Quality Management of Software Design
Greater Seattle Area
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Jonathan Garrigues’s Summary
* Experienced Software Design Manager with a focus on technical innovation, quality of vision, and organizational alignment.
* Excellent communication, collaboration, and creative skills. Effective leader and articulator of goals for cross-functional teams and organizations.
* 12 years experience in Software Development including coding, requirements analysis, product definition, program management, design management, and resource management.
* Passion for converting innovative thinking into shippable software that affects peoples lives.
* Proven record of defining and delivering complex software projects with multi-site development and deployment.
Jonathan Garrigues’s Specialties:
Translation of business strategy and customer requirements into implementable product goals and activities, software program management from whiteboard to deployment, incredible attention to detail.
Jonathan Garrigues’s Experience
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Senior Product Design Manager
Visto
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
2005 — April 2008 (3 years)
* Defined high level product requirements and feature definitions for internationally deployed web and mobile applications.
* Gathered and analyzed software requirements, articulating those requirements into concisely reviewable formats including Product Requirement Definitions and Scenarios documents.
* Drove document reviews across global teams, escalating stakeholder concerns and negotiating issue resolution towards document sign-off.
* Mentored team members in the art of writing articulate and readable technical documents.
* Reviewed and monitored downstream documentation, including UI designs, functional specs, protocols, test cases, and tech pubs.
* Enforced a rigorous Change Control process.
* Guided several special projects from initial conception to completion, working closely with software architects and developers to envision, define, and prototype an extensible platform for delivery of the next generation of real-time mobile services. -
Program Manager
Visto
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years)
* Crafted detailed functional specifications for multiple releases of internationally deployed web and mobile applications.
* Translated line-item desires of customers and management into reviewable, implementable, and testable functionality.
* Negotiated feature complexity and release scope between multiple conflicting stakeholders.
* Led release and specification overview sessions for cross-functional teams based in multiple locations.
* Orchestrated iterative design sessions with application and database developers to brainstorm and capture implementation strategy for complex data, server and client systems.
* Coordinated with designers and usability experts to design application flows and ensure consistent and intuitive user experience. -
Senior Web Application Developer
ViAir
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
* Designed and implemented the user-facing components of web and mobile applications.
* Stewarded two main products through five major releases, coordinating closely with Java server application developers, database developers, product managers, designers and testers to meet aggressive schedules in a startup environment.
* Produced development and functional specifications and managed a team of web developers implementing core product functionality on a Java server platform.
* Designed and created customizable dynamically generated PC web interfaces (HTML) and device web interfaces (WML, HDML, xHTML).
* Utilized an assortment of both server and client technologies to meet functional requirements (JSP, Java, Servlets, ServletExec, WebLogic, Struts; DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).
* Planned and executed strategies for branding, localization, and customer provisioning integration. -
Mobile Application Prototype Developer
Microsoft
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
* Prototyped MSN Mobile technology on the AutoPC platform, meeting high profile deadlines showcasing MSN content using the Speech-Recognition and Text-to-Speech capabilities of the AutoPC.
* Conducted usability testing, negotiated API’s between two development groups
* Created a real-time Seattle traffic application optimized for voice input. -
Senior Web Application Developer
Expedia
(Public Company; Internet industry)
December 1997 — May 1999 (1 year 6 months)
* Designed and created internal web-based tools enabling non-technical staff to automate complicated pattern matching while verifying the integrity of hotel data.
*Used ASP scripting, ADO and RDS recordsets, VBScript and DHTML in close collaboration with SQL engineers.
