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Amit Roseberger
Summary of Experience & Skills
Strong management skills
- Successful execution of large scale software projects
- Excellent communicator with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Establishing and managing offshore test teams in eastern Europe
- Managing the complete product life-cycle from conception to general availability
- Experience in various product development methodologies (certified “SCRUM Master”)
Strong technological background
- Vast experience in designing, testing and releasing software products for the PHP Web Application stack
- Experience with open source projects, tools and development communities
- Proven technological research skills and implementation of configuration management tools & process into the development process
Employment History
2008-2009 Zend Technologies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Windows Integration Team Leader & Release Manager
Responsible for the integration and release of Zend Server, an enterprise level PHP application server for Windows
Achievements included:
- The successful and on time release of Zend Server version 4.0
- Increasing product value by maintaining a stream of monthly updates (4.0.1, 4.0.2…)
2007-2008 Zend Technologies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Zend Core Group-Leader & Release Manager
Directly managing a group of 10 developers and test engineers and responsible for developing and releasing of Zend Core, Zend certified PHP distribution
Achievements included:
- Developing a group of expert Software & Quality Assurance Engineers whilst implementing rapid development and test cycles (using the SCRUM development process) – http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum
- I was responsible for maintaining the quarterly release process of product updates that helped to increase product value
2004-2007 Zend Technologies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Director of Quality Assurance
I was responsible for the company’s Quality Assurance activities, reaching the position of Director of Quality Assurance and directly managing 15 Quality Assurance and Integration Engineers
Achievements included:
- Establishing an automated functionality & performance test lab to ensure high quality and on time delivery and also significantly reducing time to market
- Establishing an offshore test team (6 QA Engineers) in Sofia, Bulgaria. The team is fully integrated into the Zend R&D department and keeps a very high return on investment value
- Building and managing an experienced Quality Assurance group (15 QA Engineers) with clear hierarchy, work processes and high motivation
2000-2004 Zend Technologies, Tel Aviv, Israel
Quality Assurance Manager
Directly managing a group of 6 test engineers and leading the test efforts for the entire product line.
Achievements included:
- Introducing “time saving” technologies, tools and processes
- Creating and managing a company level release dashboard to streamline the entire product release process and sync the various departments (sales, marketing, R&D, management) in the company
- Design of a Web User Interface written in PHP to control the company build & packaging systems
Education & Certifications
- 2001, Netanya Academic College, Israel – B.A. Computer Science
- Certified ITIL Engineer – http://www.itil.org.uk/
- Certified “SCRUM Master” - http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum
- TOC Project Management – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain_Project_Management
References will be provided upon request