
Vice President of Engineering at PHD Virtual Technologies
Greater New York City Area

Vice President of Engineering at PHD Virtual Technologies
Greater New York City Area
Enthusiastic leader, certified Scrum Practitioner and Scrum Master with solid hands-on technical and architectural skills, experienced in building strong engineering teams in entrepreneurial environments as well as established organizations. Possesses a fine sense for human communication and proven ability to enable employed talent to flourish. Has hired, trained, mentored, and led software engineers to produce world-class products, currently in use on millions of desktops and servers world-wide
Building Strong Development teams, Leading Agile Software Development and Functional Architecture, Development of Scalable multi-tier Enterprise Applications, Risk Management and Contingency Planning
Technologies, Architectures, Frameworks:
Model-driven Engineering, SOA, Web Services, REST, X.500, LDAP, Client/Server and n-Tier Models, ITIL, Agile project Management with Scrum, Desired state management, OS provisioning, Configuration Management, Six Sigma, Mercury QC
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2009 — Present (6 months)
Responsible for Software Development, Product Management, R&D and QA
(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
April 2004 — August 2009 (5 years 5 months)
In charge of BSA Client Automation with focus on the areas of OS Deployment and Virtualization.
Demonstrated leadership and ability to effectively manage multiple projects across geographically spread-out development teams in the US, Germany, Belgium and India, with QA organizations in the US, China and India. Successfully employed and refined an interactive and incremental approach to software development using Scrum
(Public Company; NVDM; Computer Software industry)
September 1993 — April 2004 (10 years 8 months)
(Novadigm was acquired by HP in 04/2004)
Responsible for Radia infrastructure development. Led projects in the areas of: Configuration Server, Management Portal and integrations. Radia is a change and configuration software management solution based on the patented desired-state management concept. The product is managing millions of computing devices world-wide with device-to-administrator ratio as good as 100,000:1.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; lgnt; Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year )
Authored an electronic software distribution system, which was first of that kind at that time
Developed and maintained an LU6.2 based file transfer product (XCOM 6.2)
(Computer Software industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years )
(Spectrum was acquired by Legent in 1992)
Responsible for an LU6.2 based file transfer product
Responsible for system performance and cross-platform issues
(Government Administration industry)
March 1986 — July 1989 (3 years 5 months)
In charge of a major ministry-wide project to build a real-time Integrated Production Quality Control System. Managed three development teams (30-35 people), lead the architectural effort ensuring success of the overall endeavor. Introduced new agile management approach enabling efficient and effective development process, based on team estimates and decision making
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