Passionate, proactive, persistent, engineering organizational leader with +15 ye

ars experience as a cross-functional/remote site bridge builder inspiring collab

orate synergy focused towards reducing both embedded and SaaS product developmen
t cycle time while increasing total product quality to the customer. A broad en
gineering background coupled with a situation leadership style facilitates build
ing top-performing software, hardware, ASIC, RF, mechanical and test engineering
teams focused towards maximizing ROI vs. product development costs.
Core Competencies
* Client-focused team player who develops and inspires creative, productive loca
l and remote groups
* Lateral thinker who adapts and thrives in dynamic, challenging environments
* Risk Assessment and Mitigation
* Rapid assimilation of new technologies and concepts
* Strategic planning & development of new technologies and tools
* Budget planning, development & control
* Process design, implementation & integration
* Organizational e-Learning Training
* Analyzing and solving complex problems
* Technical depth in all aspects of embedded and SaaS product development

Professional Experience
NavCom Tech., Inc., a John Deere (Fortune 500) Company, Torrance, CA
2005 - 2010
Leads the industry in providing Global Positioning System (GPS) products to both
the agricultural and land survey market segments.
Program Manager - Process Improvement Aug 2006 - Feb 2010
* Invented the strategy, developed/lead the cross-functional infrastructure, pro
cured the tools (i.e. Team Foundation Server/DOORS) to successfully implement Ca
pability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) level 4/Agile framework for the engine
ering organization requiring the cultural buy-in of 75 software and hardware eng
ineers and PM's.
* Created and institutionalized a hybrid methodology to reduce software defects
based on key aspects of CMMI, Scrum, Six Sigma, and data mining using the Team F
oundation Server CM tool, resulting in the reduction of customer reported softwa
re defects from 17% to 1.6% in the 1st year of implementation (20,000 units fiel
ded).
* Spearheaded the collaborative development and deployment of CMMI level 4 commo
n processes across 5 globally dispersed John Deere enterprise sites (including P
une India) requiring the cultural buy-in of approximately 400 engineering and pr
ogram management personnel.
* Drove the development of a web-based SaaS training program and Learning Manage
ment System (Adobe e-Learning solution) to support enterprise wide training (~50
0 practitioners) of new processes and tools saving ~$270K in projected 1st year
training costs.
Manager, Software Engineering June 2005 - Aug 20
06
* Provided technical leadership to a team of 16 embedded SW Engineers developing
innovative navigation/signal processing algorithms (using C++ and MPC5200 assem
bly) for the company's next generation GPS Receiver engine resulting in first ye
ar sales of 10 million dollars.
* Drove the creation of a System Test Group (Test Manager + 6 engineers) to form
alize, automate, and add more rigor to regression and baseline testing resulting
in a 45% reduction in software/hardware defects found during product post-relea
se testing.
* Championed and institutionalized the DOORS requirements development/management
tool resulting in a 60% reduction in post development requirements churn, 98% m
apping of functional requirements to test cases, and a 70% accuracy increase in
estimating requirements change impact based on 6 projects over a 2 year period.
Mykotronx, Inc. (SafeNet), Torrance, CA
2001 - 2005
Leads the industry in providing IT data security products for both commercial en
terprises and government agencies (NSA).
Program Manager - Process Improvement Aug 2003 - J
une 2005
* Spearheaded the process improvement efforts of a 150 person company to be succ
essfully compliant with Capability Maturity Model (CMM) level 3 requirements, as
required by the major customer for continued business, in half the time as the
national average (2 yrs).
* Developed and implemented the strategic plan for CMM key process area implemen
tation, budget control, resource allocation, required infrastructure, process de
velopment, deployment, metrics collection, analysis and both incremental and fin
al appraisals.
* Personally authored and institutionalized +20 processes including the metrics
needed to map process improvement progress towards meeting associated business g
oals.
Manager, Software Engineering April 2001 - Aug 2
003
* Managed and mentored a heavily matrixed Embedded Software Engineering departme
nt (30 SW Engineers) supporting 8 concurrent IT communication security product p
rojects written in C++/C#.
* Championed the use of rapid prototyping for testing proof-of-concept of new cr
yptographic algorithms resulting in a 1st year 30% schedule reduction in time-to
-market for 3 product lines.
* Drove the use of Scrum in the development of .NET Java applications to perform
automatic product acceptance testing resulting in a 22% savings over previously
projected test schedules.
Allen Osborne & Associates, Inc., Westlake Village, CA 1992
- 2001
Pioneered the development of high accuracy GPS receiver products for both commer
cial and military applications.
Director GPS Military Product Development Aug 1996 - April 2001
* Provided technical leadership to a cross-functional team of 6 software, 2 ASIC
, 2 hardware, and 2 radio frequency (RF) engineers supporting 7 different produc
t lines of government GPS receivers.
* Nurtured strategic client alliances that grew the military product portfolio f
rom 1 to 6 products, over a 4 year period, eventually accounting for 70% of the
company's overall business.
* Directed the development effort of a 3 million dollar Air Force contract to up
grade their globally dispersed GPS Monitor Stations resulting in a 10X improveme
nt in worldwide position accuracy as seen by the GPS user.
* Directed the development effort of a 1 million dollar next generation United S
tates Naval Observatory (USNO) 12-channel precise GPS Timing Receiver including
on-site integration.
Manager, Software Engineering Sept 1992 - Aug 1996
* Managed a 5 member software development team in the development of survey, tim
ing, and high precision government GPS receivers written in C and AMD 29000 asse
mbly language.
* Personally developed the necessary decryption algorithms, necessary for accura
te position determination, leading to 20 million dollars in total GPS Receiver s
ales over a 5 year period.
* Lead the approval efforts with the USAF Joint Program Office (JPO) in being on
e of the first GPS manufactures to produce security semiconductor (SAASM) based
GPS Receivers.
Interstate Electronics Inc., (L3), Anaheim, CA Jan
1986 - Sept 1992
Provider of high accuracy GPS receiver products for the Navy Trident Submarine a
nd Joint Program Office range applications
Senior Software Engineer
* Developed embedded software (written in C and NS32000 assembly) to support dec
ryption of satellite signals (SA and Y-code), for the D5 Trident Submarine and R
ange Applications JPO GPS classified receivers, allowing the most precise positi
on determination by military users.
* Lead a team of 4 engineers in successfully field testing the companies 1st cla
ssified GPS Receiver at Yuma ARMY Proving Grounds and USAF Cape Canaveral Florid
a.
Skills
All aspects of SDLC, RTOS, SQA, risk and metrics analysis, root cause analysis,
ASIC/FPGA development, VHDL, OOD, UML, FMEA, Unix, Windows Server, .NET, JavaScr
ipt, Java, HTML, XML, C++/C#, SaaS, Amazon Cloud (EC2), Team Foundation Server,
DOORS, Visual Studio, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Adobe Flash, Word, Excel, Project,
Visio, CMMI, Scrum, Six Sigma, ISO 9001 and Agile methodologies
Education
MS Computer Science, California State University Northridge
BS Aeronautical Engineering (Cum Laude), California State University Northridge
Certificate in Program Management (PMBOK) University of California Irvine
6 Sigma Green Belt
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
Certificate in Microprocessor Hardware/Software Engineering, UCLA
Carnegie Mellon University Certificate - SEI, High Maturity with Statistics
Commercial Pilot License, multi-engine, instrument, with 4500 hours total time
Published
Prioritizing Process Improvement and Ignoring the Rating - Presented at the Euro
pean Software Engineering Process Group Conference, Munich Germany, June, 2008