Senior Software R&D Manager / Program Manager

Nana M. La-Anyane www.linkedin.com/in/nana-la-anyane-3334591

408-***-****(M) *****@*****.***

Objective

Seeking a senior software management position which will utilize my extensive management and engineering leadership skills to deliver high-quality products.

Key Strength

Experienced leader focused on team building and collaboration across different skillsets in various locations to deliver high quality enterprise products and solutions.

Extensive experience in managing offshore software development teams to deliver high quality switching software for high-availability systems.

Solid Program Management skills in planning, scheduling, and delivery

Experience in working with OEM/ODM vendors in all stages of product development, from requirements to release.

Detailed understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Worked closely with cross-functional teams located globally on design, development and deployment of next generation data networking products.

Broad knowledge of L2/L3 Data Networking protocols and market trends.

Protocols: SNMP/MIB, VLAN, STP, DHCP, LLDP, IPv6, SPBM, Routing, Multicast

Extensive People Management skills.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Professional Experience

Avaya Networking, Avaya, Inc, Santa Clara, CA,

Software Senior Manager / Program manager 2009 – Present

Federal Certification Prime:

Worked with Avaya Government Solutions and Product Management teams to provide skilled interpretation of Unified Capability Requirements (UCR) and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) for input into development of new product features to achieve APL status.

Driving development and test teams to achieve Federal Interoperability (IO) and Information Assurance (IA) certification

Working with 3rd-Party security vendor, Mocana, to obtain FIPS 140-2 certification of Crypto module on certified switches

Scheduling external JITC certification test, and following up with resolution

Software response to Common Criteria questionnaire and evaluation with 3rd party vendor to scope, plan, and budget security effort.

RIPE-554 IPv6:

Worked with PLM and marketing to drive IPv6 support into switching platforms.

Drove implementation of MLD Snooping, DHCPv6-Guard, RA Guard, NUD Filtering, DAD Filtering and Dynamic IPv6 Neighbor Solicitation/Advertisement Inspection

Serviceability:

Leading ongoing serviceability effort to work with Product Management, Field Engineers, Customer Service and R&D to ensure Design for Operability is built into access switches.

Driving offshore and onshore R&D and documentation teams to generate useable documents to highlight serviceability capabilities.

Network Management Lead:

Led a large effort to change SNMP Engine from SNMP Research to Wind River’s Envoy SNMP engine across all stackable switch platforms is a limited time. Selected a small team to formulate a questionnaire & follow up with meetings to select the right solution. Produced resource profile and schedule to convert and test over 3000 MIB objects. Heavy reliance on offshore resources.

Project Manager:

Software Engineering Manager responsible for Software Development, QA, Release engineering and Project Management. Leading development and QA teams in USA and Romania.

Work with Product Line Management to define the program, including content and delivery strategy.

As the R&D lead, work closely with onshore and offshore development teams, QA, PLM and other functional groups to deliver high quality software in a timely manner. Providing Technical information transfer to field personnel, participating in bug scrubs and reviewing customer docs and release notes

Provide weekly project update presentation to leadership team.

Work with Product Management to quickly implement high priority customer requested features by leveraging SME resource allocation, MS-Project, estimation techniques, data query tools and test effort forecast models

Assign and manage resources. Drive quality with reduced overhead. Communicate regular progress to internal leadership team.

Nortel Networks, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineering Manager / Program Manager 1998 – 2009

People Manager

Manage day to day activities of up to 15 software engineers. Set employee priorities for success

Identify and hire great talent to expand the engineering team. Assign appropriate tasks to maximize professional growth. Provide career mentoring

Maintain employee excitement about work. Celebrate and reward successful teams and individuals

Make essential resources readily available to engineers and external groups to enhance productivity

Coached low relative performing engineers to improve their performance on a consistent basis.

Engineering Project Lead and IPT Leader

Participated in departmental strategy planning, product requirement definition & task assignments. Project prime on several Hardware and software releases; Coordinated cross-functional efforts, produced integrated schedules and tracked team progress. Provided executive reports of milestones & metrics to upper management throughout the Software Development Life Cycle. Effectively oversaw 40+ resources while working with onshore and offshore teams.

Led departmental effort to redesign and implement existing command line interface on data networking switches for cisco-IOS user interface compliance.

Led Software and test teams in achieving US Department of Defense (DoD) Certification for several Ethernet switches. Involved in budget planning, evaluated crypto software to use, engaged and managed 3rd party to achieve FIPS 140-2 compliance & successfully got Nortel switch products on the DoD APL.

Created and maintained an Ethernet switch feature database to be used by various customer facing personnel, for competitive analysis and product planning.

Led the Nortel Design To Value (DTV) team working with McKinsey & Company Consultants to evaluate Nortel switches as compared with leading competitors. Performed teardown of competitor switches. Reported findings to leadership on a weekly basis. Contributed to final report by consultants.

Collaborate with ODM vendor and functional teams to develop release schedule and to mitigate impact of risks.

Chaired weekly core product team meetings to sync-up different functional groups and to track project status.

Provided guidance during bug scrubs and prioritized bug fixes with R&D and QA teams.

Participate in Budget planning for engineering resources (headcount allocation/hiring and capital/operation expenses).

Switching Division, Bay Networks, Santa Clara, CA 1994 – 1998

Engineering Group Manager

Managed embedded network management engineering team supporting ATM protocols such as LANE, PNNI and MPLS.

Set guidelines and implemented a process to administer and police the MIB change process.

Worked closely with cross-functional teams to deliver network management capabilities: Product management, customer support, product verification, publication.

Sr. Staff Software Engineer / Group Lead

Managed a team of ten engineers to deliver various software features on Token Ring, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet hub platforms. Responsibilities include:

oProvided technical guidance and problem solution to software and test teams

oWorked with Product Managers and upper management to influence product requirements.

oScoped task effort to arrive at delivery schedule, and assigned tasks to team members

oParticipated and provide input to engineers during design and implementation phases.

oEvaluated engineer’s performance at various project milestones and perform annual review

Provided technical and leadership support to company’s OEM partners in their development.

Led a team responsible for reviewing and approving MIB changes.

Developed Agent software for Series 5000 Chassis-based Ethernet Hubs.

Staff Software Engineer, Synoptics Communication, Santa Clara, CA 1993 – 1994

Designed and implemented several embedded software features for Ethernet Devices

Designed Proprietary MIBs and implemented several Standard MIBs tools from Epilogue and SNMP Research MIB Engine, Coded in C for both VxWorks and Nucleus operating systems

Sr. Software Engineer, Teleglobe / Memotec, North Andover, MA 1989 - 1993

Designed and implemented an SNMP agent for real-time network management.

Implemented FLASH driver for a real-time embedded 68302 based V.32bis dial modem.

Optimized code to improve network performance analysis and reporting system.

Education

MS in Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Reference Available upon request.

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