Brian McGinnis
Director, Platform Engineering @Siemens Digital Industries Software
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Platform Engineering @Siemens Digital Industries Software
Portland, OR, US
EDUCATION
Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering
Oregon State University
Masters of Science, Mechanical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT BRIAN MCGINNIS
SUMMARYProven software engineering experience in a wide range of technically challenging industries including SaaS (16 yrs), Big Data (5 yrs), high speed printing, point of sale and CAD/CAE. Experience working in both large corporate structured environments as well as smaller entrepreneurial based startups. A pragmatic results driven solutions finder for technical, process, or management oriented problems.Looking to foster innovation and creativity in a healthy work environment towards the goal of creating business value for a successful company. Driven to facilitate the growth and well being of both the engineering organization and the individual engineers that participate in it.QUALIFICATIONSProduct DevelopmentSuccessfully managed the development of a many SaaS services and software products through their full life cycle. Worked across functional boundaries with multi-disciplinary teams to release new products. Evaluated new technologies and processes for inclusion into product offerings. Introduced and supported new agile development techniques such Kanban and Scrum to engineering organizations.Engineering ManagementProvided leadership and management directly to small teams of 5 -10 and indirectly through subordinate managers/directors to organizations as large as 70. Directly responsible for the hiring, reviewing and promotion of development team members and managers. Grew several engineering organizations from small starter teams of less than 10 to larger organizations of over 70. Managed teams responsible for application development, DevOps, mobile, UX design, quality assurance, documentation, and hosting /data center operations.Strategic PlanningDefined and executed yearly objectives & key results for entire engineering departments. Worked with sales, marketing and support to determine development priorities and product roadmaps. Produced functional requirements specifications based on marketing inputs for several new product development efforts.
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