Lead Engineer & Product Owner & Project Manager

The candidate is a senior software engineering manager with more than 15 years of development experience. On a recent project, he oversaw the entire project planning process, from requirements gathering to release management, ensuring timelines were met and quality standards were maintained. Managed teams that created new features, technical updates, and support for various enterprise software products. Collaborated with product management to prioritize and identify task items. Supported DevOps principles by maintaining automated test coverage into CI/CD for code created on various platforms (z/OS, Linux, Windows) and in multiple programming languages (HLASM, JAVA, SAS, JS,C). Led and managed teams of 17-20 people consisting of testers, scrum masters, architects and developers. His English language skills are at a very good level. Working in an international team is not a problem for him. He has experience with both Scrum and Kanban.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER: Apr 2017 – July 2021

• Key Responsibilities & Achievements: Oversaw the entire project planning process, from gathering requirements to release management, ensuring timelines and quality standards.
• Supervised multiple engineering teams comprising approximately 20 people across different global locations.
• Managed development teams for new features, technical updates, and support of enterprise software products.
• Promoted DevOps principles and maintained a healthy codebase with automated test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensured project conformance with established software development methodology and SDLC.
• Collaborated with product management on prioritization and task identification.
• Conducted hiring, performance monitoring, and evaluations.

Senior Software Developer: Oct 2007 - Mar 2017

• Key Responsibilities & Achievements: Provided L2 support and developed new features for IBM z/OS Mainframe products.
• Managed the entire software delivery cycle, including client requirements, coding, testing, patch generation, delivery, and customer communication.
• Assisted in installing, testing, and implementing new operating systems and related software packages for ongoing projects.
• Developed and maintained mechanisms for operational administration, backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Delivered software updates in an iterative cycle using agile software development methodology.