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Decatur, Ga, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Responsibilities: Lead development teams. Deliver new features and bug fixes. Team productivity. One-on-ones. Improve build and delivery pipelines.* Manage 6-9 engineers: from freshly graduated to 10+ years experience* Interviewed, hired, and sadly fired people.* Did one-on-ones every week for 2+ years; one-on-one notes taken.* QA discipline. I lead: devs liking TDD, regression plans/cycles, automated tests (API/component/E2E), usability tests.* Delivered big rewrite project on time despite dev lead turnover (my prioritization avoided missing deadline).* Defined metrics for app engineering team (including ‘Test ratio’ to incentivize test ownership)* Coach developers through skills such as architecture, goal setting, AWS training, and more.* Coached developer recommended for PIP; found breakthrough and they eventually became a mid-level developer* Creating a plan to transition to continuous delivery. Breaking down decisions into research tasks to coach engineers in research skills. Measuring weekly deliverables.* Provide feedback (manager tools model) every week.* Created a support plan for a sub-product. Attended customer calls to represent the product team.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Responsibilities: Improve test infrastructure. Help Ensure overall quality of product. Assist testers on other teams.* Created a shared testing helper library that all testers rely on to this day.* Met regularly with testers to create an open communication culture.* Created Itential’s first version of pre-merge end-to-end pipeline environments.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Responsibilities: Ensure milestones are signed on time. Ensure the customer is happy and does not escalate. Scope out all tickets for the project. Delegate work to team.* Delivered two customer projects on time. Every milestone was paid by the customer on time.* Led two project teams of 1-2 engineers and 1 project manager* One customer would escalate monthly in past projects. When I became lead, no escalations occurred* Led PIP (performance improvement plan) for a team member.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Responsibilities: scope out all tickets for project. Plan sprints. Delegate work to team. Align with our delivery lead for that customer.* Implemented first pipelines at Itential* Led lifecycle of multiple customer projects: requirements gathering, implementation, maintenance.* Led alignment on interviewing at Itential at the time. For example: we created confluence pages with example questions to ask candidates. Followed up with newer employees to ensure they felt supported during their first interviews.

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

Software developer for ACI's self-service banking (SSB) product -- which is a hosted website as a service for small banks.The Product===You can demo the product for one of ACI's customers here: https://www.tompkinstrust.com/ib-demo/* Mostly JSF, but also Rails and Spring.* Essentially all Java* Sass/jQuery used* We interface with other ACI products in the backend. The main product we interfaced with was "Postilion" which provides many of the core banking services needed for a website including the communication with the bank's host system.* Maven* Jira and Kanban for maintenance work. Whenever Product wanted new features, we would follow a spreadsheet for estimating the time in hours, but then track the stories in Jira.* Atlassian Stash/git.* Bamboo* SeleniumWhat I Did====New Feature Work--I help code new features such as SSB's micro deposit functionality.Maintenance Work--We used the Kanban process for doing maintenance work.Transition to git from p4--The most recent major project I lead was the conversion from p4 scm to git.* I converted the code from p4 to git. This involved more than just executing git-p4 in our case. Our old branching strategy in p4 involved two long-standing branches (trunk and release) which required some diff work to make sure we got all issues from both branches during the transition.* I Helped design our new branching strategy. Me and two other colleagues designed the branching strategy together. We considered git-flow, but we knew that would not work because we have to support multiple releases. And we considered many other details (including our hotfix process we used) to create the branching strategy* I created the documentation for others to learn git. I also did most of the initial training and most of the support for other devs

Chicago, Illinois, Us

My assignment was to address the usability (both internal and external) of Emmaus Minstries' website http://streets.org. (Since then the site's been re-implemented)

Upland, In, Us

I had complete responsibility for the internal website used for intramural sports at Taylor University. It was originally designed by both me and another student (Austin), but when he graduated after one semester of work, I took full responsibility.The site is viewable at http://taylorintramurals.net/ and is largely how I left it.