“Doug and I have known each other for about 4 years working at Leepfrog Technologies. Doug has been my Software Development department manager. He supervised about 20 engineers, loosely divided into several teams. Throughout the years, Doug has been honest, transparent, reasonable, supportive. As one of senior developers who likes to think outside the box and question things, I often approached him with ideas and concerns - and I always felt that my contributions were considered and appreciated. Doug and I would not necessarily agree on issues - but I would always know where he stood, and why. I think Doug's engineering background - together with his integrity - could be the keys why I liked working with him. So YES, I definitely recommend Doug; he is for real. If you care to read on, I can share more of the history. Disclaimer: be prepared for a rather heavy use of euphemisms... Working at Leepfrog has been, well, other than easy - for any of us. The company caters custom software to large higher-education schools. If you think about it, this is already plenty stressful, to put it mildly. Doug's role of the Software Dev manager included balancing the load between the developers who would work on multiple projects at the same time - and also sorting out any inter-departmental trouble. I liked and shared Doug's approach to this challenge: he sought consistent solutions and tried to establish processes and structures. Some of it worked, some of it did not; and I would not necessarily know how to do it better. In addition, there have been a number of occasions when Doug stepped out of this role and took ownership of the troubled projects - thus showing himself as a very capable project manager, who could easily handle lesser challenges. Yet he did not shy away from the bigger one. That sums it up for me. Please feel free to contact me if you have further questions. ”
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