Adam Berent Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Leading the software development practice at Patronscan including developing department policies and direction based on industry best practices.
• Supervising a team of software engineers & quality assurance engineers including assigning tasks, setting goals, and ensuring team members have the resources and support they need to meet objectives.
• Implementing and fostering Agile and Scrum practices to improve development efficiency and project delivery.
• Collaborating with project managers, product owners and clients to define project scope and requirements.
• Overseeing quality assurance and testing efforts to ensure that software meets quality standards and fulfills user requirements.
• Mentoring and coaching team members to enhance their technical skills and career growth.

Calgary, AB, CA

• Responsible for 4 Software Development Teams within Absorb Software including DevOps, Live, Platform & Integration Teams.
• Diligently followed scrum, agile software development methodology including 2-week sprints, daily stand-ups, poker planning & code reviews with a strong focus on improving the efficiency of my teams.
• Participated in Architectural Discussions and championed various projects and technical debt improvements.
• Initiated and completed several key DevOps projects, including significant automation and improvements to the Deployment Pipeline & Infrastructure stack using Cloud Formation, Blue Green Deployment, Autoscaling, Zero.
• Initiated and completed several Software Development projects focused on increasing scalability, including a significant rewrite of the Asynchronous Job Processing System as well as a complete re-write off the email.
• Performed recruiting for software developer positions, including creating job descriptions, interviewing and testing candidates.

Calgary, AB, CA

• Responsible for all external web sites for SMART Technologies including the main corporate website smarttech.com, reseller portal, blogs & ecommerce store.
• Initiated a major project to improve SMART’s websites with the goal of making them responsive and modern improving user experience, corporate brand image and mobile experience.
• Launched SMART’s first ecommerce store successfully selling SMART’s products.
• Improved the use of website generated leads by ensuring that SMART’s resellers and sales teams have access to the newest data and that their performance is tracked in Sales Force.
• Diligently followed scrum, agile software development methodology including 2 week sprints, daily stand-ups, poker planning, digital task board.
• Adhered to best practices such as automated testing, continuous integration and proper source control.

Calgary, CA

• Responsible for all IT budgeting, direction, technical architecture and software development process at World Health/Spa Lady/Bankers Hall, fitness chains with 26 locations.
• Completed a major infrastructure project that virtualized production servers using VSphere 5 and created a disaster recovery site using SAN to SAN replication.
• Created a roadmap for PCI compliance and hit major milestones including the vaulting of all credit cards in a PCI compliant vault.
• Managed several software development projects to a successful completion, including the rewrite of a billing system, creation of a CRM and development and deployment of new Front Desk software.
• Performed recruiting for all IT positions, including creating job descriptions, interviewing and testing candidates.
• Directly managed all IT staff including performing quarterly employee reviews.

Houston, Texas, US

• Promoted to manage development and support of 3 major systems, encompassing 10 production databases 5 applications and over 200 internal users.
• Defined product direction, technical architecture and development process for a team of 13 developers and 3 development team leads.
• Identified several opportunities to improve operational performance and efficiency by combining redundant software into a single application which required a much lower training and support cost.
• Migrated several older applications designed in Microsoft Access to a C# and SQL 2005 platform.
• Enabled Just Energy to significantly improve its customer retention process by designing and implementing a company wide customer retention system.
• Introduced standardized testing that is used during all software developer interviews at Just Energy.

Houston, Texas, US