Bill Blair

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Manager of Software Engineering at UATP @ UATP
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About Bill Blair

Multi-disciplined professional with fourteen years experience in software development management, software development and software testing in the areas of Telecommunications, Military Defense, Human Space Flight, Financial Systems, Quick Service Restaurants, Molecular Diagnostics, Contracting and Technical Consulting. Currently managing corporate software development projects for the Applications Engineering Department within Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP). Project management expertise has involved all areas of the software development life cycle, including, but not limited to: analysis, planning, requirements gathering, process planning, project completion estimation, design, implementation, reviews, documentation, deployment, support, security, monitoring and DevOps integration. Interacted with all personnel levels from the C-suite, to executives, to administration, to end users, to developers, to quality assurance engineers, to operations, to security. Received numerous awards and bonuses for exhibiting excellence in performance and productivity. Agile Evangelist. Earned a Masters Degree in Computer Science.

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Manager of Software Engineering at UATP
Bill Blair Work Experience Details
  • Uatp
    Manager Of Software Engineering
    Uatp Jul 2023 - Present
    Washington, Dc, Us
  • Kestra Financial
    Director Of Software Engineering - Core Platform
    Kestra Financial Jul 2022 - Apr 2023
    Austin, Tx, Us
    ● Lead/managed both onsite and remote resources to maintain and provide production support of the legacy Advisor Complete application as the construction of the Next Generation Platform becomes on-line.● Partnered with the business to quickly resolve production Legacy AC emergencies.● Partnered with the business to integrate new legacy functionality to support immediate needs of our advisors.● Integrated with NGP to onboard Pilot users and additional functionality.● Resolved 17 high impact production outages with the Legacy Team.● Resolved 54 critical/high security issues for SecDevOps with the Legacy Team.● Resolved on average 2-3 AC Emergencies per day with the Legacy Team.● Resolved 73% of the Legacy eSginature issues raised by the Client Services team with the Legacy Team.● Created runbook and then later the AIR UI so that the Data Team/Client Services can resolve common production issues on their own.
  • Kestra Financial
    Director Of Software Engineering
    Kestra Financial Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
    Austin, Tx, Us
    ● Lead/managed both onsite and remote resources for the Signing Packet team to build both the E-signature and the Wet-Sign process of signing documents for the Account Establishment application for the Next Generation Platform (NGP) that is intended to replace the monolithic legacy Advisor Complete (AC) application.● Aligned with the Product team to generate and prioritize requirements.● Aligned with the QA team to generate adequate user story coverage.● Introduced full stack development within the Signing Packet team to produce vertical slices of releases at the end of each sprint.● Increased unit test code coverage from 5.1% to 75%.● Created a new signing packet code base that has allowed developers to be more efficient in their work streams.● Introduced C# automated unit tests through xUnit framework to the QA team, to replace python and Postman legacy testing.● Introduced deployment tests, that ran on a deployed target that QA also used as a regression test framework.● Created a brand-new Azure DevOps (ADO) environment for managing sprints with dashboards.● Introduced QA to ADO test suites, which was adopted for all teams.● Aligned with the DevOps team to create a hybrid branching strategy between Trunk Based Development and Gitflow, for all teams.● Aligned with DevOps to create deployment strategies for lower environments. ● Aligned with SecDevOps to resolve various levels of security issues.● Interviewed/onboarded 1 .Net Lead that is now tech leading the Form Management Team.● Interviewed/onboarded several contract/consultant resources for NGP/Legacy.
  • Allata
    Senior Technical Manager Consultant For Caliber Collision (4 Month Engagement)
    Allata Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    ● Acted as Account Manager for the Caliber Collision Engagement for Allata.● Lead a small team of .Net Developers to work on Caliber on-premises applications that quickly grew to two times the original team size to provide bandwidth for additional projects.● Presented ideas for process improvement, release automation and document templates to support SDLC.● Presented ideas and partially implemented DACPAC release automation via Azure DevOps for various SQL Databases.● Implemented several SQL Stored Procedures to dynamically copy a specified subset of all tables from source databases in a Production environment to target databases in lower environments using distributed queries.● Worked with the Allation and Caliber teams to update and deploy the .Net full stack DeskReview and Bosch applications to Production.● Created Azure Service Bus Proof of Concept utilizing Topics, Subscriptions, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Databases, On-Premise SQL Databases as a completed end-to-end CI/CD development platform with automated testing and code coverage reports to move a stream of data to downstream clients. This application also had full PDF/HTML documents created from the code using Doxygen.
  • Allata
    Senior Technical Manager Consultant For Smoothie King (1 Month Engagement)
    Allata Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    ● Created a collection of Azure Functions using function level security to replace direct access to the database.● This collection had unit test coverage at 85%, a demonstrator client application and full PDF/HTML documentation created from the code using Doxygen.● This collection also contained a build/release pipeline that incorporated a unit test code coverage report via Azure DevOps.
  • Allata
    Senior Technical Manager Consultant For Vizient (5 Month Engagement)
    Allata Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
    Dallas, Texas, Us
    ● Contributor for .NET Restful APIs for hospital services.● Created strategy and initiated execution of moving away from a Paperbits Azure Developer Portal to an Angular Developer portal using Azure resources.
  • Farm Credit Bank Of Texas
    Principal Software Technical Lead
    Farm Credit Bank Of Texas Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
    Austin, Texas, Us
    ● Technical Lead for the portfolio of Cash Management products maintained in ASP.NET Core, Restful APIs and SQL Server Database backends.● Worked with the Business to outline requirements and translated those to technical specifications to developers and testers.● Updated .NET architecture standards to use .NET Core dependency injection, Entity Framework Core, Isolated and Relational in-memory unit tests, configuration systems and logging through Serilog.● Created standards for continuous integration / continuous deployment strategies.● Created standards for yaml based Azure DevOps build pipelines to include unit testing and code coverage.● Created standards to for Test Plans that referenced automated testing.● Created standards to generate technical design documents (HTML and PDF documents) from XML comments in code and read-me markdown files in the code repository using Doxygen and TeXworks.● Created standards for Azure DevOps release pipelines to deploy applications to multiple on-premise targets with audit trails.● Created standards for Azure DevOps release pipelines to deploy SQL Database Projects via DACPACs to multiple on-premise targets with audit trails.● Created .Net client using Rest Sharp to connect with the Camunda Restful API for External Tasks to maintain visual representation of state in applications. This was a Proof of Concept that would later be used within the portfolio of Cash Management applications.● Worked with Project Managers, Quality Assurance, Operations and Database Administrators to organize code delivery.● Monitored and maintained code after production deployment as needed.● Mentored and trained junior level staff as needed.
  • Asuragen
    Senior Dx Software Development Manager
    Asuragen Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
    Austin, Texas, Us
    ● Maintained a team that completed the grant for the C9orf72 Analysis Module in 2019.● Maintained a team that created the SMA Analysis Module containing SMN1, SMN 1/2, and SMN 1/2 Plus analysis types, released in January 2020. An updated Fragile X Analysis Module followed shortly after the FDA granted marketing authorization of the AmplideX Fragile X Dx and Carrier Screen Kit to Asuragen.● Worked with the team to repackage QuantideX BCR-ABL to a core system and two kit modules, somewhat similar to what was done with the AmplideX product.● Worked with our .NET Architect to create a cloud-based version of AmplideX Reporter with the FMR1 Analysis Module in Azure. This was used as a demonstration site to be used with marketing for customer tolerance and exploration of cloud-based technologies. In addition, this was used with RTI to do Newborn Screening tests for FMR1 premutation. A prototype site was presented at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) conference in November 2019. The Marketing Team presented an award to the Dx Software team for this effort, later that same year for this effort.● Worked with our .NET Architect to propose and create an Asuragen Reporter for all of our Dx Software technologies that will be a desktop / hybrid / cloud / mobile based product as part of our 5-year plan development strategy. ● Created the AssurX Legacy Data Search Application. The purpose of this application to provide complaint history during an audit as requested. This application will save the company $30K annually, and may be used up to 10 years.● Hired and maintained quality staff within the Dx Software Team that was between 8-9 members.● Continuously improving our processes, as time permits.● Maintaining compliance, technical training for the team as needed and was mentioned for process excellence during our Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) audit in late 2019.
  • Asuragen
    Dx Software Development And Test Manager
    Asuragen Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
    Austin, Texas, Us
    ● Maintained a team that created the FMR1 Analysis Module, to be integrated to the AmplideX Reporter. This protein, most commonly found in the brain, is essential for normal cognitive development and female reproductive function. This analysis module was created by using the .NET Core Managed Extensibility Framework, Bootstrap, Restful API, PostgreSQL Database, Advanced Installer, Plotly, IS4 and other technologies.● Converted the team from using Waterfall SDLC with JIRA to Agile SDLC within Azure DevOps. Implemented several projects to use automated CI/CD techniques along with automated testing within Azure DevOps. • VADER: The Vastly Aware Deployment and Environment Release system (VADER) is a parent project designed to help establish standardized protocols for build and release pipelines within Asuragen's Microsoft Azure DevOps environment. This goal of this over-arching system is to help establish processes for supporting automation in the following areas, but not limited to: versioning, continuous integration, continuous deployments, environment management, and testing • AVA: The Analytical Verification Automation Framework (AVA) was designed to perform large and tedious manual test tasks in a fraction of the time it would take a full-time employee to perform in a repetitive and accurate manner.● In August, 2018, acquired the Test Team. Set ground rules for the development and test teams to work together, and later within the same sprints to find and fix bugs as quickly as possible as we moved toward Test Driven Development.● Worked to better align and to improve relationships between the Bioinformatics and Dx Software Teams to achieve company goals. This effort led to both teams to efficiently produce pipelines and analysis modules together. Furthermore, the Bioinformatics team adopted Azure DevOps, moving away from Jira, saving the company $12K in license fees each year.
  • Asuragen
    Dx Software Development Manager
    Asuragen Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
    Austin, Texas, Us
    ● Maintained a software development team that converted our AmplideX Reporter from a flask, python, and virtual machine based system to an ASP.NET CORE site that could load up to eight analysis modules. This site was installed as an application on Windows 7, 10 and Windows Server 2012.● Transferred the software development team's responsibility of the "white glove installation service" to the Technical Customer Support Team, by training them how to install and doing basic trouble shooting of our software. Second tier support came to the software development team as needed.
  • Whataburger
    Application Development Manager | Enterprise Technology Custom Development
    Whataburger Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    ● Evangelized and implemented preliminary DevOps by adopting iterative software development policies such as Scrum and Agile. This enabled us to grow tighter in our relationships with EIS, QA, BA, PM, Infrastructure, Security teams, Senior Management and our customers. We migrated to VSTS using CI/CD techniques with some automated testing in the lower environments, followed by one touch deployment into Production. Created dashboards within VSTS to simplify status reported out to the business. We also adopted the Scrum meetings, to align with the process. ● The Team maintained and updated Electronic Orange Folder (EOF). EOF is the company’s portal to request/approve medium/large scale projects (or other requests) from the senior leadership. ● The Team maintained and updated Onboarding Management System (OMS). This application managed the onboarding of 41,000 team members throughout the company’s 800 stores and the 700 team members in the home office. ● The Team created a new application Performance Evaluation Calculator (PEC). This application is responsible for disseminating $25,000,000+ to our team members in the form of bonuses based upon metrics related from the store and from the individual’s personal performance within that store. ● The Team created a new application Storefront Harmonious Ordering Platform (SHOP). SHOP is a multi-tenant eCommerce application to support MyWBShop, SCS Order Guide and WhataStore eCommerce applications. ● The applications maintained or created above contained up to the following technologies: ASP.NET CORE, Web APIs (along with Swagger), integration with TIBCO Business Works, JDE, Active Directory / ASP.NET Identity framework to manage users and SQL 2008/2012 databases as a back-end.● Managed 4 fulltime developers, 1 analyst, 1 SDET, 7 offshore and 5 onshore contractors. ● Handled day to day production support tickets as needed with our customers.● Mentored and coached team members to help them along their career path.
  • Cardtronics
    Eft Software Development Manager
    Cardtronics May 2010 - Jul 2015
    Houston, Texas, Us
    ● Led strategic planning for technology direction/initiatives and daily management of the Electronic Funds Transfer/Corporate Software Development Department consisting of 6-15 developers, serving 500+ employees, 1000+ external users and 100,000+ ATMs for over 4 years. ● Directed software development methodology (SDLC / Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle) and supporting tools, teaming with developers, senior management, production staff, project managers, business analysts, security, internal customers, and quality assurance stakeholders to gather requirements, to design, to perform implementation, to test, to organize handoff of completed products to QA/production and to perform production support as needed. ● Provided technical solutions for FeeAlert system. This system would generate an SMS message and/or email to a customer when that customer performed a transaction at a foreign ATM. The SMS message and email would contain a link to a landing page with alternate nearby locations, sorted by distance, with surcharge-free ATMs. Customers also had the ability to opt in/out as needed. This system was compatible with smart phones, tablets and PC systems. ● Built transaction warehouse database with development team to host all Cardtronics transactions. This includes all Cardtronics processed ATM transactions, advanced functionality transactions (i.e. check cashing and bill payment), as well as those processed by third party processors for more than 1.25 billion records spanning five years of transactional information. ● Designed and implemented the Ca$hlink application to integrate warehousing solutions for 17,000+ ATMs supported by the Cardtronics network, effecting for analysts and forecasters a more accurate measure of ATM cash demands and saving the company a projected $4M annually.● Hired employees, conducted performance reviews, promoted team building, and created an open environment to encourage developers to address any technical related issues.
  • Cardtronics
    Eft Software Developer
    Cardtronics Dec 2007 - May 2010
    Houston, Texas, Us
  • Microsoft
    Software Design Engineer Ii
    Microsoft May 2007 - Dec 2007
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Contract position at Microsoft through CompCon Tech. Created customized Client Skinning Development / Production signed builds for ATT, Bell Canada, Reliance, Frontier and Telmex customers. ● Developed and maintained web service C# code for the Bell Canada Application Programming Interface (API).● Automated many manual tasks associated within the Client Skinning Process, utilizing Windows Forms.● Created automated test scripts utilizing Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for the Billing Gateway API.● Participated in multiple small to medium size development projects, utilizing SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, web services, C# and Visual Studio .NET.● Mentored multiple team members in both development and testing activities.
  • Commprove
    Senior System Test Engineer
    Commprove Jan 2007 - Apr 2007
    ● Proposed new test framework that consisted of a waterfall process to automate testing of the company's software products as well as tools to support and to facilitate this process. The proposal consisted of doing research of the company's current manual testing procedures used in Italy, Ireland and the United States. ● Created the CommProve Test Common Library using C++ and object oriented design methodologies. This library was used in unit testing of the company's software products.● Built search engine prototype using C# and Windows Forms (the final version was to be converted to ASP.NET). The search engine prototype consisted of a spider application and a search application. The spider had the ability to crawl expansive directories on the company's intranet, while at the same time parse and store textual content from numerous files types into the application's index. Lastly, the search application used the index to produce lightning fast accurate results to the user's query.
  • Itt Technical Institute – Houston South Campus
    Adjunct Information Technology Instructor
    Itt Technical Institute – Houston South Campus Sep 2006 - Jan 2007
    Taught the following classes at ITT:● Linux System Administration - IT302T (3rd Quarter 2006)● Linux Operating System - IT250T (4th Quarter 2006)● Linux System Administration - IT302T (4th Quarter 2006) Performed the following while teaching classes at ITT:● Managed a class of 25 students at night including attendance and grading policies.● Prepared lectures, labs, homework assignments and quizzes.● Administered midterm and final exams.● Oversaw and provided assistance in student projects.● Substituted for various classes on an as needed basis.
  • The Boeing Company
    Embedded Software Engineer Iii
    The Boeing Company Apr 2003 - Jan 2007
    Arlington, Va, Us
    Tested several Computer Software Configuration Items (CSCIs) within various software releases of the Flight Software in the Prime Software Production Facility at Johnson Space Center's Sonny Carter Training Facility. The Flight Software provides command, guidance, navigation, control as well as other functions to support the flight operational readiness of the International Space Station. The completed tests, which were a deliverable product to the NASA customer, followed a strict software development process. This process included requirements analysis, test design, test implementation (manual procedures and C coded scripts), test documentation, peer reviews, formal delivery of product and maintenance of delivered products (regression tests). The CSCIs tested were the following: Command and Control Software, Guidance Navigation and Control, External Control Zone, Power Management and Control Application and the Photovoltaic Controller Application.● Automated repeatable test processes by creating design documents, C scripts and C# tools for the suite of Sizing and Timing tests for the requirements that are common across the eleven CSCIs tested in FQT. This effort improved cycle time and efficiency by 90%, reduced maintainability costs by 95%, lowered training costs by 95%, and reduced errors by 90%. Furthermore, this effort resulted in an award fee from NASA and an invite to present this topic at the 2007 Boeing Software Conference.● Assisted in the MATE-4 Development Transition effort (from UNIX to Windows environment). The implementation of this system was done using C# and Visual Studio .NET 2003.● Represented the Formal Qualification Test Group, for the CSCIs for which I was responsible, in various Technical Design Reviews and Test Readiness Reviews while the NASA subsystem owners were present.● Mentored intern(s) for three consecutive summers to produce software products and to maintain regression tests.● Member of an CMMI level V organization.
  • The Boeing Company
    Embedded Software Engineer Ii
    The Boeing Company Jan 2002 - Apr 2003
    Arlington, Va, Us
    ● Tested various software releases of the Embedded Test Software in the Prime Consolidated Integration Laboratory. The Embedded Test Software provides the dynamic capability to establish test scenarios and to provide systems level test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System (National Missile Defense). ● Worked extensively with OpenGL and Motif Application Program Interfaces by upgrading the Real-Time Analysis Globe. The RTA Globe was used to plot objects and their trajectories for the Embedded Test Software.● Installed and configured Embedded Test Software releases in the Prime Consolidated Integration Laboratory.● Modified and created documentation both for the Embedded Test Software and Integration groups within the BMC3 Organization.● Attended and/or conducted Peer Reviews, Code Walkthroughs and Technical Interchange Meetings.● Familiarity with missile test operations, flight test processes and the Capability Maturity Model for the software process.● Member of an CMMI level III organization.
  • Mciworldcom
    Telecommunications Test Engineer Iii
    Mciworldcom Jun 1999 - Oct 2001
    ● Tested various software releases for the Network Information Concentrator by monitoring data throughput in the system on the Sun Solaris 2.6, Solaris 8 and IBM AIX 3.2.5.1 operating systems, by simulating clients and client connections, verifying functional areas of the release, and by communicating with developers and managers.● Built tools using Perl 5.6.1 to be used in testing the Network Information Concentrator.● Prepared and executed test plans relevant to each software release for the Network Information Concentrator.● Prepared installation documents and installed new code in a production environment upon completion of testing releases for the Network Information Concentrator.● Worked extensively with Oracle 8.1.6 and Perl 5.6.1 to automate a process to restore data gathered by a subsystem from the NIC into an Oracle database by using SQL*Loader. This interface was accomplished by creating scripts that linked the two systems, by creating tables in the Oracle database, and by creating control files so that Oracle could understand the incoming data. ● Performed administrative duties on a Sun Enterprise 5000 Server, a Sun Enterprise 3500 Server and Sun a UltraSparc 60 Workstation, including: ♦ Installed the Sun Solaris 2.6 operating system and new operating system patches on various UNIX machines.♦ Installed the Sun Solaris 8 64-bit upgrade and new operating system patches on top of Solaris 2.6 operating systems.♦ Installed, configured, formatted, partitioned and mounted new hardware, such as hard drives, on various UNIX machines.♦ Installed Oracle 8.1.6 upgrade on top of Oracle 8.0.4 on various UNIX servers. ♦ During down time wrote C++ code using OpenGL Libraries in an attempt to create GUI interfaces for the Network Information Concentrator (OpenGL examples are available upon request).

Bill Blair Skills

Software Development Agile Methodologies Testing .net Software Engineering Microsoft Sql Server Sql Databases Scrum C# Quality Assurance Visual Studio Unix Process Improvement Software Design Java Security Test Automation Business Process Improvement Telecommunications .net Framework Awesomeness

Bill Blair Education Details

  • Southern Methodist University
    Southern Methodist University
    Computer Science
  • Southern Methodist University
    Southern Methodist University
    Computer Science

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