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• Contracted to identify, clarify, and reduce outstanding projects.• Frequently interfaced with the Director of Project Management to prioritize work while they we building a new PM is being.• Reviewed and verified that both contractors and hardware are both onsite at same time.• Pacified irritated Clients with timely project updates and follow through.• Held retrospective meetings to discuss how the project progressed to improve efficiency and to reduce risk on future projects.• Used ConectWise to communicate project information for all stakeholders to consume.

Vancouver, Wa, Us

• Responsible for a mission critical system that processes over 22 million medical claims per month.• Coordinated and planned the Clearing House Team’s priority projects with stakeholders.• Technical background allowed me to add new perspectives into projects and processes.• Regularly conducted technical and business focused meetings for project status and understanding.• Leveraged JIRA to track project metrics and reported findings to the appropriate stakeholders.• Developed and implemented contingency plans to protect project timeline and outcome.• Conducted project post-mortem to identify lessons learned and how to avoid them in the future.• Assisted in creating and implementing new hire on-boarding process and materials.• Trained, developed, tested, reviewed code as needed by team to keep project on track.• Created, documented, and implemented new testing procedures for product stability.• Scrum Master for 2 teams that simultaneously work from a Kanban and a Development board.• Maintained and enhanced tables, views, stored procedures on multiple SQL Server instances.• Debugged and fixed custom window services connected and querying large SQL database tables.• Created Jenkins jobs to automatically build and deploy solutions upon commits to an SVN repository.• Developed custom payer/provider reports and scheduled their creation and delivery using Automate.• Collaborated on proof of concept using Apache Kafka data streams.

Vancouver, Washington, Us

• Collaborated closely with OpenEdge, a division of Global Payments, to roll out the integrated, certified secure payment processing solution to the entire Credit Card processing customer base.• Delegated, trained, and sustained a new Account Management team to accelerate EMV installations.• Created, documented, and refined the EMV implementation process by working directly with OpenEdge support and the client to gain experience and feedback at each phase of the HW/SW upgrade.• Devised and executed an EMV Challenge to test code and workflow of the latest Enterprise application.• Patched and extended the legacy VB, .NET, and SQL Server enterprise application.• Created virtual environments for 3rd party integration development using VMWare and Hyper-V

Portland, Or, Us

• Responsible for designing, coding, and unit testing .NET/SQL Server-based applications.• Debugged, maintained, and enhanced international Viewpoint V6 ERP solution using C# and VB.NET.• Created, modified, and refactored complex stored procedures/triggers/tables in Transact SQL.• Implemented SQL Server Set-Based techniques with special focus on query optimization.• Contributed to a successful Agile team by participating in team estimating, designs, code reviews, and pair programming, while assuming a Scrum Master role as necessary.• Interacted with customers to interpret challenges to meet their future software needs.• Adapted to changes in a fast-paced work environment with frequent changes.

London, Gb

• Lead Analyst for a Group Solution Secure Lending project with a £1,000,000 budget.• Organized and conducted meetings to extrapolate ideas from customers into viable User Requirements.• Confidently performed any role within a project from Project Manager to Analyst to Developer.• Enthusiastically participated in a multi-national project team.• Developed and maintained strong working relationships among business units.