Brian Whaley Email & Phone Number

Denville, NJ, US

New York, NY, US

• Technology Leader for atWork Corporate Client Enablement, 24 scrum teams consisting of 185 developers globally, and part of the Global Commercial Services department. Responsible for building the online platform that.
• Create a long-term department strategy, including mission, vision, goals, key performance indicators, roadmap, people strategy, agile process, operations plan, and partnership with product team on shared goals.
• Develop and execute a domain driven platform architecture including dynamic front-end journeys based on context, monorepositories for shared coding and testing, composable page construction, atomic design patterns.
• Become a metrics driven organization through the creation of a KPI dashboard including code quality and unit test coverage, scrum health, say do and velocity, availability, application health, and workforce including.
• Focus on people strategy. Conducted a SWOT analysis; adopt ambitious, demonstrable, and measurable goals; stretch assignments for high performers; define and execute a strategic workforce plan; build a shared team.
• Standardize a lightweight agile process for all scrum teams, including baseline assessment, APIs, continuous improvement, and documentation

New York, NY, US

• Technology leader for Digital Acquisitions - 25 scrum teams and 200+ developers globally. Digital Acquisition platforms allow prospective and existing customers to apply for card and non-card products (loans, banking).
• Developed a unified platform architecture, called Atlas, for consistent front-end journeys based on context based dynamic responses, composable page construction, atomic design patterns, API and shared services based.
• Developed continuous and evolutionary modernization plan across all markets and product lines to uplift legacy front end technologies to the Atlas Platform.

New York, NY, US

• Technology Leader for Global Prospects and Engineering Effectiveness, 20 scrum teams consisting of 150 developers globally, and part of the Digital Acquisitions department. Responsible for building the online.
• Scaled the portfolio from 6 to 14 scrum teams. Focused on onboarding, diversity, culture, productivity, and career growth, while delivering with excellence and confidence.
• Developed strategies and solutions to uplift legacy front end technologies to a consistent, modern software stack.
• Increased ownership and accountability of developers through multiple initiatives - Rotating Scrum Master Program, SDET Training, Global Prospects Handbook, SME Directory.
• Managed the offshoring of 40 contractors to India, ensuring knowledge transfer, continuity of teams, and ensuring delivery of business value.
• Technical innovations include the use of micro front ends, component libraries, innersourcing initiatives, and leveraging enterprise tools (web paved road, OneAmEx, content management and storage, logging, GraphQL.

NJ, US

• The Design Thinking Certificate Program at Rutgers, in connection with the Rutgers Center for Innovation Education and the Rutgers Professional Science Master's Degree, focuses on teaching innovative thinking as a.
• Membership on the Advisory Council is by invitation only, and is based upon personal and professional accomplishments.
• The Council meets once a quarter to discuss the curricula of our Rutgers’ Design Thinking program and to assign mentorships for future class participants.
• Chaired the Marketing Committee, focusing on increased program awareness, networking of committee members and students, increasing attendance, thought leadership, and social media presence.
• See more at: http://designthinking.rutgers.edu/

100 Bishopsgate, London, GB

Placed at Valeant PharmaceuticalsPrimary contact for all Digital needs for the execution of projects and initiatives related to marketing operations, digital marketing, analytics, customer engagement and social media across diverse brands and corporate entities. Liaised with brand managers, Web Solutions Team, and creative agency partners. Led the internal.

New York, NY, US

• Managed Audience, Marketing, Media Rooms, and SharePoint development teams. Supported the full product lifecycle for Digital Marketing including CMS, CDN, Marketing Automation, A/B Testing, and Analytics in alignment.
• Standardized the Marketing technology stack using Marketo, Salesforce, NewsCred, SharePoint, and a single CMS web stack across all products, brands, and divisions, generating $1M of savings annually
• Replaced Limelight with Akamai. Managed the full Product Lifecycle of the project. Gained 50% page-load speed and improved availability by 35%.
• Rolled out SharePoint globally as a collaboration platform. Migrated Jive, WordPress, and Lotus Notes based tools and content to the new platform, saving $500k per year in software and hardware costs.
• Panda 4.0 SEO recovery efforts improved monthly visits from a low of 2.8M in 2014 to 10M in 2016
• Improved the Scrum implementation for the development and operations teams. These changes decreased sprint length by 50%, decreased defects by 25%, and increased team participation, ownership, and communication.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

• Led Front End Development, Executive Deferred Compensation, and Internal Applications teams, consisting of 25 onshore and offshore developers for the Retirement Services division. Designed, coded, and maintained.
• Managed Agile Transformation across the department, developed a training program, scaled across all teams. Acted as Agile coach for new scrum masters and their teams.
• Transformed website user interface technology, used responsive fluid design, mobile first principles, and style guide
• Envisioned, piloted, and developed a new interactive retirement planning and education tool
• Transformed the Executive Deferred Compensation team. Implemented business and technology roadmap, change management, offshore development, formal QA process, Scrum methodology, and self-serve features.
• Revamped the department project intake stream. Defined a single process for work intake, appropriate resource utilization, project tracking, unified roadmap, alignment with business strategy, and established ROI.

New York, NY, US

• Managed all aspects of delivery for Portals, Mobile, and Distribution teams, with a budget of $10M. Primary point of contact for all phases of the software development lifecycle. Managed capital and operating budget.
• Established company’s first Mobile Development department. Developed and maintained AP Mobile applications on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, and HTML5, reaching millions of mobile phone users daily.
• Architected, built and launched new strategic Digital products for AP including: ap.org, the College Football Hub, iCircular mobile application, AP Content API, AP Video Hub, and the Widget platform
• Managed the full Product Lifecycle of the eBusiness Platform CMS, including selection, migration, and retirement
• Implemented Agile Transformation across the department with dedicated resources, accelerating the delivery of business value and adapting to the rapidly changing media industry

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

• Managed, monitored, and ensured all aspects of delivery for the Internet Marketing High Performance Teams – 4 to 6 teams comprised of 45 developers, project managers, graphic designers, testers, and consultants on 4.
• Launched and maintained Atripla, Sprycel, Onglyza, ReyatazPhotoContest, FaceCHB and over 40 other web sites
• Managed RFP process for new Enterprise CMS solution. Followed the full software Product Lifecycle Management process, including architecture, implementation, migration, sunset, and retirement. The team was comprised of.
• Improved the initial rating of the new outsource team from red to green in 9 months through knowledge transfer process, onsite visits, increased team engagement and ownership, and grass roots continuous improvement
• Developed standard usability guidelines and development practices for all web-based product sites
• Standardized the quality, development, and delivery of creative assets from 15 different advertising agencies

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

• Managed a team of 35 developers and consultants with a budget of $5 million. Coordinate projects between internal brand teams, infrastructure group, information security, data marketing, external advertising agencies.
• Assembled a new team of developers. Designed and constructed a new web site platform to retire legacy solutions and migrate over 40 web sites on the new architecture. Platform functionality included content management.
• Achieved ROI goals by migrating the Internet Marketing sites off legacy platforms, reducing site development costs by 30%, hosting costs by 70%, time to market by 20%. This effort saved $1.5 million per year.
• Implemented a department-wide continuous improvement program, achieving a savings goal of 15% annually
• Implemented a blended onshore and offshore model to manage costs and provided around-the-clock development and operations schedules, creating a savings of up to 25% annually

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

• Managed a team of 6 developers within IM Shared Services. Developed new applications or deployed off-the-shelf applications to streamline and automate manual processes. Worked directly with customers to collect.
• Instituted the Web Development Center of Excellence, comprised of 15 developers and 50 stakeholders. Created design standards and project templates and implemented them across all IM departments and over 20 web sites.
• Designed and developed corporate screensaver supporting configurable multilingual messaging and grid computing
• Rolled out department level Continuous Improvement initiative. Results were driven through developer working groups, reusable components, best practices, project templates and tracking tools, code libraries, standard.

Bridgewater, New Jersey, US

• Member and Team Lead of 12 developers and testers within Internal Business Systems. Mentored junior developers. Developed and improved procedures, development standards, graphic design, and usability concepts.
• Built the Review Tracking System (RTS) - a document review tracking workflow application designed to track documentation iterations, collect error metrics, and achieve Carnegie Mellon University SEI CMM Level 5
• Rolled out innovative Lotus Notes applications to support the finance, sales, marketing, and technology teams
• Developed a standard UI experience, implemented across all applications developed by the department

Bridgewater, New Jersey, US

• Member and Team Lead of 8 developers within Brand Management. Designed and developed Internet and Intranet sites including Bellcore.com, Telcordia.com, 800TeachMe.com, ARGreenhouse.com, InSite intranet, and team sites.
• Migrated, redesigned and rebranded the Bellcore web site to the new Telcordia brand
• Developed simple file-based content management system for rapid iterations and the accelerated content growth

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

• Lead graphic designer and web developer on a team of 6 within ISBC, Worldwide Medicines Group. Worked directly with internal clients to understand their business needs and develop a timeline for delivery. Contributed.
• Developed and deployed one of the first consumer-targeted pharmaceutical drug web sites.
• Developed and implemented a search engine optimization strategy, improving traffic and site stickiness

• Designed and built full-page advertisements to run in newspapers and magazines. Set up and maintained pre-flight and print server environment. Designed and produced full-color 64-page catalog. Designed, developed, and.
• Built one of the first e-commerce web sites, generating 30% - 40% of the company’s monthly revenue
• Partnered with online banks and automated transaction services to accept credit cards
• Implemented web-based marketing through search engine optimization, reciprocal advertising, and banner sales

Master'S Degree, Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Art, Art History, Medieval Studies

High School, General