Sean Phillips

Development Director responsible for Kuali Student. Mr. Phillips leads an international matrix’ed team of 75+ FTE’s in diverse roles such as Java Developers, Services, Tech Ops, UX, QA, etc. from multiple Institutions in the US and around the world. Mr. Phillips is responsible for all staffing, software methodology and delivery. Kulai Student was struggling to deliver over the last few years. Mr. Phillips improved the delivery process and methodology, the QA process, and the UX processes.

Mr. Phillips manages the Help Desk group, the Networking group, and the Web Development group for Sourcefire. Sourcefire is focused on its mission to deliver intelligent security infrastructure for the most efficient and effective risk management. Sourcefire has become the world leader in real-time adaptive network security, giving organizations maximum knowledge to protect against attacks. The company was founded in January 2001 by Martin Roesch, author of open source Snort®.

Mr. Phillips led the selection, prioritization, and specification for the features and functionality in the Clarabridge text mining platform. Clarabridge is the leading provider of text analytics solutions that improve customer experience management (CEM). Mr. Phillips' responsibilities included leading product strategy, product development initiatives, key vendor OEM relationships, sales curriculum development, and product training. Mr. Phillips helped Clarabridge triple revenue in 2008.

Mr. Phillips was responsible for product management (PM), software development (SD), IT infrastructure, and day-to-day operations of VetInsite. Duties included: Managed daily activities of the software development group Ran business intelligence projects and defined BI products Set and managed performance metrics for the Product Management and Software Development groups to ensure the best possible service for PetPortals clients. Launched multiple new SaaS products in 2007 that now add over $1.8

Ran the Software Engineering Group for Edmunds.com with a team of 35 reports in an J2EE, BEA Weblogic, and Oracle 9i environment. Responsible for the technical architecture, design, and vision of Edmunds.com web site. The efficiency of the group increased while also increasing the quality of the code released into the production environment.  In addition average page load times decreased from an average of 7 to 10 seconds to less than 3 seconds. Duties include: Managed day-to-day activities of the softwa

Ran the Software Engineering Group (SWE) for Digex. Managed the developers, project managers, graphic artists, and SEs for a total of 36 direct reports. Responsibilities included the technical architecture, design, and vision of Digex’s Customer Portal, ClientCentral (CC), and all proprietary software used by Digex’s customers. While under my guidance the Customer Portal was consistently ranked in the top 2 positions in TierOne’s rankings of XSP customer portals and was also ranked most functional by TierOn