Mark Phippard

About Mark Phippard

Experienced product leader and manager of remote engineering teams at software companies in the developer productivity space with an emphasis on version control, CI/CD, DevOps and agile planning. Have owned roadmaps that transformed an unrelated portfolio of Enterprise on-premise applications into a cohesive cloud-native SaaS offering as well as roadmaps that delivered highly valued new features to our customers that made their development teams more productive. Examples include delivery of a powerful merge request/code review capability that could be enforced via automated quality gates, unified code search across Git and Subversion repositories as well as a series of innovations that enabled code sharing and reuse via Git sub-modules.Proven track record of successfully getting ideas from 0 to 1. Believe in the Servant Leadership philosophy of management and as a remote leader of globally distributed teams I have learned to favor asynchronous communication when possible as well as to become an expert user of the tools we use to collaborate for software developmentMember of the Apache Software Foundation and member of the PMC for Apache Subversion. Project owner for the Subclipse open source project, which provides Subversion support in Eclipse. Enjoy the community dynamics in open source projects and am interested in the application of those core principles to the enterprise software development process, also known as \"InnerSourcing\". Passionate about software development tools and have deep experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager

   Microsoft

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Are you passionate about developers and engineering productivity? Do you want to drive change and impact across Microsoft, GitHub and LinkedIn? Come join the 1ES (One Engineering System) team. Our mission is to enable the world\'s best engineering teams with world-class tools and systems that help them ship products their customers love. Our vision is to enable a new developer be able to complete their first checkin in in a day, have their code built and validated in minutes, ship their code to customers in a couple hours, with security and compliance built seamlessly into the developer workflow - and all of that at the scale of Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, Windows and Office.

Education

• Washington and Lee University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Politics

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Sql
• Integration
• Os/400
• Grails
• Ant
• Continuous Integration
• Java
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Apache
• Web Applications
• Open Source
• Saas
• Visual Studio
• Git
• Software Configuration Management
• Agile Project Management
• Subversion
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Rest
• Distributed Systems
• Websphere
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Design
• Struts
• Maven
• Eclipse
• Release Management
• Web Application Design