Product Development Business
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LEADER CHANGE AGENT RELATIONSHIP BUILDER
PROFILE
Strategic technology leader driving business growth, employee engagement and customer satisfaction through technology. Market experience in Software, Education, Medical Device, Logistics, and Emerging Technologies.
EDUCATION
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Software Engineering
University of Wisconsin
2006
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Computer Science
Fordham University
1994
EXPERTISE
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Technology Transformation
• Product Engineering
• Product Strategy
• Team Leadership
• People Development
• Partner Management
• DevOps
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Metrics
• Continuous Delivery
• Agile Methods
• Automation
• Business Development
• Cloud Computing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VP PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, CLOUD, DEVOPS, & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Pearson VUE Minneapolis, MN 2012 – Present
Provide technical and business leadership, ushering efforts to stabilize enterprise software and enable product development; conceptualized strategies to scale the business
• Led global and multi-functional teams with over 100 employees and strategic partners for 3 distributed software platforms and 4 product verticals. Managed a $5M+ staff budget and a $50M+ portfolio budget
• Optimized globally distributed software teams’ ability to scale project delivery by providing strategy and leading efforts to improve effectiveness, productivity and efficiency using metric driven approaches
• Modernized software platforms through technology innovation, improving user response time by 20% for entire user base
• Negotiated robust savings across multiple vendor contracts, saving $10M+ annually
• Increasing responsibility over 11 years, including VP Product Development, Sr Director, Director, and Group Manager of Business Intelligence and Cloud SENIOR DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
Velocity Technology Solutions Minneapolis, MN 2011 – 2012 Provided the vision, leadership, and oversight to ensure corporate objectives were met by my organization of managers, individual contributors, and consultants.
• Oversight and program management on all IT production projects including servers, storage, security, network, middleware, applications, and databases in Velocity’s cloud environment
• HR responsibilities for over 75 managers and individual contributors
• Budgetary responsibilities for entire technology stack and vendor management / selection
• Author and chair of several highly successful programs for client migrations
• Directed outsourced SaaS initiatives such as ServiceNow and Google Mail TEAM LEAD, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Boston Scientific Minneapolis, MN 2006 – 2011
Served as team lead with increasing responsibility for Boston Scientific’s flagship product, providing technical architecture, product definition, and delivery.
• Pioneered automated product scorecard, whereby environments were rated daily on metrics driven KPIs
• Architected the virtualization offering from original company position, strategy and design resulting in a 67% reduction in spend (hardware, software, maintenance, datacenter costs, and licensing)
• Implemented numerous product initiatives as both a subject matter expert and thought leader in uptime, serviceability and visualization domains
• Architected complex solutions to comply with federal and international healthcare and privacy regulations.
IT MANAGER
Business Objects La Crosse, WI 2001 – 2006
Transformational IT leader with ownership for technical and HR responsibilities of the IT organization; moved team from immature operating models to fully mature product offering. Implemented significant enhancements to stability, security, and availability. Grew the team by 150% and oversaw all aspects of infrastructure offerings. GUY SPEIER
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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