SME | Sr Software Engineer, Design, PM

Amy Berry is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, combining elements of folk, traditional, jazz, blues, and rock, and has been compared to Jolie Holland, Anna Nalick, Natalie Merchant, and Eva Cassidy. Her love of music at an early age, led to piano, organ, and keyboard at age 5, violin at 10, flute at 12, playing in the symphony during her summers, acapella singing groups, bass, and guitar. Growing up in a very musical family and grandparents with a band, were great influences, as well as, Ben E. King, Frank Sinatra, Everly Brothers, Madeleine Peyroux, Billie Holiday, Gabriella and Rodrigo, and Roy Orbison.Reverbnation.com/amyberryTwitter: @amyberrymusicFacebook: Amy Berry MusicStreamed live in the UK on Hull Radio

Life Coach with an extensive background in the creative arts. Accomplished musician and graphic artist, with a strong background in engineering and multimedia software. Radio guest and appearances on ABC, CBS, and Fox TV Network Broadcasts. Conducts individual and group sessions that are private and confidential. Leads teleconference and group workshops. Highest core value lies in making a difference.Twitter: @aim2inspireFacebook: Aim2Inspire ~ Life Coach Amy Berry

• Exposure to Openshift, Docker, S2i, Apache NiFi, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, NodeJs, Angular, • WordPress Portal site designed and configured within Openshift environment, supporting graphics created as needed• Software ergonomics evaluated and defined to determine user needs, interface design/testing/usability, user support, ensuring requirements for new and experienced users for internal and high-level web-based frameworks within the Intelligence Community• Research, create, design, mockup sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to convey and assess design ideas, providing front-end code where needed• Create user stories and determine requirements for evaluated and defined application, employing Agile development and design thinking methods and task flows• Requested to lead internal development team on projects and interface with government customer• Test application and provide written deficiencies, bugs, and inconsistencies• Collaborate and communicate objectives and user requirements in design briefs and live demos with Amazon Chime and Skype• Collaborated with project manager concerning finances, budget, and available resources in regard to personnel• User acceptance testing in all phases of development, production, and release in both class and unclass environments

• Software ergonomics evaluated and defined to determine user needs, interface design/testing/usability, user support, ensuring requirements for new and experienced users for internal and high-level web-based frameworks within the Intelligence Community• Research, create, design, mockup sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to convey and assess design ideas, providing front-end code where needed• Create user stories and determine requirements for evaluated and defined application, employing Agile development and design thinking methods and task flows• Test application and provide written deficiencies, bugs, and inconsistencies• Collaborate and communicate objectives and user requirements in design briefs• User acceptance testing in all phases of development, production, and release• Design Competencies: Axure Rapid Prototyping, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), wireframes, mockups, tracking / collaboration (GitLab, SharePoint, Trello), applied knowledge of Bootstrap, HTML, CSS in support of user interface design

• UI/UX design, research, advisement, and product delivery, working with developers and clients from concept, mock, prototype, and final in a systematic design process• Principal graphic designer with transforming technical concepts to visual for Intel Communities, Joint Dept of Defense Service(s) Collaboration, government contract proposals• Lead QA Test Engineer: user acceptance testing in all phases of development, production, and release in both class and unclass environments• Certification/Training: ISO 9001 and CMMI 3 with extensive object-oriented and relational database program experience, Classification Management, Unauthorized Disclosure• SDLC Methods: Agile Methodologies, SCRUM (JIRA, iceScrum, Confluence)• Design Competencies: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), wireframes, mockups, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq, OS X Apps, Atlassian Tracking / Collaboration (Confluence, JIRA, iceScrum), applied knowledge of Bootstrap, HTML, CSS in support of user interface design

• Collaborate with customers and sub-contractors to assess needs and requirements to create interactive multimedia training materials, user interfaces, and graphical print/web/online designs for the Mission Planning Support Contract (MPSC).• Graphical expert selected for high-profile government contract proposals in support of Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Special Ops, and Foreign Military Sites worldwide.• Graphics/User Interface/UX specialist and SharePoint web-portal support for the Mission Planning Program Office, supported community of 5,000 global users, 250+ on-site technicians, system experts, and trainers located at 235+ worldwide locations, providing global support for 5,600+ mission planning systems for the United States military and Allied forces.• Design, develop, manage, and troubleshoot software applications, including cross-platform relational and object-oriented databases, which are used to manage aircraft/weapons/software data, worldwide, by the Mission Planning community.• Manage team members to perform quality control, integration testing processes, and test readiness for USAF aircraft with MPSSF and USAF standard compliance.

Award-winning freelance graphics (print/web), multimedia, web design, logos, posters, banners, photo-rendering, SEO, SEM, marketing outreach. High honors and recommendations from government, to private contractor, to small business. Graphical expertise selected for government contract proposals. Script Supervisor and multimedia for 2011 Washington DC 48Hr Film Festival. DC Independent Film Festival 2012.

• Board member and graphical expert selected for government contract proposals in support of Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Special Ops, and Foreign Military Sites worldwide.• Created, developed internet websites, managed mission planning projects and applicable PC databases• Ensured USAF standard compliance of software/documentation distribution• Team Lead, managed, and coordinated software configuration and test with MAJCOM, ESC, & SPO for various USAF aircraft.• Assisted for the customer’s annual worldwide Mission Planning User’s Conference for over 2,000 attendees.• Created, designed and developed the NLX Intranet Website for NLX personnel.

• Managed System and Subsystem configurations for government-developed F-16 software • Configuration Control Board Member, performed audits to ensure adequacy, completeness, consistency, and utility of all software products• Identified problems and made improvements to the Operational Flight Program (OFP) process. Systems used: SUN (Unix) and PC • Prepared Version Description Documents, miscellaneous reports, Users Manuals, and System Admin Manuals