• Successful leader of worldwide teams that achieve defined goals, with a strong focus on customer-centric enablement, quality, and cost savings.
• Over 15 years in the computer software and semiconductor industry.
• In depth expert of the Software Development Lifecycle with real world experience in process definition and implementation.
• Analytical, creative, highly energetic and extremely detail oriented.
Sr. Manager, Software Development @ From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Austin, Texas AreaManager, Quality Engineering @ From June 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 10 months) Manager, Software Development @ • Successfully lead and mentor a worldwide team of software developers directly and through delivering quality software solutions on a defined cadence to internal and external customer teams.
• Responsible for creation and development of a world class patented hardware and software test ecosystem executing over one million tests per month within a worldwide, distributed lab environment with an ROI of $21,000,000, and significantly reduced product time to market.
• Responsible for creation and development of the necessary tools required to build, test, and release hardware BIOS, Windows, and Linux software. The tools included multiple mission critical internal websites and applications.
• Forecasted annual budget for worldwide organization, and provided quarterly updates to long-term projections. Budgeted the organizations long-term capital hardware purchases, software needs, outside services, personnel requirements and directly associated each to respective programs for cost analysis.
• Defined the development process used by the various teams within organization. Multiple departments presented various challenges based on customer expectations and release cadence. Customized process for each department resulted in widespread developer adoption, in turn enabling the timely release of enterprise quality software. Chaired the Platform Software Organization’s SCM committee to define Best Practices and Release Methodology for all AMD software development.
• Consistent quarterly feedback provided to individual contributors. Personnel mentoring and guidance on long-term goal planning and career development for twenty staff members in United States and Canada. Global services provided to multiple organizations in various countries, including India, Singapore, Shanghai, and Toronto. Annual hardware and software budgeting, as well as procurement. Interface to senior management on new ways to improve organizational efficiency. From May 2002 to December 2012 (10 years 8 months) Section Manager @ From 2001 to 2009 (8 years)
Management Information Systems, General @ The University of Texas at Austin From 1990 to 1992 Adam Seyer is skilled in: Software Development, Testing, Software Engineering, SDLC, Linux, System Architecture, Enterprise Software, Software Design, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture, Continuous Integration, Agile Methodologies, X86, Hardware Architecture, Debugging