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Purchase, Ny, Us

Technical leader across the Loyalty program for multiple teams focused on delivering eligibility solutions for benefits and insurance associated with the credit card. Transforming and elevating the engineering staff from traditional corporate Agile at scale ( SAFe model ) into High-Performing Self-Organized teams leveraging agility and CI/CD principles to modernize the staff skills for delivering high quality and innovative solutions in a microservices architecture. Thought leader on best practices to effectively utilize the staff skills while improving the established processes to be more efficient at the pace of the every-changing Business needs. Partner and advocate of the Product organization to focus the teams on the solutions that create the most return on investment.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Technical leader across the Loyalty program for multiple teams focused on delivering eligibility solutions for benefits and insurance associated with the credit card. Transforming and elevating the engineering staff from traditional corporate Agile at scale ( SAFe model ) into High-Performing Self-Organized teams leveraging agility and CI/CD principles to modernize the staff skills for delivering high quality and innovative solutions in a microservices architecture. Thought leader on best practices to effectively utilize the staff skills while improving the established processes to be more efficient at the pace of the every-changing Business needs. Partner and advocate of the Product organization to focus the teams on the solutions that create the most return on investment.

Fenton, Mo, Us

Lead and mentor other Managers of Software Engineering and provide strategic oversight for Teams of Self-Organized High-Performing Engineering teams. Focused on the talent development of engineers and promote High-Performing teams around Innovation, Ownership, Collaboration, and Delivery for the QDivision Start-Up group in UniGroup. Advocate for the Engineers and provide a voice to the organization to deliver solutions that the users want. Technology transformation to modern tools and solutions to improve efficiency and delivery of software with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Improvements. https://qdivision.ioInterface with Corporate Departments, Consulting Firms, and Software Vendors to Coordinate a Unified direction for Integration of an Enterprise Application segregated across the world market in multiple countries and cities. Major milestones include a New Virtual Mobile Home Survey for Agents to remotely inventory homes for contents to determine weight and size for an initial quote of the move. Provide leadership over an Agile development team with continuous integrations and iterative development cycles for customer feature enhancements, functional expansions, and defect resolutions.

Fenton, Mo, Us

Interface with Corporate Departments, Consulting Firms, and Software Vendors to Coordinate a Unified direction for Integration of an Enterprise Application segregated across the world market in multiple countries and cities. Major milestones include a New Virtual Mobile Home Survey for Agents to remotely inventory homes for contents to determine weight and size for an initial quote of the move. Provide leadership over an Agile development team with continuous integrations and iterative development cycles for customer feature enhancements, functional expansions, and defect resolutions.

Engineering Manager leading the engineering staff to deliver world class technology solutions for the logistics industry for UniGroup.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Project Management for a medium sized Development team for operations and production support on a legacy system.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Director of Software development and support for the Corporate Sales & Marketing eCommerce Medical Insurance systems. Mentor high performing teams focused on delivering High Quality Solutions quickly to production. Lead Waterfall / Agile Projects with managers / developers in multiple remote locations for multi-million dollar budgets to deliver business centric solutions for the health care industry. Broker business Partnerships and Collaboration to improve efficiency and productivity resulting in cost savings for the company. Lead change around Corporate Strategies for Budgetary, Operational, Procedural, Project Portfolio Management, and Software Development Methods for peak efficiency at reduced costs.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Post Acquisition Role continued from Previous Coventry Position.Interface with Corporate Departments, Consulting Firms, and Software Vendors to Coordinate a Unified direction for Integration of an Enterprise Application segregated across the world market in multiple countries and cities. Major milestones include a New Multi-Million dollar system for Individual Medical Coverage from Health Care Reform offered through multiple vendor entry points. Provide leadership over an Agile development team with continuous integrations and iterative development cycles for customer feature enhancements, functional expansions, and defect resolutions while working with Managers of Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, Corporate Architecture, Systems Engineers, Middleware Technicians, and Database Administration. Key drivers are around tools and process to support the Quality of Product ( Quickbuild / Findbugs ), Developer Efficiency ( JRebel, Automation ), and Customer Satisfaction ( Uptime, UI Experience ).

London, Gb

Interface with Corporate Departments, Consulting Firms, and Software Vendors to Coordinate a Unified direction for Integration of an Enterprise Application segregated across the world market in multiple countries and cities. Major milestones include a New Multi-Million dollar system for Individual Medical Coverage from Health Care Reform offered through multiple vendor entry points. Provide leadership over an Agile development team with continuous integrations and iterative development cycles for customer feature enhancements, functional expansions, and defect resolutions while working with Managers of Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, Corporate Architecture, Systems Engineers, Middleware Technicians, and Database Administration. Key drivers are around tools and process to support the Quality of Product ( Quickbuild / Findbugs ), Developer Efficiency ( JRebel, Automation ), and Customer Satisfaction ( Uptime, UI Experience ).

London, Gb

Project Management for Corporate Enterprise Applications to achieve Company objectives to provide integrated solutions and maintain an industry leading application. Resource Management and Supervisory of a Medium sized development team of 15-20 resources. Interface with Corporate Departments to Coordinate a Unified direction for Integration of an Enterprise Application with Corporate Sub-Systems and Resources. Major milestones include Reengineering a Multi-Million Fortune 500 Legacy Corporate Integrated Application to new Corporate Functionality and update Technologies to industry standards from Client to DBMS. Provide leadership over an Agile development team with continuous integrations and iterative development cycles for customer feature enhancements, functional expansions, and defect resolutions while working with Managers of Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, Corporate Architecture, Systems Engineers, Middleware Technicians, and Database Administration. Strong technical resource for leading design, implementations, and support of software and hardware systems at an enterprise level.

London, Gb

Exceptional leadership skills to motivate team members with coordination skills to manage multiple interfaces at a Corporate Environment to achieve overall application objectives. Mentor Junior developers for OO development concepts and knowledge exchange by team and one-on-one code reviews and training sessions. Resource and Task assignments while maintaining Corporate work unit priorities to achieve designated release schedules. Design, develop, test, implement Corporate software for Region Brokerage Health Care Companies for use with medical insurance quoting systems including converting new acquisitions into the system. Lead technical developer for a corporate direction to develop complex web / browser based client-server applications. Coordinate Maintenance, Enhancements, Large Projects, and Release Management for Corporate Application between multiple Developers and Business Analysts to deliver solutions to the User community. Project management for small development teams to deliver scoped system enhancements and/or maintenance updates for application. Full Product Life Cycle at a Corporate level while interfacing with User community, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, Development to coordinate Analysis, Design, Construction, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Acceptance Testing, and Deployment.

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Design, develop, test, implement Corporate software for Client Companies for use with financial systems and shareholder systems. Lead technical developer for a corporate direction to develop complex web / browser based client-server applications. Tools used to develop applications are Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, COBOL, and Impromptu.

Jefferson City, Missouri, Us

Design, implement, and maintain automation applications by analyzing requirements and composing, testing, and documenting processes and procedures for the use of developing programs. Some tools used to develop automation applications are Visual Basic, C/Visual C++, COBOL, Visual FoxPro, WindowsNT Scripts, Crystal Reports Impromptu Reports, Oracle 7&8 SQL & PL/SQL.

Jefferson City, Missouri, Us

Evaluate, develop, update and coordinate employee software training. Evaluate, document, track, coordinate software and hardware problem resolutions and maintain compatibility of the automation systems. Evaluate, test, document, and implement new software and hardware upgrades to improve automation for departmental needs. System administration for UNIX, WindowsNT, Windows95, OS/2, DOS, IBM Token Ring Network - cables and protocols. Write automation scripts to improve efficiency of hardware and division productivity. Evaluate system performance and tune system environment to peek performance. Permission control and user account administration for OS/2 & WindowsNT environments. Perform routine maintenance on software, hardware, and file management on department servers. Design, compose, and maintain departmental web pages with HTML and JAVA.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science