Brian Lineman
Jon
Apex,NC
Summary
A transformational and passionate Software Engineering Executive with over 20 years of experience in delivering data-driven, high quality, innovative solutions to market. Recognized as the leader who will transform organizations and strategies using data analytics to meet evolving business needs.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President of Engineering
Solera
Dallas, TX
08.2021 - Current
- Led the re-architecture of 8 separate products into one unified platform with services, applications and a unified user experience. This solution will be a the only solution in the fleet management market with this unique combination of capabilities.
- Focused on quality improvements that drove our solution up-time from 87.6% to 99.3% within 3 quarters of joining the company.
- Implemented changes to the end-end product lifecycle including prioritization, requirements definition, engineering planning and delivery. Focus was on simplicity, business alignment, productivity, transparency, quality and predictability.
- Increased product growth through collaboration with sales and marketing departments.
- Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Worked in team-driven environments and communicated effectively with stakeholders.
- Mitigated regulatory risks by overseeing adherence to ELD and safety regulations.
- Explained highly complex information in terms that were easily understood by non-technical people.
Head of Engineering
CISCO
Durham, NC
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Lead the overall engineering efforts targeted at innovation, incubation and delivery of new solutions that would drive adoption of CISCO's collaboration and DevOps products and services.
- Built a SRE team to enable service offerings for SD-WAN, Hybrid Cloud and Dev-Sec-Ops (Booked $20M in first fiscal year of being offered)
- Define innovation opportunities, work with customers and account teams to the validity of the solution; then build and delivery POC's to prove out innovation opportunities.
- Implemented micro-service architecture to enable code reuse across solutions and business verticals.
- Implemented new UX tooling ot enable multi-endpoint consumption.
- Set budgets for engineering tasks, tailoring financial limitations to business goals and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for completed deliverables.
- Led proposal development efforts, presenting engineering opportunities to senior leadership for go-no-go decisions.
Vice President, Software Engineering
NetApp
Durham, NC
10.2005 - 08.2020
- Managed the global engineering team of engineers delivering the manageability and data protection portfolio for the ONTAP product lines
- Oversaw all aspect of the organization from product strategy, software design and implementation, test, UX, release management, security and escalations
- Let the transformation of the portfolio from an on-prem multi-tool suite of products to integration with NetApp's cloud based SaaS offerings
- Improved our customer experience by focusing on user simplicity through use of advanced UX techniques, AI/ML and persona focused experiences
- Used AI/NL to implement "fix-it" self-healing/remediation's into the management tools to enable self-self-managing storage.
- Led the centralized engineering organization of 200 plus engineers accountable for all aspects of product delivery including: quality, devops, engineering tools, release management, engineering/product metrics, program managements, rapid response engineering and interoperability
- Devised a product delivery strategy that required new engineering workflows and organization design
- Transformed the ONTAP release model from waterfall to a cadence based model focused on customer experience
- Implemented a ci/cd model that enabled higher engineering productivity and program efficiency
- Transitioned the engineering toolset to the Atlasssian suite of products
- Created an automation first test approach that enabled in-development product regression to never drop below 94% so that all teams could focus on new feature work
- Implemented engineering "done" criteria to create a common bar of correctness and completeness across the various engineering programs and team
- Partnered across Manufacturing, Operations, Product Management on all aspects of product delivery and budgets
- Created a shared test lab service to efficiently utilize company assets and minimize engineering program spend.
Manager, Engineering
Marconi
Cranberry Township, PA
01.2000 - 08.2005
- Lead a team of developers, test engineers and program managers who were accountable for the management software for our core ATM switch product line.
- Managed relationships with software partner vendors for aligning on requirements, delivery and quality criteria.
- Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
- Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Management Information Systems
Penn State University
Erie, PA 01.1991 - 01.1995
Skills
AI and Machine Learning
SRE and DevSecOps
Design Development
Data Collection and Analysis
UI/UX
Technology Integrations
Engineering Operations
Agile Methodologies
Strategic and Product Planning
Project Management
Prioritization
Quality Assurance
Career Development
Contract and Vendor Management
Budget Ownership
Skill Highlights
- Daily experience partnering with business executives translating customer needs into engineering programs
- Led several technology transformations across various business verticals to modern technology solutions with cloud and service based architectures
- Solved major quality challenges in different product portfolios ensuring each release and customer deliver met or exceeded customer expectations
- Redesigned product lifecycle workflows
- Organizational design and evolution to support changing business and technologies
- Growing talent from within and recruiting to fill gaps
- 7 years of executive management, 20 year of people management
- Leader of global teams for over 20 years with mixed FTE and AWF resourcing
- Used AI/ML to implement "fix-it" self-healing/remediation's into production solutions
- Implemented quality process' and tooling using AI/ML to reduce product delivery efforts in all phase of development
- Moved product delivery strategies from a waterfall, unpredictable delivery model to an agile, cadence-based model
Timeline
Vice President of Engineering
Solera
08.2021 - Current
Head of Engineering
CISCO
08.2020 - 08.2021
Vice President, Software Engineering
NetApp
10.2005 - 08.2020
Manager, Engineering
Marconi
01.2000 - 08.2005
Some College (No Degree) - Management Information Systems
Penn State University
01.1991 - 01.1995