Douglas Sanders

About Douglas Sanders

A transformative Senior Executive Leader with demonstrated background mobilizing, influencing, and guiding agile software development & engineering teams, IT organizations, and strategic partners toward desired goals and objectives. Consistently exceeds business and customer expectations while leveraging excellent communication & presentation skills and vast industry knowledge. Highly experienced creating, developing, and evolving IT organizations and divisions globally, with the highest regard to quality. Strong knowledge and background with corporate mergers and acquisitions. Expertise includes software development methodologies, Cloud Computing & migration, process improvement, lean & agile best practices, tools integration, operational management, enterprise data management, digital transformation. cost optimization; leadership and mentoring, quality engineering, automated testing, outsourcing, globalization, IT governance, mergers and acquisitions, and executive reporting. Recognized for building and unifying diverse teams across departmental and industry boundaries in fast-paced, complex technology environments. Over 30+ years of media and IT experience with 15+ years focused on cable, video, and content delivery. Passion for learning and technology, with experience in team building and unifying diverse teams across departmental and industry boundaries in fast paced, complex technology environments.Specialties: Developing highly dynamic, innovative & creative, forward thinking, and agile start-up organizations and teams. Growing and developing processes and procedures in global environments, Team building, System Design, Development methodology, On-boarding offshore teams, Effectively managing diverse teams in multiple geographic locations, Public Speaking and advanced communications.Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams nationally and globally.

Experience

1. Director Quality Engineering

   Light & Wonder

   Apr 2024 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US

   Light & Wonder is a global leader in game experiences. With unsurpassed committment to excellence, creativity, and superior quality L&W connects players to a new world of entertainment and excitement!Light & Wonders creates immersive content that forges lasting connections with players, wherever they choose to engage. Constant innovation and out of the box thinking is foundational to LnW\'s success.

Education

• Learning Tree International

  Influence Skills: Getting Results Without Direct Authority

  2008 — 2008

• Vidiom

  OCAP Essentials

  2006 — 2006

• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  B.S., Telecommunications, Engineering

  1991 — 1995

• Penn State Great Valley

  Java Programming, Computer Science

• WebMethods Inc.

  webMethods Integration Workshop

  2005 — 2005

• Scaled Agile Academy

  SAFe Practitioner (SP), Agile - SAFe ScrumXP (Scrum, Lean, and XP inspired practices)

  2014

• Los Angeles Jobs

  Certified Recording Engineer, Audio Recording and production

  1989 — 1990

• Mercator International

  Mercator Mapping certification, Data mapping and design

  2000 — 2000

• Scaled Agile Academy

  Scaled Agile Framework Agilist, Scaled Agile Framework, lean thinking, and product development flow

  2013

• West Virginia University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General

• Sun Microsystems

  Web Component Development with JAVA - Certification, Web Component Development with JAVA

  2003 — 2003

• Learning Tree International

  Building High-Performance Teams, Organizational Leadership

  2010 — 2010

Skills

• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Php
• Access
• Ldap
• Testng
• Soap
• Subversion
• Load Testing
• Ias
• Mysql
• Spring Webflow
• Process Development
• Agile
• Shell Scripting
• Java
• Apache
• Soa
• Tomcat
• Ant
• Continuous Integration
• Performance Management
• Automation
• Weblogic
• Javascript
• Db2/Sql
• Xml
• Informix
• Team Leadership
• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Scrum
• Perl
• J2ee
• Junit
• Jsp
• Jira
• T-Sql
• Data Mapping
• Team Management