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Gennady Kaganer

Centennial,CO

Summary

Innovative, service-oriented, and highly effective technology leader with proven record in implementing best practices in software engineering supporting multimillion-dollar projects. Experience in leading diverse software development teams delivering meaningful results through stakeholder collaboration, Agile methodology and effective integration with offshore vendors. Strengths in communicating at multiple organizational levels from senior management to developers and analysts.

Work History

Director, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp
Lone Tree, CO
  • Drive strategic direction of firm-wide technology and business initiatives with heightened focus on quality and consistent standards both cross-functionally and within individual organizations by: Leading a team of high-performing software engineering managers and their respective departments to deliver organizational objective key results (OKRs)
  • Overseeing management of a significant ($15M+) budget with enterprise-wide business impact
  • Driving cloud-based technology roadmap (PCF/AWS) by adapting software engineering practices (Agile/SAFe/DevOps) and utilizing service-oriented architecture
  • Guiding organizations to enhance product backlog by focusing on security, performance, and availability.

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp
Lone Tree, CO
  • Brought technology leadership with the focus on supporting business needs, employee's growth, and strategic guidance across multiple projects by Demonstrating ability to resolve ambiguities by collaborating with tech and business partners across Schwab domains to increase stability of our products
  • Driving optimization of production support function and establishing process to measure the impact of issues in QA environment on development productivity.

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp
Lone Tree, CO
  • Established direction to the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the software engineering framework that supports innovative client-facing investment management products by Cultivating high performing engineering teams through effective collaboration between business and technology to establish scalable technical solutions for complex models
  • Implementing pragmatic solutions that minimize software development costs while improving timeto-market, for example, through establishing defensive coding principles, CI/CD adoption, and structured code review process.

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp
Lone Tree, CO
  • Defined and led best practices in software quality assurance program ensuring timely and comprehensive deployment of client-facing investment advice software by Implementing risk-based testing practices for Schwab Institutional Advisory (SIA) project
  • Pioneering comprehensive automation, performance, and security testing practices for Schwab's mobile applications (iOS and Android).

Senior Technical Scrum Master

Charles Schwab Corp
Lone Tree, CO
  • Successfully implemented Scrum process for Schwab Intelligent Integration technology team
  • Actively contributed to Agile Coaching Program by mentoring various Schwab Agile teams.

Quality Assurance Manager

MDC Holdings
Denver, CO
  • Developed, implemented, and improved existing QA processes
  • Trained QA staff on aspects of exploratory and service testing
  • Key contributor to department's management decisions, including budget reviews, hiring decisions, ERP implementation, PMO improvements and data conversion strategy.

Quality Assurance Manager

Standard and Poor's, McGraw-Hill Companies
Denver, CO
  • Build strong relationships with business and technology partners while working in S&P London for 3 months on a high visibility project
  • Successfully implemented Agile Scrum methodology and coached QA team members in Scrum
  • Facilitated audit, reviews, and improvements of a corporate wide Quality Assurance program.

QA Manager

Vaultus

QA Manager/Team Lead

Resort Computer Corporation, Cendant

QA Analyst

Security Life of Denver, ING Group

Education

Mater of Science in Computer Information Systems -

Regis University

Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance and CIS -

City University of New York

Skills

  • Software, Hardware and Systems Infrastructure
  • Mobile technologies (iOS and Android), Cloud technologies (AWS, PCF, A)
  • Financial software, CRMs (Salesforce), insurance applications, AS400 and ERP systems
  • Peer-to-Peer and Client/Server transaction processing systems
  • Atlassian Suite, PCF, HP Performance Test Center, IBM AppScan, Veracode, TFS, Jira, Selenium Suite, SeeTest Automation and Cloud, SOATest and Fitnesse acceptance testing framework
  • Net Framework, Java, MS SQL Server, RDBMS, SalesForce, Mongo DB, IBM DB2, ERP E1
  • Capability Maturity Model, Rational Unified Process and ISO 9000

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Product Champion
  • Scaled Agile Certification

Timeline

Director, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp

Senior Manager, Software Applications Engineer

Charles Schwab Corp

Senior Technical Scrum Master

Charles Schwab Corp

Quality Assurance Manager

MDC Holdings

Quality Assurance Manager

Standard and Poor's, McGraw-Hill Companies

QA Manager

Vaultus

QA Manager/Team Lead

Resort Computer Corporation, Cendant

QA Analyst

Security Life of Denver, ING Group

Mater of Science in Computer Information Systems -

Regis University

Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance and CIS -

City University of New York

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