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NOT CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES Over 10 years of experience leading, building, planning and executing high performing Engineering teams. Built out Software Engineering teams, DevOps teams, Quality Assurance teams, and Project/Product Management teams. Extensive execution experience using Scrum, Kanban and scaling teams with SAFe and LeSS. I strive to bring a wide set of engineering best practices such as code reviews, pair/mob programing, unit testing, achieving 80%+ code coverage with automation, runbooks for deploying and quickly addressing issues in production, micro services architecture, canary deployments when there are multiple data centers etc.. I really enjoy building a great team culture with a work hard play hard mentality. I make it a point to personally recruit top engineers with great personalities who are hungry to always learn.

Lead Program Manager @ HigherUp delivers Workforce Analytics fueled by real-time data from a unified Workforce Automation and Payroll offering. CFOs and HR executives in small and medium-size businesses can contribute more strategically to building a competitive business by replacing their current model of decisions driven largely by intuition and guesswork – to one based on using real-time data to frame and answer the right questions. ⟨ Implementing Project, Product and Program Management using Agile Methodologies. ⟨ Hiring for entire Engineering Organization, we're hiring! ⟨ Implementation of best practices with DevOps and Change Management/Release Management ⟨ Encouraging a culture of knowledge sharing with our Confluence Engineering Wiki. ⟨ Hired and mentored a QA team in a company with 0 test cases and 0 automated test to over 100+ test cases and 100+ automated tests. ⟨ Mentoring, training and on boarding of new Engineering hires. Tech Stack: Angular.js, Protractor, Karma, .NET, Java, SQL Server, Gulp.js, Node.js, Bower, Java, OBIEE, SSRS. From April 2015 to Present (7 months) Pasadena, CASenior Technical Project Manager @ Linq3 Technologies develops the technology that allows lottery tickets to be sold at unmanned POS (Point Of Sale) terminals, which include devices such as ATM machines, back of taxis, kiosks and gas pumps. In North America and throughout the world, we work with state lotteries, gaming services, hardware manufacturers, and individual store locations and currently sell Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets. ⟨ Scrum Master and Agile Coach for all Engineering, Product Management and DevOps teams. ⟨ Coached and trained Product Owners on the art of story writing and transitioning them from waterfall Product Manager role to Product Owner role. ⟨ Introduced Kanban to the DevOps group to organize and prioritize requests. ⟨ Launched California State Lottery and North Carolina State Lottery. ⟨ Led Engineering best practices to improve quality, speed and scalability. i.e. TDD, Code Reviews, Test Automation, DevOps Culture and encouraged Micro Services Architecture. Tech Stack: C, Python, CVS, Zabbix, Perl, C++, MySQL. From August 2014 to April 2015 (9 months) Long Beach, CaliforniaTechnical Project Manager @ OpenX is a global leader in digital advertising technology and services, enabling digital media companies to manage and maximize their ad revenue. Our unique platform combines ad serving, a real-time bidding (RTB) exchange, yield optimization, and content valuation to deliver the highest revenue across every desktop, tablet, and mobile screen. 94% of top 100 brand advertisers and 53% of comScore 100 publishers work with OpenX, conducting 125 billion monthly transactions with 12 billion daily bids from buyers. With 100% year-over-year growth in the past 2 years, $150M+ in revenue and 300+ employees, OpenX is ranked #7 on Forbes'​ 2013 list of the Top 100 America's Most Promising Companies and ranked #5 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ ⟨ ScrumMaster for the Mobile (iOS, Android) and Enterprise Teams. ⟨ Implemented Scrum Process and Best Practices for the entire Engineering organization. ⟨ Championed Release Management and Change Management at OpenX. ⟨ Proponent of Microservices, Green/Red Build integration with unit tests and DevOps. ⟨ Scrum Coach for ScrumMasters and Product Management. ⟨ Onboard new Project Managers with the Scrum Process and setup of Jira with GreenHopper. ⟨ Coached Product Management team on writing User Stories and grooming/prioritizing of backlog and transition to Scrum. Tech Stack: Java, Casandra, Riak, ZooKeeper, Node.js, Python, PHP, Erlang, RabbitMQ, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, Angular.js, Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, AWS, Nginx, JUnit, Chef, Puppet, Elastic Search, Vertica, Storm, Kafka, Mondemand, Splunk, Nagios, Sumo Logic, Docker, Jenkins, Mobile iOS SWIFT, Objective-C, XCode, Android C#, Git. From February 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 7 months) Pasadena, CASr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach @ Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (SNEI), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, is the premier provider of digital entertainment. Through the Sony Entertainment Network portal, consumers around the world are able to access their favorite digital entertainment conveniently and instantly on their favorite connected devices. SNEI offers the latest and highest quality music, video, and game content through Sony Entertainment Network as well as PlayStation Network while also delivering third-party services. In addition, SNEI provides a compelling consumer experience through innovative content discovery features and a simple user interface that is globally consistent, yet locally relevant. ⟨ Implemented SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) across our LA, SF and SD offices with Scrum Coaches across our offices. ⟨ Instrumental in Partnership with Google/YouTube, SNEI provides TV and Movies to YouTube for their VOD (Video on Demand) service. In a timeline of 3 months we were able to create User Stories and build an automated video delivery system which generated over 3 mil in revenue. ⟨ Collaborate with PMO for Project Timelines implemented across all Sony connected devices for production roll outs. ⟨ Created Epics and User Stories in Rally to implement HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) encoding video specifications to enable streaming on the PlayStation Network and Sony connected devices. ⟨ Establish Scrum best practices for the Project and Product using Rally and Confluence. Tech Stack: Java, Hibernate, Spring, Tomcat, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Oracle, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, AWS + S3, Cassandra. From September 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaOffshore Engagement/Scrum Master @ Founded in 1926, Kelley Blue Book, The Trusted Resource, is the only vehicle valuation and information source trusted and relied upon by both consumers and the industry. Each week the company provides the most market-reflective values in the industry on its top-rated website www.kbb.com, including its famous Blue Book Trade-In and Suggested Retail Values and Fair Purchase Price, which reports what others are paying for new cars this week. The company also provides vehicle pricing and values through various products and services available to car dealers, auto manufacturers, finance and insurance companies as well as governmental agencies. KBB.com provides consumer pricing and information on cars for sale, minivans, pickup trucks, sedan, hybrids, electric cars, and SUVs. Kelley Blue Book Co. Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of AutoTrader Group. ⟨ Created and maintained a Dashboard for SCRUM Metrics to report across the Offshore SCRUM teams. ⟨ Coached the SCRUM teams and provide feedback on how the teams can improve. ⟨ Instilled SCRUM best practices and oversaw SCRUM Process for 4 Offshore teams in Beijing China. ⟨ Core member of the Agile committee at Kelley Blue Book. Tech Stack: .Net, TFS, CruiseControl.NET, Silverlight, HTML5, SQL Server, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, C#, ASP.net. From November 2007 to August 2011 (3 years 10 months) Irvine, CAProject Manager @ Dell Software makes it easy to securely manage and protect applications, systems, devices and data to help organizations of all sizes fully deliver on the promise of technology. Our simple yet powerful software - combined with Dell hardware and services - provide scalable, integrated solutions to drive value and accelerate results. Whether it's Windows infrastructure, the cloud and mobile computing, or networks, databases and business intelligence, we dramatically reduce complexity and risk to unlock the power of IT. ⟨ Led the transitioned to Scrum in 2006 and served as the as the Scrum Master providing a servant leader role. ⟨ Tracked CRM Upgrades and new feature development using waterfall project management then using Scrum. ⟨ Led the Scrum of Scrums for all projects in the Technical Support Division. ⟨ Scrum Master for the CRM and Website teams facilitating Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming and Release Planning meetings. Tech Stack: .NET, TFS, SQL Server, Java From October 2004 to November 2007 (3 years 2 months) Aliso Viejo, CA

BA, E-Business @ California State Polytechnic University-Pomona From 2000 to 2004 David SA is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Project Management, JIRA, Program Management, Product Management, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, Software Development, Mobile Applications, Project Management, Kanban, Rally, Confluence, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, SDLC, VersionOne, MS Project, Agile Methodologies, Java, Software Project...