TERRY MILLER

millerte@hotmail.com

Home Office: (760) 439-7066

Oceanside, CA 92054 Mobile: (858) 603-0572

PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY
Effective leader of complex software development projects in both commercial and
Federal government DoD (Department of Defense) environments with numerous
accomplishments leading change and improving processes across all aspects of
development, with a strong record of successful delivery of projects in Client-Server,
C3I, Embedded, and Information Systems development markets. Key strengths in the
following areas:

• Technically Grounded: Experienced in all aspects of the software development

lifecycle, from requirements definition and design through QA/Testing and product
release and support.
• Leading Change: Skilled at leading teams in transition, implementing continuous
process improvement, driving innovation (resulting in two patents), risk mitigation,
and improving customer satisfaction.
• Coaching and Mentoring: Effective at guiding individuals through career
development in new skills, technologies, and mindset change in order to achieve both
organizational and individual goals.
• Adaptive Leadership: Proven ability to manage teams across diverse sets of
commercial and military technologies and domains from embedded tactical
communications to information systems.

EXPERIENCE

January 2008 – Intuit

November 2010 San Diego, CA
Senior Software Development Manager
Project management of multidiscipline local and remote teams developing in an agile
environment to create Electronic Filing (EF) converters per Federal and state agency
specifications, transforming tax information collected from TurboTax customers into
electronic formats for transmission.

• Managed five teams of thirty tax analysts, programmers, engineers, testers, and
customer support personnel in the full life cycle development of the EF converters.
• Lead quality and process improvement activities resulting in a 10% reduction in
production bugs and rework.
• Completed annual releases of more then 100 products in over 150 releases supporting
more than 50 million customers.
• Successfully built Intuit’s next generation EF converters using XML technology for
more than 80 existing products.
• Invented product enhancement resulting in a patent application filing (2010, pending)
• Improved organizational confidence by implementing best practices and regression
automation to verify stability and provide 100% test coverage of all EF converters.
• Conceived of and developed enterprise software to automate testing, improving
performance, and adopted by other business units developing new products.
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2006 – 2008 Northrop Grumman

San Diego, CA
Software/Test Manager, System Engineer
Development, integration, and test of embedded multilink communication systems for
air, land, and sea based weapons and C4I systems.

• Led the development, integration, and testing of embedded tactical datalink

communication systems supporting both weapon and controller airborne systems.
• Improved customer relations through improved requirements management
processes.
• Consistently met or exceeded project goals, completing 90% of deliveries on
time and within budget.
• Implemented agile processes to improve cycle times between deliveries from
months to weeks.
• Implemented configuration management controls to improve repeatability and
customer confidence.
• Performed system engineering to define the link 16 hardware interface and space
requirements for a prototype aircraft configuration (power, cooling, antenna location,
etc.) and procured the ground and airborne communications hardware.

1993 – 2006 SAIC / DS&S USA

San Diego, CA
Sr. Systems Engineer, Chief Programmer
Development, integration, and test of the Comprehensive Engine Trending and
Diagnostic System (CETADS) used in the maintenance of turbine engines installed in US
Air Force aircraft and other ancillary products used for program support.

• Managed four teams of twenty programmers and engineers.

• Performed technical analysis of new requirements, planning, schedule
development, cost tracking, and supervision in the development and maintenance of
information systems interfacing with multiple aircraft data collection and extraction
devices.
• Led teams through multiple product iterations from DOS to the World Wide
Web.
• Employed Software Product Line approach for managing core capabilities and
developed normalized database schema used to support multiple engine systems.
• Software development and maintenance work done in C/C++, PowerBuilder,
Oracle, Sybase, XML, and HTML.
• Designed, built, and maintained enterprise software systems used in the
development process and supporting internal process improvement such as the
task/time tracking system, data entry end-to-end test tool, problem and change
reporting system, and test error notice system.
• Developed computer based training (CBT) systems for multiple aircraft used by
Air Force engine maintenance personnel.

EDUCATION
National University, US-CA-San Diego,
Bachelor of Science Computer Science
SECURITY
CLEARANCE

Security Clearance: Secret (Non Active)

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AFFILIATIONS

IEEE Member