Jacob Thomas

Background

About Jacob Thomas

Senior Engineering leader with over 20 years of experience delivering complex software solutions that drive substantial business growth.* Experienced in transforming software engineering organizations and driving technology innovation * Improved the software development process (2011-till date) to provide more accuracy around promised dates and better definition of features prior to coding.* Reorganized the team, established and transitioned from Waterfall to an Agile Scrum methodology (2015) which resulted in with 95% gain in on-time delivery.* Dramatically improved teamwork and collaboration between the development, test, and documentation teams.* Hired, trained, motivated and provided career development for 15 + developers * Responsible for building a fully functional development team within three months consisting of senior, junior and bench staff to keep costs down.* Championed and delivered many improvements in areas frequently encountered by the support team and customers * Streamlined Business Solutions (2 products) into 1 manageable code base * Provided technical expertise to Application Engineering and Marketing groups for long-term strategic planning in order to broaden market share and determine product direction.* Proposed and introduced QA to quality metrics to monitor performance.* Introduced best practices for defect free implementation and achieved the most stable versions of the software in the history of the company.* Championed technical innovation in the User Interface Design for existing products * Redesigned architecture and several existing components in the product for future Windows and Visual Studio upgrades * Lead the design and architecture activities for all new product development * Directed Microsoft compliance certification for product.* Introduced development tools and reduced 80% in defect rates.* Performed delivery planning, estimation, capacity analysis, scheduling, and launch coordination for all product releases