Agile Transformation Coach and Evangelist Resume Example

• Led the Protocols & File System team in Fort Collins. This group started as a group of six at the beginning of the year. When given responsibility for the protocols recruited and hired nine more engineers. In addition I worked with the new team in India managing the work assignments for the protocols team. The team in India now consists of five engineers. This process required many hours of phone screens and interviews.
• Managed the development plans of all team members. This included regular 1-on-1 sessions with each team member to discuss project progress and issues. Have worked with team members and now have six team members that can act as team leads. Continue to practice MBWA on a daily basis. Tried to make contact with each team member daily.
• Participated in the build tools investigation team. Provided input on build environment used by HP-UX. Ultimately an approach similar was not chosen but now working as a consultant on the new build effort being done by India team.
• Worked with my team to ensure quality in the team's deliverables. Functional testing helped by ensuring that the team's new code was functional and high quality.
• Managed team's defects ensuring that P1-P3 defects were completed accordingly.
• Managed deliverables for the 3.6.1, 3.7 and Big Bend. Deliverables for 3.7 and Big Bend have been on schedule. Deliverables for 3.6.1 were delayed due to underestimating effort involved.
• Lead investigation into source code management tools. Collabnet and Borland tools were investigated. Changing plans in IT delayed any implementation. This work was handed off to engineer in Beaverton.
• Managed the hardware budget for all development teams in Fort Collins. This included identifying requirements, creating the equipment configuration for the lab, ordering all equipment and seeing to getting it up and running after delivery. This was all done within budget.
• Have helped foster a good working relationship with peers in Beaverton and Fort Collins. Have worked with various architects to help define features and deliverables for the team.
• Have been the education representative for the entire NAS division. This has included coordinating classes, researching classes valuable to the division and keeping division members apprised of available courses.
• Recently volunteered to head the VOW sub-committee focusing on speed and agility.
• Encouraged and helped team acquire any equipment we could use to learn the NAS product. Resulted in setting up several Windows and Linux clusters and an iSCSI server for use in this environment.
• Became the NAS division education coordinator.
• Worked with team on early build environment issues. Work is ongoing with Beaverton to architect an improved build process. Collecting information from engineers on build process improvements.
• Assisting with architecture and technical direction of the 3.7 small file performance and 3.8 Extended Attribute enhancement features.

• Developed detailed FS project plan, taught MS Project to engineers, carefully managed individual and overall project plan, while still maintaining TC responsibilities, kept mgmt and team informed, met schedule commitment.
  
• QoS: worked with SISL to define pre-enablers for 11.31, managed actual work.
  
• Technical leadership and review for many fs projects, compatibility reviews.
  
• Managed quality initiative increasing new code coverage from 40% to 70%
  
• Carefully managed 11.31 FS defects - effective load balancing, timely resolution, successfully achieved all checkpoint milestones.
  
• Managed FS performance team's activities. Initiated task force to further streamline processes.
  
• Results and objective review every month with each engineer. Providing regular coaching and feedback with each engineer. Took the initiative to setup a high performance team building class, requested stars at work class for all reports.
  
• Managed the USEL File Systems Team daily activities.
  
• Led File System team effort for HP-UX 11iV4 release. Prioritized projects and provided managerial and technical leadership to team. Projects included FAT32, QOS, Named streams, UDF.
  
• Managed daily performance team issues.
  
• Initiated the FAT32 & UDF projects.
  
• Responsible for all architecture and technical development of UDF project.
  
• Technical file systems lead for BCS+SWD QOS effort.
  
• Conducted monthly reviews with individual team members.
• Completed performance reviews and rankings for all of my team. Initiated and managed File System Performance test ring revamp initiative.
  
• Participated and help lead team in roadmap offsite and post consolidation efforts. Initiated effort to include India team in project and technical reviews with Fort Collins team.
• Stepped up and took on project lead role for 11.31 HP-UX feature work and performance team efforts. Role involved project planning and technical guidance for both teams. Successfully help facilitate delivery of most components on time demonstrating both project and people management skills. Introduced team to Agile/Iterative software lifecycle methodology.
• Coordinated and ran the file system college recruiting team. Did all phone screens and host duties. Resulted in two very strong candidates that we are making offers to. Demonstrated my ability to pull together and manage the team and processes in a short period of time.
• Successfully motivated file system team to produce four posters for the 2006 Fort Collins Poster Fair.
• Project and technical leader for the UDF file system project for HP-UX. Mentored new engineer as part of this effort.
• Worked with WILLOW project partners on various technical issues regarding DLKM and software packaging. Demonstrated flexibility and commitment to team partnerships.
  
• Project and technical lead for enablement of file system DLKM infrastructure. Successfully made CDFS a loadable module and prototyped VxFS as a loadable module. Assisted EUDI and Symantec in implementing VxFS as a DLKM. Ability to understand product and partner teams was important here.
  
• Wrote whitepaper detailing file system DLKM implementation. Received recognition from external ISU partners for its thoroughness and usefulness.
  
• Assisted Machdep group in development, testing and review of DVD+RW tools for HP-UX.
  
• Assisted manufacturing in troubleshooting problems building ISO9660 images for HP-UX install media.
  
• Managed the Veritas VxFS support relationship and conducted weekly meeting. Transferred the VxFS support project to EUDI.
• Two patent disclosures with one patent pending.
  
• Received “Garage Award” for innovative idea for removing file system code from user libraries.
• Responsible for design, development, testing and management of software and procedural changes to installation methods for HP-UX 11.20 to support the Itanium platform. This included creation of expert recovery media and procedures. 
• Lead engineer for designing and implementing disk partitioning software utilities and device driver for the HPUX 11.20 port to the Intel Itanium processor. Implementation met requirements of the Intel EFI specification. 
• Software Quality Team Leader, responsible for analyzing and developing plan to use new tools to improve quality of I/O section software.
  
• Mentor to two new college hires providing technical leadership and guidance. 
• Lab HP-UX debugger champion.
  
• Responsible for design and development of HPUX interface device driver for I2O.  
• Responsible for design and development of I/O portion of dynamically loadable module project for HP-UX. 
• Member of project team defining, designing and implementing a new I/O subsystem for HP-UX to support Fibre Channel mass storage. Team lead for SCSI stack portion of this work.

Worked in the UnixWare Device Driver group developing I/O drivers for all configurations of hardware that were supported by UnixWare.

• Provided SCSI multiple initiator and clustering product development and support.
• Responsible for Portable Device Interface (PDI), Target Drivers, Host Bus Adapter Drivers and SCSI Device Interface (SDI).
• Provided development and continuation engineering support for the Unixware Floppy Disk Driver

• Porting and developing SCSI I/O Disk, Tape, CD-ROM, Floppy Disk Drivers and tools for an implementation of UNIX SVR4.2 MP.
• Responsible for Portable Device Interface (PDI), Target Drivers, HBA Drivers and SCSI Device Interface.
• Worked on team responsible for developing new specialized file system for data capture and display.
• Project leader and lead engineer for developing and porting customized device drivers for an implementation of real-time UNIX.
• Developed and delivered four symmetric multi-processor drivers to customers. These drivers were written in C and were for an Exabyte SCSI tape drive, rewritable SCSI laser disk, serial multiplexor board, and a Hewlett-Packard SCSI 1/2" tape drive. The tape and disk drivers were done for both VME bus and Multibus.
• Ported the following products to five new revisions of real-time UNIX: DR11-W Interface, IEEE 488 Interface, Centronics Parallel Interface, Exabyte Tape Drive, Rewritable Laser Disk Drive, and Serial I/O Interface. These products required modification and changes for each revision. Each product properly addressed the customer requirements and was delivered on schedule.
• Provided customer support and continuation engineering support for all real-time UNIX products.
• Developed software archiving strategy and the tools to implement it. Tools have been used successfully since implemented.
• Designed, coded and documented the executive layer of a new real-time operating system.
• Designed and implemented process event count service routines which controlled real-time process synchronization.
• Developed, coded and tested a symbolic debugger. -   Debugger was used successfully in the development of the kernel and executive layers of a new real-time operating system. Debugger was based on SDB. Both Debugger and UNIX kernel required extensive modification to support new environment.