Management Engineer

Chris M Myers

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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-myers/39/332/454

Summary of Qualifications:

Experienced Software Professional with a strong background in driving continuous improvement with 15 years of industry experience in roles of increasing responsibility and an additional 5 years of people management experience.

Professional Experience

Project/Product Management

Software Tools and Practices Steering Committee Member

Spearheaded migration effort for 250 software developers working on 8 concurrent programs across 2 countries into a new Source Control Tool, without slipping delivery schedules.

Worked with cross functional stakeholders to define, plan and execute the migration.

Created and tracked development and rollout schedules, adapting as needed to keep customer(s) delivery schedules on target.

Defined and put into practice Software Quality Assurance Auditing processes allowing my division to receive a CMM level 2 certification within 6 months of my hire date.

Software Build System Architect

Designed and co-developed an automated software CI/CD system

oServed 15 different development groups in 8 countries

oPlug and play ready for integration with 3 different commercial Source Control Management tools

Designed system to solve

obuild content uncertainty

odelivery process communication delays/errors

omultiple/conflicting points of status for delivery release readiness

Specified the hardware and COTS software investments required to support system development and initial rollout

Created system scaling worksheets for yearly budget planning cycles

Worked with IT to develop a long term system support model

Regularly interviewed existing and potential system users to discover new system feature requirements

Staff Engineer

Worked with Staff Engineers and Architects from multiple groups in a newly formed division to define process and tool usage methodologies in order to allow clean and secure deliveries between all the systems each group in the new division used.

Designed a Requirements through Installation traceability and project tracking Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system.

oSystem was designed to meet upper management’s requirements for new groups joining the division to be able to deliver to existing groups without a major tool set migration.

oSystem is a set of custom tools and scripts written to bind together multiple COTS tools and deliver relevant information to a COTS dashboard tool.

Corporate Trainer

Perform group trainings (up to 50 people at a time) on software engineering tools supported by my team

oRequirements Management

oSource Control Management

oTest Case Management

oBuild Management.

Perform small group training (up to 10 people at a time) in Managing for Software Quality Theory covering the reasons behind and capabilities of Application Lifecycle Management system.

Perform Scrum Training for development groups, including Scrum Master Training, Product Owner Training and Developer Training sessions targeted at the changing environment between a traditional Waterfall development organization and a Scrum development organization.

Major contributor to the Division's Software Processes and Procedures.

oResponsible for the keeping the process documentation current and the knowledge of their contents circulated to the intended users.

oProvided SW P&P training to new employees.

Release Management

Responsible for coordinating multiple groups’ output into the weekly release for a heavily interdependent, multi-GEO team.

oProduced Release Notes incorporating all up stream dependency content in a cohesive document.

oKept SW bug database in sync with release information.

oVerified each release’s content and test results against project schedules and commitments.

oMade “go/no go” decisions affecting deliveries to multi-national corporate customers.

oImplemented release processes targeted at:

Raising quality of customer releases.

Reducing testing time.

Reducing missed delivery goals.

Responsible for all aspects of Build and Release of the software for multiple products the division produced.

Provided auditing services at critical points in a software product's lifecycle to determine:

oIs the product likely to be released on time and with the originally agreed upon feature set?

oHave appropriate quality measures been taken to ensure the company's reputation won't be tarnished by a sub-standard customer release?

oDesigned and produced bug tracking by software release reports which enabled a single point of information about the health of a software product as it progressed through its lifecycle toward customer release.

People Management

Responsible for hiring, training, supervising and otherwise maintaining a 15 person office.

Defined role responsibilities and skill requirements for software development project teams.

Hired and managed Software Engineering Contract Workers.

Worked with direct reports on identifying their long term career goals and creating professional development plans to meet those goals.

Work History

Release Lead

Xtime, Inc – Redwood City, CA

Current

Senior SW Build/Tools Engineer/Staff Engineer

Intel Corporation - Hillsboro, OR

2005 - 2015

SW Configuration Management Engineer

KLA-Tencor - Milpitas, CA

2000 – 2005

Vice President/Branch Manager

TD Waterhouse Inc. - Santa Clara, California Branch

1995-2000

Education

DeAnza College - Cupertino, CA, USA

Certificate in C Programming

Course work in: Computer Science, Philosophy, Art History, Literature

University Of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH, USA

Course work in: Computer Science, Mathematics and Art History

San Jose City College - San Jose, CA, USA

Course work in: Anthropology, Mathematics and Philosophy

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master by scrum.org

Certificate in Software Architecture Skills from The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Pittsburgh, PA

Certified Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Assessor by The SEI, Pittsburgh, PA

Certificate in C Programming from De Anza College

Professional Affiliations

SATURN – SEI Architecture Technology User Network

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