- Passionate about creating and developing organizations committed to excellence. - Expert understanding of all aspects of the software development life cycle and methodologies, including extensive hands on project management experience using agile. - Years of experience leading engineering for high revenue products (400MM+ year) with millions of daily users with multiple releases daily. - Proven track record of transforming dysfunctional and unhealthy teams into highly productive organizations with good work-life balance. - Managed teams of up to 80 people including both engineering and QA - A solid enterprise engineering background combined with the drive, flexibility, and energy required for startup environments.

Senior Director of Engineering @ Lead the software development and qa teams, about 40 ppl combined, reporting to the CEO. From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Director of Engineering @ Zynga Poker (Oct - present). Lead all of Poker engineering and QA- 65+ engineers across both web and mobile (iOS and Android), including architects and managers, and ~15 full time QA. Responsible for career development of engineering staff (managers and ICs), staffing and resourcing, organization, contractor relationships and management, release process, etc. Heavy focus on operations, career development and mentorship, qa, project management and software development processes. Strong partnership with studio CTO on technologies, tech road-map. Director of Engineering, Farmville (July-Oct). Oversaw 35+ engineers. Extensive experience operating in the context of the extreme business pressures and content cadence of Farmville. From July 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Engineering Manager @ Farmville. Engineering manager for up to 3 pods at a time totaling from 13-23 people. Pod experience included growth, revenue, expansion, tools, platform, bugs. Also managed remote contractors, both individual and partner (group) relationships. Extensive experience and expertise with extreme cadence and business pressures of all aspects of Farmville. Introduced and instilled project management best practices in the team while focusing heavily on career development and progression of individuals. From March 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaPrincipal Software Engineer @ Worked as a full stack engineer (PHP, Flash) on Cafe World for 3 months before changing assignments to Zynga Japan (based in Tokyo). From March 2010 to May 2011 (1 year 3 months) Studio Division Lead Engineer @ Facilitated the acquisition of a Japanese game company, Unoh, of about 50 engineers. Acted as cultural and engineering liaison, ensuring the retention of local engineers, providing technical mentorship and oversight, and introducing Zynga process and technologies to the local group. Managed the interpretation and translation team. From July 2010 to March 2011 (9 months) Member Of Technical Staff @ Technical project lead on the Protection Manager application (Enterprise level storage management solution). Lead the client team, providing technical direction, architecture, and oversight. Heavily contributed to the interaction design of the application. Worked closely with partner teams in India on a sister product (on the same codebase). Sat on the board of reviewers for technical specifications across the company. From September 2005 to April 2010 (4 years 8 months) Project Leader / Senior Software Engineer @ Worked on an eclectic range of software products, including a shipping rate calculator (desktop), a logistics management suite, a document sharing center, and more. Provided technical oversight for outsourcers. Lead many of these projects, participated in others. Worked in a 100% Japanese environment. From December 2002 to June 2005 (2 years 7 months) Software Engineer @ As the third man in the all-american development team, I was Mr. QA. After about six months I had picked up Java and starting writing small tools for the dev group. By the time I left the company I was writing customer facing support applications and developing our next generation of management software for our flagship application. These were java servlet based. From April 2001 to June 2002 (1 year 3 months)

BS, Computer Engineering @ University Of California, San Diego From 1995 to 2000 David France is skilled in: Java, Scalability, Team Leadership, Cloud Computing, PHP, Unix, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Management, Architecture, XML, Start-ups, Agile Methodologies, Software Engineering