Ralph Zimmermann
Director Program Management at Qualcomm
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRalph Zimmermann is a seasoned engineering and program management leader with over three decades of hands-on programming experience and nine years in senior management roles, currently directing program management at Qualcomm from San Jose. He has led large, mission-critical teams—managing concurrent program teams up to 50 and a functional engineering organization of 30+—delivering custom software for national security customers under tight schedules and multi‑million dollar budgets. His expertise spans software engineering management, cost estimation and account control, proposal development, and CMMI-aligned process and formal risk mitigation. Comfortable both in legacy embedded environments (VxWorks, embedded Linux) and modern web stacks (PHP/MySQL/JavaScript, Android/Java), he blends deep technical fluency with proven program-level execution. Colleagues rely on him for disciplined planning, staff development, and translating complex requirements into auditable, on‑time deliveries.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Canisius University
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Github Skills (30)
dbus9
meter9
flat-file8
knowledge-graph8
php8
graph8
textile8
markdown8
org-mode8
wiki-engine7
cms7
backup7
clojurescript7
trello7
encryption7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RalfZim/venus.dbus-fronius-smartmeter
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
A service for Venus OS, reading smart meter data from a Fronius system and making the values available on dbus.
Contributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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