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Jeff Rubingh
Objective
Summary
AT&T
To provide imaginative product leadership to an organization; to deliver quality results by building consensus and
team cohesion; to promote simplicity and elegance in design, process, and delivery; to drive innovative product
development from pre-conception, through delivery, to market success
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Senior Technical Project Manager, Product Realization, AT&T Address Book team
Adept at leading teams to deliver products in competitive environments under tight deadlines
Accomplished at requirements creation, solicitation, discernment and communication
Experienced in software product design from the idea stage through product launch
Savvy liaison between partners, clients, executive leadership and technical staff
Strong communication skills using patience and diplomacy to build consensus
Broad technical skills based on 15+ years experience in all facets of software design and delivery
Creative and versatile problem solver
Practiced in hands-on design of mobile software solutions
Experienced in API development for mobile solutions
Proficient writer of technical, training, marketing and sales documents
Senior Technical Project Manager
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1 year
Served as Senior Technical Project Manager for external systems connecting to the Address Book server, a
social networking product offering for wireless customers
Worked simultaneously on multiple projects integrating to Address Book including Business Intelligence
Reporting, Yellow Pages, the Address Book web application, Snooper (Customer Care) and Consumer Gate
(Security Gateway)
Spearheaded the effort to replace the Identity Management System with Consumer Gate as the
authentication mechanism for Address Book; developed operational requirements for authentication and
authorization use case scenarios; led weekly meetings to ensure delivery targets were met; reported
defects and followed through on their resolution
Developed project plan and requirements for the Address Book Learn page and associated customer-facing
device web pages; worked with the eSupport, eComm, Web application, Devices and Marketing teams to
ensure functionality and processes were delivered
Worked closely with the outside vendor’s Engineering team on refining and understanding architectural
requirements and resolving technical issues arising during the development and testing of Address Book
Built requirements traceability matrix to track vendor’s requirement delivery obligations per the contract
Wrote solution requirements for change requests to the Address Book Product Requirements, gathered
impacts from associated teams and received approval for changes, followed through to ensure changes
were properly implemented
Worked closely with the vendor, IT, Marketing and the System Architecture teams to define the reporting
requirements, systems and the delivered reports for Address Book
Participated in daily triage meetings providing technical input, guidance, understanding and leadership in
defect management; continuously took ownership of dozens of defects providing troubleshooting support,
assigning defect responsibility and following through on defect resolution
Worked closely with the Address Book Quality team as an information resource and troubleshooting liaison
Performed frequent ad-hoc testing, discovered and reported defects, ensured defects were being managed
Worked closely with Marketing in resolving user interface design issues
Provided operational support for all teams in the project by acquiring and provisioning in Telegence
hundreds of SIM cards for development and testing
Proposed an innovative API testing environment for the Devices team; built initial proof of concept tooling
Provided guidance to the Devices team on API documentation and design
Provided feedback and assessment of APIs and API documentation for Address Book web services
Developed Support Agreements for Address Book’s connected systems
Dexterra Inc
Software Development Manager, Mobile Applications
5 years
Development Manager
I’ve managed teams of developers to deliver complex solutions on time and on budget
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Dexterra Mobile Service (http://www.dexterra.com/solutions/dx-service.php)
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Led development effort including technical mentorship of team, specification, design, documentation, quality
assurance, and coordination with the sales staff
Created new innovative user interface paradigm, built new universal data model pattern for data abstraction,
constructed new user interface controls, built new “Dazzle” application framework, developed sales assistance
tools
Even with frequent changes to the underlying platform and product specification, application was successfully
released to the Sales staff on time to glowing reviews company-wide including a quote from the CEO saying “This
is the most professional job I have seen Dexterra do ever!”
Dexterra Mobile Tracker (http://www.dexterra.com/solutions/tracker.php)
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Asked to deliver a new Windows Mobile field service mobile application incorporating a redesign of our mobile
application user interface paradigm while building on an unreleased and frequently changing platform with an
aggressive schedule timeline
Asked to deliver a new location-based web application in tandem with mobile applications for BlackBerry (Java)
and Windows CE (.Net)
Spearheaded development effort including writing product specification, hiring development team, providing
technical leadership to developers, integrating new design with existing web enterprise product, working with
professional services team, coordinating with first customer
Successfully delivered product to original customer; completed productization of application for general sale; it is
now prominently featured on the Dexterra website
Led numerous other product development efforts including Dexterra Mobile Sales, Dexterra Conductor and
Mobile Command Center Schedule and Dispatch
Technical Leader
I’ve provided technical leadership and innovation in product architecture and design
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Mobile Solutions Framework
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Asked to create a new framework for mobile solutions moving forward that will inspire fresh new design, ease of
construction and a new generation of mobile applications
This new framework features fresh innovation around data abstraction, consumability, extensibility,
configurability and composite applications
Leading a team of developers to construct an SDK that will feature new tools, new controls, new APIs, best
practices, white papers, tutorials and sample solutions
Tablet PC Application Framework
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Architected and designed new application framework for mobile applications on the Tablet PC
Designed new navigation paradigms for stack-based application navigation
Architecture and paradigms were incorporated into Dexterra Framework 4.0 for Windows Mobile and served as
the basis for application development for a generation of Dexterra mobile applications
Product Developer
I’ve performed complete end-to-end development from inception through design to roll-out
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Designed, built and released Dexterra Orchestrator, an Explorer-type windowing editor system in Visual
Studio to allow metadata model development of Dexterra mobile applications
Conceptualized and created a new services-oriented Windows-based version of Dexterra Conductor that
combined server management and metadata modeling in a single tool, built entire architecture and original
product, transitioned product development to new development team
Technology Innovator
I’ve contributed across teams and skill areas to build the company’s core competencies
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Innovated new agile development process; this process was built to provide frequent releases to encourage
more active participation by product management in product engineering; this highly successful process has
now been adopted across the entire Engineering organization
Developed new hiring process for Engineering; wrote six technical assessment tests for various skill areas,
created staged interview process to increase successful hiring outcomes, this process is now used
Engineering wide, engineers hired through this process have been our best-performing engineers
Leszynski Group
Inc.
Software Development Manager
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BondNexus/Step
Technology
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VisualCommerce
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Personally received a patent for product innovations in this unique software
This application currently ships as part of Windows Vista
Microsoft Pool for Tablet PC; as Technical Delivery Manager, I bulldozed through problems, prioritized
features and bugs, coordinated quality assurance and focused the team to hit the delivery date
Microsoft Ink Control Pack for Tablet PC; led the development effort to design, develop and deliver these
controls. Among the controls created were pen-enabled versions of the ListBox, ComboBox, DateTime and
Calendar controls, successfully delivered eleven controls to Microsoft
Chosen to represent the company at three Microsoft Tablet PC Launch events and was the final speaker on
stage in Hollywood, Anaheim and Silicon Valley; was consistently acknowledged by the Microsoft Event
staff as a successful conclusion to the show that sent the audience home with a positive impression
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Directed all aspects of product development including requirements definition, project planning,
architecture design, code development, coordination with client partners, executive presentations, beta
testing, documentation, deployment and training
Worked with clients to design business rules and messaging protocol to facilitate message exchange
1 year
As member of the development team, participated in the design, development, testing and deployment of
VisualCommerce Constructor 3.0, an e-commerce site creation wizard based on Microsoft Site Server 3.0,
Commerce Edition and SQL Server 7.0
Redesigned and rewrote the e-commerce base store used in Constructor from the ground-up. This ecommerce solution provides all the common features associated with a typical e-commerce site including
anonymous as well as logged-in shoppers, product categories and sub-categories, product families, product
promotions, shipping, product search, cross-selling, up-selling, order histories and simple tax calculation
5 years
As member of the PageMaker team for five years, participated in the design and development of
PageMaker 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 for Windows, OS/2 and the Macintosh.
Contributed in all phases of PageMaker development including product definition, UI specification,
software design, coding, testing and final product shipment. Designed, wrote and upgraded numerous text
and graphics import and export filters including text, Word, WordPerfect, SGML, RTF, DCA, PICT, CGM, EPS,
HPGL, PCX, WMF, and others.
As member of the International team, designed and implemented new functionality and modifications to
the dictionary, spelling and hyphenation subsystem for PageMaker 5.0.
2 years
Designed and implemented software for a new Z8000-based microcomputer system used for integrated
flight management in jet aircraft.
Responsible for the functional specification and implementation of operator interface software for new
color CRT display unit with expanded keyboard.
Wrote the pilot operating software that manages all user interaction with the computer including keyboard
input, screen output and external disk drive I/O.
University of Michigan
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1.5 years
Designed, developed, tested and deployed the BondNexus Back Office Integration System. This system
facilitated data integration between the BondNexus Municipal Underwriting Platform and our partner’s
back office systems and incorporates the use of XML Web Services, SOAP, Active Server Pages, BizTalk
Server, SQL Server, VisualBasic applications, .Net components, and COM components
Software Engineer
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Education
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Led development effort including technical mentorship of team, specification, design, documentation, quality
assurance, coordination with the client (Microsoft) and delivery
Lead Software Developer
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Microcomputer
Electronics
Corporation
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Lead Software Developer
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Adobe Systems
(formerly Aldus)
Microsoft Snipping Tool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipping_Tool)
Lead Software Developer
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1.5 years
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with High Distinction Honors.
GPA: 3.8 (A=4.0)
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key, Dean’s List 3 years