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 various performance related questions on a limited budget.* Developed custom tools to improve efficiency of test plan development and execution.* Developed training materials to improve on-boarding process.* Developed and documented team's workflow to improve consistency and estimations of deliverable timelines.

• 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