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Edward Tobin

Edward Tobin

Engineering Leader

Andover, Greater Boston, Massachusetts, US
On Request
English

Background


About

About

Senior technical leader, experienced in engineering management, product development, and enterprise architecture. Excels at driving innovation, managing change and mentoring high performance teams. Proven ability to apply design thinking and enterprise architecture practices to navigate a range of strategic challenges. Experience in a range of dynamic environments from early startups to mature global organizations. Track record building high-performance, international engineering teams from startup to mature enterprise.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • VP EngineeringSwiftComply

    Nov, 2022 - Present

    Lead a dynamic team of engineers, orchestrating the development and delivery of innovative water management and environmental compliance features. Drive SaaS scalability, platform integration architecture, technology strategy, and cloud operations. Foster a culture of innovation and excellence, celebrating creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning across the organization.

    • Transformed team from founding developer to 6 person collaboarative engineering organization.

    • Expanded platform and data architecture to incorporate lab analytics, control frameworks, customer information system integration and geospatial capabilities.

    • Streamlined on-boarding, production support and security management for 300+ customers on a mutli-tenant public cloud platform.

  • Director of EngineeringKlir

    Jun, 2021 - Sep, 20221 year 3 months

    Scaled an international remote team, and led the planning, development and operation of a robust, multi-tenant, global SaaS platform. Responsible for development, quality, security and data operations of cloud-based modules that address the specific challenges impacting regional water management.

    • Scaled an international remote team from 4 to 19 engineers in the first year, hiring in Brazil and Canada.

    • Produced a strategic plan and platform roadmap with the co-founders. Delivered a successful Series A technical diligence and resulting growth plan.

    • Implemented quality standards, and implementation of data privacy, security and compliance programs including SOC-2, ISO27001, OWASP and Cloud Security Alliance controls.

  • Director of EngineeringHumanyze - Workforce Analytics

    Jun, 2018 - Mar, 20199 months

    Guided engineering team through a period of exponential customer growth. Delivered product feature roadmap and AWS cloud infrastructure updates. Transformed architecture to improve enterprise integration, data privacy, performance and front-end technology roadmap. Managed delivery of new device hardware platform, optimized data pipelines and enhanced analytics environment for the data science team.

    • Scaled customer data integration to handle global enterprises with over 10M daily interactions.

    • Released new hardware platform and embedded software scaling wearable interaction and room-based data collection.

    • Transitioned front-end to React, enabling mobile and WCAG accessibility.

  • Director of EngineeringLightcast (Burning Glass Technology)

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

    Designed and implemented a common SaaS application platform leveraging our labor market data products. Led an international team of experienced engineers and UX professionals from strategic planning through delivery and support. Consolidated technology platforms, tools, software practices, and governance across legacy teams. Supported partners and customers with a scalable cloud API and services platform.

    • Directed high-performance remote teams in US, UK and India across 5 product centers.

    • Designed product blueprint and services architecture for 2 new applications and renovated another 3 major applications.

    • Delivered a high-performance platform and services architecture for rapid application development.

  • Director, Enterprise ArchitectureElekta

    Sep, 2013 - Dec, 20163 years 3 months

    Established an architecture program within an agile software organization, driving the transformation from legacy systems to innovative solutions for clinical oncology and health informatics. Led a 12 person platform alignment team across 4 global product delivery centers. Delivered the technical roadmap for an integrated clinical platform, incorporating electronic health records, medical imaging, treatment planning, adaptive radiation therapy, and treatment device delivery. Worked with human-factors, product and clinical leaders to streamline customer workflow and clinical adoption.

    • Established and managed a new global software architecture function, tasked with consolidating acquired solutions.

    • Developed an integrated service architecture for electronic health record, adaptive radiation therapy treatment planning, treatment device delivery, and health informatics.

    • Managed a global team of 12 architects, analysts and specialists and aligned the work of 4 global product development centers.

    • Introduced Scaled Agile (SAFe) development as part of a enterprise-wide transformation.

  • Consultant Software Architect - Cloud MigrationEBSCO

    Nov, 2012 - Jul, 20138 months

    Engaged as a consultant to the CIO, supporting migration of data services to public cloud infrastructure. Evaluated the costs, risks and strategies for adopting Amazon Web Services (AWS) across all aspects of business operation.

    • Evaluated feasibility and business case around adoption of public cloud infrastructure services (AWS)

    • Advised business and product teams on technology risks and benefits. Collaborated on blueprints for cloud adoption.

    • Coordinated proof of concepts around cloud-enabled development, release management and operational practices.

  • Head of Solution ArchitectureTransport for NSW (RailCorp)

    Jun, 2006 - Sep, 20126 years 3 months

    Managed a team of architects (7 FTE and 5 contractors) and led solution architecture, design and delivery practice for an AUD$70M+ enterprise portfolio of 60+ projects. Practice manager for the solution architecture team and design authority for IT solutions across all business areas. Ensured projects delivered in line with enterprise architecture roadmaps and program strategies. Supported delivery programs for on-train information systems, rail asset management, time table, crew rosters, passenger information and ERP renewal.

    • Chief solution architect for Rail ICT on a AUD$70M+ enterprise portfolio of 60+ projects

    • Managed a team of 12 architects, and liaised with outsourcing partners.

    • Developed architecture governance and cost estimation framework for ICT solutions. Chartered the architecture review board (ARB) and maintained the agenda.

Skills

Skills

  • Leadership

    Talent Development

    Innovation Culture

    Strategic Foresight

    Conflict Resolution

    Delegation

  • Engineering Management

    Resource planning

    Organization structure

    Budgeting

    Recruiting

    Performance management

    Mentorship

  • Business Acumen

    Estimation

    Benchmarking

    Technical Dilligence

    Business planning

    Risk Management

    Strategy

  • Software Architecture

    Solution Design

    Scalable Systems

    Perfomance and Capacity Planning

    Platform Services

    Cloud Computing

  • Architecture Design

    IT Strategy

    Governance

    Integration

    Enterprise Architecture

    Solution Architecture

    Roadmap Planning

    ITIL

    TOGAF

  • Software Development

    SDLC

    Agile

    Estimation

    Data Security

    Quality

    Software Architecture

    Release Management

Education

Education

  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    - Present

    Internship - ROLM (IBM/Siemens telecom)

    Thesis: A bit error-rate test for digital telephony (Archived)

    Minor in Psychology

Certificates

Certificates

  • Leading SAFeScaled Agile

    Issued on: Jan 01, 2015

  • TOGAF 8The Open Group

    Issued on: Jan 01, 2009

Interests

Interests

  • Home Automation

    Open source project contributorHome AssistantESPHome
  • Backyard beekeeping

    Maintain 4-10 hivesEastern Apiculture Society (EAS) memberEssex County Beekeeping Assoc memberECBA Bee School