David Tesch

About David Tesch

Accomplished, integrity-driven leader with over 30 years of software engineering and…

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Leader, Connectivity Systems

   Thales

   Oct 2011 — Present

   Director-level leader of a global $450M revenue-generating major airline Connectivity and In-Flight Entertainment business segment. Leading a development team located across the US, Poland, Brazil, and India in all aspects of software development, software integration, test, and maintenance of wireless in-flight entertainment systems and associated support systems. • Providing vision and guidance in building high quality products that meet the business needs. • Building and maintaining high-performing, autonomous software engineering teams. • Oversight of the end-to-end software development life cycle and associated agile methodology. • Directing the development of complex DO-178-compliant embedded airborne software solutions. • Monitoring progress and managing workload utilizing Jira, Confluence, Git/Bitbucket, and Jama. • Providing proactive leadership. • Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent. • Introduced an Agile process that has improved the productivity of the development teams. • Interface with internal departments to ensure open and effective communication and smooth transition of work products between organizations. • Interact regularly with management and stakeholders to communicate status.

Education

• University of Central Florida

  B.S., Computer Science

Skills

• Systems Design
• Embedded Systems
• Html
• Software Design
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Embedded Software
• Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Program Management
• System Testing
• Test Automation
• System Design
• Embedded Linux
• Unix
• Requirements Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• System Architecture
• C++
• Testing
• Troubleshooting
• Integration
• C#