alix pouladdej

Consultant: Managed technical sales and program management of mbile Android handset devices to customers in North American market.  Worked directly with the ODM located in Shenzhen/China. Managed all aspects of product delivery including customer facing responsibilities, requirements gathering, software/hardware R&D management (offshore team, SDLC, Agile embedded development), and manufacturing logistics and factory rollout scheduling.

Program Management, risk assessment & management, portfolio management, cross-functional leadership (QA, SW & HW, Electrical & Mechanical). Schedule & budget management. Full SDLC (Agile Development/ Scrum), issue tracking & escalation (JIRA), Vendor & OEM Management. [Director level role.] Technology Focus: SaaS, IoT & Mobile (3G & LTE), Mobile/Web Apps, Certification Activities, Agile/Scrum, JIRA, SDLC, Device Drivers, Embedded Modules, Embedded SW Development, Mobile / Web Application Development (C, C++ & Java), Linux, Windows O/S & UI/UX.  Cross-functionally managed multiple product development teams (from concept to delivery) and test/certification teams (mobile, embedded & application enterprise software development) ensuring overall quality, content and delivery schedules; local & internationally distributed teams. Chairing the weekly cross-functional meetings for status updates, issues resolution & escalation. Providing executive leadership with weekly portfolio progress reports.

A customer-facing, SW implementation and technical program manager. Responsible for connectivity (Enterprise) application software products. Managed PC-OEM customers including HP, DELL, and SONY, and Tier-1 carriers such as Verizon.  Partnered with sales and marketing for product launches, and legal department for software licensing and contract negotiations  Managed all customer and vendor relationships including requirements gathering and product planning, scheduling of milestones, deliverables, logistics and risk assessment and mitigation  Built strong relationships with internal and external teams including OEMs, Vendors and 3rd party companies  OCM: Successfully rolled out a customer/vendor process for receiving SW modules and delivery of SW products to the customer which was used by various internal teams as well as our customer and vendors  Technology Focus: Mobile / IoT, SaaS, WiFi, BT/NFC, SDLC, JIRA, Device Drivers, Web Application Development, TFS (Team Foundation Server), SQL/RDBMS, Linux, Windows

Data Science & Medical Imaging: Development of Medical Imaging Software Applications for Collecting and Analysing EGG/MEG data. Linux, Unix-to-Lnix software port, C, C++, Java, MySQL, SDLC, DICOM, HIPPA.  Regulated Industry Work; Medical Imaging (DICOM), Clinical MEG, ISO13485, 21 CFR 820, HIPPA, NIST. Internal Auditor, assessing overall product quality based on ISO 13485, the FDA's QSR's as well as European and Canadian regulations. Optimization, and GUI Development for medical imaging – specifically, application of data science for analysis of MSI/MEG-related neuro-imaging information for epilepsy analysis and neurosurgery.

Data Science & Analytics: Statistical Modelling, Algorithm Development, with Data Generation, Processing & Validation. Unix, C, C++, csh, tcsh, RDBMS (PostgreSQL.)  Generating large random data sets (big data, based on given statistical models) for lottery systems, with customer-facing responsibilities including requirements gathering and product delivery.

* Dispensing R & D PM—Cross-functional Management of Dispensing R&D programs/projects at BD. * Consultant: Director level role.] *  Lead cross-functional teams of Software (SDLC), Hardware and Quality for dispensing products *  Successfully manage a product line with a budget of $4M and a book-value of greater than $100M. *  Provide program updates for weekly cross-functional meetings, and manage product issues escalation *  Partner with Product Management to assess product roadmap, and ensure successful execution to the program plan. Chair weekly core-team meetings to address cross-functional program issues

Professor @ Physics & Engineering Department. Technical Instruction: Physics and Engineering.