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Director Engineering

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Director of Engineering - 10+ years of management backed by 10+ years of software development experience in a variety of industries including CRM, Telecom and Defense. Proven innovative and adaptive manager of multiple cross functional project, application and feature teams.Technologist - Architect and developer of large scale internet, high-availability, mission critical SaaS, enterprise and embedded e-commerce, telecommunications and military systems. Software language enthusiast experienced with high level object oriented and prototype based language framework stacks. Agile and Lean/UX Evangelist - Expert experience with initiative portfolios, release prediction, story decomposition and mapping analysis, backlog grooming, Scrum, Kanban, release dashboards, risk mitigation, retrospectives and Agile training.Servant Leadership - Recruiter, motivator, mentor and coach for cross functional development teams focusing on career development by igniting passionate and infectious lead by example work ethics. Experienced manager of off shore teams, integrating them into on shore to achieve true 24 hour development cycles with significant cost savings.