Edward Tobin
Engineering Leader
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
SwiftComply
Remote
User-friendly compliance management solutions for water utilities
November 2022 – Present
VP Engineering
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Klir
Remote
A world-class water system management platform designed specifically by water experts for water providers
June 2021 – September 2022
Director of Engineering
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Humanyze - Workforce Analytics
Boston, MA
Born out of the MIT Media Lab, Humanyze uncovers the hidden patterns of digital and face-to-face communication to quantify the people factor in the workplace.
June 2018 – March 2019
Director of Engineering
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Lightcast (Burning Glass Technology)
Boston, MA
Cracked the genetic code of an ever-changing labor market
2016 – 2018
Director of Engineering
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Elekta
Sunnyvale, CA
Information guided clinical oncology systems
September 2013 – December 2016
Director, Enterprise Architecture
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.
Highlights
- 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.
EBSCO
Ipswich, MA
A leading provider of research databases, e-journal and e-package subscription management
November 2012 – July 2013
Consultant Software Architect - Cloud Migration
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Transport for NSW (RailCorp)
Sydney, NSW Australia
A state government agency leading the development of safe, integrated and efficient transport systems for the people of NSW
June 2006 – September 2012
Head of Solution Architecture
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.
Highlights
- 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.
Contact
Andover, Greater Boston, Massachusetts US
On Request
Education
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Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Courses- Internship - ROLM (IBM/Siemens telecom)
- Thesis: A bit error-rate test for digital telephony (Archived)
- Minor in Psychology
Skills
Leadership
execuitve
Talent Development
Innovation Culture
Strategic Foresight
Conflict Resolution
Delegation
Engineering Management
executive
Resource planning
Organization structure
Budgeting
Recruiting
Performance management
Mentorship
Business Acumen
executive
Estimation
Benchmarking
Technical Dilligence
Business planning
Risk Management
Strategy
Software Architecture
executive
Solution Design
Scalable Systems
Perfomance and Capacity Planning
Platform Services
Cloud Computing
Architecture Design
executive
IT Strategy
Governance
Integration
Enterprise Architecture
Solution Architecture
Roadmap Planning
ITIL
TOGAF
Software Development
professional
SDLC
Agile
Estimation
Data Security
Quality
Software Architecture
Release Management
Interests
Home Automation
Open source project contributor
Home Assistant
ESPHome
Backyard beekeeping
Maintain 4-10 hives
Eastern Apiculture Society (EAS) member
Essex County Beekeeping Assoc member
ECBA Bee School