Darius James Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, US

Mountain View, California, US

Emeryville, CA, US

• Manages critical programs that allow teams to work seamlessly.
• Interacts with key Program, Product, Operations, and Engineering Teams and represent ZapLabs in detailed discussions related to feature development or enhancements.
• Develops succinct and high quality internal documentation related to programs.
• Building knowledge and trust of internal teams to enable efficient execution of strategy analytic programs plans.
• Manage communications to leadership and across teams to ensure accountability and timeline management.
• Balance urgency and priority while moving the needle on multiple initiatives.

• Lead projects to drive changes to processes, technologies, and culture and enable delivery of cloud-native applications to increase efficiency and speed. Introduced legacy applications to the world of web services and.
• Managed clients transition of eight applications into the Pivotal Cloud and initiated efforts to move additional applications into the Oracle Cloud.‒ Assessed applications’ current functionality. Established objectives.
• Used Microsoft Teams and One Note for paired programming; created foundational template for virtual app inception events, avoiding travel costs and enabling geographically disparate teams to complete planning in one.

• While building knowledge of Agile I engaged with global engineering team and key partners, including product owners, technical leaders, and operations managers, to ensure appropriate focus of efforts to deliver the.
• Facilitated decentralized scrum teams in planning and daily scrum events
• Worked with SAFe Agile Leadership to strategize a way to align two ARTs into one ART with multiple value streams
• Facilitated negotiation of prioritization of projects between Business and IT through normalizing SAFe sizing estimates on a scale related to hours spent
• Lead migration of organizations collaborative development systems from TeamForge to Conexus GIT
• Maximized reporting efficiency by creating shared excel sheet in Office 365 to prioritize product backlog owned my multiple teams

• Led enterprise load balancing implementation across multiple enterprise solutions
• Coordinated with cross functional teams in planning and delivery of maintenance windows
• Oversaw bi-weekly implementation schedule, taking being sure to mitigate risk around peak season and major corporate loads that could negatively impact state of applications
• Escalated changes and impediments to Sr. Level Management after documenting requests that go beyond agreed upon change schedule
• Educated Vendor team members on forecasting weekly load capacity and how to manage relationships with cross functional teams
• FY18 Q1 IT Hall of Fame recipient for API Management

• Managed configuration requests for Cisco ACE and switch port configurations in a timely fashion in relation to production and lab environment requirements
• Assisted in the installation of Telco circuits to provide VoIP services for call centers and campus environment
• Expanded load balancing knowledge, to include F5 devices as to prepare for load balancing migration
• Developed SharePoint site to align information shared by global data center team of 16 members
• Coached IT Intern teams in organization, delivery and execution of group projects

During my collegiate career, I had the pleasure of being invited to intern at various well known companies. This help peek my curiosity in becoming a better engineer, expanded my network and exposed me to industries I could potentially see my self in. Every summer I expanded my knowledge and developed core business communication skills. I became aware.

Data Science Essentials

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering; Reliability And Maintainability Engineering Minor