Paul Frields

Current responsibilities:

• Director of a multi-level organization of senior and junior managers, experienced software engineers, system administrators, designers, and product owners who develop high-revenue product, as well as serve and interact with a global community project in addition to internal stakeholders
• Effective relationship builder and coordinator of multiple teams and their respective leads to make products that improve the lives of customers
• Team builder that delivers projects on time, through effective partnering with product management and marketing, quality engineering, service delivery, operations, support, training, and other stakeholders
• Skilled communicator, influencer, and speaker, delivering timely information accurately at every level up to and including internally to CxOs and externally to customers and partners

Previous job-related responsibilities:

• Long-time open source community leader and evangelist
• Long-time Linux and Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) system administrator and IT specialist
• Certified practitioner and expert witness for computer forensics and digital media analysis
• Professional instructor with thousands of hours of real-world classroom experience and goal-oriented curriculum development

I improve the lives of customers by helping teams deliver better engineering products that meet customer needs, build strong and positive relationships among teams and departments, and effectively manage resources to contribute to company success.

Specialties: Project leadership and management, cross-org coordination, communications, operating system, application software, digital media analysis, forensics, content analysis, system administration, technical instruction, technical writing, shell scripting, programming, team building, community leadership, community building