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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Belleville, Il, Us

Responsible for the prioritization and resource allocation of all IT projects related to software development, data analytics, and product integration.Directed initiatives for a mobile app, SMS texts, and live chat, reducing call center volume by 30% through enhanced self-service technologies.Implemented Agile development practices through Scrum delivering hundreds of software updates a year at a pace to match the company’s growing needs.Imposed documentation practices for software development to comply with security audits and partner company requirements.Created and maintained relationships with external vendors including evaluation of services provided, cost benefit analysis, contract negotiations, and ensuring delivered products or services meet expectations.Implemented customer consent and privacy practices to meet or exceed evolving compliance laws in regard to communication and data collection.Provided mentoring and training to team members new to management and IT staff new to the company.

Belleville, Il, Us

Manager of the web development team, including setting team member goals, performance evaluations, and department calibration. Approved PTO, managed project responsibilities for team members, and performed code review.Contributed to continuous improvement meetings to assess priority initiatives and estimate time and cost of requestsImplemented code review practices by senior developers to ensure quality and consistency.Expanded the development team to include remote workers, positioning IT to be prepared for the pandemic and allowed the company to transition seamlessly to fully-remote staff.Led the Development team to start implementing newer technologies, like .NET Core, React, and Vue.

Belleville, Il, Us

Responsible for the quality and delivery of the projects by the development team, similar to a project management role.Converted a development department consisting of siloed individuals into a team of developers who deliver complex systems to meet company needs.Implemented the first source control model to track changes to company’s internally developed source code.

Belleville, Il, Us

Designed and developed the first iterations of Empower, a system to collect, maintain, and output customer data. This allowed Allsup to go from an operational workforce of over 900 employees to less than 400 while processing more cases and adding services.Began to convert company’s reliance on fat-client applications to lean web-based platforms.

Belleville, Il, Us

Provided the first consistent, object-oriented design approach to .NET development at Allsup, leading to a structure that is still in use today.Developed a custom content management structure to control the workflow and output of a small service once provided by Allsup.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Lead development initiatives for the community website MySolutionSpot.Redesigned company’s previous shopping cart software site to operate on an ASP.NET platform and incorporate an XML feed-based model.Worked with the NS Commerce Space team on development of new shopping cart features and a system to migrate customers of older versions of the software to the latest .NET-based version.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Led C#.NET development and interfaced with several large partner companies to increase business submitted through the website by over fifty percent.Website duties included maintaining the current ASP script website, upgrades and bug fixes based on user requests, enhancement to key functionality of the site, documentation and communication with those with knowledge of the business rules of the website.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Position started as a three-month contract-to-hire but became a full time position after one month.Converted the Asset Protection Division’s business website to ASP.NET 2.0 from classic ASP.

Developed a VB.NET satellite-based email system flexible enough to work over multiple communication pipes, such as the Iridium and INMARSAT-C satellite networks as well as normal TCP/IP internet connections. Both Client and Server components were capable of creating SSL transmissions as well as encrypting data to be compliant with the FIPS-140 standard.

Traveled to US Airports to conduct training for Federal Security Screeners. Taught screening techniques and security software operation. Operated independently, set up and configured computer assets for training.

Austin, Tx, Us

Lead UX software developer for the L-Band satellite communications system and serial communication interfaces with various satellite transceivers, cell phones, and bar code scanners.Responsible for evaluating and assigning severity codes to issues and problems in software maintenance system.Provide direct technical support to US Air Force for maintenance contract, system testing and troubleshooting.Designed corporate web sites and support web sites for displaying test data and tracking of assets worldwide.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Education

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Science