Colton Collins

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Software Development Manager, AWS Organizations at Amazon Web Services (AWS) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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I'm a Software Development Manager at AWS (AWS Organizations), leading a team to build and maintain, highly technical, distributed platforms that will be used directly by customers as well as across AWS services. We are the bridge between AWS Organizations and AWS, and we enable higher customer adoption across AWS.As a Leader, I work hard to enable teams to do what they do best, ensuring that each member can focus on delivering their personal best to the project. I facilitate communication between teammates and ensure that communication pipelines remain open and active. I manage teams using Agile software development principles, and seek to provide every team I'm on with a team-first attitude, encouraging members to succeed for themselves AND for their team. I've led teams of varying sizes from 4 members to 25+.Programmer with a passion for people, solving unique problems, project management, and the software development life cycle as a whole. I am a self-motivated, dependable, and hard-working individual who strives to produce and deliver high-quality output and bring an upbeat team-oriented mindset, no matter the role I take.As a Software Engineer, I utilize my experience in the enterprise software industry and training from DigiPen to provide high-quality code that is bug-free, extendable, scalable, and highly readable/easy to understand. I enjoy solving interesting technical problems from concept to code, and find great joy in learning new algorithms or software design patterns that solve different problems in simple and efficient ways. My primary experience is with Object-oriented programming languages such as C# and C++, but have utilized PowerShell, SQL, and assorted other languages and tools to make a positive impact across the development stack. My work within Hitachi Vantara helped to generate and maintain multiple $1m-$10m customer contracts.Honors Graduate of DigiPen Institute of Technology's Real-Time Interactive Simulations (BSCS RTIS) degree.If you have any questions for me, I'd love to speak with you! Feel free to send me a message, and I'll respond as soon as possible.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Software Development Manager, AWS Organizations at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Colton Collins Work Experience Details
  • Amazon Web Services (Aws)
    Software Development Manager - Aws Organizations
    Amazon Web Services (Aws) Aug 2019 - Present
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Leading a team of 10+ Software Development Engineers in the development and maintenance of critical AWS Organizations software responsible for enabling AWS services to integrate with AWS Organizations to surface multi-account experiences for AWS customers, increasing adoption and revenue.My responsibilities include:* Career development and performance coaching for Software Development Engineers ranging in experience from interns to 11+ years.* Identify, prioritize, and plan project roadmap.* Track and manage project execution. Communicate status to appropriate stakeholders (internal and external).* Create, document, and share mechanisms/processes to solve common day-to-day challenges for the team or fellow managers* Support resolution of operational issues via manager oncall rotation; help triage issues and identify/communicate customer impact. Escalate as appropriate to senior leadership.* Created process for tracking in-flight integrations and facilitated communication across multiple functional roles; Additionally acted as the representative of AWS Organizations to the integrating AWS team, to ensure appropriate collaboration and end-experience for the customer. Oversaw 35+ net new integrations.
  • Hitachi Vantara
    Software Engineering Manager
    Hitachi Vantara Jan 2016 - Apr 2019
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Tasked with leading cross-site development team (Bellevue, Santa Clara, Tokyo) consisting of over 25 engineers • Held meetings to reinforce process, goals and vision, and facilitate collaborative cross-feature knowledge transfer• Worked with other functional leads to review all feature designs and provide development focused feedback• First point of contact for development team inquiries and high-severity customer technical problems escalations• Held biweekly one-on-ones with direct-reports as a career and technical mentor to provide direct communication channel• Acted on feedback to positively impact team agility and maintain high-morale• Provided personalized feedback reports to motivate and facilitate employee growth to achieve career goals• Aggregated/Highlighted development team's weekly accomplishments for higher level visibility• Helped onboard and facilitate communication for Tokyo development team into Bellevue/Santa Clara development culture; First point of contact to ensure any questions were answered quickly to mitigate progress lag due to timezone differences• Reviewed all feature detailed designs; Provided development focused feedback on High-Level Designs and Quality Specifications• Periodically high-level code reviewed areas of expertise and/or areas of specific importance for overall architectural integrity to ensure quality and process• Involved in team recruitment process from phone screens to in-person interviews
  • Hitachi Vantara
    Software Engineer
    Hitachi Vantara Jun 2014 - Apr 2019
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Designed, Developed, and Tested numerous high-quality features spanning multiple components of Unified Compute Platform, an enterprise private cloud hardware management software built using .NET and ASP.NET frameworks run on Windows.• Produced high-level design of workflow, impact to related components, SQL schema modifications, areas of risk, creating unit and integration test plans, and development resource costing• Implement object-oriented designs using C# best-practices ensuring high performance, high quality, and high scalability• Highly collaborative with QA teams to reduce defect recurrence and investigation / resolution turnaround time. Average turnaround time (bug report to bug fixed) reduced by about 50%• Represented development team for Engineering Customer Support. Provided first-level root-cause identification of issues, analysis and debug of code, potential remediation steps, and advocated on behalf of customer feedback resulting in retention and extension of multiple $1m+ - $10m+ customer contracts• Worked closely with multi-functional teammates (PO/PM, Hardware Architect, QA, SDET, SDE) to ensure design and implementation met all requirements provided, and collaborated to try and wring out any missing areas, impact, and/or potential miscommunications.• Collaborated closely with QA and SDET teams to ensure additional tests and the code were aligned throughout implementation. Highly active/attentive with Quality Control to help investigate anomalies or bugs in team's feature(s), and strived to resolve issues in as timely of a manner as possible.• Peer reviewed code checkins related to feature team, and/or areas of expertise (Server Provisioning)• Assisted peers where needed in design, implementation, and/or debugging.• Leveraged: C#, Visual Studio, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, PowerShell, SVN, JIRA
  • Hitachi Vantara
    Software Development Engineer In Test
    Hitachi Vantara Feb 2014 - May 2014
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    • Collaborated with QA to expand test code coverage while maintaining the health of the overall test suite.• Converted 1000+ manual tests to automation, enabling QA team to focus on customer experience scenarios• Triaged test suite results and provided in-depth analysis of product health• Refactored and rewrote testing frameworks and tools raising reliability and performance; Automation failures reduced from >50% to <5%• Added more detailed logging, decreasing test triage time by 75%• Eliminated code redundancy and increased extensibility of automation frameworks
  • Hitachi Vantara
    Quality Assurance Engineer
    Hitachi Vantara Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    • Executed manual tests and recorded test results for the Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Director product• Wrote detailed bug reports explaining procedure to reproduce, and analysis of potential root causes• Co-wrote and executed Test Plan of over 1000+ tests for new Service Provisioning features, revolving around the creation and application of Server Profiles, Service Templates, and Server Identities• Closely collaborated with development team to identify and resolve key problem areas of the product• Worked with Quality Assurance peers to establish new standards and processes for on-boarding teammates, the creation and organization of tests and test plans, the execution of testing the product, and the creation of proper bug reports
  • Digipen Institute Of Technology
    Tutor
    Digipen Institute Of Technology Sep 2012 - May 2013
    Redmond, Wa, Us
    Worked as a Tutor for all English classes within DigiPen's Academic Support Center.
  • Digipen Institute Of Technology
    Teaching Assistant
    Digipen Institute Of Technology Sep 2010 - May 2013
    Redmond, Wa, Us
    Teaching assistant for English and Communication courses at DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Colton Collins Skills

C++ Photoshop Game Design Game Development Java 3d Studio Max C Html Microsoft Office C# Video Game Production Programming Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Game Programming Powerpoint Public Speaking Editing Gameplay Level Design Software Development Visual Studio Agile Methodologies Artificial Intelligence

Colton Collins Education Details

  • Digipen Institute Of Technology
    Digipen Institute Of Technology
    Real-Time Interactive Simulation

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