Rochester Institute of Technology

Sr. Director, Software Engineering

Leading eight teams in an on-shore/off-shore model. Building and running enterprise scale systems in a SAFe Agile SDLC environment.  Recently completed building our authentication and authorization platform using a mix of custom and commercial packages. Successfully migrated 24+ applications while running the legacy and new platform in parallel. 

Additionally my teams are building and operating financial orchestration engines, event publish/subscribe platforms and a number of internal tools for our team members. We build and run our systems in AWS and make heavy usage of test automation and CI pipelines.

Previous projects involved build and run responsibility for our primary customer portal, client notification engine and running our content platform in a managed services environment.

My original role was running two disciplines across 25+ capability teams in a highly matrixed Agile environment. I was responsible for Communities of Practice, team resourcing and team health.

Cox Automotive Inc.

Sr. Director Software Engineering

Led core platform development for Turner’s high volume production sites including NBA, CNN, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Platforms included Identity Management, e-Commerce and Campaign Management.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Senior Director Engineering

Senior engineering leader in Atlanta office serving Yahoo!’s largest corporate partners. Delivered highly visible web, mobile, IPTV, and desktop applications.  Led software engineering, quality assurance and service engineering teams.

Yahoo! Inc.

Director of Engineering

Responsible for the software development, quality assurance, program management and technical documentation teams building both the Afaria and RemoteWare product lines.  These products provide Mobile Device Management (MDM) and security solutions to enterprise customers.

I joined Xelus as a software developer and was fortunate to be able to hold multiple consulting and product development roles.  These experiences ultimately led to larger leadership roles.  As Director of Product Engineering I led product development, quality assurance, technical documentation and performance testing.

Xelus Inc

Director Product Engineering

I started working at Continental (now CNA) part-time while I was a student at RIT.  I joined the team full time after graduation and was promoted four times.  Our office had a dual mission - conduct research and development and serve as a recruitment pipeline for Continental's talent development program.

Joe Morrissey