Project Manager It
Resume:
Ronald Lindsay
P.O. Box ***, Masonville, CO 80541 *** Cell 760-***-**** *** ***@*********.*** Summary:
• Highly innovative and experienced software professional with over 35 years of experience in developing and managing the development of high-quality software applications.
• Familiar with all aspects of software development from budgeting and scheduling to requirements gathering and analysis, design, coding, documentation, testing, continuous integration and deployment.
• Substantial experience in both Agile and waterfall development environments.
• Strong technical background, enabling the development of both tactical and strategic vision for the teams.
• Able to utilize strong communication and presentation skills to effectively convey ideas, designs, and results.
• Very tenacious in finding solutions to difficult problems.
• Experience with personnel management of teams.
• Participation in Business Development activities to include contributions to proposal writing.
• Coordinates with peers and other in-house teams to create value for the company. Education:
• National University, San Diego, CA
M. S. in Software Engineering. Graduated: January, 1989
• University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
B.S. in Computer Science. Graduated: August, 1987
Additional Training / Certifications:
• PMP Certification: Project Management Institute, 2006. Lapsed.
• Certified Scrum Master: Mountain Goat Software, 2012.
• Internal training: C++, C#, Agile, SAFe, TDD, CMMI, JAVA, Cyber Security, MS SDLC, CMMI, Negotiation Training, Situational Leadership, Google Cloud
• Current hold Public Trust clearance
Technical Skills & Tools:
Languages: C, C++, C#, Python, VBScript, Java
Databases: MySQL, SQL, Oracle
Tools/IDEs: TFS, SVN, Esri, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Rational, Kanban, Synergy, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence
SDLC: Agile, Scaled Agile, Waterfall
Cloud Environments: Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud EXPERIENCE:
• Guidehouse (https://www.guidehouse.com) 01/2021 – Present
• Guidehouse acquired Ace Info Solutions at the end of 2020.
• Acted primarily as a project manager on software delivery teams for various Federal contracts.
• Participated on proposal writing teams for new business and recompete opportunities.
• Project Manager
• Certified Facility Management System (CFMS) 03/2023 – 11/2024
• Contractor Project Manager for a development effort to modernize the TSA Air Cargo application.
• Responsible for the development team that grew up to 12 (architect, developers, analyst, QA), including personnel management of 5 of the team.
• Regularly met with current users and SMEs to help define requirements and refine stories.
• Responsible for the completion and quality of the developed stories in each sprint.
• Worked with other teams at TSA to define interfaces that CFMS will implement.
• Worked with TSA ISSO to ensure security of this application, which is meant for internal TSA personnel as well as external industry users.
• Utilized agile software principles with 2-week sprints.
• Scheduling Management and Resource Tracking (SMART) 10/2023 – 04/2024
• Contractor Project Manager for the TSA SMART application enhancement.
• Managed the efforts of a team of 10 developers, analyst, and QA to extend the existing application to implement new ideas for the TSA System Owner to ease the workload and issues in the current TSA scheduling application. Page 2 of 4
• Worked directly with the TSA system owners to schedule development resources for each story.
• Responsible for the implementation and testing of each developed story.
• Utilized agile software principles through the life of the project.
• Final software was handed off to the existing SMART team for integration and deployment.
• DLA Enterprise Contract Writing Module (ECWM) 02/2022 – 06/2023
• Contractor Project Manager for the Contracting Writing application implemented at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
• People manager for the Guidehouse team of 2, and project manager and Scrum Master for the development team of 11.
• Customization of a low-code (Appian) contract application developed by AceInfo for the USAF to implement the particular requirements of the DLA. This system is now being used at the DLA for non-classified contracts.
• Responsible to the story development and scheduling and ensuring the quality of the completion.
• Utilized agile software principles with 2-week sprints from initiation to the first release candidate.
• Freight Assessment System (FAS) 02/2021 – 04/2023
• Contractor Project Manager for this critical TSA Air Cargo application that is used by hundreds of TSA inspectors of air cargo.
• Managed the Guidehouse development staff of 6, including developers, analyst, and QA.
• Worked directly with Government Project Manager and System Owners to define, schedule, and deploy functionality.
• Primary contact between TSA government personnel and Guidehouse team in development and deployment of FAS.
• Utilized agile software development principles with 2-week development sprints culminating with multiple deployment annually.
• Ace Info Solutions (https://www.aceinfosolutions.com) 05/2019 – 12/2020
• Project Manager
• Project manager to implement a contracted software development effort for a government agency on behalf of the USAF. SDLC utilized is a modified agile process. Software languages used in development include Appian BPM and Java.
• Managed the development team ranging in size from 22 – 28 employees, including scrum masters, business analysts, QA engineers and software developers, organized into 3 teams.
• Responsible for the recruiting, training, and improvement of the team. Implemented multiple process changes including:
• Spearheaded process changes for multiple builds in the sprint cycle.
• Pushed to have the system QA process moved into the sprint, rather than at the end.
• Implemented stricter peer development review guidelines.
• Made mandatory to have UI driven test cases for each development story.
• Responsible for the personnel management of the team, including performance reviews, timesheet management, recruiting, and onboarding of new developers.
• Provide weekly status updates to customers on status of current development progress. Participate in multiple weekly meetings with customers and USDA.
Technologies Used: Appian, Java, Jira, Confluence, Agile, MS Office applications
• ASRC Federal Vistronix (http://asrcfederal.com) 01/2018 – 05/2019
• Project Manager
• Project manager to implement a contracted software development effort for the USDA. SDLC utilized is a modified agile process. Software languages used in development include Pega BPM and Java.
• Contracts range in size from $3M - $12M.
• Provide government approved artifacts documenting development and testing activities through the life cycle and at prescribed stage gates.
• Negotiate with corresponding government project manager for artifact approval.
• Provide coordination and guidance to the development and test teams on requirements and through story grooming. Technologies Used: Rational, MS Project, MS Office applications
• Schneider Electric, Telvent (www.schneider-electric.com) 05/2014-02/2017
• Software Development Manager, Professional Services (May, 2014 - February, 2017)
• Led a team of software developers that has ranged in size from 11 to 17. Most developers are remote from the main office, but all are within the United States.
• Responsible for directing the team in project development activities to implement custom solutions for clients as part of an integrated project team. Most customizations are on top of the ArcFM suite of products.
• Manage developer resources and assignments to as many as 16 active projects at a given time, with an objective to have high utilization and revenue generation.
• Improved utilization on the team from a low of 46% in 2015 to an average of 78% in 2016. Page 3 of 4
• Work closely with other managers in the Professional Services team to maintain on-time completion of projects and constantly improve the quality of the project offerings.
Technologies Used: C# .NET, HTML5, SQL, Jira, svn, Visual Studio, Agile & waterfall
• Invensys, SimSci-Esscor (www.simsci.com) 06/2002-04/2014
• Software Development Manager, SimCentral (June, 2011 - April, 2014)
• Founding member of a team that created the next generation, multi-mode, process simulation product from scratch, utilizing Lean and Agile methods and processes, to provide an unprecedented intuitive, easy to use, and powerful product.
• Managed a scrum team of 6-10 developers, coordinating with 3 other scrum teams of roughly equal size. Two of the teams were offshore, which necessitated a weekly scrum of scums meeting. Responsible for the recruiting, on-boarding and training of the onshore team. Scaled Agile Framework was needed to handle the size of the team.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner, architects, and other scrum masters to define stories and priorities for scrum teams.
• Responsible for the quality of the software developed by the scrum team that I led. Performed RCA’s and retrospectives to identify and execute areas for improvement.
• Brought the team through one external release and to the schedule for the second release.
• Software Development Manager, Dynsim Simulation Suite (February, 2008 - June, 2011)
• Managed a global development team, delivering scheduled releases of new functionality for two of the flagship products of SimSci-Esscor, supporting a $30M OTS business.
• Team size ranged between 24 and 30 over this period, including an offshore development site. New feature releases are made approximately every 6 months, with hot-fixes provided as necessary.
• Responsible for the contracting of our offshore team, and then the management of deliverables from them.
• Products were developed primarily in C++ and FORTRAN, utilizing JAVA for the client and CORBA for communications.
• Product quality was a chief objective. Defects, both internally found and customer reported, were reduced 20% annually.
• Manager, Project Office (October, 2004 - February, 2008)
• Support development directors by providing tools and data to allow them to assess project cost and performance.
• Supply and support tools and techniques to development managers to allow them to track the financial and development performance of their teams. Assist in project planning and project reviews to ensure better development performance. Offer program-wide overview of all projects to help identify solutions to development issues including scheduling, budgeting and resourcing.
• Aid individual developers by providing lessons learned, best practices, and tips from other development groups to help in development projects. Provide reports indicating group-wide project success rates.
• In collaboration with other business unit PM teams, enhanced and extended project tracking tools to track development performance in terms of budget, schedule, scope and quality. These tools were rolled out to the entire development team.
• Train development staff at each of five development sites on latest changes and updates in project management tools and processes.
• Software Development Manager, Tsunami (June, 2002 - October, 2004)
• Manage a team of 4 reports distributed in 3 locations to complete projects on time and under budget.
• Implement new software features and functionality driven by customer contractual requirements.
• Responsible for the team budget and financials to make sure that this team makes a profit for the company.
• Responsible for coordinating schedules and resources of the team to ensure on-time completion of projects.
• Drives the quality of the delivered product; responsible for implementing process improvements that enhance productivity and quality of the delivered product.
Technologies Used: C++, C#, TFS, Synergy, MySQL, SharePoint, Visual Studio, Agile & waterfall, Kanban
• Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. (www.genesys.com) 06/2000-08/2001 Responsible for managing day-to-day issues and tasking of the development team. Contributed to completion of 3 releases of enterprise software in one year. Servers were written in Visual C++ and Java running on NT and Win2K Advanced Server, while the agent facing GUI is a Win32 VB application, built on exposed COM components to allow customization. Dealt with issues of scalability and high availability in the servers and internationalization and localization of the agent GUI.
• Software Development Manager (June, 2000-August, 2001)
• Manage a team of 9 direct reports in a team to develop enterprise software to manage customer web interactions with clients.
• Team successfully completed 3 releases under my direction.
• Coordinate daily with development managers of other teams working on the same product.
• Collaborate with QA, Product Management, Documentation, and Technical Support teams to facilitate daily operations as well as participate in strategic planning sessions.
• Develop release schedules and assign development tasks to developers in my group.
• Responsible for implementation of internationalization and localization of servers and GUI. Page 4 of 4
• Communicate with remote sites and arrange additional QA of our product. Technologies Used: C++, VB, Java, svn, SQL, Visual Studio, waterfall
• Molecular Simulations, Inc. (www.accelrys.com) 05/1991-06/2000 Managed a team that implemented a new VB COM-based GUI that runs on NT/Win2K/Win98 and interfaces with servers running on NT, UNIX or Linux. Servers are all written in C, C++, and FORTRAN. Heavily involved with the strategic design issues and the coordination between development groups.
• Software Development Manager, Materials Studio (June, 1997-June, 2000)
• Manage a team of 4 direct reports in a group that provides applications development support to all of the San Diego Materials Sciences team. Heavily involved with the planning and design of a new NT architecture to be used as the next major platform.
• Responsible for developing and overseeing a plan to complete the migration of former Biosym Materials Sciences products into the main MSI graphical user interface.
• Implemented the first two commercial products migrated from Biosym’s interface into the new platform.
• Software Development Manager, Catalysis Project (September, 1992-June, 1997)
• Release coordinator for three major releases of Biosym software. Provided and maintained the schedules and project lists for over 20 developers and auxiliary support personnel.
• Led a team of 6 software engineers in a project to investigate and implement techniques to make the Biosym graphical interface easier to use. Spoke with customers, sales and support organizations to define requirements.
• Responsible for software quality and functionality of software produced by a team of 7 software engineers and 8 scientists.
• Create and maintain schedules, monitor and report on progress, generate budgets for group.
• In December, 1993, had responsibilities increased to manage a second team consisting of an additional 6 members.
• Software Developer, Polymer Project (May, 1991-September, 1992)
• Lead software engineer in implementation of a capability to provide simulation of diffraction patterns for chemical compounds. Coordinate the efforts of a team of 4 scientists and 4 programmers.
• Contributed to the development of design documents for the diffraction capability and have developed design specifications for future enhancements.
• Sole developer responsible for the design and implementation of a UI for a new functionality, which became the foundation for a molecular spreadsheet and is now widely used throughout the company.
• Generate and present reports outlining tasks and progress of groups to all levels of management at Biosym. Technologies Used: C, C++, VB, F77, SCCS, csh, vi, Visual Studio, waterfall, Unix
• General Dynamics, Electronics Division 10/1987-05/1991
• Systems Engineer, Internal R&D (October, 1987-May, 1991)
• Principle investigator of R&D project of a large simulation of submarine/ASW warfare models. Led a team of 5 engineers in the design and implementation of various naval tactics in a time-stepped simulation. Simulation has the ability to run in a high speed, Monte Carlo mode for parametric analysis, or in a single pass mode with powerful, on-line 3-D graphics.
• Lead software engineer on a project to develop software for high-speed data link built by GDE. Provided control software for the tracking antenna as well as the code for processing the data.
• Implemented an image enhancement algorithm using neural networks on parallel processors. Used a 43 node Intel Hypercube to implement the routine for enhancements.
• Lead programmer in conversion project of a 12,000-line sequential program to parallel computers. FORTRAN program was converted to run on both the Intel Hypercube and the BBN Butterfly.
• Instructor for the General Dynamics Training and Development facility for the C programming language. Developed the course outline and assisted in the preparation of course syllabus and materials.
• Held a DoD TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
Technologies Used: C, F77, SCCS, csh, vi, waterfall, Unix
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