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Plano, Texas

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Plano, Texas

Development and support of Lacerte, a comprehensive professional tax preparation software with over 5700 forms, 18,000 error diagnostics and built-in time saving features.- Part of interdisciplinary team responsible for architecture, design, implementation and testing of major billing update using Agile methodologies to greatly increase revenue recognition and reduce revenue deferral so the company can be 10-Q & 10-k compliant. - Define and achieve client needs through one-on-one sessions and on-going communications.- Design and implement on-line feature to reduce costs and save thousands of Help Desk hours.- Work with Test Engineers writing and verifying test plans to reduce test loads and increase product stability.

Boston, Massachusetts

ScrumMaster on company main Fund Accounting product that provides full portfolio fund accounting to fund administrators, banks and trust companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, and pension funds throughout the US, Canada and Europe, - Provide project leadership to 5 employees for product stability including production timetable, client/project team coordination, quality assurance and status reporting using Agile methodologies.- Consultation on migration strategies from legacy development environment and leveraging open source technologies.- Implement Test-driven development process to reduce debugging effort and increase product stability.- Overseeing development of in-house test automation system.

Irving, Texas

Product Manager on company Transmission Automation that manages and controls content in the broadcast master control room, integrating database management with control of video servers, tape transports, switchers, routers, and other common peripherals for complete broadcast automation.- Develop business case and strategy for Software as a Service (SaaS).- Work with marketing, advertising to develop strategies that generate sales of new and updated products.- Develop “proof of concept” product, make presentation to management and obtain approval.- Conduct and lead Design Think sessions with application developers, systems engineering, and database administrators to ensure optimal performance of production systems.- Client engagements including on-site consulting.- Working closely with offshore teams to assign projects, code review and QA testing.- Design and development of custom recording feature used exclusively at the United States Whitehouse.- Implement system logging feature to increase accuracy, reduce research time and improve product efficiency.

Irving, Texas

Leadership role on enterprise software system used globally by Citigroup for Mortgage Registration and Process- Facilitate communication with Business, Franchise Development, and Development Team.- Supervise offshore development team; review Low Level Design documentation, review source code, unit testing, and merging source code.- Coach and monitoring progress of Junior Software Developers.- Provide technical input to assist with the formulation of proposals to meet application.- Responsible for design and review of Functional Specifications.- Defect assignment and process/resolves using Test Director.- Analyzing, identifying weaknesses, and proposing changes for software/process improvement.

Waterloo, Ontario

Providing in-house staff training to ensure understanding of support requirements on range of retirement investment and annuity software applications and custom-built applications.- Analyze in-house software applications, identifying weaknesses and proposing changes for improvement.- Support true client/server applications. - Develop in-house tools, scripts, and procedures to speed up the testing process and insure system and database stability.- Propose and apply major enhancement to use ADO instead of BDE to retrieve data from the database.- Implement automation of Microsoft Office products to enhance the system.- Design and develop real time reports.

St. Catharines, Ontario

Develop client/server applications for medical industry across Canada and New York State with professional, effective, and standardized interfaces.- Propose and implement ideas to expand product functions resulting in increased company sales and profit. - Senior Technical Leader in designing, implementing and testing fax server program integrated into main medical software package compatible with all fax classes. - Design real time reports that run smoothly on different operating systems. - Develop automated system update to eliminate the need for manual updates using FTP protocols, resulting in saving hundreds of hours of technical support.