Lead Engineer, Platform Software

• Feb 2021 - Present

Plan Software and Firmware deliveries for productization of photonics computer. Create code and manage development of code to support digital, analog and photonic subsystems.Coordinate cross-organizational teams in setting and meeting milestones. Plan Software and Firmware deliveries for productization of photonics computer. Create code and manage development of code to support digital, analog and photonic subsystems.Coordinate cross-organizational teams in setting and meeting milestones.

Software Development Consultant

• Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

Develop device driver to incorporate new libraries and new cameras for robotics vision subsystem and provide architectural guidance on development of next-generation robotics sensors subsystem Develop device driver to incorporate new libraries and new cameras for robotics vision subsystem and provide architectural guidance on development of next-generation robotics sensors subsystem

Senior Principal Product Manager

• Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

Manage roadmap and content - new features and technical debt reduction - for PowerProtect Cyber Recovery product over seven releases. Interface with Core teams- Professional Services, Consulting Services, Sales, Marketing, IT. Brief customers at Executive Briefing Center. Develop business case for product expansion.• Significantly reduced RPQ SLA to one week and expedited numerous stakeholder requests for RFEs into the product development backlog.• Planned, implemented, and delivered in a single quarter the Sheltered Harbor feature as a turnkey solution for protecting financial organizations against cyber attack.• Created five customer metrics used for historical and future purposes by Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.

Senior Principal SW Engineer

• Nov 2012 - Oct 2018

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁- 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿As a member of Data Protection Division CTO, helped define initiatives for the direction of the Division - Scrum, REST APIs, increase integration with VMware. • Delivered over 30 reviews per month and collaborated in final decisions for approval of applications to USPTO as a member of the Patent Review Committee. • Created and presented training material for Product Management staff overseeing 120 Scrum teams in the Division to advocate best practices for Agile and Scrum. • Centralized and maintained a set of six relevant Agile personas to be used by the Division by taking ownership for assembling and updating siloed materials.𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁- 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲Transitioned development group to Cloud Native Software environment. Developed governance model and produced documentation for open source project. Created consistent virtualized developer environment with VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry using AWS, Azure, GCP.• Selected and implemented CI/CD pipeline tool for workgroup within one two-week sprint by evaluating attributes and balancing against developer needs. • Designed a standard automated metrics report on the four most meaningful measurements of team development efforts (lines of code, defect rate, points committed and delivered), visible to all stakeholders.𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁Architectural lead for VPLEX storage C++ device driver. Provided consulting on product security and electronic license management. Represented VPLEX product line in Office of CTO (OCTO) Advanced Development projects.• Performed UML modeling and Test Driven Development to design and validate two state machines for send and receive, replacing original device driver architecture with a stable and predictable one.

Senior Principal SW Engineer

• Sep 2003 - Nov 2012

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿Managed development team and led development for PowerPath VMware. Transitioned development from a special project into mainstream Engineering; trained sustaining team.• Standardized six operating system implementations on a common streamlined code version for Unix, Linux, Windows, VMware by organizing initiative to refactor entire code base.• Completed a major product version on schedule for simultaneous release with vSphere 5.0 GA while successfully redesigning electronic licensing for improved capability and customer satisfaction given the challenges of changing APIs and time constraints.• Resolved an elusive Sev-1 field issue that surfaced with a minor VMware ESXi update by performing code inspection which led to simulating the conditions for repeatability and completing a patch.𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱Led development for PowerPath VMware. Delivered first version of a highly visible project to coincide with vSphere 4.0 GA Day Zero. Developed Beta testing program and supported Beta customers.• Created a C device driver product that generated over $2 billion revenue in sales and support by collaborating closely with VMware Engineering, Product Management and Legal, tracking and resolving technical defects, and facilitating design changes.• Validated the correctness of PowerPath software, saving a $10 million customer deal by collaborating with experts on the storage array side to repeat issues within their firmware which occurred under high stress conditions. 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿Led development for AIX MPIO. Developed and sustained PowerPath AIX C multipathing device driver. Added new features to PowerPath AIX. Mentored junior developers and contractors.• Received award for working with counterparts on storage array side to root cause and resolve an issue with a three year history of instability and system hangs reported by customers.

Software Engineer

• Sep 2002 - Sep 2003

StorageWorks SecurePath multipathing C device driver. StorageWorks SecurePath multipathing C device driver.

Consultant

• Feb 1998 - Sep 2002