Mas Kono

214-***-****

aczeo8@r.postjobfree.com

VP OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED ON DELIVERING INNOVATIVE AND HIGH QUALITY SOLUTIONS

Accomplished, ambitious and results oriented SW engineering leader with demonstrated success in establishing/re-engineering industry leading delivery organizations.

Track record of achievement in managing enterprise class complex projects, and transforming organizations to ensure streamlined operations, process/quality improvement, and product delivery.

Areas of Expertise

Restructurings/Re-engineering of orgs for optimal delivery

Ability to bridge x-functional organizations across the enterprise.

Extensive On / Off /Rural shoring expertise, experience

Servant Leadership experience

Mentoring/Training of next generation of leaders

Expert in QA/Testing techniques methodology, industry best practices

Ability to drive all aspects of a SW dev organization, Dev, QA, SCM, Release, process, PM Etc...

Deep experience in delivering Web/Embedded/Mobile solution(s)

Dev Ops

Bi-lingual (English/Japanese)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MedAssets, Plano, TX

VP Development

December 2012 – Present

Achievements:

Turned around a failing BI/Analytics product development effort

oRestructured and realigned the team to deliver value on the 4M+ / Yr investment

oDeveloped a partnership with the product management team to deliver on time and on scope

oAble to within 1 quarter meet actual scheduled delivery dates and meet customer expectations.

Made extensive process changes to the existing SDLC enterprise wise to optimize for higher quality and higher velocity delivery.

Transformed the existing scattered QA organization into a high performance industry leading organization by establishing a common technical foundation that all teams could build and grow from

Replaced the inadequate testing practices with industry best practices, hired in /grew the existing leadership team to execute on the new vision.

Reduced high severity issues leaking into production by 50%

The geographically distributed shared services organization was re-organized to a strong core model /processes with provisions for customizations at each location. This was needed to improve a poor relationship with the operational and core IT functions of the business. Transformed the organization into an enterprise level delivery organization.

Established and extend a performance/load testing organization.

Added the capabilities to predict productions issues reliably and promote fixes before the application was released.

Stabilize and automate activities of the SCM and release management organization.

Cut by 50% the number of manual activities during deploys of production code.

Act as a change agent and drive for drastic improvement of the off shored work teams capabilities and delivery

Instituted an alternative rural shoring model to provide capabilities that increased efficiency with no budget impacts

Built out a QA automation team capable of delivering normal day to day automation needs, but also has the capability to deliver automation assist and delivery accelerator tools.

Responsibilities:

All Development responsibilities for the Revenue cycle analytics line of products for MedAssets

QA all aspects of vision/execution, multiple locations, on/off shore presence

QA automation/framework

Load / Performance Testing

Software Configuration Management (code repository, including all tooling)

Release management

Technical Doc Writers/ Instructional Designers

Project Managers / Audit compliance

Cross organizational co-ordination with operations /IT

Production and Dev environment budgets (min 5+ Million per year)

GameStop, Grapevine, TX

IT Director, Development velocity office

November 2010 – December 2012

Achievements:

Drove GameStop’s entry into the Mobile app space. Established and delivered the initial set of mobile applications. This included an e-commerce app and a loyalty application

Initiated and completed version 2.0 of the mobile applications which combined the 2 applications and also delivered the application on both iOS and Android bases platforms

Initiated other mobile initiatives such as an app store, and supporting structure to support monetization of free to play models of games.

Installed a standard development platform for all mobile applications, as well as adopted industry best practices for mobile testing such as crowd sourced testing.

Acted as Development Director for the Gameinformer.com web property which included full responsibility for the development teams, to continue to add features, scale and drive additional customers to the site.

Critical Part of a technical team that drove the GameStop acquisition of Impulse games and subsequent integration into the corporate portfolio.

Established QA team for the new Online Technology group, includes all GameStop Web Front properties, and PC download site an applications.

Increased the velocity of the delivery teams by using industry best practices, in QA, Automation, SCM and RM

Initiated and drove the QA automation development effort for a complete custom automation framework which enabled testing of completely different software components from Web to PC to Mobile applications.

Established various/flexible staffing models to support the different needs of the delivery teams. Offshore, Onshore, Hybrid, Crowd Sourced etc...

Make critical improvements to the SDLC to improve velocity and flexibility, this included adoption of agile models. (SCRUM and Kanban)

Provide/Optimize tool chains with maximum flexibility yet enable effective testing and releases to

Responsibilities:

•Development Director for Gameinformer.com / 3 Different Mobile applications

•QA for all Web front properties

•Budget responsibilities for delivery team staffing model

•Delivering on business commitments for a 24/7 scalable e-com site(s)

Think Finance, Fort Worth, TX

IT Director (QA, Release management, Configuration Management)

September 2009 – November 2010

Achievements

Centralized a scattered QA team into an industry leading QA organization.

Build core QA competencies, including expanded test coverage and metrics delivery.

Implement industry best QA practices in an Agile (SCRUM) based SDLC organization.

Re-design and build an IT lab infrastructure capable of day to day testing operations.

Worked extensively with the IT/Production group to upgrade the HW/Data Center to meet the scaling needs as the traffic increased.

Analyzed and implement a more robust agile based SDLC, and supporting tool chain.

Built out a RM and CM team, capable of meeting the business needs.

Implement critical CM and RM tools needed for the robust SDLC model.

Centralize and Expand the QA Automation effort from the various product teams.

T System, Dallas, TX

Engineering Director (Engineering services, QA, Technical operations)

July 2006 – September 2009

Achievements:

Re-engineered the Engineering Services organization from a startup state to a mature organization with 24+ engineers using industry best practices. Engineering services included QA, Lab infrastructure, application support, SW release management, and documentation.

Re-designed and built a lab IT infrastructure and team to handle the complex needs of engineering. Included build farms, test machines, production support machines and development machines.

Manage Engineering Lab Infrastructure, responsible for day to day operation of a complex Server Lab infrastructure. 100+ servers (mix of metal and virtual servers) to support all of engineering’s needs.

Working with the CTO/COO to redefine the role and mission of the QA organization and the Engineering services organization. Solidified the value proposition for a mature QA and Engineering services organization for the company.

Leading the organizational wide effort to implement and improve various processes to better deliver on customer commitments while continuing to improve on the quality of the products.

Defined and delivered on a QA automation infrastructure to support the long range vision for increased test coverage and shorter test cycle times.

Work closely with the director of development to define and improve time to market, and test coverage.

Hire and Manage SW project/release managers, responsible for integrating an effective use of SW project managers into the SW development cycle, while maintaining an adherence to engineering wide QA processes.

Manage Product documentation group, responsible for growing the documentation group and integrating the deliverables into the SW development process.

Manage Application Staging group, responsible for implementing and maintaining the application internal to the company for R&D as well as demo purposes and sales purposes.

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

Engineering Director SQA

June 2003 – July 2006

Achievements:

• Responsible for taking the QA organization to the next level in Capability, Expertise, Flexibility and Delivery.

• Worked with the executive management team to put an emphasis back on the quality of the products and also to give much needed visibility and understanding of the QA process.

• Expanded on the core competencies of the QA organization and adapting industry accepted QA practices

• Delivered on key metric indicators that were necessary to the business and promoted education about the metrics.

• Lead the organizational effort for the growth and mentoring of QA managers, leads and individual contributors to become a world class QA organization by setting challenging goals, creating clear career paths, and rewarding exceptional effort and achievement.

• Defining short-term and long-term vision and goals for the QA organization.

• Overseeing daily operations of the entire QA organization consisting of approximately 45+ engineers and 4 managers on site, as well as outsourced QA operations in 3 different countries with 60+ people.

• Responsible for financial forecasting, quarterly budget updates, and team resources management for the entire SQA organization.

• Reporting to the VP of product development

Ariba, Sunnyvale, CA

SR Globalization QA lead

February 2003 – June 2003

Good Technology/Motorola, Sunnyvale,CA

SR QA lead

July 2001 – February 2003

Palm Computing, Sunnyvale, CA

International SQA Manager

December 1999 – July 2001

CIT Group, Livingston, NJ

Senior QA Analyst

1999

Datascope, Paramus NJ

SQA Engineer III

1999

Sanyo Semiconductor, Allendale,NJ

Lead Software Engineer

1994-1998

EDUCATION

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

BS in Electrical Engineering Tech 1994

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