Talented Software Development Manager

Summary

Twelve years of proven experience with all key areas of software development and project management. Key skills include leading teams of engineers, architecting and designing complex software, managing project schedules, and defining product roadmaps.

Highly adaptable and balanced skill-set results in high quality of work. Performance is consistently rated in top 5-10% of current company's Development Organization, consisting of more than 29,000 employees.

Strong technical and project management expertise are backed by equal comfort and success in customer-facing roles, such as technical customer support, requirements gathering, formal presentations and demonstrations. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Wide experience in many technical areas; from communications protocols to visual management applications. Innovation and creativity demonstrated through inventorship on 5 patents-pending for Cisco Systems. Specific areas of experience include :

• Software project planning & management
• Leadership and mentoring
• Customer support and interaction
• Object-oriented & procedural programming
• Architecting complex software systems
• Exposure and contribution to full software development cycle
• Network device management & monitoring
• Embedded Operating Systems applications
• XML device communication & management
• Collaboration software
• High-level familiarity with networking communications protocols
• Extensive experience developing in C & Java
• Deployments in UNIX, Windows, Linux

Specialties:

XML, Java, C, Software Project Management, Team Lead, Embedded Systems, Architecture Design, Customer Engagement

Experience

Technical Leader : April 2001 – Present
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

Lead engineer for multiple teams in the Service Provider Routing Software Group, tackling many aspects of the manageability of large networking company's latest, next-generation operating system. Responsible for :

• defining roadmap for future innovations
• interacting with customers for feature specification and problem resolution
• liaising with cross-functional and cross-business unit teams, marketing and program management to ensure successful, on-time delivery
• leading, mentoring and project-managing teams of engineers
• architecting key operating system infrastructure
• focus on software quality, modularity, maintainability and reuse

Played a central role in defining and architecting :

• embedded alarm management and correlation infrastructure
• the programmatic XML interface to the OS applications
• innovative embedded device configuration and monitoring features
• an off-the-box network management tool

Inventorship on 5 "patents pending".

Software Engineer : May 2000 – April 2001
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

Hired by Cisco to work in the US in a software engineering role, developing ATM software for Cisco's next-generation operating system.

Responsible for

• functional and design specifications
• coding and testing
• interacting closely with early beta customers to troubleshoot issues
• representing team on customer conference calls

Software Developer : October 1995 – May 2000

Data Connection Ltd.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

Software development in a broad range of areas for a London, England-based software company, including :

• Networking Protocol stacks (SNA, APPN, LANE, MPOA)
• Collaboration tools (Whiteboarding, chat, application-sharing)

Experience in a wide range of roles from :

• Customer Service and Support
• Pure Research & Development (Genetic algorithms, handwriting recognition)
• Software Development (Functional & Design Specifications, Coding, Testing)

Worked for extended periods in several locations including :

• London, England
• Herndon, VA, US
• Seattle, WA, US

Worked closely with development teams in many Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco Systems, NCR, Fujitsu.

Education

University of Oxford

MEng, Engineering and Computing Science, 1991 – 1995

Graduated with 1st Class Honors

Dissertations in :

• "3D Sculptured Surface Graphics"
• "Real-time Three-Dimensional Tracking using a Single Camera"

Intern with IBM for two years, including 10 week placement in Research Triangle Park in the US.

Interests:

Helicopter pilot, skiing, digital movie editing

Honors and Awards:

Five patents pending in the field of Network Device Management