Sr. Director of Development

JODY BUCHANAN

PROFILE

Product and quality focused technical professional, consistently delivering new and existing products emphasizing customer value. My experience includes creating product roadmaps, transitioning teams to agile methods, turning around poor performing groups, recruiting top talent, building talented teams, and establishing best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NIMBOXX.com, Austin, TX 2015

Senior Director of Development and Scrum Master

Lead product development teams through transformation to predictable and consistent scrum teams. The products centered on Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and Virtual Desktop Integration (VDI) using KVM/QEMU technologies in an appliance form factor. Managed five scrum teams composed of developers, quality assurance, and technical documentation, planned sprints, held sprint reviews, built product roadmaps with product management, handled customer issues, established quality measures, worked with outside vendors, and active member of product development.

IBM Global Business Services, Austin, TX 2014 - 2015

Development Manager and Release Manager.

Release Manager in the Human Resources Tower group and manage other projects for internal use. Assumed responsibility for a development team supporting a SAP internal procurement application. Also, started several projects designed around the use of FILENET as a replacement for an aging Lotus Notes application. I coordinated, scheduled, and reported on work between development and quality teams located globally.

Hewlett-Packard Company, Austin, TX 2011 - 2014

Section (2nd Line) Manager and Scrum Master.

Transformed an existing product development team from waterfall to scrum while focusing on adding new talent, meeting deadlines, supporting large customer base, incorporating QA into the team, and retiring technical debt. The HP TippingPoint Security Management System (SMS) is an appliance or virtual instance providing centralized management of other security devices, i.e. IPS and NGFW, sold by HP. Responsible for hiring new staff, 1st Line Managers, scrum master, customer support, goals, product planning, release management, collaboration with other teams, and outsourcing, Technologies included CentOS, JBoss, JavaEE, MySQL, Vertica, MariaDB, Jasper, C#, Rally, Quality Center, Unified Functional Test, Salesforce, and XML.

TOPAZ Technologies, Austin, TX 2011

Sr. Director of Development and Scrum Master.

Changed product development into a consistent delivery team that hits milestone and business goals. The TOPAZ Elements product provides a hosted and local install solution for major pharmaceuticals, hospitals, and universities engaged in various drug research efforts. Responsible for hiring new staff, working with product management to set goals, collaborate directly with customers to address field issues, drive new technical directions, and work with outsourcing partners. Technologies used include Rally, .NET, Silverlight, Oracle, MS SQL, C#, SMARTBear TestComplete for automated functional testing and NUNIT for unit testing.

Field Asset Services, Round Rock, TX 2009 - 2010

AVP, Information Systems Development and Scrum Master.

Moved product development to Agile Scrum and consistently delivered new business features every two weeks for an internal business critical application. Responsible for hiring new staff, managing outsourced development, and internal contractors. The FASTrack application is core to the business at FAS and is used by over 700+ internal users, 20,000+ external users, and provides integration for several clients. FASView is a data warehouse based solution and provides business decision support to the business. Technologies used include Rally, .NET, MS SQL, C#, HP QTP for automated functional testing and MSPEC for unit testing.

Borland Inc., Austin, TX 2007 - 2009

Senior Director of Development and Certified Scrum Master

Recruited to deliver new products for Borland, drive Agile Scrum development, manage cross team development, and become a Certified Scrum Master. Successfully delivered and sold the TeamAnalytics product. Drove adoption of the our open ALM Framework product internally with other product teams. Scrum Master for three agile teams that developed these products from the ground up. Responsible for the personnel management of all developers, Quality Assurance, and Technical Writers on all three teams; this included reviews, bonuses, hiring, career development, critical feedback, equipment procurement, vendor assessment, 3rd Party partner relationships, field support and training, and sales enablement. The technologies used include Business Objects Data Integrator, Java, Hibernate, Spring, Eclipse, Oracle, PL/SQL, BIRT, FLEX, data warehousing designs, Equinox, and others.

Dell Inc., Round Rock, TX 2003 – 2007

Senior Development Manager

Responsible for leading the Dell System Software Technologies and Open Standards Instrumentation Development teams. One team was composed of senior level technologist/strategist that defined and implemented future product features based on industry standards and market demands. The other team implemented DMTF/SMWG CIM standards for Dell servers and storage devices and drives the standards to meet Dell requirements. Prior to this promotion, I was responsible for managing the OMSA software development team, collaborating with product marketing, testing, documentation, and support. The technologies used include C/C++, Java, XSL, XML, web server, SNMP, WMI, CIM, Windows 2K3, Linux 3.0 AS/WS/ES, and NetWare.

2ndWave/TorchQuest Inc., Austin, TX 2001 – 2003

Vice President of Development

Key player in founding the company and selling the idea to our venture capital partners. Ran the product development effort for TruVantage ServiceDesk and Event Manager. Successfully delivered our first version of the product that resulted in an additional two million in funding. Conducted customer demonstrations and onsite installation. A data warehouse solution for business decision support such as capacity planning, quality, and cost. Leveraged internally developed ETL tool and Business Objects reporting. All Java based web application.

Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX 1997 – 2001

Senior Software Manager

Managed product development for key flagship products: Tivoli Event Manager and Tivoli Distributed Monitoring. Built organization up from practically nothing to a working sixty person organization. Including several development managers, quality assurance manager, and technical documentation manager.

Novell Inc., Provo, UT 1992 - 1997

Director of Software Development

Lead Software Engineer

Tracor Aerospace Inc., Austin, TX 1990 – 1992

Lead Software Engineer

Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX. 1984 - 1990

Software Design Engineer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Computer Science

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

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