Ali Shahheidari

Experience

1. Engineering Software Development, Sr Management

   Trimble Inc.

   Nov 2017 — Present

   Trimble Unity is a fully-integrated, owner and contractor-centric, cloud-based construction software focused exclusively on meeting the needs of facility owners and construction professionals. Trimble Unity Construct (aka e-Builder Enterprise) flagship product is an end-to-end Project Management Information Solution (PMIS) delivering outcomes from capital planning and design through commissioning. Leader of a multi GEO product development team working directly with CTO/VP of technology to develop a cloud based SaaS construction project and program management software. Responsible for all aspects of product development for defect maintenance, performance, new features, cloud release, and continuous automation. In charge of multiple features and functional teams for the e-Builder product line (i.e. Authentication, iOS mobile application, BIM, API, Boomi integration, product performance, and continuous automation). Responsible for managing the product development delivery lifecycle by leveraging the agile Kanban methodology via Jira. Working closely with the CTO, engineering leaders, Product Management and UX teams to ensure product and maintenance releases are aligned with client requirements, and are released to market with proper agile and product development lifecycle methodologies (i.e. Requirement story mapping/grooming, BDD, Code Review, Security, Certifications/Compliance, Agile Kanban, etc.). Work closely with the SaaS operation team on AWS environment deployments, integrations, and monitoring. Close partnership with customer support, customer success, business analyst and e-Builder clients to ensure quality and timely maintenance and feature releases. Responsible for managing over a million dollar contractor resourcing and tools OpEx budget. Spearheaded an outsourced automation team in Ukraine to develop an automation regression test suite CI/CD pipeline, hence ensuring quality and continuous cloud delivery of e-Builder product-line.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  B.S. Electrical Engineering

• Nova Southeastern University

  Master of Business Administration

Skills

• Saas
• Software Project Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Virtualization
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration
• Automated Software Testing
• Distributed Systems
• Software Testing Life Cycle
• Citrix
• Vdi
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Cloud Computing
• Product Development
• Test Automation
• Testing