Kurt MacKall

Background

About Kurt MacKall

PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT- Program management expertise of global teams for 3 coordinated product releases, over a 5-year period, spanning 7 campuses including NA, Europe and Asia Pacific. Typical program had over 300 hardware, software, and firmware engineers (development and test) working on 8 integrated projects/PMs in the program, all using Scrum methodology. PM deliverables included leadership readouts, program release plans, feature dependency diagrams, and Gantt chartsMICROSOFT AZURE CLOUD IMPLEMENTATIONS- A leading voice for company-wide coordination for the deployment, securing, management, and maintenance of Microsoft Azure internal and customer facing cloud custom and third-party applications, including SaaS offerings to customers- Management of 20 Microsoft Azure cloud developers for over 5 years, with architectural oversight for the Azure infrastructure (network security groups, databases, virtual machines, application gateways) of customer (external) facing applicationsAGILE AND SCRUM- Agile educator and evangelist, training 2 Asia Pacific campuses in Scrum program and project methodologies including best practices and templates, transitioning the programs and all projects from waterfall to Agile deliveryADVANCED TECHNOLOGY- Leading and managing developers in new technologies for creating augmented reality customer applications using PTC Vuforia and Chalk tools, and asset identification software in customer networks using ICMP ping, CIP, and SNMP- Design and implementation lead for the creation of a global alarm management system, using Cloudera data lake components (Apache Kafka and Spark, PostgreSQL) ingesting over 24 million alarms annually, and using explicit rules and AI correlation algorithms, reducing the volume of alarms pushed to support personnel down to Leading the implementation of AI based applications using Azure machine learning, R and M/Tell, for predictive analytics of customer asset downtime (such as pumps, rock crushers, motors, drives)STAFF MANAGEMENT- Over 25 years of staff management experience, up to 35 software engineers, consultants, and project managers- Management of product development and professional services engineering staffs