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Jennie MacDougall

Jennie MacDougall

Director Of Engineering
Boston,MA

Summary

Forward-thinking Director of Engineering with a sharp focus on people and process. Controlling the chaos of small to medium sized businesses with effective management techniques and creative solutions. Motivating engineers to achieve their true potential while delivering solutions in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Engineering

Catalant Technologies Inc.
Boston, MA
08.2020 - Current
  • Recruit, mentor, and grow talented cross-functional teams responsible for implementation of strategic SaaS and enterprise offerings
  • Empower team leads through process, training and feedback to strengthen ownership and integrity of the codebase
  • Create and implement the "Architecture Hours" concept, encouraging more cross team collaboration, making team members more efficient
  • Align Business Systems team priorities to gain 20% more focus time per week
  • Spearhead project schedules and roadmaps, identify interdependencies to better align strategic timelines
  • Evaluate, negotiate and select engineering outsourcing partner

Engineering Manager

Catalant Technologies Inc.
Boston, MA
04.2018 - 08.2020
  • Established and grew our first satellite office to 5 engineers in 4 months in Rochester, NY
  • Created and standardized the engineering onboarding process, evolved it further in March ‘20 when the organization worked remotely for the first time
  • Developed the co-op program of 5-7 students every 6 months. Hired the top performers full time, post-gradation, which made up 50% of the engineering team
  • Recruited and supervised offshore engineering team
  • Championed and hosted HackBeanpot in 2018 and 2019 and led internal Women in Tech events

Engineering Program and QA Manager

Enservio
Needham, MA
02.2015 - 04.2018
  • Within 18 months, successfully developed and deployed a new single platform, ContentsExpress, which had a user base of over 3000 and hosted over 300 insurance carriers nationwide
  • Conducted a successful migration of our agile work planning and defect tracking to Jira
  • Oversaw and approved all commitments and dates for development and QA in order to complete all project initiatives on time with high quality

Engineering Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Enservio
Needham, MA
10.2012 - 02.2015
  • Was solely responsible for deployment, certification and release processes across Development, Product Management and Systems teams
  • Acted as Scrum Master for 4 scrum teams simultaneously
  • Administrator for Agile/Scrum tool set used for sprint planning, sprint tracking and defect tracking

Education

Bachelor of Science - International Business

Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT

Skills

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Certification

Certified Scrum Master, SCRUM INC, Boston, MA Dec’13

Accomplishments

    Publication and awarded best student paper "A Three Country Study on Entrepreneurial Intent and Gender" at the Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business SE U.S.A, November, 2007.

Interests

Building Halloween costumes and birthday cakes

Traveling

Cooking

Golf

Soccer

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Catalant Technologies Inc.
08.2020 - Current

Engineering Manager

Catalant Technologies Inc.
04.2018 - 08.2020

Engineering Program and QA Manager

Enservio
02.2015 - 04.2018

Engineering Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Enservio
10.2012 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Science - International Business

Quinnipiac University

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