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Adam Arakelian is a highly experienced Senior Director of Engineering at Dell EMC with over 20 years of experience in driving engineering teams to success. He is an expert in software leadership and engineering across all aspects of product development, from building products to driving DevOps to transforming organizations. Adam is also a part-time faculty member at Boston University, where he teaches in their computer science department in the Metropolitan College. Adam is passionate about driving any size development teams to success, both from an engineering and business perspective. He is focused on creating and driving business strategies, driving business to compete, and organizational leadership. He is focused on driving towards organizational excellence, championing transformations (agile, productivity engineering, CI/CD, etc), business and engineering leadership. Adam also maintains a focus and understanding of architecture and design of software applications, software development process improvements, as well as the ability to decompose and analyze customer requirements. At Dell, Adam is running multiple productivity engineering teams, providing DevOps thought leadership, driving common APIs and continuous integration and deployment. He is working across the 10,000+ person engineering team of a multi-billion+ division, bringing strategic business (i.e. enhance processes) and operational changes (i.e. DevOps, execution strategies, etc) to the divisional unit. Adam is driving large productivity engineering groups and driving productive, industry-standard, development behaviors. He is providing strategic operational direction for the organization through to tactical execution. Adam is working across engineering, IT, and the business to ensure software manufacturing stays smooth, conform, and concise, allowing for engineering to focus on delivery of business value. In his past roles, Adam has worked for EMC as Director of Engineering and Senior Engineering Manager. He has experience running multiple releases as the development engineering leader, working across development, program management, and business operations to ensure delivery of the product. Adam has managed a group of engineers and provided guidance to his team with regard to engineering operations, high-profile customer priorities, new technology investigations, architecture, and design of the product. He has primarily worked using C++, Java, REST, and Adobe Flex 3. Adam is a very motivated, team-oriented, driven, and ambitious individual with a proven track record of success. He has relevant experience of 22.62 years and is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Integration, and Software Engineering.