Aug 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Boulder, CO

• Coordinated delivery of a business critical program across multiple organizations and disciplines
• Simultaneously managed two Agile Release Trains (including “big room” iterative release planning)
• ScrumMaster/Agile Coach for multiple development teams

Mar 2019 – Aug 2019 · 5 mos · Boulder, CO

• ScrumMaster for the core team driving a key, highly performant, multi-homed, business critical system
• Coordinated cross functional program to port that core system from bare metal into GCP

Sep 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Boulder, CO

• Technical Program Manager - Android Messages
• Coordinated features and drove feature process for all Android Messages teams (55 features across 9 releases)
• Scrummaster/Agile coach for core Android Messages delivery team
• Google Weave Technical Program Manager
• Responsible for driving technical alignment between Google and Nest Weave solutions
• Coordinated construction or full stack prototype (services, firmware, app, etc…) to demonstrate IoT platform enhancements
• Coordinated IoT schema design across multiple key stakeholders to generically support multiple IOT device domains

Mar 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Boulder, CO

• Third Party Ecosystem - Engineering Program Manager
• Scrummaster/Agile Coach for core Cloud-to-Cloud & Device-to-Device integration teams
• Coordinated R&D of new strategic infrastructure for Nest Products (Device/Service/Mobile)

Feb 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Boulder, CO

• Managed multiple projects to deliver high value features across the entire product lifecycle. Drove generation of requirements, design documentation, integration points, work breakdown structures, etc... Generated and tracked progress against schedules. Presented progress to senior management.
• Scrum master for multiple agile projects including a mission critical SAS application utilized by both customers and internal support.
• Designed and developed processes and communication tools to improve the effectiveness of the overall engineering product lifecycle.

Mar 2009 – Jul 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for bi-directional coordination, monitoring and communicating both IC architectural and software feature requirements, commitments, and status between the FPGA Implementation Tools group and internal & external stakeholders.
• Responsible for supporting multiple simultaneous IC architectures in various stages of their life cycles (from inception to maintenance).
• Tracked key requirements/issues and drove to resolution.
• Coordinated key cross-functional projects.
• Negotiated interactions and commitments with other departments and divisions.
• Communicated program status both laterally across departments and up through executive management.

Jul 2000 – Mar 2009 · 8 yrs 8 mos

• Staffed and coordinated multiple projects across ten annual major releases, numerous minor releases and innumerable service packs.
• Conceived, drove and coordinated a guerrilla Scrum project to transition the overall static timing closure cockpit to a best-in-class solution.
• Managed hiring activities, team building events and performance appraisals.
• Managed multiple teams for which I had various levels of domain knowledge.

Oct 1998 – Jul 2000 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Acted as “sustaining czar” (coordinated multiple software departments to support the transition from
• internal R&D to production) for Virtex2 IC support program.
• Made software architecture changes to align with overall system vision including technical leadership of several significant algorithmic improvements.

Aug 1991 – Oct 1998 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Boulder, CO

• Designed and coordinated the software modeling of new hardware features throughout the entire software system including development of an FPGA placement subsystem for a new IC architecture and coordination of the addition of an entire placement subsystem with an external hardware vendor.
• Overall responsibilities included coordinating support of base placement structures including design, analysis, implementation and support of algorithmic subsystems; coordinating new features/enhancements; troubleshooting, analyzing and assigning/fixing build problems.

Jul 1987 – Aug 1991 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Analyzed and designed a workstation based Object-Oriented Toolkit for use by windowing applications using OO analysis and design techniques in C++ and X-Windows.
• Designed and developed a prototype 4GL for windowing applications in a Smalltalk environment.
• Developed and maintained software for a large database application in COBOL and a custom, proprietary language on a Unisys Univac 1100/90.
• Overall responsibilities included: analysis, design, coding, documentation, unit test/verification and customer site support.

Jul 1986 – Jul 1987 · 1 yr

• • Translated and modified software to support gas chromatography applications from an HP41 calculator to Turbo Pascal a Compaq PC.

Apr 1984 – Jul 1987 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• • Designed and developed three major software systems for a medium size car dealership: an accounting system, a vehicle inventory system and a parts inventory system in HP extended Basic on an HP250.