Neil Sambol

OVER 20 YEARS OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE INCLUDING:
. Full life-cycle – mobile development, web development, and “fat client” projects on multiple platforms
. Large projects ($1.4B Hughes Spaceway project - 1999) as well as much smaller projects
. Identify requirement gaps and facilitate the gathering those requirements from stakeholders
. Web Application, SOX, PCI, CMM, ISO-9001, other security and compliance-related projects
. Delivering quality software in various domains: security, finance, education, telecommunications

OVER 10 YEARS IN SOFTWARE LEADERSHIP as Director, Manager, and Team Lead:
. Managed distributed development and QA teams
. Oversaw multiple vendors on different continents and ensured that on-time components worked well
. Creation, roll-out, and tuning of software process: Agile Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, and hybrids
. Introduce targeted metrics to give visibility into ongoing development allowing tuning to meet dates
. Improve software development process from historical information to meet customer milestones
. Guide software estimation and date commitments using reality-based empirical evidence
. Fostering and maintaining a critical positive trust relationship between product, QA, Dev, and Mgmt
. Responsible as hiring manager for 80+ developers over the last 5 years with low attrition
. Focus upon hiring and retention of exceptional engineers
. Quality improvement via automated unit tests and peer reviews
. Mentorship of development managers, development leads, and developers
. Trained PM, development managers, developers, QA, and vendors in Scrum and Agile processes
. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM - Mike Cohn trained, Fall 2013)
. Certified Product Owner (CSPO - Mike Cohn trained, Spring 2015)
. Trained Agile coach and Agile Facilitator (Lyssa Adkins trained, Fall 2014)

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.  In particular, communicating technical ideas to non-technical people.