Roger's Work History

Work History:

Honeywell Fire Systems, Northford, CT 2010 - present

Offers a full range of fire solutions to OEMs and distributors worldwide.

Design Validation Manager

Managed a portfolio of 5 PC-based products with a budget of $10 M, highlighted by a ground-breaking Address Cleansing SAAS offering. Team split ~50% between on-shore and off-shore (India) resources. Reported to the VP of Internet and PC Software Development.

Pitney Bowes Inc, Shelton, CT 1997- 2010

A $6 B global mail, print, document processing and business service

Senior Manager, Mail Creation Software Solutions

Selected Accomplishments:

Improved performance and predictability by managing risk and reducing the defect and resolution rejection rates, ensuring 100% on time and on budget deliverables, resulting in a $2M budget reduction.
Implemented changes that increased productivity by at least 15%.

Engineering Manager, Mail Creation Embedded Software

Managed a software development and test organization with a portfolio of 8 new product development efforts. Utilized 20% off-shore resources (China). Successfully led the embedded software team of a major Tabletop Inserter project which enjoyed strong sales in spite of the economic downturn. Played an active role in the development and implementation of the Embedded Software Solutions (ESS) Strategic Framework. Reported to the ESS VP.

Selected Accomplishments:

Led the team to the highest productivity measured (by far) within the Embedded Software department.
Identified/implemented improvements in product reliability and increased functional flexibility by 20%.
Improved organizations’ effectiveness, reducing the defect rate by 20% and the defect resolution rejection rate by 50%.
Pioneered and championed software productivity metrics and defect/change tracking development and adoption.

Engineering Manager, Integrated Systems Engineering

Managed a Systems Engineering Functional organization while acting as the Lead Systems Engineer on a large cross-functional team developing the latest generation Mailing Machine product.

Selected Accomplishments:

Upon joining project, developed integrated release plan, identifying several significant schedule challenges and facilitated redeployment of resources to achieve commitments.

Engineering Manager, Trusted Coprocessor Development

Established and managed a center of excellence for all mission-critical security development including Postal Security Devices, secure print heads and infrastructure security coprocessors protecting the annual management of over $20 B in postal funds. Roles included Key Management System Steering Committee Chairman (oversight committee responsible for security related decisions comprised of the Directors of 6 stakeholder organizations) and Product Security Liaison (interfacing with International Postal Authorities and product teams). Actively participated in Universal Postal Union (worldwide postal organization) committee activities to streamline the international postal approval process.

Selected Accomplishments:

Established an effective organization that removed security concerns from the critical path of new product development projects while delivering significant cost savings (multi-million dollar) and improved ROI through an object-oriented architecture that resulted in a 50% reduction in development/support staff.
Improved relationships with Global Postal Authorities while meeting security requirements cost-effectively.
Accelerated time to market as a result of unprecedented reductions in the time required to achieve new postal meter approvals. Approval costs reduced by at least 33%.

Section Manager/Senior Software Engineer

Managed the Meter Products Group with responsibility for embedded software development of 9 International Postal Meter products. The portfolio consisted of the highest volume meter products, from low-end to mid-range. Software Core Team member responsible for a team of 8 engineers developing a postal mailing machine utilizing C and C++. Architected security policy and protocols for secure funds handling utilizing smart card technology.

Selected Accomplishments:

Led the development of a Common Vault Architecture platform to support the entire postal meter product line.
Enabled quicker time-to-market at lower cost for new Postal Meter product developments. Enjoyed development savings in excess of $1 million dollars.
All projects were delivered to schedule and budget.

Sikorsky Aircraft, UTC, Stratford, CT 1989 – 1997

Senior Software Engineer

Technical Lead of a group of 10 engineers responsible for the development of the head-down display man-machine interface of a light reconnaissance helicopter. Architected the kernel and application software with an emphasis on reconfigurability and graceful degradation. Responsible from conception through system integration.

Co-authored standards and conventions for developing requirements using the Real-Time Structured Analysis methodology and have authored both detailed design and coding standards. These led to well-defined, repeatable processes producing cohesive and understandable requirements, designs, and documentation resulting in successful projects.

Co-chairman of the Controls and Displays (C & D) Interface Control Working Group, whose charter was to develop an multi-company Interface Control Document specifying all of the interfaces between the cockpit control and display devices.

Developed the C & D Design Document sections as a member of a Tiger Team. Generated detailed timelines, white papers, and operational sequence diagrams necessary to allocate system requirements to the appropriate C & D prime items.

Responsible for the software integration of the high resolution ground mapping ground moving target track submode of a multi-mode radar system while on temporary assignment to Norden Systems. This task was completed on schedule despite its having been seriously behind schedule prior to my involvement.

Completed system integration of the dual cockpit capability of a Demonstration/Validation program on schedule, resulting in a successful demonstration that led to contract award.

Designed, coded, unit tested, and integrated crewstation interface software developed utilizing object-oriented design.

Conducted requirements analysis for a workstation based front-end for a computer-aided process planning system.

Developed an automated tool to generate a detailed design document from information contained within source code files resulting in considerable cost and schedule savings.

Norden Systems, UTC, Norwalk, CT 1982 – 1989

Software Engineer

Designed, coded, tested, and integrated radar modal control application tasks. Integration Coordinator of Flight Test Tiger Team.

Developed application software and a multi-mode radar system high resolution ground mapping and moving target tracking sub-mode.

Software Team Leader responsible for the design, code, unit test, and integration of tasks for the development of a digital TACFIRE modem utilizing a TMS32020 Digital Signal Processor.

Led the Software and Systems Integration group and the Flight Test Integration Tiger Team.

Provided software and system support for operational test, both in the lab and in the field, for a large Command, Control and Communications (C³) project. Conducted requirements analysis, lesson plan review, pre‑production product improvement, and software modification (to improve system through‑put) and performed analysis of its Real Time Operating System (RTOS).

Software Group and Systems Integration Leader responsible for the Supervisor and Database Transfer functional applications groups. Designed, coded, unit tested, and integrated applications software.