Experience

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  Tala

  • Santa Monica, CA (remote employee)

  • Senior Project Manager

    • 2021 - Aug 2023
    • Santa Monica, CA (remote employee)

    - Project Manager for multiple teams- Manage teams using Agile Scrum process - Run daily standups- Run retrospectives- Recommend and drive process improvements- Work with remote, distributed teams both onshore and offshore- Lead project kickoff meetings and run recurring cross functional stakeholder meetings- Assist in identifying and managing risk, issues and dependencies- Use analytics to track individual and team performance- Track project personnel allocation using Smartsheets- Assist with Roadmap Planning based on individual/team capacity and project priorities- Technologies, tools and skills: Jira, Google Suite, Slack, Good Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills and a good Team Player.

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  Universal Tennis

  • Palo Alto, CA (remote employee)

  • Project Manager

    • 2019 - 2021
    • Palo Alto, CA (remote employee)

    • Responsible for software release coordination with Dev, QA and Dev Ops.• Help manage software releases including task prioritization, QA and stakeholder review• Help manage teams using Agile Scrum or Kanban Process (project dependent)• Attend stand-ups for multiple teams. Listen for blockers and help the teams resolve them• Work with cross functional teams to launch new features• Experienced working with remote, distributed teams both onshore and offshore• Help define and implement processes to improve efficiency• Jira project administrator; responsible for setting up and configuring projects• Demo new product features to support and marketing• Technologies, tools and skills: Jira, Google Suite, Slack, Zoom, TestRail, Productboard, Trello, Good Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills and a Team Player.

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  Design Interactive, Inc.

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Technical Product Manager

    • 2015 - 2019

    Program Manager for ScreenADAPT® x-ray training products.• Gather user needs from the field, address pain points, write user stories, prioritize features and bug fixes based on severity, managed cost and schedule in an Agile development environment• Provide expertise externally to customers and internally to management, engineering, UI/UX and QA• Deploy software products to many locations across the US• Helped create user manuals, training slides and quick-start guides• Trained operations and maintenance staff and provide post-delivery technical support• Establish and maintain relationships with partners and customers (Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, Customs & Border Protection, Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers)• Advocated for customers to internal stakeholders• Develop and implement product-related processes

  • Software Systems Engineer II

    • 2013 - 2015

    Desktop and Gaming Development Team focused on building WPF applications using the MVVM design pattern. Involved in systems integration, debugging and testing on the V-Xtract Extrication and Casualty Treatment Trainer. Developed, debugged, tested, integrated and maintained Visual Studio WPF/C# desktop applications developed within a Scrum environment. Source control and release versioning was handled via TortoiseSVN. Traveled to customer sites to assist in software integration.

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  SDS International, Inc.

  • Orlando, Florida Area

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • 2000 - 2013
    • Orlando, Florida Area

    Lead integration engineer for the Munitions Skills Virtual Trainer program. Responsible for building a C# application bridging the C# front-end and the native C++ back-end, consisting of an AI Server and multiple Image Generators rendering the 3D environment. The application controlled many elements within the game-engine via the API. The application sent commands to trigger AI behaviors for 3D models (people and vehicles), set weather effects and set-up static model placement. Traveled to customer sites to assist with software installation and training.Program manager, Technical Point of Contact and Software Engineer on:- Development of Soldier Simulation Tools and Capabilities for the NSRDEC Soldier Domain Technologies Contracto Developed a First-Person Shooter application to navigate through the various visual terrain databases. The FPS application had a Heads-Up Display to show weapon reticle, weapon selection, situational awareness, sensor mode and health status.- SOF Air Ground Interface Simulator (SAGIS) systemo Developed an application to translate native API calls to the Common Image Generator Interface.- USA / USMC Improved Moving Target Simulator (IMTS) Stinger Upgrade systemo Developed an application to configure the edge blending and geometry on 16 image generators projecting on a 360-degree 30’-diameter dome for fully immersing a trainee in a 3D environment. The application acted as the Gateway between the host computer and the image generators for setting up the different terrain databases and scenarios.Developed an application to control and configure multiple image generators. The application controlled the weather effects (rain, snow, fog, cloud layers, sea states, time of day), static 3D model placement across the visual database, point light and global lighting effects, particle-based effects like dust-trails, fires and explosions and sensor effects like NVG and IR.