Dean Hiller

Current

Founder at Extreme Software Offshoring

Past

Co-founder at Liquid Media
Co-founder/CTO at Teekit
Consultant at VoiceLog

Engineering Manager, VoicePage, EmergCallout, Solutions at Carrier Access
Director of Architecture at Carrier Access
Senior Consultant at Boldtech
Architect at Avaya

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Education

Beijing Normal University
University of Michigan

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Dean Hiller’s Summary

If you need help with company strategy or technology, let me know and contact me at dean@xsoftware.biz. I love to meet new people and help others.

I have extensive experience directing US and China based engineering and R&D activities and operations. Background in managing software development, quality assurance, program management and product release. Consistent record of successfully directing the development, testing and release of products, overseeing overseas development, and coordinating multi-functional teams. Adept at reducing costs, improving operations, and automating processes to increase efficiency. Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Dean Hiller’s Specialties:

Operations Management ▪ Software Product Development
Research & Development ▪ 1st Release Products
Overseas Management ▪ Outsourcing/Off-shoring
Quality Assurance ▪ Pilot Process Management
Budget/Cost Control ▪ Process Improvement
Product Delivery ▪ Cultivating Innovation ▪ Recruiting/Training
Strategic Planning ▪ Customer Relations ▪ Problem Solving
Leadership ▪ Process Automation ▪ P&L

Dean Hiller’s Experience

Founder

Extreme Software Offshoring

(Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Company specializes in helping companies offshore to China and making sure your projects get done on time for less money. Our staff gets trained on the most advanced technologies(even when they are not using them) so they can recommend things to help us deliver your products even faster. If you would like us to help you lower your costs, please contact me at dean at xsoftware.biz. You can also see our website at http://extremesoftwarellc.com
Co-founder

Liquid Media

(Telecommunications industry)

June 2006 — May 2009 (3 years)

Wrote most of the Liquid Media product, and determined technologies to be used, business and software processes. http://loyal2me.com
Co-founder/CTO

Teekit

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Sit on the board of Teekit.com. Also, played the role of CTO and set up all the technology and process for the company. Now mentor and guide the new CEO of the company. Spend only about once a month meeting with the CEO now. Currently hosted at http://www.teekit.com:8081/ because of problems with the china server, so it is hosted off my server in the US.
Consultant

VoiceLog

(Internet industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Engineering Manager, VoicePage, EmergCallout, Solutions

Carrier Access

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CACS; Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for delivering VoicePage, Emergency Call out products, as well as delivering customer solutions involving the previous products and other company products. Responsible for Development, QA, and end-to-end processes. Also responsible for the process that thus far has predicted delivery dates with 90% accuracy.
Director of Architecture

Carrier Access

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; cacs; Computer Software industry)

November 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 3 months)

* Recruited and trained shanghai VoicePage team
* Consulted with other organizations on how to bring Agile processes into their organization which resulted in two pilot programs
* Interfaced with customers and brought the customer closer to the development teams.
* Cultivated a culture where 80% of the code was tested by automated tests for extremely high quality products and very fast delivery times.
* Manage outsourcing contract for VoicePortal Development to Magpie
* Created an organization that releases GA quality code every 2 weeks with no need for a long System Verification period after development is complete
* Currently report to the CTO
Senior Consultant

Boldtech

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — November 2005 (9 months)

Hired to help with outsourcing to the Chinese organization.
Architect

Avaya

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — March 2005 (5 years 3 months)

One of a few Architects on CM API Connector Server. Written in Java, this was a high performance server supporting 75 phones for recording and playing files. Lead Architect/Developer on On-Demand Conferencing(ODC) integration between Lotus Notes/Sametime and Avaya's Conferencing Bridges(formerly Spectel). Also led process changes like test first, automated builds, and refactoring.

Previous to that was developer on Avaya Site Administrator, JEDI(graphical interface for Avaya PBX), and NCM.

Dean Hiller’s Education

Beijing Normal University

Chinese , Chinese Language , 1998 — 1999
University of Michigan

BSE , Computer Science, Electrical Engineering , August 1994 — December 1999