Ian Barnett Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Growing and Evolving the Symmetry Tax Engine that powers complex and accurate Tax Calculations for Payroll Providers offloading the burden of staying up-to-date and compliant.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona Area

I lead the team that is innovating and simplifying all International Digital Card Applications for American Express. If you live outside the US, and you apply for an American Express Card, you will be interacting with my team's product.

Created and managed 6-month strategic, agile product roadmap defining product strategy and prioritizing key customer needs. • Built consensus across all departments for strategic direction.• Contributed extensively to customer need discovery through industry research and in-depth interviews.• Designed and created internal and external documentation to clarify product usage and functionality.• Created and communicated detailed customer usage reports, which were used to inform the product backlog and convince customers to engage with the product more.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Led 15 engineers through end-to-end development of multiple software projects utilizing agile methodologies.• Negotiated and balanced scope, schedule, and resources for three software projects, delivering each on schedule and within budget. • Developed and nurtured relationship with customers by actively communicating and rapidly delivering beneficial features. This led to customer delight and winning a re-competed contract in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. • Translated and prioritized customer feedback and objectives into actionable technical tasks resulting in compelling new product capabilities which acquired the US NAVY and US Marine Corps as customers. • Defined and executed an iterative product release schedule and coordinated cross-functional efforts to finalize, deliver, document, and promote product updates.• Increased development team’s productivity 50% by identifying and mitigating risky development tasks. • Improved collaboration and communication between development team and remote test team. Established common goals, determined vision for improved automated testing.• Led team of 5 engineers on the successful delivery of an at-risk project. Reported progress to customer, resolved conflicts between prime- and sub-contractors, facilitated integration, led quality assurance effort.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Designed and developed a web-based intelligence processing and dissemination software system in Java. • Continually researched the application of new technologies and methodologies to improve software. • Gained hands-on experience with: Data storage (SQL and NoSQL), system integration, definition of SOAP and REST APIs, software security, object-oriented principles, web applications, horizontal scalability, cloud computing, modern front-end design, test-driven development, and performance optimization.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Implemented major enhancements and bug fixes on the web-based, database-driven document control system. • Trained new hires and other interns.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategic Marketing And Services Leadership, 3.77

Master Of Science (Ms), Systems Architecting And Engineering: Software, 3.86

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Object Oriented Developmen, 3.62