming, and threading

(pthreads and WIN32 API).

Patents

Primary inventor for listed patents.

7,814,758 Refrigeration system controller and method

Issued October 19, 2010

7,861,546 Refrigeration system capacity controller and method

Issued January 4, 2011

8,047,012 Refrigeration system and method using multiple variable capacity devices

Issued November 1, 2011

Education and Training

LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

Bachelors of Science – Electrical Engineering – 1991

Leading at Emerson – Charles F. Knight Learning Center – 2011

Included 360 reviews from 3 direct reports and 3 peers.

Presentation Skills – Charles F. Knight Learning Center – 2011

References

Available upon request

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