Michael Soto

E-Mail: adudec@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/michael-soto-398b934/

Phone: 408-***-****

Key Skills:

• Management / coordination of Agile SAFE & Scrum program teams & Scrum Master

• Leading key operational business initiatives

• Leading multi-disciplinary and global teams on time

• Budget and resource planning with finance

• S/W, PCB & Mechanical development planning, testing and program management

• Mechanical and PCB design and vendor management prototyping and product delivery & testing

• UI/UX development, testing and customer validation

• UL, TUV, NIST, NIAP, ICSA Certifications testing & Compliance

Test Program Manager

Genesis 10 Nov 2020 – Present

Technical Program Manager Test - Tech Infra NPI Operations (At Google)

●Program management

Agile/Scrum Manufacturing NPI team

Coordinate with technical and non-technical groups to influence other organizations

Responsible to define, design and implement a program which will help in build engineering ecosystem for application developers and organization

Collaborate closely with key application developer teams to make the program successful

● Management of development technology landscape

Mfg SW Release OKR

TechOps SW Steering Committee of key initiatives

Mfg Encryption validation process adoption

Data Version Control (DVC) - CM implementation

Contract Manufacturing rollout of OpenTest & Symptom keys & Shop Floor Control ( Quanta, Foxconn, Celestica)

● Procedures Documentation

Data Version Control (DVC)

Objectives and Key Results (OKR) - MFG Rack/Tray/Tools Release

Mfg production release & NPI documentation

Portfolio Program Manager

Thales e-Security May 2017 – April 2020

Responsible for portfolio program management at Thales E-Security which provides core cryptography and key management technology for Big data Teradata security, Tokenization, Transparent encryption, Cloud encryption and Cloud SAAS security

Program management execution & budget responsibility of software security portfolio using Agile Scrum and SAFE ( Scaled Agile Framework) using Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office. Ongoing team management with cross functional members from Product management, Engineering, Marketing and Support.

Release management of multiple product release and customer needs for DSM, VTE, VAE, VTS, VCEG, CCKM, Orchestrator, CTM, VKA

Special assignment for integration of global R & D infrastructure to ensure security compliance.

Program activities include systems remediation, layer definition, VM management and transition planning to meet new security requirements.

Cloud and Virtualization Group Program Manager - OpenStack Cloud Computing

Cisco March 2015 – May 2017

Cloud OpenStack: – Program Manager /Scrum Manager

Cisco Virtualization Infrastructure Manager Is a OpenStack platform built on top of an underlying OpenStack Distribution like Red Hat to build a carrier grade platform integrated with Cisco HW & SW and testing. Cisco VIM provides a set of tools including an automated installer, containerized OpenStack services, logging/monitoring, health check tools and plugins for Cisco HW and SDN controllers

Engineering Scrum Master: Responsibilities

o Technical Team: Cisco (VTS), Vector Packet Processing (VPP), Performance Engineering

o Daily stand up’s, Backlog review, Sprint planning, Demo’s, Retrospectives

o Scrum tool Rally, MS-Power Point, Wiki page

Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) and Cisco VIM

OpenStack integrated, converged infrastructure platform for an SP to deploy, manage virtualized services for UCS servers, Nexus switches, UCSD and support vMS,

mobility,Ultra Services Platform (USP) and Media Cloud in addition to 3rd party VNFs & partners of Redhat, Intel and Zenoss

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM)

EPNM is an element and network management system solution which provides simplified, converged, end-to-end lifecycle management for carrier-grade networks. The program had over 20+ engineering scrums across the globe and teams for MFG, Support, Tech Pubs and customer account team for Verizon & Cox.

Technical Program Manager

Cisco August 2013 - May 2015

Videoscape Engineering

Advocate agile adoption and education of engineering scrum teams. The goal of the organization is development through the use of agile process and deliveries. Product responsibility are cloud base program (vDVR, COS, MOS)

o Scrum of Scrum teams - Meeting with Scrum leaders to address issues.

o Product teams - Work with engineering leaders to ensure team is on plan and tested to quality requirements

o Rally : - Agile tracking tool used by scrum team and product owners

o Manage daily backlog grooming meeting with Product Owner and engineering leads.

I.T EDS Security

Responsible for Agile program management of Java and oracle design engineers in the execution of new policy management, entitlement management and hierarchy management. Department lead for management of resolution of defects and new cases.

o Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager.( CEPM ) - CEPM is a enterprise Scalable, Fine-grained access, Policy/entitlement management.

o The Cisco Entitlement Framework (EF) - Enterprise-class access management platform, which provides services entitlement validation for Cisco workforce, customers, and partners.

o Hiarchy Managment Platform (HMP) - Is a service which maintain enterprise wide hierarchies of Single Source Of Truth (SSOT) or System Of Record (SOR) for all the hierarchy

o Defects and cases review department lead - Responsible to address and manage new & existing / customer defects

Senior program consultant

The Executive Partners Group September 2011 – August 2013

Responsible for reporting to C-Staff and Senior executive on evaluations of the resources within engineering and operations. The primary goal is to help refocus the teams, reduce cost and improve reporting to management. Responsibilities include tracking and execution of existing programs in addition to driving adoption of new business strategy. Responsible for collecting program performance results and status to The Executive Partners senior management.

Industry focus:

S/W networking companies, Electronics based Manufacturing, Disk Peripheral and Semiconductor Equipment

Cisco Systems

Senior Program Manager / Manager GCT PMO / Global Solutions Group

Cisco Systems October 2008 – August 2011

Responsible for the development of an Engineering Program Management Office specifically focus on influencing engineering IPSEC design & implementation of new S/W Digital signature process for all Cisco products teams. Additionally, the team charter is to integrate key or common S/W and H/W solutions as part of engineering development. In addition to driving the program management team of dev test, compliance testing, customer advocacy, manufacturing and GA release. The team’s works with globally delivery of common hardware / software solutions, test and release strategy.

PCBU /STG: Eng Program Manager / Security Technology

Cisco Systems April 2003 – October 2008

Responsible for program management of Security Device Manager GUI used across routing, switching and appliances to simplify configuration of a network using a centralized workstation or laptop. Responsible for localization of 12+ languages and release management, tracking and testing of localized versions of Security Device Manager. Led initial security investigation IPSEC, Firewall, IPS public sector standards and implementation of customer feature requirements that enabled a 7% increase in public sector revenue across routing, switching and appliances.

ICBU / PCBU / MCBU: Eng Program Manager ICS 7750 & SMB 1811 routers engineering

Cisco Systems August 2000 – April 2003

Responsible for program management of Integrated Communication System (ICS) 7750 engineering development. Lead multiple Cisco Technology programs from concept to GA with development, manufacturing, Marketing Communications, Sales Enablement, Field Engagement and field Services Support

Enterprise: Critical Account Program Manager Engineering

Cisco Systems April 1999 – August 2000

Managed Business Unit escalations address critical customer issues. I worked directly with enterprise engineering and functional teams for Enterprise Architecture of AS5200,5300 and AS5800 Access Server platforms. I provided weekly reports to the President of Cisco and the BU leadership SVP and Senior executive managers. I worked directly with internal & cross departmental teams and customer account teams to resolve issues found at customer sites.

San Jose State University

BA curriculum focused on Industrial Technology in Mechanical Design with a minor in Business Management

Training:

• Google Suite

• Smart Sheet

• PMI-ACP

• Agile Scrum Master – Certified

• Waterfall Project Management

• Agile SAFE

• Confluence

• JIRA

• ISO

• TL 9000

• JIT Mfg

• DFM

• Concurrent Engineering / Continuous Integration

• Business Management Systems

• Microsoft Project, Excel, Power point, SharePoint

• Human Element and Pro-E solid modeling.

• Cadkey Mechanical Design

• Autocad H/W & Mechanical

• Mentor Graphic (PCB)

• Engineering Voice Over IP

• Eng Intro to Cisco Routing Configurations

• Eng. Cisco Product Security Fundamentals

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