Joe David
Project manager - Experienced
Skills
Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
IT Project & Program Management
Electrical Engineering
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Secure SDLC
Contact
<p>Joey David Engineering Program Manager</p><p>joey_david@hotmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/joey-david-b7094889 713-471-2247 Metairie, LA</p><p>Technical professional with nearly 20 years' success managing projects and programs through entire development life cycle. Expertise in program planning activities such as schedule development and tracking, resource allocation, and requirements gathering. Adept at leading quality assurance initiatives focusing on security and sustainability. Equally capable of managing high-performing project teams or working independently to enhance performance and increase profitability using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Expert negotiator and businessperson; able to forge solid relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and build consensus across multiple organizational levels.</p><p>Areas of Expertise include:</p><p> • Strategic Planning</p><p> • Programming</p><p> • Quality Assurance</p><p> • Team Building & Leadership</p><p> • Software Engineering</p><p> • Vendor Management</p><p> • Agile Methodologies</p><p> • Business Analysis</p><p> • Release Management</p><p> • Software Project Management</p><p> • Process Improvement</p><p> • Resource Allocation</p><p>Professional Experience</p><p>HP • Houston, TX </p><p>BIOS Core Team Leader / Engineering Program Manager II, 2013 to 2018</p><p>Spearheaded strategic development and alignment of commercial common BIOS, standardizing notebook, desktop, and workstation business unit feature sets and processes. Mentored new program managers on project management processes, issue triage, and firmware constraints governed by hardware-driven scheduling. Held fiscal and scheduling responsibility for team of four testers and four contract developers.</p><p>Key Accomplishments:</p><p> • Facilitated regular development sprints with scrum master and 15-member development team; converted plans to long-term Plan of Record submitted to senior executives.</p><p> • Successfully initiated and managed multiple process changes, including transitioning DevOps team to Microsoft Visual Studio Online/Azure DevOps and refined process for receiving customer feature requests that reduced turnaround time.</p><p> • Streamlined and virtualized operations, reducing new customer feature-request field-implementation time from six months to one month.</p><p> • Reduced bugs reported from over 2000 in first year to less than 80 annually by 2018.</p><p>Systems / Software Engineer V, 2012 to 2013</p><p>Managed entire software load of advanced mobile workstations and administered localization updates for commercial notebooks. Supervised cross-functional Software Action Team, prioritizing and directing workflow for issue resolution on HP’s entire commercial mobile product line. Diagnosed and resolved issues in security software, BIOS firmware, and graphics software.</p><p>Key Accomplishments:</p><p> • Created and led Software Action Team to triage and prioritize bugs across entire commercial mobile product spectrum.</p><p> • Drove cross-functional team to resolve last-minute issue that prevented us from reaching “code freeze” (when software was no longer subject to modification), meeting release schedule.</p><p>Graphics Core Team Lead / Systems and Software Engineer II, 2005 to 2012</p><p>Led team of as many as six program managers using three different graphics vendors to deliver video driver and video BIOS solutions on notebook products. Facilitated quarterly business reviews with graphics vendors, assessing new technologies and planning implementation into mobile products. Scheduled planning and resource allocation for video software deliverables. </p><p>Key Accomplishments:</p><p> • Coordinated first relationship between HP and nVidia to successfully deliver Netbooks and first commercial tablet (long before competitive tablets such as the IPad Pro or Surface Pro) -- TC1000.</p><p> • Managed video software deliverables, meeting scheduled timelines for graphics driver for HP's first commercial 14" mobile workstation and first commercial Netbooks.</p><p>Compaq/HP, Individual Project Manager, 2001 to 2005</p><p>Individually Project Managed various audio and graphics drivers for commercial notebooks.</p><p><br></p><p>Professional Sabbatical, 2018 to Current</p><p>Professional Sabattical to assist with family healthcare issues</p><p> • Basic refresher on C#, Currently in process of obtaining PMP and CSM certifications</p><p>Education</p><p>Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering</p><p>The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX</p><p>Technical Proficiency</p><p>Microsoft Office Suite, Programming and Computer Architecture (C, C++, C#, UEFI/BIOS, x86 Architecture), Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, Project Management, Program Management, Risk Management, Budget</p><p>Awards </p><p>HP, PC Quality Award, 2013</p><p>Awarded for work on core BIOS contributing to streamlining costs and improving quality by consolidating core BIOS between three different business divisions. </p><p><br></p>