MIR3, Inc.Director, Software Engineering
Sep. 2007 - Feb. 2014Managed team of developers and testers for mass notification application. The application is built on top of industry standard open source frameworks including but not limited to: J2EE, Struts, Spring, and JSPs. Introduced Scrum/Agile practices to improve development and release processes. My extensive experience in web applications and application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, and Tomcat, allow me to assist in other projects as well. • Managed team of developers and testers for mass notification application
• Introduced Scrum/Agile practices to improve development and release processes
• Acted as Scrum Master for 3 years
• Acted as Product Owner for 4 years
• Managed budgets for hardware, expenses, and headcount
• Responsible for project planning working closely with product management and developers to scope work, plan strategy, and assist in implementation
• Implemented continuous integration and automated testing to improve quality of development output
• Managed off-shore resources for mobile app development
• Delivered projects on time and under budget even in a fast paced atmosphere
• Maintained healthy morale for engineering team even when long hours and hard work were expected
• Leader of production team to deliver mission critical 24x7 SaaS production systems
• Involved in releases and configuration management of the product
• Zero turnover for software developers
• Led project to incorporate GIS and Google Maps for location-specific alerts
• Spearheaded R&D of mobile app development
• Led team on skunkworks project that resulted in cloud-based version of app
• Implemented Twilio integrations for cloud-based app
• Implemented ITIL best practices to integrate process improvement with support organization for troubleshooting and fast turnaround on bug fixes