Dr. David Lauer Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, Ia, Us

Des Moines, Iowa Area

A key member of the Business Process Management team serving in a Business Process Architect and Senior Business Analyst hybrid role that ensures the company's business processes, IT systems, risk and control assessment activities, information, and resources are aligned to deliver FHLBDM's business strategy and solutions. Responsibilities include:• Work closely with business partners from multiple business units and functions to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organization's end-to-end business processes, including their dependencies on underlying enterprise systems and technology components.• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide documentation of core and supporting business processes, including current and future state business process maps, workflows, and holistic details that cover people, processes, technology, and data as inputs to a variety of business functions and projects.• Help Business Process Owners and Risk Management teams identify material risk gaps within the company's business processes as input to risk mitigating control designs.• Lead business process analysis to define business process architecture and high-level requirements for system modernization initiatives across the organization focusing on business process improvements and technology priorities.• Evaluate vendor and in-house technology solution capabilities for IT business systems and process improvement efforts.• Collaborate with Business Process Owners and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure business architectures and technology solutions align with business strategy and standards.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

A key member of the IT Back Office team serving as a Senior Business Applications Software Developer providing business technology solutions to complex development problems through the development and support of multiple systems/applications running on a variety of technology platforms and programming languages. Responsibilities included:• Worked closely with business partners from multiple business units and functions to gain a strong understanding of their product lines and business technology solution requirements.• Led business analysis, design, development, testing, and installation of custom software solutions running on a variety of technology platforms and programming languages.• Developed business application databases, ETL (extract, transform and transfer) solutions, system integration points, and data reports as part of application development deliverables.• Led systems analysis, support, customizations, and upgrades for multiple vendor solutions.• Quickly responded to and fixed production incidents and after-hours night operations failures.• Mentored and trained interns, junior developers, and junior IT business systems analysts.

Urbandale, Ia

Key member of a customer facing commercial insurance agency interface web application development team serving as a Product Manager and Systems Specialist hybrid role. Responsibilities included:• Maintained open communications and working relationships with business managers of sister commercial insurance companies to understand how feature enhancements of online insurance quoting application used by their field agents could help achieve their business goals.• Managed and collaborated with a team of software developers and business analysts to translate business requirements into technical solutions and software deliverables.• Led sprint and scrum meetings as part of agile project management methodology to prioritize feature enhancement requests, delegate tasks, and track progress towards project deliverables.• Collaborated with managers of other IT teams to understand how system changes made by my team impacted applications they support and plan changes accordingly.• Mentored and cross trained junior developers and business analysts.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Key member of an Enterprise Content Delivery Technology team serving as a Senior Software Development Engineer. Responsibilities included:• Led technical analysis and capability assessment of competing vendor products for a NoSQL media hub solution aimed at making publishable media assets stored across multiple distributed systems across the enterprise searchable and retrievable.• Collaborated with software engineers from chosen vendor to install and customize selected NoSQL media hub solution.• Led the design and development of integration solutions between company’s legacy digital libraries and the selected NoSQL media hub vendor solution.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

A key member of a Business Process Management team serving as a Senior Programmer Analyst providing business technology solutions to complex development problems through the development and support of multiple systems/applications running on a variety of technology platforms and programming languages. Responsibilities included:• Led many business analysis and software development activities to deliver enterprise level system integrations, workflow automations, digital document management, and dashboard solutions aimed at streamlining business processes and collaboration between multiple business units.• Led systems analysis, support, customizations, and upgrades for multiple inhouse and vendor solutions running on a variety of technology platforms and programming languages.• Quickly responded to and fixed production incidents and after-hours night operations failures.

Doctor Of Philosophy In Education - Phd, 4.0

Dissertation research focused on IT leadership and supporting workplace learning and skill set development for software development teams.

Master Of Science In Management Information Systems - Mis, Systems Analysis And Design And It Project Management, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Awarded certificate of accomplishment by Douglas County Board of Nebraska for developing a computer assisted.

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Information Systems - Bs Cis, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Administration, 3.4

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Awarded Computer Information Systems Outstanding Graduate Honor..