Development / Product Manager / Software Architect Resume

Title
Development / Product Manager / Software Architect

Primary Skills
Lead a software development team as product manager, development manager, or ...

Location
US-MA-Ossining

Posted
Dec-04-08

Overview

Highly accomplished professional with a 20-year proven track record of innovation and success. Repeated achievements in the full life cycle design and development of software products that have achieved widespread adoption within the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space.

Verifiable track record of increasing market share, revenue growth, customer adoption, and industry accolades through savvy product design, release, implementation, standardization and management strategies.

Strategic analyst, planner and problem solver with keen negotiation and communication skills. Successful in building synergy between management, teams, partners and clients to support strategic business objectives.

Natural project and staff manager with strong motivational skills and ability to build, produce and succeed. Proven successful in establishing and leading globally dispersed teams sharing common vision and goals.

Core Competencies

Leading Full Product Life Cycle Design, Development and Release of Complex Products into Marketplace

Defining Global Product Design, Development, Testing, Release and Continuous Enhancement Strategies

Driving Standards Design, Process Redesign, Change Management, Best Practices & Continuous Improvement

Strong Understanding and Expertise with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SaaS, and Web Services


Professional Experience

SABBATICAL, 2006 to 2008
Attended to personal interests.

MOBIUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, 1986 to 2006
Built an impressive record of achievements and advancements through a series of increasingly responsible positions for this leading provider of enterprise content management solutions.

Successfully positioned ViewDirect as the best product in its class by Gartner for 10 consecutive years.

Oversaw the full life cycle design, development, enhancement and management of ViewDirect Repository, View Direct Report Manager, View Direct Image Manager, Search and Viewing Products, ViewDirect Email Manager, ViewDirect Records Manager, ViewDirect for SAP Environments, Total Content Integrator, Click-n-Done(Electronic Billing, Presentment and Payment), and Check Image Archival products within the Enterprise Content Management (EMC) space.

Lead technical contributor in all areas of software development of products, operating systems, security, multi-tier development and business tools, facilitating company's growth from $1 million to $90 million.

Core member of leadership team charged with defining organizational goals and direction.

VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE (2004 to 2006)
Chosen to lead newly established team to drive the standardization of architecture across all products. Built and led team of 3 Product Architects in defining and evangelizing standards, tools, platforms, and models across development life cycle to support transformation into a Service-Oriented framework. Defined vision and new SOA-based model to enable flexibility, interoperability, reusability and manageability across product portfolio. Managed team in reviewing all technical designs to ensure adherence to new standards; developing key architectural components; and evaluating impact of open source and standards initiatives onto product offerings.

Selected accomplishments & solutions:
Defined next-generation of architecture based on SOA Framework, enhancing robustness and flexibility.

Architected a series of reusable components and patterns; refactored existing products to support common components; and defined phased migration strategies for new product enhancements.

Developed architecture for the Total Content Integrator (TCI) product, utilizing SOAP/WSDL messaging interfaces to allow clients to access content from multiple repositories through a single interface.

VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (1990 to 2005)
Promoted and given full responsibility for building, expanding, and guiding geographically dispersed development teams in evaluating, designing, and developing new and next-generation of products across multi-platform environments.

Functional areas of accountability spanned software development lifecycle, team building and leadership, development framework, product acquisitions and integration, process and quality improvement, product planning and release, issue and change management, best practices and continuous improvement, and customer and partner relationship management. Drove the introduction of new tools, processes and best practices to enhance the appropriate and on-time delivery of quality products. Partnered with sales, marketing, development and customers to define business needs, evaluate possible enhancements, and oversee the rollout of new functionality into future releases. Managed team of 100 throughout United States, Canada, India and Ukraine, and budgets of up to $17 million. Reported directly to CEO.

Selected accomplishments & solutions:

Built and expanded team from 15 to more than 100 geographically-dispersed team members sharing common vision and goals. Oversaw the establishment of offshore development centers in India and Ukraine to enhance product development while minimizing overall costs. Developed communication procedures and management infrastructure to support multi-site development.

Oversaw the evaluation for acquisition of numerous software companies to expand overall product offerings. Orchestrated the integration of 2 acquired development organizations and software into Mobius suite of products, providing cross-selling capability for both internal and acquired customer bases.

Established state-of-the-art Build and Testing facilities to support parallel development efforts and allow more than 10,000 nightly tests run against project builds, shared development builds, and release candidates. Facilities allowed the execution of test suites for up to 100 builds nightly from both local and remote locations, and the automatic detection and reporting of defects to development and management.

Drove the introduction and adoption of development methodologies across all teams, standardizing requirements, architecture, documentation, technologies, coding, review and testing procedures. Early adopters of support applications and use case methodologies.

Spearheaded the design, launch and migration of ViewDirect, the next generation of Infopac product offerings, from mainframe based to client-server, and subsequently multi-tier application.

Championed the development of Windows, UNIX and Linux versions of the ViewDirect server; and thick and thin client interfaces running on Windows, Apple, Linux and UNIX. The Mobius Universal Archive architecture and server transparency features allowed customers to utilize applications across multiple platforms, enhancing the migration of applications, data and end-users to their platform of choice.

Managed the redesign and integration of ViewDirect E-Mail Manager and ViewDirect Records Management from eManage (acquired company) into ViewDirect Repository.

Led the development of ViewDirect Report Manager and ViewDirect Image
manager, component of ViewDirect server to capture images and a multitude of reports.

Directed the development of ViewDirect for SAP Environments and ERP Interfaces, enabling the capture and archival of invoices, purchase orders, audit reports from SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson and Siebel systems.

SENIOR DEVELOPER (1986 to 1990)
Recruited as the main Developer to oversee the continuous design and integration of new functionality, tools, and infrastructure into company's flagship product Infopac, a fully integrated report distribution facility.
Collaborated extensively with leadership and customers to define needs and implement effective solutions to support continued revenue and market growth. Built and led team of 4 in the full life cycle design, development, testing and release of new products and enhancements to existing products.

Selected accomplishments & solutions:

Solely responsible for developing multi-user TP Monitor that emulated CICS and allowed the Mobius CICS based viewing system to run without CICS, resulting in speeding installation timeframes and enhancing customer flexibility while also serving as the basis for on-line administration and client-server facilities.

Oversaw the subsequent development of Document Direct, a new viewing component for the system to allow users to view reports directly through a PC.

Designed screen definition facility to support the development of multi-user interactive screens within the product, reducing development time frame for creating new enhancements.

Managed the complete redesign of back-end architecture to support TCP/IP based client server architecture and enabling the rendering of reports with complex graphics.

Developed device independent architecture that allowed storing data on inexpensive media such as optical disks and tape libraries. These systems provided cost effective replacement of microfiche, decreasing retrieval from 2 weeks to real-time. Interfaces to IBM, Filetek and Kodak Optical Disk as well as SDK and IBM tape libraries were developed; and repositories in excess of 10 petabytes were built using these systems.

ONLINE SOFTWARE, 1984 to 1986
SENIOR SOFTWARE SPECIALIST
Member of team accountable for designing and developing innovative software and product solutions for clients.
Accountable for overall success of assigned projects, from initial analysis and design through implementation and problem resolution.

Selected accomplishments & projects:

Developed VM Guardian, the 1st security package available for the IBM VM Operating System.

Wrote a dynamic terminal installation facility for CICS, allowing a 10 fold increase in number of supported users.

** Previous experience as Systems Project Leader and Technical Consultant for Time Sharing Resources **

Education & Credentials

Honors Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Technology Proficiency

Languages:
Java, C#, COBOL, BAL, APL

Methodologies:
Object-Oriented programming, Systems Oriented Architecture, UML, Use Case Centric Development and Design, MOM

Software & Tools:
MS Office Suite, MS Project, Mercury Load Runner

Operating Systems:
z/OS, Windows, UNIX

Protocols:
TCP/IP, MAPI, IMAP, SOAP, UDDI, Web Services, IFX, JSR 170, WEBDAV

Databases:
MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Derby

Printer/Graphical Languages
AFP, DJDE/Metacode, Postscript, PCL

Certifications
See above


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