Amanda Hilton Email & Phone Number

Waukee, Ia, Us

Waukee, Ia, Us

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Senior manager for a team of software engineers in the Digital Farming Solutions (DFS) group supporting Bayer Crop Science that facilitated the creation and maintenance of a model platform to provide an abstraction layer around model deployment and execution • Collaborated with multiple business partners to develop a 3-year strategic vision for Model Platform space and translated requirements into actionable implementation plan • Engineering manager for software engineers. Performed weekly one on ones with all team members, coaching and career development performance reviews, developed team OKRs • Worked to increase process monitoring to 100% and unit testing to > 80% for all Model Platform services to decrease issue response time and mitigate potential performance issues • Drove implementation of Model Platform resource cost tracking to reduce infrastructure costs by 25% • Worked as SAFE agile scrum master for team facilitating a distributed project team and all aspects of Agile development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives and driving organization and completion of daily work • Served as product owner and business analyst for Model Platform team, included cross-functional coordination with multiple business partner for business requirements gathering and prioritizations. Also, solely responsible for backlog creation and refinement • Participated in technical evaluation of AWS SageMaker

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Led a team of domain architects in the Farming Solutions and Digital Agriculture group supporting all research divisions in Corteva Agriscience and supporting the enterprise roadmap.• Technical lead for large capital project to restructure foundational R&D core data concepts focusing on domain-oriented decentralized data ownership and architecture, self-serve data infrastructure and federated governance. Included data repository architecture oversight and data management. Managed budget planning and resource capacity.• Led the initiative to implement a Data Mesh strategy. Included bi-weekly meeting with technical leaders, evaluation and selection of data streaming utilities and data catalog. Also, developed a strategy for federated governance and data management best practices• Collaborate with Domain Analyst to create and maintain Domain Blueprint to translate domain vision and strategy into a strategic systems architecture vision that allows planning project portfolios aligned with overall DSI strategy. Led monthly coordination meetings with domain architects, domain analysts, and portfolio leads to align shared value streams, cross domain efforts, and increase efficiency • Proactively interact with the business leadership to integrate knowledge of the business and functional priorities with the domain roadmap and inform them of progress and metrics. Effective at building influence and developing relationships with leaders.• Consult & inform the project & portfolio process from a systems and architectural point of view• Document, plan, and maintain system landscape for the domain. Includes creation of transition and migration plans and definitions for system interactions• Evaluate and recommend technologies and techniques for application system and service development• 2022 Associate Laureate Designation, recognizing experts in in scientific and engineering disciplines

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Domain architect working closely with business architect and solution architects in the Analytical Systems, Trait Discovery, and Integrated Field Science research domains to identify gaps in roadmaps and prioritize work efforts to ensure quality solutions complying with architecture standards to meet business requirements. Worked to effectively conceptualize, plan and communicate enterprise and technical strategic vision• Work to develop an intimate knowledge of business strategy and provide architectural consulting as needed to large-scale project initiatives• Developed and led the Data Science and Informatics Enterprise Architecture Council which worked to evaluate/identify existing and emerging enterprise technologies, patterns, and best practices for utilization in the department. Established a service portfolio that acted as component to enable specific business capabilities. Included evaluation phase, POC implementation, and communication strategy for department integration• Updated and maintained domain level documents in an SAMU (enterprise architecture repository). Provided continuous improvement to ensure they are easily consumable and available• Developed, communicated and deployed Enterprise Architecture Governance process for project teams and gained consensus on implementation with an emphasis on integration and data governance

Led a team of software engineers in the Data Science and Informatics group supporting Analytical Systems and Trait Integration. Also, served as both scrum master and application solution architect for two application project teams using agile methodologies, working on applications supporting the vector creation lab and insect bioassay screening labs. Managed a team of 10 engineers and was responsible for their mentorship, growth, performance evaluations, and job satisfaction.

Senior software solution architect focused on supporting Trait Characterization and Research Analytics. Application architect for laboratory information systems for nucleic acid, chromatography and insect screening labs. Worked on the Transgenic Trait Research System (TTRS) that allows researchers to store transgenic trait information, run sophisticated analysis on biotech experiments and produce or facilitate detailed reports used to make advancement decisions. • Provided architectural blueprints and technical leadership cross departments• Evaluated and recommended software tools, technologies and processes • Interpreted business requirements to articulate the business needs to be addressed• Troubleshoot code level problems quickly and efficiently• Effectively led and worked in Scrum Agile process with two week iteration. • Assisted with screenings and interviews of new employees

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

WebSphere Administrator with a background in web infrastructure architecture and support. Extensive experience scripting administration programs with multiple programming languages on multiple platforms. Experience in managing system infrastructure implementation, deployments, upgrades and maintenance to WebSphere environment hosting over 450 applications. • Developed and maintained a J2EE Struts WebSphere administration application integrated with LDAP for fine grained security control. Application provided customers the ability to request builds of common WebSphere components (i.e. datasources, shared libraries, MQ components, JAAS credentials) and allowed customers to issue runtime commands such as application or application server restarts. This application included a scheduled batch application that automated the build of the requested components. Provided significant cost savings in time required for customer support. • Developed and maintained automated application deployment Java process. The process provided consistent deployment practices and stability, as well as considerable ease of use for customers.• Experience in operational 24x7 supports, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning and maintenance for cross business unit WebSphere environment.• Administered monitoring and notification practices for all WebSphere application servers using Mercury SiteScope.• Responsible for developing effective policy and procedures for applying bimonthly WebSphere, IHS and JRE updates and maintenance to over 75 WebSphere installations on AIX and Windows, which includes development of a script to automate maintenance application. This allowed for a significant decrease in time to apply system maintenance, and the ability to stay current with recommended patches for all software.