Product Development Manager

DAVID SNYDER

770-***-**** (H AND C)

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OBJECTIVE:

TO LEAD, MANAGE, SERVE, AND BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF AN AGILE DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO RAPIDLY DELIVER

INNOVATIVE, EFFECTIVE AND PROFITABLE WEB APPLICATIONS.

SKILL SUMMARY:

● TWENTY YEARS DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND TESTING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND WEB-BASED E-COMMERCE

SAAS E-COMMERCE SERVICES AND AS RETAIL SHRINK-

SYSTEMS AND SERVICES THAT CAN FUNCTION AS EITHER

WRAP SOFTWARE.

● SCRUM ALLIANCE CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER (CSPO).

● EXPERIENCED WITH AGILE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, LEADING TEAMS TO PRODUCE COST-EFFICIENT AND

MARKET-DRIVEN SOFTWARE THAT MEETS ALL STAKEHOLDERS’ VISIONS AND EXPECTATIONS.

● AS PRODUCT OWNER, ABLE TO COMMUNICATE EFFICIENTLY BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM

MEMBERS, AND ENSURING THE BACKLOGS REALLY REPRESENT STAKEHOLDERS’ VIEWS AND VISIONS FOR

COMPLETED PRODUCT.

● AS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ABLE TO HIRE, RETAIN, AND MENTOR DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, QA, AND

SUPPORT STAFF, AND FOSTER A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP AND PRIDE IN THE TEAM AND THE PRODUCT.

● EXPERIENCED AS A SCRUM TEAM DEVELOPER, ABLE TO FOCUS ON GIVEN TASKS TO MEET SPRINT GOALS, ASSIST

PRODUCT OWNER IN BACKLOG GROOMING, AND TO WORK WITH MY TEAM TOWARDS IMPROVING TEAM VELOCITY

AND EFFICIENCY.

● INVENTOR ON PATENT 5,802,520. HTTPS://WWW.GOOGLE.COM/PATENTS/US5802520

● SKILLED OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGNER AND PROGRAMMER, WITH EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN JAVA, C++, AND

C#. SAMPLE CODE FOR BOTH JAVA AND C++ CAN BE VIEWED AT HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/DSNYDER74.

● ABLE TO QUICKLY COMPREHEND AND LEARN NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO A

PROFESSIONAL LEVEL OF COMPETENCY.

EDUCATION:

1995 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BACHELORS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

GRADUATED WITH HIGHEST HONORS.

MINOR IN BUSINESS AND FINANCE.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1998-DEC 2014 PDG SOFTWARE, INC. ATLANTA, GA

FOUNDER, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, AND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

● FOUNDED PDG SOFTWARE, A COMPANY THAT SELLS SOFTWARE TO ENABLE RETAIL

AND MANAGED

“BUSINESS TO CONSUMER” SALES TRANSACTIONS OVER THE INTERNET. SUCCESSFULLY STARTED PDG

WITH NO OUTSIDE CAPITAL INVESTMENT. GREW COMPANY FROM A ONE-PERSON BASEMENT OPERATION

TO AN OFFICE WITH 20+ EMPLOYEES.

● EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT. THESE DUTIES INCLUDE:

MARKET-DRIVEN COST-CONSCIOUS MANAGEMENT, UP-FRONT

AND PRODUCT BALANCING

INVESTMENTS IN FEATURES AND QUALITY AGAINST TIME-TO-MARKET AND TIME-TO-REVENUE

TO MAINTAIN MARKET LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINED AND PREDICTABLE CASH FLOW.

REQUIREMENT GATHERING FROM A VERY LARGE AND HORIZONTAL CUSTOMER BASE, AND

USER STORIES TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY REFLECT THOSE REQUIREMENTS.

CREATING

IMPLEMENTED AGILE PROCESSES,

DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING BACKLOG CREATION AND

BACKLOG GROOMING, SPRINTS, SPRINT PLANNING AND REVIEW, AND DAILY STANDUPS.

OVERSAW DEVELOPMENT’S AREAS,

ALL SOFTWARE INCLUDING SOLUTION DESIGN AND

ARCHITECTURE, UI/UX, CODE REVIEW, AUTOMATED AND MANUAL TESTING, PRODUCT

RELEASE, AND SUPPORT.

HIRING, MENTORING AND TRAINING TO DEVELOP A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE ON THE

DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

EFFICIENTLY COMMUNICATED PRODUCT’S CURRENT DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND STATUS

CHANGES TO TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS.

● MANAGED DEVELOPMENT PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS TO ENSURE ALL API INTEGRATIONS WERE UP TO

DATE. ENSURED APIS WERE IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY AND TESTED. PARTNERS INCLUDE:

RELATIONSHIPS WITH ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE PACKAGES. SPECIFIC EMPHASIS INTUIT,

ON

WHICH ALLOWED REAL-TIME INTEGRATION INTUIT’S QUICKBOOKS ENTERPRISE.

RELATIONSHIPS WITH SHIPPING COMPANIES, SUCH AS USPS, UPS, FEDEX, DHL,

AND

FOR SHIPPING COST CALCULATIONS AND SHIPPING LABEL GENERATION.

RELATIONSHIPS WITH CREDIT AUTHORIZATION AND COLLECTION SERVICES, INCLUDING

PAYPAL, PAYFLOW (NOW PAYPAL, FORMALLY VERISIGN), QUICKBOOKS MERCHANT

SERVICES, AUTHORIZE.NET, AND OTHER OEMS OF AUTHORIZE.NET’S SERVICE (AIM).

RELATIONSHIPS WITH WEB-SITE CREATION SOFTWARE COMPANIES, INCLUDING ADOBE FOR

DREAMWEAVER AND MICROSOFT FOR FRONTPAGE, AND LATER SHAREPOINT AND

DEVELOPMENT STUDIO. (ALSO PERSONALLY CODED THE MICROSOFT INTEGRATION COM

OBJECTS IN C# AND .NET.)

● EXPERT PROGRAMMING SKILLS, UTILIZED EXTENSIVELY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PDG SOFTWARE’S

PRODUCTS:

DESIGNED PDG SOFTWARE’S PRODUCT OFFERINGS TO BE EITHER ON-PREMISE “SHRINK-

WRAP” SOFTWARE FOR SELF-HOSTED CUSTOMERS, OR AS A WHITE-LABEL SAAS OFFERING FOR

WEB-HOSTING COMPANIES AND WEB DESIGNERS TO RESELL USING SUBSCRIPTIONS.

CODED IN JAVA, C++, C# (BOTH COM AND ASP.NET), AND C TO PRODUCE EFFICIENT,

“JUST WORKS”. DOCUMENTED CODE SO THAT OTHER TEAM MEMBERS

CLEAN SOFTWARE THAT

CAN PICK IT UP WITH LITTLE EFFORT.

UTILIZED UNIT TESTING (JUNIT AND GOOGLETEST) AND

OTHER AUTOMATED TESTING.

SAMPLE CODE CAN BE VIEWED AT HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/DSNYDER74.

DESIGNED AND CODED WEB SERVICES TO SPECIFICATIONS FOR CLIENTS. WEB SERVICES WERE

RESTFUL AND IMPLEMENTED IN JAVA, BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT SWING, AND USED

SOAP/XML FOR COMMUNICATING WITH WEB SERVICE CONSUMERS.

EVALUATED JBOSS / HIBERNATE FRAMEWORK

AND UTILIZED FOR USE IN CUSTOMIZED

PDG COMMERCE.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS BUILT AROUND

STRONG MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER AND LINUX BASED

FAMILIARITY WITH BOTH THE

OPERATING SYSTEMS (INCLUDING UBUNTU, REDHAT ENTERPRISE AND CENTOS, AND MINT),

AS WELL AS A WIDE RANGE OF OTHER OLDER UNIX VARIANTS (INCLUDING SUNOS AND

SOLARIS, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, DEC/OSF 1, FREEBSD, BSDI, AND SOLARIS X86).

EXPERIENCE WITH MANY WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTTP, CGI, HTML5, XML/XHTML,

JAVASCRIPT, AJAX, JSON, JQUERY, AND CSS.

INTEGRATED DATABASE ACCESS WITH MYSQL AND MS SQL SERVER - INCLUDES WRITING

SQL STATEMENTS FOR A VARIETY OF CROSS-TABLE OPERATIONS, DATA INDEXING AND

MANIPULATION, AND QUERY OPTIMIZATION, AS WELL AS AUTOMATED INSTALLATION AND TABLE

CREATION, INTEGRATION WITH MONGODB (NO-SQL TECHNOLOGY) VIA HIBERNATE.

IMPLEMENTED GPG SSL

SECURITY UTILIZING PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION VIA AND

OPENSSL API.

TRANSACTIONS USING THE

IMPLEMENTED ESMTP FUNCTIONALITY FOR SYSTEMS WITHOUT DIRECT ACCESS TO

SENDMAIL-LIKE EXECUTABLES.

UTILIZED DIFFERENT SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEMS, INCLUDING GITHUB, MICROSOFT VISUAL

SOURCESAFE, SVN IN A WEBDAV ENVIRONMENT, AND PERFORCE.

IMPLEMENTED STANDARDIZED CROSS-PLATFORM COMPILE AND RELEASE PROCEDURES.

2005-2007 DAQTRON, INC. ATLANTA, GA

CONTRACT AND FULL-TIME SOFTWARE ENGINEER

● INTEGRATION OF THIRD PARTY AUDIO AND VIDEO CODERS AND DECODERS, IMPLEMENTED AS

MICROSOFT COM OBJECTS, INTO EXISTING LABVIEW-BASED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TESTING OF

CABLE BOXES AND CABLE-MODEMS. UTILIZED C# AND COM KNOWLEDGE AS WELL AS LABVIEW.

● FOCUSED ON MAKING CODE AS QUICK, SIMPLE, AND FAST AS POSSIBLE DUE TO HAVING TO SCAN LARGE

AMOUNTS OF RAW TRANSPORT STREAMS, VIDEO STEAMS, AND AUDIO STREAMS.

● ASSISTED WITH ON-SITE SALES AND MARKETING OPERATIONS, INCLUDING TECHNICAL ON-PREMISE SALES

CALLS AND TRADE SHOW EVENTS.

MARKETING DIRECTOR

● MANAGED -

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS PRODUCED AND PROVIDED MARKETING AND SALES ASSISTANCE TO

RESELLERS AND PARTNERS.

● IMPLEMENTED SALESFORCE.COM CRM / SALES SYSTEM.

1995-1998 SOFTWARE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL ATLANTA, GA

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

● CODED AND MAINTAINED NETZIP, MICROSOFT WINDOWS BASED PROGRAM FOR ARCHIVING FILES.

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● EXPERIENCE WITH VISUAL C++, MFC, AND UNDERLYING WIN32 SYSTEM CALLS.

● INTEGRATED NETZIP WITH NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR.

● DESIGNED, DEVELOPED, AND PATENTED A METHOD FOR REMOTELY MANIPULATING ZIP ARCHIVES.

● MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL AND SOFTWARE ENGINEER.

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT / VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

● RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT COMPLETE LIFE-CYCLE.

● MANAGED DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO SPECIFY, DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND MAINTAIN MICROSOFT

WINDOWS BASED UTILITY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.

● TRAINED IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT.

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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