Ken Lambert

About Ken Lambert

Recognized technology leader who delivers solutions that achieve business goals while developing people and teams. Collaboratively defines strategic vision/direction and delivers technology solutions that improve the top-line/bottom-line, while improving competitive position. Success with start-up, fast growth, turnaround and transformational change type environments. Leader of teams through transformational change (progressive technologies/architectures, organizations and processes) Dynamic and positive leader who recruits/develops high caliber teams that execute with an agile collaborative mindset. Successfully integrated disparate development organizations that are geographically dispersed into a unified teams working collaboratively. Extensive M&A background. Developer of small and large global software teams that delivered award-winning products that resulted in significant increases in market share and revenue growth.Motivator and developer of teams, grown through the ranks from sw engineer to member of the executive leadership team. Provide mentoring, coaching, and positive contemporary leadership philosophy. Advocate of agile methodologies while incorporating enterprise software life cycle (SDLC) to ensure quality products on schedule. SW feature and maintenance release cycle and cadence around agile scrum/kanban.Highly technical, hands-on, strategic leader that is responsible for growth enabling technologies with comprehensive experience in software, SDLC and solutions development. Specialty focus in cloud/SaaS based applications, analytics and machine learning.Specialties:SaaS /cloud infrastructure and applications (amazon and google)Software architectures/solutions (IaaS, SaaS).REST APIs and clean efficient microservcesCloud based SW infrastructure (containers, VMs, serverless)Open Source frameworks (Apache - Angular, STORM, YARN, Kafka, Spark, SLIDER, FLUME, Hbase, Phoenix, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc).Mobile applicationsSDN Networking/securityAgile Scrum/KanbanContact: k••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Chief Software Officer (Software Development)

   Unitas Global

   Sep 2018 — Present · Raleigh-Durham, NC, US

   Responsible for Unitas Global software product development team which includes software development, QA, product management and project management. This includes product definition, strategy, architecture, and execution to deliver Saas/Cloud based (Google Cloud Platform) software infrastructure, applications, and analytics to enable managing and automating end to end design, quoting and ordering of connectivity for hybrid cloud solutions. Key Highlights- Reengineered solution to scale which included microservices, rest APIs and efficient DB design- Transformed a team that struggled defining and getting product out the door to one that is able to precisely define market requirements and deliver to the market with incremental feature and maintenance releases- Revamped team environment from a fragmented and disjointed environment to a motivated and empowered culture that fostered accountability and innovation-Re-engineered team (product management, project management and development) and associated processes. This led to a significant increase in productivity such that the team consistently delivered monthly feature releases with a high degree of quality that met the business needs. Consistently delivered SW products/features on schedule for the last 8 months.

Education

• Pepperdine University

  MBA, Management, Economics

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS, Electrical/Computer Engineering

Skills

• Embedded Software
• Java
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Integration
• C
• Voip
• Data Center
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Wireless
• Virtualization
• Management
• C++
• System Architecture
• Wireless Technologies
• Strategy
• Mpls
• Testing
• Routing
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Network Architecture
• Architectures
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Network Security
• Qos
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Distributed Systems
• Linux
• Saas
• Eagle Scout
• Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Architecture
• Networking
• Hardware
• Firewalls
• Ip
• Software as a Service (Saas)