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Pontiac, Michigan, United States

Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States

Provided coaching and best-practice guidance to junior and mid-level project managers at client organizations.

Challenge: engage a new department at an established communications client to analyze and implement a modernization effort for their internal technician application, used by 18,000 techs every dayActions: based on a detailed technical analysis, built and organized an agile dev team to design, build, and test microservices to replace monolith endpoints; coordinated with client dev team for regular code releasesResults: completed initial set of endpoint decomposition tasks ahead of schedule; won business to finish decomposition work and additionally to help plan and create the client app's transition from a in-house server environment to AWS cloud

Troy, Mi

Led multi-team development of recognition and incentives management software platform.Challenge: Plan and build a software platform to bring efficiency to delivery across current and future clients.Actions: Worked with Director of IT and lead architect to devise initial proof-of-concept, pitched idea to company owners, secured funding, implemented Scrum methodology. Integrated outside contractors, built features according to product roadmap to deliver highest identified feature value.Results: Three existing major clients migrated to new platform, four new clients launched in first year of release, gross revenue over $2M in first 18 months of release.Details:- Development team (US and India) of 12 employees and contractors, plus 24 contractors in Mexico.- Standard Scrum Master responsibilities (daily stand-up, backlog refinement, retrospective, sprint planning)- Project management processes formed new baseline for all other software development teams.- Coordination with business (product owner), operations, infrastructure, and client delivery teams.- Monthly in-person status reports to executives.

Troy, Michigan, United States

(see above; Information Product Technology Manager)

Troy, Michigan, United States

Led planning and coordination of all technical activities for Subaru dealer incentives web site.Challenge: Maintain consistent, high-quality data processing and reporting for ever-increasing data set while keeping costs low and delivery on time.Actions: Worked with account team and client daily to address issues and new requests, applied software updates to stem performance issues, continued to engage with client when majority of features shifted to a different vendor.Results: Won back original business after other vendor failed on both cost and schedule, and later expanded delivery scope to include new features across diverse groups within Subaru.Details:- Over $3M in incentives payments managed monthly.- Custom-built web/DB application provided nightly batch processing involving several 1M+ record tables.- Maintained ongoing project plan, coordinating with business account manager, technical architects, creative designers, application developers, and quality analysts.- Development planned and executed Rapid Application Development methodology.- Directed planning, estimates, development, testing, delivery and support activities for web site.

Rochester Hills, Mi

Led in-house development teams and outside vendors in web-based application development.Challenge: Manage development team while overseeing outside partners to provide a diverse set of technology solutions for both internal and external customers.Actions: Implemented Agile methodology for internal development team to deliver small increments of useful features to internal user base, including training and support; partnered with outside vendors and clients to integrate technology needs better met by OTS solutions rather than custom-built software.Results: Internal proprietary job tracking system revised and delivered on schedule while delivering time-saving feature improvements; established contracts with two external vendors to supply on-site software solutions saving over 50% compared to previous installations.Details:- Design, development, testing and delivery of proprietary job tracking system used by sales, estimating, project management, and finance.- Supported legacy marketing events web portal, including data management and SQL reports.- Managed short-term contract programmers for focused programming projects.- For vendor-supplied work, collaborated on statements of work, payment contracts, and support agreements.

Led local and remote teams in development and delivery of e-commerce web applications.Collaborated with business owners and other stakeholders to gather, clarify and document requirements. Used Agile methodology for project management: prioritized backlog tasks into timeboxed sprints, facilitated development via daily stand-ups, focused on removing blocks to keep developers productive, coordinated regular product showcases, and facilitated end-of-sprint retrospectives. Coordinated with QA and system operations staff to manage product validation, release and maintenance. Development was HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end, J2EE middle-tier, and Oracle 11g database back-end.

Designed, developed, tested and deployed software features to a large, modular ERP system for manufacturing (HTML, JavaScript, ASP, .NET, C#, SQL). Collaborated with project managers and other developers on complex feature requests.

Managed long-term maintenance of web/database application, including proprietary content management tool. Led development of B2C web site for medium duty trucks. Salesforce.com Administrator and Enterprise Champion. Maintained ASP.NET / SQL Server based web sites. Developed and deployed custom reports for Oracle-based ERP system.

Led internal developers to produce JSP/Struts-based Web application. Managed outside consultants in development of servlet-based Web application. Led rapid prototyping effort for Web-based vehicle diagnostics application.

Designed and developed software update subsystem for prepaid calling card system. Led team of software engineers in development of operator center administrative report system.

Developed and maintained Windows based software applications and services.