United States
Senior leader with solid background in engineering, strongly focused on quality. Wide range of experience in automotive, health care, and commercial software development. Experienced in building teams, adapting team culture in fast-growing environments, and improving communication and transparency within organizations.
• Responsible for Barracuda’s Data Protection product portfolio, which represents about 25% of the company’s annual recurring revenue • Lead a global team of directors, managers, software engineers, DevOps engineers, QA engineers and program managers • Negotiate contracts, projects, priorities and roadmaps to enable net new logo attainment, maintain compliance requirements, and support our customers
• Led the successful launch of our Cloud-to-Cloud Backup platform using a cloud-first approach in Azure, launching the fastest growing product in the company’s portfolio, amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, yielding 100% year over year growth in revenue within its first 2 years • Managed a team through migrating our on-premises private cloud applications and infrastructure to public cloud environments • Enabled QA engineers and analysts to build automated tests in place of most manual testing, reducing the QA cycle time from several days down to hours • Created career development plans for employees, setting expectations and establishing opportunities for continued growth within the company and future career aspirations; focused on retaining talent • Decision maker within the leadership team for the Ann Arbor site; lead sponsor of office events, projects and activities
• Managed all projects within the Data Protection division, including Barracuda Backup, Barracuda Message Archiver, Moebius, Barracuda Cloud Control, Barracuda Self-Service Gateway, Cloud Operations, and cross-functionally with the Security division. • Improved release management; identifying risks through cross-functional change management, and developed consistent plans to deliver each release stage, including alpha testing, beta testing, EA (early availability), and GA (general availability). • Successfully implemented Scrum framework where there were no processes previously, and regularly scheduled release cycles for various products and teams.
• Provided technical leadership and product ownership for large, complex software projects, including the design of the company’s proprietary enterprise application, eNAV®, and data warehouse • Planned and coordinated software development lifecycle for standalone applications and integrations between products and services • Established quality assurance guidelines and structure and enable automation for development, testing and release management • Learned pharmacy business strategy and how that relates to software solutions, to enable buy versus build decisions to be made, selecting technologies and solutions that provide long-term business flexibility, resiliency, and scalability • Analyzed and negotiated contracts with pharmacy partners, vendors and pharmaceutical companies, resulting in application and business requirements changes
• Analyzed and refined requirements to ensure application changes would not adversely impact existing functionality/reporting • Developed and executed test plans to validate the quality and accuracy of software under development, making sure requirements are met • Validated all application and reporting changes to identify errors and/or inconsistencies with the application • Executed user acceptance testing (UAT) and training • Documented system specifications, and maintained architecture diagrams • Built and managed a team of QA personnel
• Investigated and identified the root cause of technical issues related to cellular functionality and base OnStar services • Developed new processes for call center advisors to follow for handling technical problems real-time • Identified defects in the advisor application during testing and after release and ensure adequate fixes were in place • Monitored Automated Crash Response data to identify irregularities and hardware sensitivities or defects • Submitted 3 invention ideas for patent – 1 issued: USPTO # 8,423,017