Hillel A. Meyers
3020 W. Jerome St.
Chicago, Illinois 60645
(773) 761-0956 (Home) - (847) 456-2698 (Cell)
Hillel.Meyers@gmail.com
SUMMARY
An innovative software engineering professional with solid experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle, SDLC. Established leader in quality, and process improvement. A problem solver, consensus builder, known for creating a team based culture of continuous improvement. Comfortable working with diverse groups. Looking to contribute to an organization as a Project or Resource Manager or as an individual contributor.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PANASONIC, Buffalo Grove, IL January 2008 – August 2008
Project Manager and Process Analyst
Panasonic Factory Solutions of America
Project Release Manager in a multisite development including Chicago, Japan and India. Introduced new project predictive tracking tools that kept the compressed schedule release on-time. Lead the consolidation of tools servers - old server was a source of defect tracking system outage. Identified process improvement initiatives with a directive to get CMMI Level 5. Managed India based technical writing team. Drove the reduction of technical writing change request backlog, which increased focus on the new product deliverables. Contractor with Kelly IT Resources. Reason for leaving: successfully completed contract.
MOTOROLA INC., Schaumburg, IL 1986 –2007
A leader in the design and manufacture of high technology communication products for industrial, commercial and consumer markets
Section Manager, Division Software Configuration Management (SCM) Team 1998 –2007
iDEN Infrastructure Division
Networks and Enterprise Group
iDEN, Integrated Digital Enhanced Network, supports 2-way dispatch, Push-to-Talk, voice, data, and paging on one subscriber unit and one cellular system. This technology is brought to the market by Nextel.
Led SCM Team of up to 12 engineers that supported 10 development teams from Motorola’s iDEN, WLAN, and WiMAX divisions. Directed SCM plans covering development, building, and maintenance of code in a concurrent release, concurrent feature, multiple platforms, and multiple site environments. Plans were written for waterfall projects and Agile iterative development projects. Direct contribution in all aspects of Release Management.
Increased client base, the number of supported teams, using increased automation and process simplification, without increasing personnel. Improved customer support creating pool of CM engineers – managing peak and off-peak requests.
Built strong team-based relationships with client management in a field that demands short response times to the critical path SCM deliverables.
Reduced cost by 50% to support configuration management by transitioning client support to off-shore team in India. Managed the transition and the continual relationship with the off-shore team.
Reduced load build cycle time by 50%. Improved critical-path load status communication allowing better scheduling of development and quality assurance test resources. This was achieved by creating formal load request tool and process with built-in communication and cycle-time metrics.
Conceived and directed unique defect-resolution cycle-time reduction initiative creating a Web based knowledge access portal. The portal contained a search engine to data mine source code contained in Clearcase repositories and in the defect tracking database. This knowledge sharing application provided an infrastructure to improve development and defect-resolution cycle-time.
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Removed process and technology defects reducing roadblocks and delay in the critical path software development activities. Identified activities that supported initiatives beyond traditional CM deliverables. Chaired division’s Defect Prevention Council, co-authored first charter.
Enabled Motorola uniform size metrics which provided a standard metrics infrastructure for quality and productivity. Coauthored Code Size Measurement Standard, Source Size Measurement Tool development and rollout.
Headed team responsible to bring Division’s SCM processes in compliance for CMM Level 5, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s, Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) model. Activities included identifying process discrepancies, and implementing corrective actions. This led to the division earning the rating of CMM Level 5. Produced and recorded training. Participated in Sector’s Global Digital Six Sigma Vital X SEI Level 5 SCM team.
Section Manager, iDEN DAP Environments Team 1997 – 2001
Directed Motorola’s iDEN Dispatch Application Processor (DAP) User Interface Team supporting customer and Motorola user interfaces to the DAP network element. In 1998, the position was extended to include the DAP SCM team. In 2001, the growing SCM client base coincided with department restructuring, with my focus remaining on CM.
Staff Engineer, Corporate Software Research and Development 1993 – 1997
Responsible in identifying new Motorola Platforms and new software development processes.
Key projects included Digital Book, USC COCOMO 2.0 Software Estimation Research Program, and 24-Hour Continuous Engineering research program.
Development Engineer, Control Centers Engineering, Land Mobile Products Sector 1986 – 1992
Held multiple positions of increased responsibility up to Senior Engineer.
Developed real-time embedded software applications in C and Pascal for communication 2-way dispatch, consoles typically used by health and safety organizations. Responsibilities spanned the software life cycle, including project planning, architecture, analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. Mentoring younger engineers and training field engineers. Recognized as a process improvement and tools development leader.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honor Society
US Patent - 4987599 - Communication Control Console Center with Improved Volume Control
US Patent - 5191607 - Ring Tone with Disable
5 Internal Motorola Patent disclosures
Recipient of numerous department recognitions for process improvement leadership
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Project Management Professional (PMP) – Expected November 2008
Motorola Quality Yellow Badge – Software Engineering and Management Training – Motorola University
Motorola University – course work included “Risk Engineering and Management” and “SEI CMMI”.
Master of Science – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago – 1991
Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago – 1986
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Expert on configuration management technology and processes.
Worked in IBM/Rational ClearCase and DDTS Environment for 9 years.
Well versed in Structured Methods, Agile Methodology and Iterative Development.
Proficient in KornShell, UNIX, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), C, Pascal, Perl.