Christopher Colvin Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Manager of managers with multiple managers and team leads reporting to me• Software Engineering leader responsible for 14 development teams with onshore and offshore engineers• Actively work with other leaders under the Engineering and Product umbrellas to build a collaborativeenvironment designed to focus on quality outcomes for our product(s), customers, and staff• Own the strategy for the technical roadmap. Responsible for the design, development, and maintenanceof the technical backlog to align the organization on work designed to address technical debt,architectural runway, and ongoing improvements• Professional development and upskilling team members, front-line managers, and emerging leaders• Work with other business partners, Product, CX, Marketing, to align expectations and build roadmaps• Partner with Dir of Infrastructure to drive a DevOps mentality across engineering to improve ability to support production as well as improve the performance, delivery, and sustainability of systems and software• Lead and collaborate on process improvements for all of Engineering; Development, QA, and DevOps around the SDLC, test automation, CI/CD, and RCAs

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Gulf Breeze, Fl, Us

• Manage “up” to department directors and execs to drive department work based on business priorities• Responsible for four systems teams whose directives are to ensure production stability, improvearchitectural runway for feature development teams, and reduce technical debt• Work with other development managers to align goals for QA and Architectural needs• Provide technical direction and priority alignment to ensure the proper work is being done and deliveredwhen needed to keep feature development teams moving• Employee mentoring, performance reviews, recruitment, and employee growth and development• Support teams in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements throughproduction release• Work to train and empower employees to spread DevOps culture across the organization to improve oursystems and speed of delivery• Drive metric collection to understand team and software health (MTTR, MTTD, Change Failure, CycleTimes, etc.) for KPIs/OKRs• Work with Director to define departmental budgetary needs including training, recruitment, andoperational expenses.• Monitor project expenses including personnel and operational to track feature delivery costs to get toand to maintain software in production• Utilize SCRUM and Agile processes for work prioritization and management

Gulf Breeze, Fl, Us

Responsible for seven employees tasked with operational support for the Development department• Managed distributed team members including outsourced contractors across multiple time zones• Act as a liaison between Development and other engineering departments to ensure software andhardware are appropriately managed across multiple datacenters and cloud locations• Employee mentoring, performance reviews, recruitment, and day to day employee management• Train and mentor DevOps Engineers on operational procedures, DevOps principles, SDLC processimprovements, and more• Oversee operational expenses, monitor and audit environment expenses, and maintain developerlicensing requirements• Led project to move Production environment from colo datacenter to Azure. Implemented allinfrastructure as code and stood up a new development environment in Azure at the same time.• Work with other development managers to handle high sev issues and improve incident response• Document and improve workflows to reduce bottlenecks, improve efficiencies, and automate wherepossible• Define and implement SDLC processes• Senior level support for other team members and development department as a whole• Managed tech stack consisting of F5 and Azure load balancers, NGINX, IIS, Azure platform andinfrastructure services

Gulf Breeze, Fl, Us

• Empower developers to build better, easier and faster while delivering the highest quality possible.• Daily support for Development team issues ranging from local dev to build/deployment to Production troubleshooting and issue resolution• Manage continuous integration pipeline including setup of builds, deployments, and environments• Collaborate and train developers on best practices to move their software through the deployment pipeline• Management of operations including core infrastructure, shared developer tooling like TFS and Octopus, logging and monitoring systems• Developed backend api and features to deliver new product offerings to customers including our hosted email platform and our encrypted email offering• Full stack development work in ASP.NET, C#, and Angular to deliver features to end users and customers• Worked with Product Management to forecast feature development timelines and deliver on projected dates

Gulf Breeze, Fl, Us

Primarily contributed to backend API design and implementation for Secure Hosted Exchange solution. Frontend work with ASP.NET, WebForms and Angular.

Columbiana, Alabama, Us

Microsoft Exchange and SPAM Firewall Administrator. Second level support for field techs and users. In-house app development.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Java developer and Analyst for Maximo extension and development.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Day to day operations of Windows 2000 Network including AD administration and user issues.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Computer Science