Product Mgr at Red Condor
San Francisco Bay Area
Product Mgr at Red Condor
San Francisco Bay Area
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (10 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; tmwd; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 2 months)
Managed various teams of engineers in the development and testing of email security applications.
• Managed both new feature and maintenance releases of the MailGate appliance including requirements definition, schedule, feature design and implementation, testing, documentation and release with a team of 18 developers, 10 testers and 2 writers.
• Hired and mentored a team of software engineers
• Designed and managed the development of an automated system for testing an anti-spam appliance utilizing STAF, STAX and SAFS open source applications.
• Performed functional and performance testing.
• Led the development of an appliance platform (OS and shared applications such as an LCD driver) to be used by various products.
• Managed and trained a team of 8 QA engineers in the testing of an email security application
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; opwv; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — July 2003 (4 years 11 months)
Managed a team of 8 dev & 3 QA engineers, developing email app.s by helping to debug problems; reviewing func. spec.s, test plans, UI designs, prod. req.s, & appl. documentation; writing system architecture docs and rel. notes.
• Managed dev. of two J2EE Struts-based Web app.s running on UNIX bringing both proj.s to code compl. on time and through several rounds of QA testing.
• Engaged unhappy customers in redesign of a delegated admin. app., producing a signif. improved ver. to their liking.
• Built up a team of software and QA engineers that provided CE support (bug fixes and enhancements) for the co.’s Unified Messaging product.
• Established processes for bug resolution, localization and testing which decreased the introduction of new bugs and caused the bug report rate to drop from 15 per month to two.
• Worked with cross func. teams including acct mgrs, cust. support, localization, field engineering, prof. svcs and mainline dev to support commercially deployed software.
BS & BA, Mathematics & Economics
MS, Computer Science