[tlug] [JOB] Senior Partner Liaison Engineer

[Erin Hughes <eredicatorx@example.com>]

All, 

A friend passed me this info on a job. It is a little out of my skill level but if you know of any one who might be interested please pass it along. Murray is a good guy so if you think you fit the bill give him a ring.  

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Senior Partner Liaison Engineer

Position Description
- We are looking for a technical and business savvy professional to join our
team of engineers focused on our key Japanese OEMs. 
- This is a challenging position that will be a part of a cross-functional
development team that requires excellent communication, organizational, and
hands-on troubleshooting and coding skills for success.
- You will be responsible for developing and managing deliverables that
enable an effective engineering relationship between the two companies. You
will work with engineering groups; testing organizations; certification
labs; and quality assurance teams to ensure releases of VMware and partner
products are coordinated and of the highest quality. 
- You will be expected to conduct joint project planning; organize
validation and certification activities; contribute to the development of
project test suites as necessary; coordinate engineering projects between
the two companies; and lead the day to day activities of the team. 
- This position requires a high degree of coordination between engineering
and alliance management teams within VMware and a high degree of focus,
independence and delivery. This position will be located in the greater
Tokyo area.

Responsibilities
- Represent VMware engineering for day-to-day engineering issues that effect
OEM and ESX Server interactions. You will be VMware's single point of
contact for escalation, communication and updating of engineering related
issues on identified projects. 
- Work with the OEM's organizations to align hardware and software releases
with VMware products. This includes identification of product inter-, intra,
and co-dependencies, and integration points.
- Assist in the qualification of VMware products on specified OEM systems to
enable support at the earliest opportunity for either new systems or
software. 
- Explore and propose opportunities to perform mutually beneficial
engineering projects such as early driver development for specific devices,
distribution mechanism of updated drivers, early bring up of prereleases
software, additional feature requests, etc.
- Facilitate issue resolution, tracking and reporting and conclusion between
OEM and VMware engineering organizations. 
- Develop and execute test plans, provide test status to cross functional
groups, detailed test reports, assist development engineers in fault
isolation/resolution and collaboration with test engineers from various
teams in attaining complete test coverage. 
- Coordinate efforts with OEM partner qualification test programs as well as
VMware server qualification with the goal of coordinating product release
schedules between the two companies. 

Requirements
- Knowledge and experience with Hitachi, NEC and Fujitsu product lines; both
systems and storage products prefered. 
5-6 years experience in software development. 
- Prefer previous software development experience in either the systems or
storage arena.
- Capable of organizing and managing multiple projects, setting priorities
and working independently under aggressive timelines and date-driven
schedules
- Understanding and working knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Linux,
Unix), knowledge of software and hardware architectures (x86 preferred) and
relevant technologies.
- Ability to drive problem-solving strategies for complex problems that
involve cross-functional disciplines and functions.
- Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail a must have.
- Excellent verbal and written communication. 
- 10-15 years Industry Experience. 
- Education: BSCS or equivalent, MS preferred.
- Ability to work independently


Murray Clarke
Director, Technology Recruiting
Boyd & Moore Executive Search 

Web: www.boydmoore.net
Office: 813-4550-2094
Cell: 8190-8565-6218
eMail: murray@example.com 

KN Ginza Building 4F
Ginza 1-15-6, Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0061