Summary

Software Development Manager

Collaborative team builder with strong leadership and communication skills. Extensive experience in project, personnel and resource management in an Agile environment. Fourteen years of Perl, Linux & web development experience, primarily in applications and services for data management & presentation. This includes designing and leading large scale, multi-year projects from architecture to execution, working closely with the business, stakeholders and implementers.

Seeking a senior developer, team lead, or development manager role where I can use not only my development skills but also leverage my years of proven experience in application design and team management.

Example Skills & Experience

Perl, Moose, HTML, JavaScript/AJAX, Familiar with PHP & Ruby, CSS, RSS, jQuery, SQL, Informix (SPL), MySQL, ServerStudio, Apache, Perforce, Subversion, Bugzilla, JIRA, Confluence, SSH, GPG, Selenium QA, XML, Agile, Scrum

Professional Accomplishments

Responsible for managing all aspects of CIDC's release process, from day-to-day operations to process improvements, as well as providing development and test environment support.

• Lead a team of 3 Release Engineers.
• Ran the daily Release Control Board stand-up and ensured the status of queued releases was communicated to the business daily.
• Began development of a tool for recording release instructions and status, as well as automating releases, using Perl with Dancer & MySQL.
• Guided adoption of ChangeGear for managing the release process, including specifying and documenting how each step would be managed and communicated.
• Began discussions with Development and QA Directors on formalizing adoption of Development Operations, and how that could benefit our goal of Continual Integration
• Reviewed and prioritized the project backlog for improving automation and testing within the release process.

As a Group Manager I was responsible for managing and mentoring my reports not just in technical matters but also as a personnel manager, reporting to HR.

• Lead a team of 5 developers, striving to ensure everyone delivered high quality work.
• Responsible for the long-term stability of the company's Affiliate Management platform (EVA), acting as both Product Owner and Architect.
• Act as a technical lead on many additional projects beyond EVA.
• Coordinated work with other internal departments including Quality Assurance, Release Engineering, Marketing and Affiliate Management.
• Continued as a primary organizer of CIDC's Infrastructure Projects pipeline.
• Technical lead on the implementation of CIDC's Perl Runtime Environment, which decoupled the company's Perl based tools and services from the OS version of Perl.
• Technical lead on the migration of Development, QA and Staging resources to VMWare, with the goal of automated deployment.
• Mentored personnel within an Agile team environment, assisting with the adoption of Scrum and participating in and encouraging ongoing training in Agile processes
• Provided cross-departmental training in Perl
• Generally championed the adoption of a variety of Best Practices for software development, and strongly encouraged my reports and teams to do the same.

As part of the server-side development team, I worked on nearly every portion of the company's software, both internal management and customer facing.

• Worked as a primary developer on the company's two highest profile, externally facing projects to be released during this period.
• Involved in specification review, timeline estimation, documentation, and release coordination for nearly every project on which I was involved.
• Assigned as Development Liaison to the QA department.
• Introduced Selenium IDE to CIDC, provided training for QA and Development, and assisted in planning how to incorporate these tests in our processes.
• Involved in pilot project to introduce Selenium RC to the QA pipeline.
• Provided internal support and training on the use of the jQuery and Prototype JavaScript libraries.
• Worked jointly with Release Engineering documenting the company's SDLC, recommending the inclusion of certain Best Practices as part of the SDLC.
• Helped form CIDC's Engineering Infrastructure Task Force, and served as Server Side Developments representative.
• Won numerous quarterly awards and contributor appreciation bonuses

Provided systems support and development for the Bioinformatics Program. Help the Center's graduate students and postdoctoral fellows develop new tools to meet their own research goals, including providing advice on good software development practices.

• Developed new methods for prediction and classification of WD repeat containing sequences.
• Assisted in developing specifications and bid review on 200+ CPU purchase.
• Improved and extended database schema's, including incorporation of extended WD repeat library and preliminary genome assemblies.
• Streamlined update procedures for new genomes.
• Provided genomic databases and tools for use on the BioWulf cluster.
• Developing a new student management system to meet the specific needs of the program.

Project leader for development of mission critical applications for the MGH's DNA Core, principally a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).

• Spearheaded adoption of software development best practices such as version control and setting up a dedicated QA and documentation team.
• Coordinated representative users and core managers to develop requirement specifications, and guided development to meet those requirements and QA to validate project releases.
• Integrated data management tools for four subgroups within the DNA Core: Synthesis, Sequencing, Bio-Automation and Microarray.
• Developed tools for incorporating a wide range of high-throughput equipment for such tasks as sequencing and oligonucleotide synthesis and support for product QC and process control.
• Provided a web front end for process management with secure (SSL) access from any computer on a permitted network using any modern browser. System incorporates group and user access controls to resources and data.
• Created a client interface for placing orders for oligo synthesis and sequencing including tools for tracking the progress of an order.
• Provided order and account reports suitable for import into the existing billing proceedures, greatly improving the level of automation in tracking customer orders and generating invoices.

Supervised specification, acquisition and setup of new biotech company's IT resources.

• Designed network layout and security measures to specifications required by contracts with pharmaceutical company's.
• Guided development of new tools required to meet MGI's core requirements.
• Assisted in developing new techniques to build on MGI's patents and IP to improve financial viability and open new potential markets.
• Worked with lab managers and CTO to develop procedures for managing project data, including log files from, and protocols for using, high-throughput equipment.
• esigned initial specifications for MGI's Information Management System
• Developed interim database for managing and storing MGI's crucial Bioinformatics analysis.

Design, develop and maintain tools as required to accomplish Center goals. Help the Center's graduate students and postdoctoral fellows develop new tools to meet their own research goals, including providing advice on good software development practices.

• Led code review and refactoring effort in updating the BMERC's protein functional profile analysis (PIMA) tools, optimizing code and providing an API for incorporating PIMA tools directly in other applications.
• Doubled the library of functional profiles for use in domain dissection through development of a procedure to iteratively create maximally diagnostic profiles from large seed sets, such as the E. coli k12 genome.
• eveloped and maintained web site for the BMERC , including web interfaces to many of the centers key tools.
• Created a relational database and tools for parsing and storing data on sequenced genomes from genbank files.
• Carried out the analysis of all newly sequenced genomes using a large suite of software, both public (such as blast) and developed in house (such as PIMA) and stored results in custom database.

• Administrated a LAN with cross-mounted drives containing as many as six PC's using Windows 95 or Linux, and one running OS/2.
• Maintained login accounts and system backups.
• Helped beta test and debug the custom software developed by the company.
• Secondary maintainer of company's SQL database.
• Assisted with customer support as necessary.

Experience consulting on projects ranging from large-scale Bioinformatics projects to small community web sites. Facilitate multiple day, hands-on workshops providing professional Perl development training. Classes range from an introduction to Perl to advanced Perl programming.

• Developed a user friendly front end for a bio-tech company's internal Bioinformatics tools, meeting a funding benchmark with a major international company licensing them. This project was brought from behind schedule and largely undocumented to being delivered early for final review.
• Designed a MySQL database to store 10's of millions of records for research lab, with links to internally stored publicly available biological data. Participated in general lab set up and designing the databases and tools needed to meet long-term needs. This work has been directly used in a publication and is a resource used behind additional publications.
• Developed custom training curriculum including workshop examples designed to the interests and needs of the clients field(s).

• International Patent application WO/2004/064482 - "Alien Sequences"
• Technical reviewer for "Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics"
• "PACdb: PolyA Cleavage Site and 3'-UTR Database" - Bioinformatics (PACdb website)

Other experience

• Active participant and organizer in Boston Perl Mongers since 1999, organized the monthly technical meetings from fall 2003 to spring 2005, and host the groups website.
• Developed complex gaming tools for use by players of a browser-based multi-player online game with 40,000+ regular players at its peak. Work includes a FireFox extension which was announced with '... has delivered the single best metagaming tool yet to the UD world' by a prominent player.
• IT Committee member and Youth leader, Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church.
• Past Master of Fidelity Lodge A.F. & A.M.
• Region coordinator for myCHIP
• Pack Master, Cub Scout Pack 609