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Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Contributed to successful delivery of key initiatives, planning and managing large-scale projects across teams and departments. Utilizing Scrum and Agile practices, I maximized team resources and skills to focus on delivering company goals, managing internal team communication and off-team dependencies to keep projects on track. I created metrics to help a teams stay focused on projects and their place in overall company objectives and refine. I also coached teams in improving their Agile processes, and working with Jira and Confluence.Measured and monitored multiple teams and project metrics, and created or provided resources for the refinement of Scrum and Agile capability for teams. I reported on issues impacting project roadmaps and company goals. As a developer, I leveraged coding to compile data from Jira, Jenkins, and others, generating metrics and dashboards to drive conversation and communication between shareholders and departments.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

I piloted scrum and agile methodology, on-boarding teams and championing its adoption as a founding member of the Agile Center of Excellence in the company.Improved teams' overall predictability through grooming, decomp, and good estimation habits, such as updating of actuals, maintaining correct estimations during sprints, and focusing on their commitments, including direct coaching of team members. Using my experience from teaching and creating online training courses, I created team on-boarding training, helping to get new hires committing code faster and providing a knowledge base and reference for future use.Worked through stories to groomed work to be estimated by developers, following up on estimations and status of work being performed. Managed team communication and gathered information on improvements, and created action plans to improve and maintain team velocity. Reported to management, keeping them up to date on progress and resource needs.

I develop front-end software interfaces for back-end software with RESTful services using css, javascript, and HTML. Testing and helping team manage test-driven development standards is a big part of what I do on a day-to-day basis with ruby, capybara, and selenium. I also lead Agile and Scrum teams and ceremonies.Includes 2 years as contact Front-End Developer via ICC (2008-2010)

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Contract with Resource Interactive in Columbus Ohio. Served as UI Technical Lead for multiple projects, developing and enforcing web standards and coding practices across in-house and 3rd party contractors.Functioned as a technical/design liaison, bridging gap between designers and programmers to allow more portability of code independent of user interface, while maintaining the designer's creative vision for the project.Managed offshore and local development teams, keeping dialog progressing and providing and maintaining documentation of 3rd party products and UI.Facilitated conference calls and performed as Project Lead for interaction with vendors and in-house team members including account management, creative leads, and development, maintaining project momentum and ensuring deadlines were met when Project Management was not available.Facilitated development of web pages and sections of website. Managed back-end development as needed.Maintained and reconciled information architecture in consideration of potential and limitations of 3rd party vendors.Improved capability of Javascript frameworks and developed Ajax functionality.Troubleshot developing Flash and ActionScript for developers, providing feedback and guidance in syntax, logic, and processing.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Designed graphical user interfaces for students learning to read and improving reading skills; programmed new ACTIONSCRIPT classes for FLASH-based products while illustrating simple icons and complex characters.Communicated with engineering and editorial teams to design and program educational learning systems for McGraw-Hill and Glencoe online products.Developed two new classes to extend FLASH capabilities: a Shape class for the construction of basic graphic shapes and a styled windows class for construction of screens programmatically based on creative services input.Developed a flexible XHTML structure for Learning Management System creation that can be updated from CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS).Managed multiple external vendors in the US and India for creation of animation and HTML assets.Researched using a WIKI to create an online style guide that can be edited and updated from the web to make teaming more efficient.The overall skills/technologies used were: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript, Flash, ActionScript2, Information Architecture, Web Page Layout, Animation/Illustration, Storyboarding and Video Recording/Editing.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Designed and created computer based training products for software companies.Organized video shoots for CBT modules; edited and produced video for training modules.Programmed a FLASH-based marketing demo for Xcelerate Media that was updated from an XML file allowing the sales staff to add, remove and rearrange marketing pieces for different clients without knowledge of FLASH.Worked with translators for the conversion of final training systems into multiple languages.Created FLASH training course for software companies with video and audio in FLASH.Converted HTML/JAVASCRIPT courseware to FLASH/XML template based systems increasing cross-platform/cross-browser compatibility and increasing efficiency of translation to foreign languages; the creation of this template decreased deployment time and resources by 55%.The overall skills/technologies used were: HTML/JavaScript, Flash ActionScript, Information Architecture, Web Page Layout, SCORM/AICC, ILLUSTRATION/Animation, Digital Photography, Storyboarding, Video Recording/Editing, DVD Production and Audio Recording/Editing.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Created comprehensive curricula covering FLASH basics and advanced FLASH concepts for Art Students.Created prototype projects demonstrating desired lessons.Lectured on and demonstrated FLASH applications.Reinforced web and corporate standards for HTML/XHTML, CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS) and 508 Standards.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Provided multi-media expertise to a membership organization serving online libraries.Worked on such projects as building FLASH maps and banners for existing, as well as not-yet-released websites.Constructed banners that were more bandwidth efficient.Provided FLASH/ACTIONSCRIPT programming for an interactive map for Ohio's Hispanic population growth.Optimized graphics across their new world web site reducing bandwidth.The overall skills/technologies used were: HTML, Flash/ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS Layout, Illustration, Animation, Digital Photography and storyboarding.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Consulted with Account Managers and Associates to estimate, plan, develop and implement custom web and interactive solutions for clients; the media for these solutions ranged from interactive video plasma screens and television commercials to pharmaceutical patient tracking extranets with CD-ROM mailer follow-ups.Worked to create a number of eLearning products for pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly's e-Train and Baxter's eBPDP; e-Train was a sales training Internet application that educates sales reps on pharmaceutical products.Designed user interfaces and navigation systems for sales, marketing and educational tools.Utilized FLASH/ACTIONSCRIPT and ACTIVE SERVER PAGES (ASP)/HTML in order to develop the various Internet/Extranet applications.Assessed technical and creative scope of projects, reconciling goals with capacity and capability of available technologies.Responsible for project estimating, including comps and creative documents illustrating the value to the customer.Created the information architecture for web sites, presentations, educational and sales tool CD-ROMs.Organized and collected data for test and focus groups.Created and developed dynamic-data driven FLASH coverage map of the USA for CIGNA Multimedia Sales Tool reducing construction time for presentation by hours.Reduced code by 50% to increase stability of FLASH projects for Eli Lilly and Ross.Helped develop standards for creative department's server storage procedure reducing disorganization and making back-ups more reliable, as well as efficient.Trained sales staff and company personnel in profitable usage of FLASH technology.Developed the company's DVD programming and production capabilities, expanding the range of services.Illustrated storyboards and painted backgrounds for 3D animation of osteoporosis MOA utilizing abstract descriptions and concepts outlined by specialists.

Bachelor Of Arts, Illustration And Animation

Associate Of Letters, Arts, And Sciences