Dan Schams Email & Phone Number

* I continued my role from Connecture, which was purchased by BenefitFocus, servicing all former Connecture products.

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

* Was in charge of receiving, prioritizing, planning, executing and reporting all performance testing requests across the company.* Work with client teams and directly with clients in order to make sure they understood the performance of their system and could usefully interpret the results of performance testing.* Developed plans of action for providing.

• Core developer on StateAdvantage product from demo phase onward
• Jumped on client teams and worked onsite in DC for a month, resolving urgent issues to ensure client satisfaction
• Initiator and primary programmer of QA automation for StateAdvantage product
• Performed load testing and addressed the performance issues discovered both in StateAdvantage and the upstream libraries used
• Relied on across teams as a javascript expert, particularly regarding jquery, asynchronous logic, and performance
• Currently serving in a performance engineer role where I am tasked to any of a few dozen teams that are experiencing performance issues

• Helped develop over two dozen tools that are used on a daily basis by a department of 80 people
• Developed cutting edge mailing software that provided a distinct advantage over all competing printers and saved customers hundreds of thousands of dollars in each mailing by identifying combined shipping efficiencies.
• Helped maintain the billing and reporting systemoptimized long running processes
• Developed web services to be consumed by several departments