Sandra Carrico
Scarrico@pacbell.net
(650) 996-7799
15+ years experience covering the entire product life cycle including managing and creating marketing requirements, engineering requirements, architecture, design, development, QA, and second line customer support. I have guided and mentored people at all levels while also instilling a structured development process. The projects included large scale efforts working with geographically dispersed groups and small and focused projects. For example, I have led development on ASP type applications, web based applications, and co-invented the patented architecture of a world class GSM testing system.
· Migrated development process of early stage start up development organization to more mature process.
· Experienced in leading code reviews and reviewing direct report’s code.
· Contributed to and studied requirements for high availability of the 5ESS switch.
· Established track record of leading teams to invent and deliver on a schedule.
· Experienced in first and second line management, including budget responsibility, and P&L.
· Broad business experience including creation of business plans, financial plans, international and domestic product rollout, sales training, customer training, and pricing.
· Filed one or more patents at several companies (2 granted, 3 in process).
Engineering Consulting 2003-Present
Carnus Systems (Role: VP Engineering) 2005 - Present
Created product roadmap and led engineering effort for first product, a demand forecasting system for the hospitality industry. Product is a hosted .NET ASP application using AI for its predictions.
DealCloset (Role: Founder) 2003 - Present
Created, coded, and launched search engine optimization based affiliate marketing business. Web sites are Linux based with code written in C, Perl, Python, XML, HTML, and shell scripts. All HTML composed in vi editor.
· Initial revenue generated in 2 months
· Cash flow positive in 3 months
· Recognized as significant affiliate (BeFree performance partner) in 6 months
· 1 patent filed
Qualcomm (Role: Management Consulting) 2004
Created experimental design and statistical framework for calculating return on investment (ROI) for a truck trailer tracking system.
AOL Time Warner 2003 – 2004
Senior Engineering
Manager/Systems Architect
Managed
group of eight distributed locally and in
Engineering Consulting 2002-2003
Habitat for Humanity (Role: Web Services Architect)
Designed and implemented .NET Web Services/Sql Server solution to manage support and distribution of computers in homes of Peninsula Habitat for Humanity families.
Tap
Led metrics collecting and reporting database initiative. Managed schedule, technical contributors and requirements.
Cataphora,
Responsible for managing all engineering tasks (12 reports) including J2EE based architecture at early stage startup focused on legal electronic discovery market. The group’s responsibilities included development of the GUI, secure web site, data analysis, search engine integration, and delivering products on NT and Linux.
AT&T LABS, Menlo Park 2000-2002
District
Manager (equivalent to Director of Engineering)
Responsible for day-to-day management (~10 reports) of hardware and software team, including $5 Million budget, group project selection and direction, contract negotiation, financial plans, and go-to market plans.
·
Led VoIP devices group that included members
from the
· Second line management of messaging software:
o Development split between CA and NJ.
o Code deployed across two companies, and threes units: PocketNet, WorldNet, and AGNS.
· Applied for two patents in IPSec security space that impact many new IPSec hardware devices.
· Co-wrote the business plan that set the standard for independent spin-offs of research efforts.
· Led creation, and inspected boot driver code of a powerful wearable XScale evaluation board, to enables software sales into the embedded, telematics, handheld, and wearable space.
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Projects used/involved: Unix, C, C++, speech,
FPGA’s, board design, VoiceXML & board layout.
AURIGIN
SYSTEMS,
Director, Engineering
Senior engineering director at a 70 person pre-IPO
startup managing both individual contributors and first line managers (~14
reports). Their responsibilities included
development of the GUI, server, documentation, QA, second line support, and
consulting projects.
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Managed offshore
development integrating portion of flag ship product and third party
application: Shipped on time on budget.
·
Managed software
development and documentation teams to produce a complete product for 5
releases at Aurigin. Managed QA for four
of those five releases.
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One release
shipped one month early, all other releases shipped within one month of
deadline.
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Managed all
product development aspects of a web based annotation product including
invention, development and product management (patent pending, proprietary).
·
Optimized
existing infrastructure for application service provider (ASP) application:
Increased quality of service for patent delivery, remote searching, and patent
citation tree generation. Co-led
initiatives requiring coordination between, engineering teams, operations,
support and marketing.
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Projects used/involved: MFC, C++, COM, DCOM, customization of IE 5.0, SQL server, and VB.
RATIONAL
SOFTWARE,
Product Manager
Provided full product marketing and product
management services for Rose Developer, Rational Apex C/C++, and Apex Duo. These responsibilities include product
definition, requirements, beta programs, creation of training material, sales
training, customer presentations and demos, launch, advertisement, seminars and
direct mail.
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Simultaneously
launched Rational Apex C/C++ & Rational Apex Duo in Europe, Asia, and
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Established
co-marketing relationships and negotiated OEM rights for software worth
$250,000.
·
Prototyped
initial Apex C/C++ Java extensions and then managed the engineering effort for
Rational Rose C/C++ & Apex C/C++ integration.
·
Project
used/involved: C, C++, embedded systems, RTOS’s, Java.
AT&T
Member of Technical Staff
Software Production Research (SPR) - Project manager: Re-engineering
and technology transfer
·
Participated
in projects that studied and improved processes associated with large scale
software development
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Bridged
gap between ad-hoc research development style, and highly structured software
development environment of 5ESS.
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Provided
unifying vision from technical and organizational perspective producing a
product on time and useful for all four user communities.
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Contributed
to work on automatic generation of tests from specifications, reorganization of
80,000 employees, and on visualizing large data sets.
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Delivered product adhering to 5ESS high
availability standards, which improved every database integrity constraint for
the 5ESS.
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Planned
and scheduled technical activities across 3 disparate departments in two states
facilitating success of a project that failed three previous times.
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Set
work assignments for 9 project members, optimizing team's activities to produce
maximum product functionality without sacrificing team morale.
.
Software Systems and
Technologies - Technical leader: New 4GL for protocol testing
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Improved tools infrastructure to enhance
high availability requirements for 5ESS switch.
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Lead the development of a patented protocol
message level test system that is used to test GSM switches today.
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Provided intermediate milestones for
other project members: Delivered on-time.
Advanced Software
Technology - Software developer: 4GL for call processing testing
·
Implemented a language to support
call-processing testing in the automated testing system
Networking Software -
User interface designer: Versions 3.1 – 3.3 AT&T STARLAN Router.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Master of Science in
Computer Science:
Bachelor of Science in
Computer Science: Northwestern
University,
Leadership Development Program (AT&T sponsored executive MBA), 2001
Problem solving leadership (PSL) 2000
No less than 100 hours per year in continuing education for the last 6 years.