DIRECTOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR ENGINEERING

Expert in: Strategic and Tactical Planning – Change Management – Process Implementation

A dynamic leader offering depth and breadth of experience in strategic planning and process implementation. Reputation for obtaining results even in the most challenging situations. As a leader, I believe people are a valuable resource whose talents should not be wasted. I strive to motivate peers and subordinates through many methods, but the most important is by leadership. Management is by 1) ensuring my expectations are clear; 2) defining common goals; 3) identifying objectives to measure when a task is complete; and 4) holding people responsible and accountable once the task is assigned and understood. Thus, as a result, there is a reputation for developing strong and efficient teams

Professional Strengths:

Strategic & Tactical Planning

Matrix Management

Objective Development

Change Management

Line management

Setting Expectations

Methodology Development

Program Management

Facilitation

Business Process

Project Management

Mentoring

Organization Change

Leadership

Quality

Problem Analysis

ADO/Team site

Effective Communications

Scrum Master

Budget Management

MS Suite

Process Improvement

PMO

Operations

Microsoft Suite

Change Management

EVM

Authored and presented several publications while in Graduate School

EDUCATION

MSSM, University of Southern Calif

Emphasis: Business Process and Change Management

MS, Medical University of South Carolina

Emphasis: Biometry

BSCS, University of West Florida

Emphasis: Scientific Computer Application

Career Achievements

Industries: Global Wireless, Retail, Software Industries, DOD, Aerospace, and Medical University.

break in employment was due to my son passing away.

Microsoft – project Management Consulting 1/2022 – 11/2022

Using PMO best practices and standards, partnered with the Microsoft product/program managers to facilitate a project management process to oversee and execute on that process/plan resulting in a more efficient engineering process. Provided SCRUM management of project. Product owner and Scrum master.

Created, and maintained the project schedule and dashboard, facilitated meetings, and proactively identify risks to the project.

Shepherd the Project Team through the Release process, being mindful of all requirements resulting in high quality requirements definitions.

Facilitated program communications, identifying, and implementing continuous improvement practices.

Provide regular status reports which provided information for senior management to make key business decisions.

Used Microsoft suite to include MS Project, Word, Excel, power point. Use project to track schedule and milestones

Director of Program /Project management, Phoenix Technologies 12/2009 – 12/2021

Established a strategic and operation plans for directing and managing resulting in the largest successful rollout of a new BIOS in Phoenix's history.

Managed and directed 16 major BIOS related development projects worldwide that were required by multiple OEM and ODM customers resulting in high customer satisfaction.

Provided leadership and direction for PMO process improvement.

Implemented structure for capturing development plans and program status thus keeping senior management informed of key issues affecting the programs.

Provided leadership guiding the engineering staff in the US, Taiwan and Israel.

Responsible for providing leadership to both onshore and offshore engineers, and project managers Team size was 50 SDEs, SDETs, and program managers.

Used Microsoft suite to include MS Project, Word, Excel, power point. Use project to track schedule and milestones.

Microsoft Suite execution.

Established Dashboard for CEO and CTO.

Senior Group Program /project Manager, Microsoft 5/2008- 7/2009

Managed, directed, and influenced a highly focus technical team for the development of the Help Experience for the new Visual Studio 10 (Dev10).

Facilitated the process of prioritizing requirements for a major Microsoft application resulting in clear and concise requirements for the projects.

Identified the need for plans to include development plan, test plan, and release plans.

Used best practices for PMO

Principal Technical Program/project Manager, Tegic/Nuance Seattle, WA 10/2006 – 4/2008

Challenged internal and external senior managers and executives to gain deeper insight as to their requirements and expectations.

As a member of the senior management team, established the collaboration and communication between the company’s technical sales, marketing teams, and the international customer (China Mobile / Aspire) resulting in an effective client and business partnership.

Developed the client relationship, made numerous technical presentations, analyzed business systems and customer integration needs resulting in an effective and workable business solutions.

Developed the Architecture for the Mobile search application, resulting in a dynamic and robust Mobile search application.

Applied PMO Best practices for operational control of the program and projects

Used Microsoft suite to include MS Project, Word, Excel, power point. Use project to track schedule and milestones.

Director Software Engineering/project management, LockStream Seattle, WA 6/2003 – 10/2006

Utilizing strategic roadmaps, realigned and reorganized the organization resulting in the team to be more efficient in accomplishing the day-to-day objectives.

Developed a strategic plan for the technical advancement and business development for a young start-up digital rights management company by setting goals, objectives, scope, and risk mitigation.

Developed business and technical operations, product development, technology development, engineering, IT, documentation, and operations. As a result, added new products, established policies and procedures/processes, and significantly improved product technical support.

Reorganized and strengthened the 15-member engineering team by supplementing with 5 offshore development and test engineers, resulting in a 24 hr development process and reducing development cost.

Senior Program/Development Manager, Airtouch/Vodafone Walnut Creek, Ca 4/1998-12/2003

Pioneered the dot com era for Vodafone through strategic and tactical planning tor the design, development, and implementation of the first Web and WAP portals for Vodafone Australia, New Zealand, and Poland. Comment from the customer was “Best Damn portal I’ve seen”.

Successfully managed budges of $11 Million dollars which covered both personnel and capital items which resulted in staying within planned budget for the project.

Interfaced with senior executives, providing monthly presentations, as well as providing weekly status reports, resulting in key factors for seniors to make major business decisions.

Used Microsoft suite to include MS Project, Word, Excel, power point. Use project to track schedule and milestones.

Responsible for creating the operations process for Software practices. Change management operations

OTHER APPILICABLE POSITIONS:

Sr software engineer/ Sr Project Manager General Dynamics General

Project manager and hands on software architect responsible for the development of a cruise missile mission planning system. As a result, the system was successfully deployed to various Naval Strike commands for use in planning Aircraft and cruise missile planning.

Provided a structured software development methodology, ensuring a repeatable process for the software development.

Personally developed over 100K LOC of Ada and C resulting in state-of-the-art technology for digital terrain maps and mission planning applications for cruise missiles.

Managed and provided technical direction for 25 software engineers resulting in the successful development and deployment of the aircraft and cruise missile planning system.

Provided engineering support in Holland resulting in the selection of the application to be place at the NATO SHAPE Technical Institute Hague, Holland.

Boeing Aerospace

Conducted and presented research for a massive Cruise missile attack against the US resulting in recommendations to DOD as to types of defensive weapons needed to be developed for defense.

One of several software engineers responsible for the development and deployment of a Naval Air Analysis Battle and Air Defense Analysis Models for a foreign government. Resulting in the capability of the users to determine the Defense needs of the country.

Veteran: Naval Flight Officer, Commander

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