David M Counts Email & Phone Number

United States

Atlanta, Georgia

Greater Atlanta Area

Development Lead for multifaceted technical projects, which provide enhanced performance and design, technical direction and proficient processes. Deliver specific goals through the creation of the Transfer compliance metrics dashboard using SSRS. Enhance communication methods by consistently conducting technical meetings providing project updates with developmental leads of interfacing systems and by leading knowledge transfer sessions to onboard off-shore support personnel. Championed Non Congruent Transfers (NCT) Associate Tools track, which facilitated the development of an application for a Motorola 3190 Handheld device. Increased overall sales by spearheading the Buy Online Pickup in Store (BOPS) project. Designed enhancements to the SPManager web application providing visibility into the processing of BOPS orders and work groups assigned to pick BOPS orders. Ensured success of the projects by providing technical direction, analysis and design, tollgates and code reviews, creating estimates for development scope, delegating project tasks, conducting daily and weekly development team meetings, writing technical specifications, system documentation, and serving as point of contact with business partners to present technical status. Proposed and implemented an ETL process to import production data from the legacy application resulting in usable components being delivered faster and more flexibility in determining which backend components to deliver. In conjunction with the Business Analyst translated business initiatives into sound applications such as developing a CICS web service that closes out Transfer Requests generated by external applications. Enhanced the process from stores to distribution centers via event driven architecture with Tibco BW components. Utilized Enterprise Architect to create system architecture analysis documentation. Recipient of Macys Innovation, Make Magic, and numerous You Count awards for exceptional technical leadership.

Atlanta Georgia

Provided technical leadership for all stages of complex projects and programming including implementing and setting goals, completing phase appropriate Q4M documents, code reviews, and tollgates, and conducing weekly development team meetings. Offered system support, resolution/documentation, and on-call monitoring for both the mainframe based RPS application and the client/server based FSA application. Produced high level design and UML diagrams utilizing Microsoft Visio. Aided in the goal of transparency by creating Sales Summary Reports with Merchant and Location hierarchy filters displayed in a Web base application. Resolved ability to accurately maintain sales data by creating a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages that extracts sales data from a Teradata database, loads the sales data to an SQL Server ETL database, and processes a SQL Server Analysis Services Cube database. Implemented load balancing via JCL and Control-M scheduling to reduce the processing time of batch systems by 40%. This resulted in reports and downstream systems receiving sales data faster. Redesigned the platform of the Financial Sales Analytics (FSA) user interface, managed and directed all phases of the project and problem report tracking and resolution process. Implemented load balancing of sales input to the Register Processing System (RPS) and load balancing of the output to downstream applications by designing, coding, testing, and executing a batch process in the Enterprise Performance Initiative (EPI) project.

Atlanta, Georgia

Supporting the Macys and May Company merger, performed as lead developer in full systems life cycle management including analyses, technical requirements, design, and coding, testing, implementation of systems and applications software, and production support of a batch/online application to process and report May Company sales data. Successfully Implemented a mainframe based application to process cash counting data produced by banking vendors. Maintained exceptional customer service by providing application support, problem resolution/documentation, and on-call monitoring to the RPS team’s suite of applications.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mass Communications/Broadcast Management

Cetification In Computer Programming, Computer Programming