Software Development Senior Manager
Resume:
Chuck Homola
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Experienced Software Developer / Leader with over 3 decades of industry experience, a deep understanding of the software development process and how to streamline the workflow. Skilled at improving team efficiencies by employing 8 years experience with Lean-Agile Methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Knowledgeable on guiding teams through a transition from an on-premise server-based software system to a cloud-based, recurring revenue service model.
Local entrepreneur in the craft beer industry. Co-owner of a brewpub and responsible for the planning, design, construction and marketing of the concept.
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CO-OWNER, PRESIDENT
Steam Theory Brewing Company, LP / Oct. 2017 – Present
Responsible for the business development, planning, design, construction and management of the staff. Focused on the marketing of the concept, management of the investors, working with the bank and evolution of the food, beverage and venue to tune it to the demographics of the area. Work closely with the management team in Trinity Groves near downtown Dallas. Built relationships with non-profits, local businesses, other craft beer and distilling businesses.
AGILE TRANSITION COACH, SCRUM MASTER
Cisco Systems / Jun. 2014 – Sep. 2017
Served as a key member of the management leadership team, Led the agile transformation for our engineering team during which our development process was transitioned from Waterfall model to Scrum. Duties also included scrum master activities. Deep experience in Scaled Agile Framework implementation and adaptation. Focus on metrics, alignment to specified goals, building processes to align business goals with the available team talent and continuous feedback for continual improvement.
SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Cisco Systems / Jun. 2014 – Sep. 2017
Served as a key member of the management leadership team, involved with project prioritization, resource allocation, and obstacle elimination. Senior Manager of several software development teams for the Cisco Spark call processing product.
SENIOR MANAGER - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, ARCHITECT
Cisco Systems / Jan. 2012 – Jun. 2014
Managed the local engineering team for the HCS project. Responsibilities included coordination with the other remote teams, all hiring and management duties for the local engineering team, served as architect for the service assurance portion of the program and worked closely with the Product Marketing team and key customers.
SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Cisco Systems / Apr. 2009 – Jan. 2012
Managed a team of software engineers responsible for the OAM (Operations, Administration, Maintenance) portion of a SIP based call control product that Cisco acquired. This role also included integrating in the engineers from the acquisition.
ARCHITECT, PRODUCT OWNER
Cisco Systems / Oct. 2000 – Apr. 2009
Responsible for the architecture, product enhancement and customer support of the BTS10200 VoIP Softswitch. Worked directly with the engineering team, marketing group and customer support and sales teams for all aspects of the OAMP (Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning) portion of the product. Presented papers at the IEEE Conference in 2004 and Cisco Partner EcoSystem Annual Conference in 2005.
BS Computer Science / Geology
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX
+ CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
+ TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Product Experience
Cisco Spark
Cisco Phones
Cisco VoIP Softswitch
DSC / Alcatel Switches
Admin Level Experience
Rally
JIRA
PagerDuty
Confluence (wiki)
DevOps Tool Exposure
Git
Gerrit
Jenkins
Docker
VMWare
NewRelic
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Chuck Homola
+ EXPERIENCE (Continued)
SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
IPCell / Sept. 1999 – Oct. 2000
Built an engineering team responsible for the OAMP portion of the VoIP softswitch. Duties included architecture, design reviews, hiring and managing software engineers, working with the senior management staff and the initial target customers. Also responsible for building up a consortium of 3rd party partners to integrate with the softswitch from an operations perspective.
DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
DSC Communications / Mar. 1996 – Jun. 1999
Duties included overseeing all hiring and engineering management for the team responsible for all development of the Class 4 Tandem Switches used by MCI Communications. Responsibilities also included all P&L for the department of 100+ engineers, customer relations, product support and development, coordination with overseas development teams and management/training of the first level managers.
MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
DSC Communications / Jan, 1994 – Mar. 1996
Responsible for all team activities related to the development of the switching matrix component of the DEX600E Megahub product. This was a team of 10 experienced engineers. Highly involved in the architecture, software development and management of the personnel.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
DSC Communications / Jun. 1984 – Dec. 1993
A decade of software development including work on MMI (Man Machine Interface), AMA Billing, switching matrix configuration and fault isolation, network management and call processing protocols development. Duties included design, implementation, testing and support of the software. Project planning and scheduling duties were added in over time. Implementation and training of the staff on a new development process adopted by the company resulted in a 50% reduction in defects prior to going to the field/customers.
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