Austen Williams Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Hire, train, and manage a team of software developers and SQA testers.• Create architecture guidelines and technical requirements for all new product features.• Create DevOps processes for continuous integration and deployment.• Create new application architecture using updated technology to reduce technical debt.• Manage virtual machine infrastructure, application deployments, IIS network setup, load balancer and firewall configuration, IP address mapping, internal domain assignments, clustered network storage, backup and disaster recovery, source control, certificates and SSL, and anything else necessary for running publicly accessible web applications.• Manage the transition from physical hardware to cloud infrastructure hosted through Microsoft Azure.• Direct the development team from waterfall development processes to an agile project methodology.• Offer guidance to salvage out of scope and delayed projects.• Work with marketing, sales, and client success teams to create a product development pipeline with a steady stream of new product features.• Automate any repetitive manual processes that take up valuable developer time.• Develop user experience standards to prioritize intuitive design for all new projects.• Interact with customers to ensure new software is meeting high customer standards.• Act as scrum master and technical lead in the agile development process.• Mentor and remove technical blocks from the development team to ensure a steady flow of updates.• Create software quality standards to reduce the number of bugs and issues released to production.• Write user stories, use cases, and any other documentation required to give a full understanding of the product between development teams and company leadership.• Hold biweekly meetings with developers to encourage training and personal growth within the company, offering both increased job satisfaction and potential career advancement.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Wrote new applications in .Net MVC C# architecture and support existing applications in a variety of languages.• Created internal development tools to speed up processes and provide more power to other departments.• Administrated five SQL enterprise servers, including indexing, backups, and performance troubleshooting.• Transitioned legacy email server to cloud email configuration hosted through Amazon Web Services.• Improved application performance by 80% for larger customer databases by running profiling on application infrastructure to locate and resolve bottlenecks and repetitive database calls.• Wrote customized payroll processing files to transfer customer data to third party payroll vendors. • Participated as Technical Lead on many new projects.• Provided application insight to the product team to better direct the product pipeline and timelines.• Took ownership over a failed 3rd party system rewrite to salvage the code and use it as a base for our new application infrastructure.• Created several new product ideas and worked with the product and sales teams to integrate them into the software. • Managed an outsourced development company to provide more guidance and technical specification to projects they worked, preventing issues with poor code quality and elongated timelines.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Contributed to large enterprise software in a .Net/C# environment.• Participated in support ticketing system to quickly address any bugs or small product features.• Acted as technical lead on several product features.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Architected and wrote several internal tools for use of our consultants and internal departments.• Took advantage of Microsoft's new Code First in Entity Framework to create a new HR document and payroll system.• Created several key front-end pieces of the company website that were used by our consultants in their future projects.• Wrote a mobile service layer using .Net and Razor syntax to provide internal data to our mobile development consultants.

San Marcos, Tx, Us