• My responsibilities include the distribution and assignment of all development work to a development team. I interview, make hiring recommendations for, train, monitor, mentor, supervise, make work assignments to, review developments tasks of, and evaluate development staff. I also perform appraisals, performance review meetings, and disciplinary actions as necessary and/or required.• I contribute to all phases of IT projects, including systems analysis, design, development, and implementation. I am responsible for assigning team members to development roles, defining job roles/tasks, requesting any necessary equipment and/or software necessary for project implementation, and establishing project milestones and deadlines utilizing the time and resources budgeted for the project.• I meet with upper management of the Department of Revenue in order to determine the best strategic approach to take with regard to the anticipated future needs of the Department and the utilization of IT resources in order to maintain the most accurate and efficient system possible.• I coordinate systems development activities with other IT units, management, tax divisions, vendors, and external agencies so that a high level of communication exists between all parties involved.• I participate in the Change Request (CR) vetting process to provide input on the feasibility of change requests and to provide alternative solutions for instances where the request is not feasible. For those CRs that are accepted, I evaluate, prioritize, and assign resources for their completion.• I am an active member of the annual forms committee where I provide technical recommendations to business managers for the design of future tax forms, schedules, and worksheets.• I attend annual tax working group meetings for in order to stay abreast of the latest technology, best practices, industry standards, and security and legal requirements.

I interview users so that functional requirements for our integrated tax system can be determined. I also write/modify computer programs, screen definitions, program documentation, and specifications. I perform unit, system, and regression testing of computer programs. I resolve "Incident reports" submitted by end-users within the timeframe allotted. I have worked/coordinated with vendor staff on a five-year project to build, implement, offer training for, and maintain our integrated tax system. At the completion of our 5 year vendor project to implement an integrated tax system in our department, I earned the role of Team Lead due to the extensive knowledge and leadership I had exhibited over the course of the project. I began my role as a Team Lead in October of 2009, and I continue to operate in that capacity. I am one of three team leads which maintain our integrated tax system which provides functionality to the entire department. I am responsible for the Returns, Revenue Accounting, Transactions, Payments, E-filing, and Taxpayer Access Point subsystems of this project. My duties as a team lead/IT Supervisor include, interviewing applicants, assigning development work, running meetings, determining business user requirements, setting development schedules, prioritizing development tasks, mentoring junior developers, making design decisions for all fixes and change requests, reviewing development work and documentation, ensuring that departmental development standards are followed, monitoring tasks to ensure that they are on schedule and meet the user's specifications, performing performance evaluations, and providing developer training and feedback. Technologies utilized include: VB.Net and SQL Server