Mario Angotti
Billerica,MA
Summary
Dynamic Project Director with extensive experience managing complex projects from initiation to successful execution. Proven track record in strategic planning and collaboration with cross-functional teams, delivering scalable solutions that align with organizational objectives. Achievements include enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and boosting client satisfaction significantly. Ready to apply skills in a permanent role within a growing organization.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Blue Yonder
Dallas, TX
06.2023 - 12.2024
- Transformed a small team of two into a 60-member organization.
- Led a diverse team of global professionals across nine teams, driving business value across multiple high-impact projects, and enhancing customer success.
- Collaborated with multiple departments to design and build a roadmap to enable customization solutions.
- Managed resource allocation across project architectures, focusing on web and mobile applications, ensuring optimal deployment of talent and technology.
- Facilitated cross-departmental collaboration by establishing processes through consistent, coherent communication.
- Contributed to defining the strategy for integrating AI and ML into the end-user experience.
- Led a Digital Twin Initiative to build a 3D model of a warehouse with real-time monitoring and AI insights, to provide a visual representation of the business, and to predict how changes will alter the visualization.
- Oversaw the onboarding of over 30 contractors around the world.
- Led comprehensive architectural evaluations of various application platforms to identify optimal alignment with organizational goals.
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
Burlington, MA
01.2020 - 04.2023
- Owned and managed the SFRA starter storefront, which customers used as the base template for their consumer-facing sites.
- Mentored, coached, and motivated teams of up to 10 members through project-related challenges.
- Fostered open, honest communication, and collaboration to best utilize the strengths of the team to drive business goals and deliver new features on time and within budget, without sacrificing quality.
- Promoted a work environment that supported diversity and leveraged individual strengths, eliminating a toxic work environment while retaining talent, and supported teams through layoffs and many changes.
- Developed individual employee performance plans for a team of 10, to provide clear paths for upward growth.
- Facilitated the development of a scaled UI hiring pipeline to expedite the hiring of more than six UI engineers.
- Organized team-building events and celebrations to promote higher engagement and retention; incorporated icebreakers and fun games to provide opportunities for teams to learn more about one another.
- Led an experimental initiative across multiple teams to use new tooling and processes to move toward a lean development model, which followed common CI/CD practices.
- Designed and introduced the Flex Org Structure, which gained awareness and buy-in from leadership teams, enabling individual growth and better alignment of resources to business objectives.
- Collaborated closely with engineers, PMs, UX, and other partners to deliver Commerce on Core features on time and within budget.
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
Burlington, MA
06.2017 - 01.2020
- Managed a team of five engineers located across the globe in the design and implementation of a new UI framework using Angular, built on TypeScript.
- Coached and mentored an Agile team with the responsibility of ensuring the team maintained focus and alignment with the product vision and goals.
- Led a full-stack tiger team in investigating performance issues in visual merchandising functionality, and delivered performance enhancements to the customer to save the red account.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
Burlington, MA
06.2014 - 06.2017
- Provided servant leadership to a team of eight while serving as Scrum Master, overseeing, and ensuring team alignment with Agile and Scrum practices; coached teams on best practices to ensure success.
- Partnered with a core group of five engineers to design and implement the AngularJS framework, which replaced outdated screens in a back-office administration application.
- Mentored and coached roughly 7+ junior developers in best practices within software development.
- Led the development of a scaffolding tool that enabled the faster creation of new screens while ensuring consistency around defined patterns.
- Partnered with the UX team to design usable screens, and engaged with team members from QA, Development, PM, and UX to effectively manage backlogs and plan features.
ADVISORY SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
Littleton, MA
05.2011 - 06.2014
- Reviewed all designs from 5 or more team members to ensure usability, accessibility, globalization, performance, and security standards were being met.
- Consulted as an expert to diagnose and provide solutions to resolve web performance and usability problems with the IBM Call Center application.
- Interacted with customers to gather insights and requirements to guide the development of product improvements.
- Maintained responsibility for designing and implementing Metadata UI features to speed development, reduce training, and reduce migration time when shifting across technologies.
- Reviewed all designs from 5 or more team members to ensure usability, accessibility, globalization, performance, and security standards were being met.
- Designed applications to meet IBM's high standards for globalization, in compliance with Section 508 and WCAG 2.0.
- Trained 2+ new hires on the various capabilities across the product portfolio, and provided insights into regulations and best practices.
- Led training to support customers, internal and external solution architects, the support team, and the technical sales team on various capabilities, functionality, and extensibility across all UI infrastructures in the product portfolio.
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
Littleton, MA
05.2009 - 05.2011
- Architected a feature to integrate the configuration and quoting capabilities of Sterling Field Sales, utilizing Salesforce.
- Assisted the technical sales team in extending and customizing solutions for specific customers.
- Fostered relationships with product managers to understand evolving customer requirements, to architect solutions.
SENIOR DEVELOPER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
Littleton, MA
05.2008 - 05.2009
- Collaborated with product management to clearly understand requirements, and developed relationships with architects to design features to meet outlined requirements.
- I wrote high-level design documents for global teams that were utilized to train new developers, guided the QA team's testing, and assisted the documentation team.
- Developed mockups, wireframes, and prototypes to design navigational paradigms for a new-based application, while ensuring all designs were built following globalization standards, and creating amazing user experiences.
- Implemented new application features, including a home page portal, catalog index management, and catalog attributes; provided database support, and facilitated the resolution of L3 Customer Support requests.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
Littleton, MA
05.2006 - 05.2008
- Analyzed designs to effectively identify potential problems and recommend solutions; collaborated with architects to implement all aspects of features, including DB, API, and UI changes.
- Developed screens for the Sterling Call Center and Store application based on the Java-based Eclipse Rich Client Platform technology, per design specifications.
- Leveraged the J2EE framework to write backend APIs designed to interact with various databases, with high performance at high volumes.
- Led the design and development of 3+ new features, including FTC compliance, pagination, return creation, and return modification for the Sterling Call Center and Store application.
QA ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
Littleton, MA
05.2005 - 05.2006
- Fostered relationships with global development and QA team members to understand and design new product features.
- Developed and executed test plans related to various aspects of the software system, including sourcing, cataloging, security, and performance.
- Authored and developed a Java-based API automation framework, which increased automation levels.
- Developed API and UI automation test cases, and debugged those that failed across the product portfolio, which required extensive independent learning about product areas to gain a better understanding of the portfolio.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Scrum Master Certified -
Salesforce
Skills
- Effective Empathetic Leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Detail-oriented
- Project scope definition
- Architecture Design
- Verbal and written communication
- Collaboration
- Relationship building
- Conflict resolution
- Project planning
- Team building
- Mentoring
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Task prioritization
- Agile methodology
- Progress tracking
- Quality Assurance
- Professionalism
- Web Development
- Application Development
- UX Design
- JavaScript
- Java
- CSS3
- Angular
- Angular JS
- ReactJS
- Dojo
- ExtJs
- AJAX
Certification
Scrum Master Certified, Salesforce
Accomplishments
- 4.7 out of 5 star rating from employee engagement survey 4 years in a row
References
References available upon request.
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Work-life balanceCareer advancementTeam Building / Company RetreatsQuote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Languages
English
Native language
Interests
Family
Golf
Boardgames
Woodworking
Music
Timeline
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Blue Yonder
06.2023 - 12.2024
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
01.2020 - 04.2023
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
06.2017 - 01.2020
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Salesforce - Commerce Cloud
06.2014 - 06.2017
ADVISORY SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
05.2011 - 06.2014
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
05.2009 - 05.2011
SENIOR DEVELOPER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
05.2008 - 05.2009
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
05.2006 - 05.2008
QA ENGINEER
IBM - B2B and Commerce Solutions
05.2005 - 05.2006
Scrum Master Certified, Salesforce
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Scrum Master Certified -
Salesforce
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