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The best compliment I ever got at work was from a senior business leader who told me I was unique among technologists because I explained technology to her in a way that made her smarter and helped her make better business decisions and I didn't talk down to her. This came in the context of a multi-year, multi-million dollar program to completely change the main revenue source for the entire company. So you know, no pressure or anything. As a technology leader, it's not what I know that counts - it's what I can help others understand and ultimately apply that makes the difference. In my current role, I lead the entire technology function for a globally distributed, remote only, 50-person B2B SaaS company. I'm responsible for everything to do with technology: budgeting, strategy, architecture, engineering, infrastructure and operations, and staff development and performance management.The things I love to do at work:* Coach and develop managers* Take companies to the cloud!* Optimize engineering effectiveness and efficiency* Create and communicate technology strategy and visionI'm a fervent believer in fundamentals. As a manager, those fundamentals are building relationships, giving feedback, coaching, and delegating. It's not my job to tell others what to do. Instead, it's to work with my engineering managers to set goals, communicate context, provide support, and create an environment where they can coach and lead their teams. I love to talk about cloud architecture and engineering. Currently I'm leading an 18-month migration of our entire data center to Azure. I drafted and pitched the business case to my peers on the executive team and am now providing guidance and oversight as our engineering managers and teams execute on it. A few accomplishments I'm proud of:* Improved product availability from 98% to >99.9% with no additional infrastructure spending* Reduced engineering lead time by 50% while reducing active critical defects by over 75%* Completed our first customer-facing workload migration from data center to Azure* Developed "strongest IT team in company's history" according to CEOSkills: Creating High-Performing Teams | Coaching and Staff Development | Strategic Planning and Implementation | Enterprise Architecture | People Leadership | Change ManagementArchitecture: Microservices | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) | APIs | Event-Driven Architecture | Message Queueing | Serverless | Event Streaming | Cloud Native
Ecomengine, Llc
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Director Of Information TechnologyEcomengine, Llc Mar 2020 - PresentMidlothian, Virginia, UsAbout nine months into my time at eComEngine, our CEO decided to alter the top management structure in order to improve our operating efficiency. As a result, I was promoted to Director of IT due to: my skills and background in architecture and engineering; my strengths as a people leader, manager, and coach; and my love of and contributions around technology strategy. As Director of IT, I joined the executive Leadership Team reporting in to the CEO and assumed accountability for our entire 20-person technology function. This includes the obvious architecture, engineering, operations, and QA functions, but also extends to: our Lean Agile workflow process, business systems management and support, business reporting and analytics, budget management (including our entire capital expense budget), information security, recruiting and hiring, staff development and performance management, and vendor management. Some of the big accomplishments I'm proud of:* Increased the uptime of our products from about 98% to over 99.9% while reducing our infrastructure spend by 20%. * Built the "strongest IT team in company history"* Reorganized IT to create a formal Platform/SRE/DevOps team as a key enabler for product delivery* Reduced cycle time of our product teams by 50% by publishing DORA scorecards and focusing on engineering quality practices such as CI/CD, automated unit testing, trunk-based development, and feature flags. * Initiated our complete migration out of our data center and into Azure. I wrote and presented the business case to launch this program and am leading the overall planning and execution. * Reduced recruiting costs by 30% by developing new recruiting and interviewing processes that's more fair for the candidates and is significantly faster for us to operate. * Introduced a company-wide goal-setting process using 6-week iterations to focus time and effort more effectively and reduce waste.
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Technical LeadEcomengine, Llc Jul 2019 - Mar 2020Midlothian, Virginia, UsAfter 8 years of progressive leadership roles at CFA Institute, I decided to make a change with really two goals in mind. One, I wanted to work at a smaller company where I could have a broader impact across a number of different fronts. And two, I wanted to return to the software industry. With those goals I joined eComEngine, a leading B2B SaaS firm in the Amazon seller space, as a Technical Lead. In my role as Technical Lead, I led a team of full-stack developers using building and supporting a our flagship solicitation management product, single page web application built on .NET, Angular, a web services back-end, and SQL Server. eComEngine is a remote-only, globally distributed company and the 4 developers I managed were in the Philippines. Some of my accomplishments in this role:* Reduced developer on-boarding time by over a month. Most of the development environment setup was manual and undocumented so as I went through it, I both wrote documentation as well as automation scripts to make the process faster and more reliable. * Developed internal reference data application for address data. We have several different products and each team was sourcing their own address data, which is both inefficient and introduces data anomalies in our reporting system. I developed a .NET back-end service to synchronize daily a new reference database with a purchased ZIP code list. * Trained my team on automated unit testing and provided coaching and code reviews to help make them comfortable. We also incorporated unit testing into the daily CI/CD builds as is a standard DevOps practice to make the feedback more visible.
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Director, Enterprise & Solution ArchitectureCfa Institute Nov 2018 - Jul 2019Charlottesville, Va, UsI was promoted to this position after several successful years as an engineering manager and solution architect during our three-year digital transformation, cloud migration, and application modernization program. Architecture hadn't previously existed as its own function and it was my charge to build it out and especially to improve the pace of architectural decision-making. Some accomplishments in this role:* Launching the team and recruiting 2 solution architects to work under me to cover the architectural needs across our entire portfolio. This oversight included: .NET applications architected and hosted in Azure; integrations to Salesforce and the entire Salesforce architecture; and integrations to various other systems including NetSuite and Sitecore. * Reducing architectural decision-making lead time from several weeks to one week on average. We did this through improving the collaboration with the 10+ development teams and introducing a more lightweight and targeted governance process* Increased the alignment between as-built solutions and our reference architecture patterns by publishing and socializing written architectural standards, guidelines, and practices. Our guides covered web applications, APIs, and microservices in Azure, Salesforce custom applications, and integration architecture. Technologies: Microservices | APIs | Event-Driven Architecture | .NET | Azure | PaaS | Serverless -
Technical Solutions ManagerCfa Institute Sep 2015 - Nov 2018Charlottesville, Va, UsAfter two years as a senior software developer including leading our in-house development work on a new enterprise-wide IAM system, I was promoted to this role, a combination of engineering manager, solution architect, and Scrum coach.* Led engineering team of 30+ across 8+ Scrum teams plus additional consulting project teams. Trained developers on unit testing, dependency injection, cloud-native architectural patterns, and software design patterns. * Architected new system to deliver exam results that led to "easiest results release in history" according to contact center. New system relied heavily on Azure NoSQL database for low latency, constant-time data lookups of pre-generated PDFs. * Architected API back-end for a new mobile app targeted at CFA Institute members. Developed integrations with IAM platform, .NET APIs, and Sitecore CMS for content delivery. * Increased release cadence for .NET applications by supporting "off cycle" releases by migrating to git and trunk-based development and increasing unit test code coverage. * Coached Scrum Masters on Scrum practices and led weekly Scrum of Scrum. Decreased duration of Scrum team blockers from several days to less than 2 hoursTechnologies: Microservices | APIs | .NET | Azure | NoSQL | Event-Driven Architecture
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Senior Software DeveloperCfa Institute Aug 2012 - Sep 2015Charlottesville, Va, UsLed design and development of enterprise login application for all user authentication and self-service identity functions for over 1 million users in conjunction with vendor partner and IAM product. Architected and developed on-going data integration application for over 1 million customer records from legacy CRM to Salesforce using Azure Service Bus queues and Web Jobs for asynchronous processing. Initiated company-wide .NET Community of Practice group that meets weekly for ongoing learning and discussion on various development topics. Delivered presentations on SOLID design principles and test-driven development. Reduced service deployment time by 70% through introduction of continuous integration and Octopus Deploy deployment tool in collaboration with Environment and Release Manager
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Systems AnalystCfa Institute Nov 2011 - Aug 2012Charlottesville, Va, UsReduced staff time to assign exam candidates to test centers by over 20 hours by developing new internal web application. Transitioned to team technical lead due to personnel reassignmentsReduced exam grading costs by 40% by developing new application for applying exam answer key to captured candidate answers. Developed audit application to guarantee scanner accuracy in collaboration with business users Architected integration between enterprise website and vendor platform for delivering CFA and CIPM mock assessments. Led cross-functional technical implementation team in changes to website and internal systems.
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Project ManagerSnl Financial Aug 2010 - Nov 2011* Conducted SQL training sessions for over 20 colleagues as company-wide SQL trainer. Topics covered included introductory database design principles and basic query constructs up through joins and aggregates* Completely redesigned data collection process around conference call and earnings release data, including database design, new C# Windows form and multiple ASP.NET reports in six person Scrum team* Designed and implemented application to leverage existing 3rd party data feed to publish press releases for non-publicly traded companies. Developed C# application for auditing and researching company mapping IDs prior to rollout* Created C# application to clean and repair over 2000 XML-based feeds for 3rd party news lead application
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Business Systems AnalystSnl Financial Jun 2009 - Aug 2010* Completed multiple form redesign projects, including C# forms for document and conference collection* Managed implementation of tool to bulk update and manage European branch ownership data as C# WinForm* Designed and implemented tool to reconcile 3rd party application database against internal database
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Senior AnalystTreasury Software Mar 2007 - Mar 2009* Developed, tested, and deployed software packages for bank reconciliation and automated clearinghouse transactions in .NET* Redesigned company website and conducted usability research for overhaul of software interface in HTML 5 and CSS* Performed software demonstrations for potential clients ranging in size from small businesses up to large banks and government agencies
Daniel Longest Education Details
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Virginia TechInformation Technology -
Old Dominion UniversityComputer Science
Frequently Asked Questions about Daniel Longest
What company does Daniel Longest work for?
Daniel Longest works for Ecomengine, Llc
What is Daniel Longest's role at the current company?
Daniel Longest's current role is Software Engineering | Cloud Architecture | People Leader | Scrum, Agile, and Lean Practitioner.
What schools did Daniel Longest attend?
Daniel Longest attended Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University.
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