Engineer Software
Resume:
Grant Dorman
Portland, OR 97223
EMAIL: ************@*****.***
URL: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-dorman/19/2b0/571
SEEKING SENIOR MANAGEMENT POSITION
Project Management - Software Engineering - SDLC - Product Development
A driven leader and skilled communicator able to strategically shape the
definition and development of highly visible and successful products.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Project Management
Software Lifecycle Methodologies
Vendor Procurement and Management
Product Development
Customer Relations Management
Quality Assurance
Software Engineering
Risk Assessments
User Acceptance Testing
Requirements Analysis
Resource Allocation
NPI, SDLC and IPPD
Software Architecture
Documentation
ISO 9000 / 9002
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- As a Director, recruited, trained and supervised 30-person engineering team, which included first and second level management, responsible for the development and delivery of device drivers, microcode, micro kernel and manufacturing diagnostics using IPD practices.
- Managed multiple 6 million dollar product development projects within budget, while exceeding product specifications and specified FCS; and, responsible for personal budgets up to 5 million dollars.
- Contributed 60 percent of the company’s revenue by directing and championing high margin products by designing innovative and scalable engineering solutions.
- Managed vendors effectively, working jointly and persuasively to obtain price and feature set requirements for product requirements.
- Created a multi-warehouse corporate IT solution for a 12 million dollar company, supporting 100 plus employees and 1500 clients. Designed virtual warehouse model with point of sale, document imaging and integrated VoIP with custom CRM workflows and a layered e-commerce web portal.
- As a Senior Manager, successfully directed Software, Hardware, Manufacturing engineering, Tech Pubs, QA and Compliance Testing groups in the development of digital media products which range from next-generation to incremental products that follow IPPD, IPD or SDLC.
- Increased efficiencies and produced significant cost savings in manufacturing and development while obtaining a combined 3x increase in revenue expectations by conceptualizing and promoting engineering, business and marketing strategies for a one product fits all digital media product.
- As a Software Manager and Principal Engineer, responsible for development and delivery of kernel drivers, and device dependent libraries for desktop digital media products for IRIX, Linux and NT operating systems.
- Extensive experience in Customer Support and Escalation Management with a track record in major accounts and VAR/EOM relationships.
- As principal software engineer and design lead, successfully brought all assigned software development programs to production ahead of schedule.
- Played a key role in the design of SGI’s video library design, (openVL), I2C Hardware Abstraction Layer and video control panel and realtime texture mapping toolkit/API library for desktop digital video products.
- Contributed to the design and development of graphics device drivers for multi-head graphics support and X-server video extensions.
- Extensive software engineering experience, including: software simulation design, using GL and OpenGL and full design and implementation of a network packet switched windowing system which predates the generally accepted X and NeWS windowing system of that period.
- Years of Unix, IRIX, Windows and VMS systems programming and system administration as a corporate lab administrator and as an IT consultant.
- Built custom software releases as either a means of supporting new hardware or newer software features on current hardware platforms.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
IT Consultant 2004 - Present
Current client: Kohlweiss Auto Parts Inc., Redwood City, California
Director and Senior Manager, Interfaces Group 2000 - 2003
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Digital Media Manager 1996 - 2000
Senior Software Engineer/Core Designer 1993 - 1996
Software Engineer/Core Design 1991 - 1993
Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, California
VAR/OEM Subsystems and Major Account Support 1988 - 1991
Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, California
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Technology platforms include: Unix, DOS, Linux, IRIX, FreeBSD, and all versions of Windows. Proficient in Unix, Linux and Windows server administration. Software development in Unix/IRIX,FreeBSD kernel internals and device driver design. IBM UniData programming and Microsoft Office applications proficiency.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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