PROVEN SENIOR MANAGER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT/PROGRAMS/PROJECTS/PROCESS
• Over 20 years of experience successfully managing large, complex software programs, including Program managing numerous global matrix organizations from within an AMD Program Management Office (PMO).
• 11+ years of experience directly managing IBM software development teams, with half of that managing the managers and projects of the IBM DisplayWrite team that delivered a $10M+ Program on time and within budget.
• Has managed all types of software, including BIOS, Tools, Drivers, Diagnostics. Applications and OS components.
• Is a real team player that has shown the ability to quickly learn and adapt new technologies/processes, as shown by his awards for IBM Patents and Structured Programming innovations at NASA.
• Has excellent PC industry experience, knowledge and connections.
.OTHER KEY SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Project Manager: *Fully PMP and MS Project trained, with Master’s Certificate in Project Management
*10+ years experience with MS Project, including Project Server 2007
Program Manager: *Experienced managing large, complex Application/System software Development that required inputs from multiple/diverse/international/remote project teams
*Experienced at anticipating and avoiding Budget/Schedule/vendor risks and issues
*Experienced at driving teams plans, processes and reporting from a central PMO
COMMUNICATION: *Able to effectively distill complex issues for productive executive presentations.
* Experienced in coaching and mentoring both team members and business partners.
SW PROCESSES: *Award winning contributor on numerous Productivity and Quality
Process Improvement efforts that focused on the SW Development Lifecycle
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, Texas Nov/2000 – Jan/2012
Senior Program/Project Manager
• Was part of the software Program Management Office (PMO) responsible for raising the teams Project Management skills. Also helped them establish approved plans and better manage plan content, schedules and risks by earlier anticipation of operational, program, and implementation risks/issues.
• Program/Project Manager for BIOS, Tools, Device Drivers, Manufacturing tools, Compilers, and Operating Systems as required for enablement of AMD's Fusion Mobile/Desktop Platforms.
• Project Manager for the BIOS used in AMD’s CPU manufacturing test (HST) systems
• Program Managed the Partner contract with Suse/Novell for over ten years, which included:
o Their original Open Source development/port of Linux to AMD's 64-bit X86 CPU.
o Their enhancements to the GCC tools as required for support of AMD’s CPUs
o Their enhancements and integration of Xen to support AMD’s virtualization enhancements
o Their development/integration of an Open Source driver to support ATI graphics
o Developing a special contract form required to support this ongoing work.
• Key participant in numerous productivity/quality improvement efforts that focused on the software development processes, including new processes like Agile, off-shore teams and rolling out other process changes like the use of Clarity and MS Project Server for all software resources and projects.
• For 5+ years Program managed the functional development required for support of AMD’s client/server infrastructure for the MS Operating Systems, VMWare and the Linux distributions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED
International Business Machines, Houston, Austin & Dallas, Texas Jun/1968 – Nov/2000
Senior Program/Project Manager 1990 - 2000
• Spent 15 months on VP staff at IBM’s Division HQ working on improving software development and word-processing strategy/processes
• Spent several years on the OS/2 PMO/VP staff managing/refining the development budgets, processes and strategies of IBM’s 1000+ person, highly matrix managed, OS/2 software development organization
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Senior Development Manager 1980 - 1990
• Promoted to Senior level in 1980
• Moved the structured programming language, used at NASA, over to X86 for use on DisplayWriter
• 2nd line Design/Development Manager for the 60+ person DisplayWrite/DisplayWriter teams that :
• Delivered a large pre-PC X86 word processor that had a custom multitasking operating system
• Delivered first industry leading PC...
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