Project Management lead for the ground-up rebuild and redesign of the Edmunds.com website. Directly managed four large scrum teams resulting in the creation of fifteen different web applications, leveraging Agile best practices. Created, implemented, and oversaw the organizational structure relied on by all of the teams to successfully and efficiently communicate and work. Assisted engineering, product and quality assurance management organizations by learning and reinforcing their protocol at the scrum team level.
Responsible for organizing and orchestrating the agile engineering efforts related to building the Edmunds.com portal; which is used by millions of users for consumer and enthusiast-based automobile research. Key contributor in the corporate transition from a waterfall to Agile development operation.
Managed team responsible for providing developers company-wide with updated and standardized desktop and web-based tools for building AOLâs software. - Successfully managed a team recognized as best in Bangalore, India; 2006. - Transitioned AOL client development from a federated configuration management model to an abstract model which reduced CM staffing requirements and enabled the company to work on a wider array of development efforts without the dependency of a dedicated CM engineer. - Transferred & directed AOL client build responsibilities and knowledge to Bangalore in one year less than originally scoped. - Managed a migration of our infrastructure in 2007, moving to Linux from Solaris, saving over $100,000 a year in maintenance and replacement costs for the organization.
Managed team of 10 resources located across 7 locations around the world, managing the build process of more than 150 active software development initiatives. - Managed the re-engineering of the infrastructure and user interface for our proprietary build system to better match more recent technology, trends and security standards. - Remotely interviewed and hired team members in Bangalore, India; positioning them in the organization to provide support in off-hours as well as challenge them with projects they could take pride in owning.
Engineered and edited build scripts used to build and configure the development, QA, and GM releases of AOLâs major software initiatives. - Recipient of âAOL Top Talentâ designation, for efforts put forth on AOL 9.0 project. - Executed the role of âLead Build Engineerâ for AOL 9.0. - Personally oversaw the build management and release protocol for over 70 software development projects. - Evangelized and directed development teams to concur with a company-wide mandate to consolidate all software development through our corporate-approved & proprietary CM process; which increased the integrity of our technology organization by streamlining software production and improving reproducibility of AOLâs product line.
Provided engineering support for both the browser development team as well as localization departments. - Successfully developed a web-based localization system using Perl, XML & XSLT which decreased time to release in new, high-growth markets as it automated a previously manual task of using engineers to inject translated copy into our code. This made the process faster, simpler, and significantly less error prone for development. - Implemented and provided localization training and documentation for translators; which was the final step before allowing AOL to reduce localization engineering staff by 80%. - Personally tested, researched and provided executives with an engineering and performance analysis of a 3rd party delta-encoding browser caching technology the company was interested in integrating with the AOL client.
Provided engineering support for both the browser development team as well as localization departments. - Engineered and implemented double byte solutions for the development of simplified and traditional Chinese versions of the AOL 6.0 software client for the Hong Kong market; which became one of AOLâs initial offerings to Chinese consumers.
I currently lead the product development strategy for the Edmunds brand, with responsibilities involving the improvement of the products, profitability, performance and user experience of the Edmunds.com website.
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