Tod B.

Software Development Manager for the Ebook Vendor Experience in the Kindle group at Amazon. We build the systems that large publishers use to send millions of ebooks to Amazon. Responsible for team management, cross-team project management, Scrum Master role, operational management, planning, and people management. - Managed a software development team that developed and maintained the ingestion of all Kindle EBooks from all, large publishers, worldwide. - Agile Development – Scrum and Kanban methodologies used, create a custom “ScrumBan” method developed to balance new features and operations. - Large amount of data, highly scaled systems with high availability. - International work with customers, publishers, and other Amazon teams. - Large amount of cross-team coordination.

I managed a team of software developers and testers who use Agile Scrum methodology to make software for the world's largest technology company. Our applications managed billions of dollars in transactions each year - more than 70% of their enterprise business. We developed both Windows desktop and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications using Microsoft .Net, Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server. We deployed sprints to production every month - on time, with good quality, and my team worked normal hours. We also consistently exceed our up-time commitments. Responsibilities included people management, project management, requirements gathering, scrum master, high level architecture.