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David Geving's Bio:
David Geving's Experience:
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Director, Enterprise Application Delivery, North America (reporting to the CIO) at Acosta Sales & Marketing (formerly Mosaic)
2012 - 2014Oversee enterprise level software development, managing multiple geographically separated teams in USA, Canada, India and Ukraine and staff of 40 professionals with full P&L responsibility for annual operating budget of over $8M. Developed and managed 50+ applications, including back office management, executive dash boards, and mobile apps. Reported to CIO. o Consolidated multiple development teams across multiple technical disciplines, successfully supporting and evolving all enterprise level applications, including multi-platform mobile apps, web apps, operational apps, field force enablement and support systems. o Evangelized and established Agile Transformation Initiative, expanding successful Agile Process created in Mosaic to all of Acosta IT. o Delivered first major Agile based, large scale enterprise application, replacing a 15 year old legacy systems that supported field operations of over 10,000 field staff.
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Director, Business Intelligence Development at Mosaic Sales Solutions
2011 - 2012Concurrent with Enterprise Development, managed Dallas-based BI team of 13 developers and report writers. Delivered all operational and client reporting as well as data warehouse development and maintenance. Reported to CIO. o Transformed team to one of the most successful development teams in the company based on quality, reliability and on-time delivery. o Established solid software engineering practices, producing predictable, repeatable on time delivery. o Created engagement model that managed and controlled access to critical development resources. o Transitioned team to Acosta management after merger with Acosta
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Director, Enterprise Software Development, North America at Mosaic Sales Solutions
2010 - 2012Restructured entire enterprise development organization under new corporate leadership. Reported to CIO. o Negotiated sale of San Diego assets and transfer of entire staff to another company, saving over $500K in projected shut down costs. o Led transfer of all legacy application support to other Mosaic teams, providing smooth, uninterrupted operations of over 35 legacy applications o Established and led creation of new enterprise development team based in Toronto, Canada, designing and developing new field management application suite to replace 12 year old legacy application. o Implemented first off-shore development relationship in support of new field management application suite, allowing Mosaic to leverage $6M investment in legacy data collection devices. o Integrated Enterprise Development teams and methodologies into single organization, producing process efficiencies for cost savings of over $1M. o Introduced and led first Agile development process in Mosaic, a large scale, multi-team Agile project using Scrum and Kanban, creating faster, more frequent, higher quality releases.
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Director of Software Development, USA at Mosaic Sales Solutions
2003 - 2010Managed development of enterprise-wide applications for scheduling, data collection, and analytics for field force of over 10,000 reps. Built QA department, QA Lab teams and procedures. Led all enterprise software development efforts in US and Canadian operations, adding enterprise development resources in Dallas. Became GM for San Diego office and assumed P&L responsibility for all North American Enterprise Development. Reported to VP of Technology. o Owned development and sustaining engineering for 70+ enterprise applications, supporting corporate departments and operational functions, including corporate SaaS applications. o Consolidated all application support and maintenance to 1 location eliminating duplicate development and management resources, saving $300k/yr. o Trained and mentored Canadian team on standards and practices for developing and sustaining enterprise level software, increasing quality and on time delivery of Canadian applications. o Established development and QA standards for high availability core enterprise applications. o Conceived and led corporate mobile device acquisition and support strategy, reducing cost of mobile development and field support, saving 50% development time and 35% Help Desk time. o Established multi-site management process and practices, consolidating duplicate roles and increasing quality of deliverables and speed of delivery. o Created and staffed first dedicated Configuration Management capacity, improving overall quality through consistent method of development, test and release management
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Director of Engineering at Omnigon
2001 - 2003 -
Manager of Software Development at New Image
1998 - 2001 -
Manager of Software Development at Ambis
1995 - 1997
David Geving's Education:
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National University
Bachelor's Degree
David Geving's Interests & Activities:
Traveling, Organic Cooking, Canyoneering, Indie Movies, Hard SF