Senior Manager in charge of software and database development for top-tier vehicle dealership management system (DMS). The DMS manages all transactions within a dealership, including vehicle financing, vehicle and service parts inventory management and sales, dealership financials, and many additional add-ins via API. Work closely with both dealerships and automotive OEM’s to continually improve and reinvent the DMS.?Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gather information; evaluate output requirements and formats; developed and implemented daily, weekly, and monthly KPI’s to monitor team performance and progress?Analyze new and existing software requirements; construct workflow charts and diagrams; study system capabilities; write specifications ?Gather, interpret/communicate, both written and verbal, technical requirements between development groups and business entities ?Organize, define, and document test case scenarios based on technical requirements ?Create, manage, and prioritize the development backlog with Agile planning tools ?Perform user acceptance testing for new development and bug fixes ?Develop informative, coherent, accurate, and professional documentation ?Maintain a clear understanding of current functionality for product functionality, measure worthiness of change requests, and generate ideas to facilitate new development ?Lead initiative to develop a data dictionary for existing all DMS data elements; evaluated, selected and implemented software solutionv