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PeriOptimum, Pittsburgh, PA
Directory of Technology (2008 to present)
Prioritize, oversee and perform development, delivery, and support of
all products and services. Manage majority of company’s resources.
Drive sales through demonstration of products. Use agile methodologies.
- Close sales deals through live demonstration.
- Ensure accurate feature development through analysis and design
of new product features.
- Immediately replaced resources lost to attrition at an average of
75% of the cost of the former resources.
- Strengthened vendor relationships by becoming knowledgeable in and
assuming company leadership of Indoor Location Systems and Surgical
Information Systems.
- Maximized revenue-generating staff utilization by measuring spent
resource time against revenue sources.
- Increased internal efficiency by introduction of company-wide collaboration
system.
- Increased bandwidth of software development, delivery, and support
team by becoming fully proficient in all aspects of product in less
than 1 month.
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Pittsburgh,
PA and Lebanon, NH (1995 to 2008)
Employment with EFI started at former Prograph Bindery Systems in 1995. In 2003 the company, then called Printcafe Software, was acquired by Electronics for Imaging, Inc
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Director of Software Engineering (2003 to 2008)
Oversaw design and development of business solutions utilizing hardware and software technologies for advanced professional print software (APPS) division. Managed resources for distributed teams, offshore project development, and teams' engineering execution. Performed management consulting with other internal teams. Used agile methodologies.
- Turned around an under-performing software engineering team that resulted in reducing defects by 40%, development cycles by 25%, and costs by 25%. Accomplished through implementation of industry best-practices, improving communications between engineering and product management, and shifting the relationship paradigm among the involved groups.
- Increased quality and reduced redundant effort by 20% though creation of consistent processes across 100+ member multi-team enterprise. Accomplished by analyzing existing processes and practices as well as industry best practices, and influencing changes in favor of enterprise efficiencies over local interests.
- Returned projects to acceptable schedule and on-time delivery by mitigating existing inefficiencies and risks.
- Expanded effective development capacity by 60% at less than 40% of the domestic cost by architecting integration with, and establishing relationship with in-house, offshore software engineering team in India.
Director of Web Development (2003)
Managed 20 person, multi-team web development organization which engineered print buyer and print vendor products. Established offshore development team. Directed projects, scope, risk, and interaction with other groups.
- Increased time to market by 20% through introduction of agile, best-practice processes and methods around software analysis and design.
- Reduced development cost by 25% through scope management, keeping print buyer project within budget and on schedule.
- Identified $50K in free, state-funded education leading to online and classroom education opportunities for employees.
Project Manager / Senior Architect (2000 to 2003)
Delivered results in all phases of SDLC using several J2EE-centered tools including Tomcat and JBoss. Architected new solutions and enhancements to existing solutions.
- Cut analysis costs of new projects by over 50% in many cases by compiling use case library documenting 5 newly acquired ERP software products using UML within Together Control Center.
- Reduced design costs on future efforts by teaching over 100 employees how to write use cases and use Rational Unified Process (RUP) through in-person group training sessions.
- Built multi-platform installer for J2EE server communication application using Zero G's Install Anywhere.
Director of Project Management (1999 to 2000)
Planned and scheduled all software development among 30+ developers, including project managers and programmers resulting from merger of 4 pre-existing companies. Managed resource allocation and development, software module design, and setting of company technical direction. Decided upon sales and marketing actions with group of managers. Continued many past responsibilities from previous roles.
- Achieved 75% improvement in on-time delivery through establishing controls in proprietary project tracking software to minimize schedule slippage.
- Facilitated swift augmentation of present staff by executing the identification and hiring of 20+ employees in many technical areas including software development, web design, technical support, and production operations.
Development Manager (1998 to 1999)
Project Manager (1997 to 1998)
Senior Software Engineer (1997)
Software Engineer (1995 to 1997)
Performed roles including departmental and project management, programming, implementation, and customer support.
Provided on and off site consulting, conception, design, and programming of many modules of Prograph Bindery System's software products. Fully managed the Time Incorporated Newsstand Selective Process, both in maintaining and expanding use of current process and in developing new version of process that met changing industry needs.
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh,
PA
Hotline Consultant (1994 to 1995)
Development Dimensions International, Bridgeville,
PA
Video Productions Assistant (1990 to 1993)
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