Eric Yarrow

About Eric Yarrow

Experienced, enthusiastic, servant leader who works across organizational boundaries to improve the everyday experience of Developers with new tools, processes and infrastructure. Leverages experience of managing product teams to create a shared understanding of Development pains. Proven track record of managing growing organizations by identifying, nurturing and promoting future leaders internally along with finding the best external candidates. Driven by the respect for all customers, both external and internal, to find the best solutions at the lowest cost. A problem solver who looks to leverage both hard data and soft feedback to get to the root causes of what is slowing down Development teams. Excellent interpersonal skills; experienced with working across all levels and across organizational boundaries

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Infrastructure & Architecture

   MathWorks

   Jan 2016 — Present

   Senior Manager: 2013 - PresentManages a multi-level team (Managers, Team Leads and Individual Contributors) responsible for multiple areas including (build infrastructure for multiple languages, OS/compiler upgrades, new architecture porting, platform integration with vendor OS\'s, core foundation libraries)Driving multiple activities to improve developer productivity such as: upgrading infrastructure capabilities, metrics to measure and improve build times, improved developer sandbox workflowsCollaborating with multiple Development teams to implement and leverage new capabilities in the build and product infrastructure for their product requirements

Education

• Virginia Tech

  BS, Aerospace Engineering

Skills

• Software Development
• Algorithms
• Embedded Systems
• Object Oriented Design
• C++
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Matlab
• C
• Process Improvement
• Quality Engineering/Assurance
• Software Process Improvement
• Testing
• Sdlc
• Software Development Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Automation