Don Mitchell Resume

Objective

A Director of Engineering or Engineering Manager position with an enthusiastic, quality driven team

Ten years engineering management and project lead experience in both startup and large corporate environments
Over 14 years of full software development life cycle experience including ownership over product architecture, development, documentation, QA, maintenance, and support
Strong team focus with interest in employee development and objective setting
Committed to continuous process improvements with effective and sensible application of test-driven, agile development methodologies
Interested in technology trends, especially Java and web related, with focus on practical application of new technologies
Strong design and architecture skills
Passionate about creating quality, maintainable products
Excellent communication skills

Java, JUnit, Hibernate, MySQL, Oracle, Ant, Emma, Subversion (SVN), CVS, Swing, JSP/Struts, J2EE, Unix, Bash, Cygwin, Eclipse, Vim, Wiki

Delivered 4 feature rich releases of Attensity's Swing-based Discover product in 8 months including the replacement of the application's legacy data layer with a database agnostic Hibernate-based implementation
Delivered 7 releases of Attensity Server (Attensity's natural language processing server) in 2 years, with many intermediate iterations, supporting multiple J2EE, database, and OS platforms
Introduced testing, design, and development technologies, techniques, and standards
Delivered prototypes of Attensity's Warranty product, integrating a custom J2EE based application with Cognos ReportNet
Managed Engineering, QA, and Tech Pub teams for the delivery of multiple end-user applications
Negotiated features and release dates with application stakeholders including marketing, sales, professional services, QA, and customers
Established internal milestones and managed delivery among QA, Tech Pubs, Sales, and Professional Services
Coached team members, establishing personal goals focused on career and team development
Identified team member skills and created short and long term staffing plans
Led high level design and architecture discussions
Reviewed designs, code, tests, and customer documentation
Encouraged reuse by identifying and developing common components across applications
Evaluated and recommended 3rd party ETL and Reporting products for integration with Attensity's products
Created and maintained the continuous integration, nightly build, and testing framework

Senior developer for a new J2EE-based platform supporting the future growth and integration of Peregrine's disparate Infrastructure Management products
Developed the Java object model used in the product's UI and workflow engine to describe virtually any B2B or workflow process
Established programming and design standards with a team of Tech Leads
Led a three member team creating an automated JMX-based installation tool for the deployment of J2EE applications and the configuration of WebLogic domains
Designed a set of component-based Ant build scripts for development, nightly test, and installation environments

Managed the software development team responsible for building iSharp's Performance Testing Service software. iSharp was a Managed Service Provider (MSP) offering hosted solutions for performance and load testing of e-commerce and B2B web sites
As the 4th engineer, helped design and develop a Java application that simulates distributed HTTP and HTTPS traffic to a web site at a user session level. The software generated upward of 15,000 simultaneous users actively navigating a web site. The software recorded performance related statistics that could be used to gauge the overall user experience and pinpoint bottlenecks in the customer's e-commerce solution
Defined product requirements with Product Managers
Identified the engineering staffing needs, wrote job descriptions, and screened candidates for roles in management, engineering, QA, professional services, and marketing
Developed the application infrastructure used for logging, administrative control, and process launching to allow for the simultaneous startup and shutdown of the application across multiple servers

Technical and project lead on AT&T Software Defined Network Service Management System (a voice and data VPN telephony offering), a CMM Level 2 certified project utilizing C, Pro*C, HP-UX, Oracle, and HP Service Guard for high-availability and disaster recovery
Authored, reviewed, and implemented external interface agreements
Reviewed requirements, designs, code, and test plans to insure correctness and adherence to established team and division standards
Estimated the size and scope of new features and user requests (including function point analysis)
Used a C-like programming language to develop the network-based routing software used in support of AT&T's middle, high-end, and government telephony services
Responsible for the backend network provisioning architecture
Authored production deployment plans, coordinated releases with work centers and external applications and created the release back-out plans (which were never needed)
Analyzed the C/HP-UX application for operating system upgrades
Benchmarked the performance of several UNIX platforms and development tool sets including HP, Sun, and NCR to replace an existing Pyramid SVR2 UNIX platform

Seton Hall University · South Orange, NJ

Lafayette College · Easton, PA