Dusty Dircks Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minineapolis, Mn

Plymouth, Minnesota

Manage team of up to 12 development and quality assurance contractors and full time resources.Hired and mentor internal employees including multiple .NET developers and a lead QA automation specialist.Introduced and defined the Scrum software development process to a twelve person development and quality assurance team. Manage the Scrum artifacts, meetings and development expectations for developers, business owners and senior management. Act as the Scrum Master.Act as… Show more Manage team of up to 12 development and quality assurance contractors and full time resources.Hired and mentor internal employees including multiple .NET developers and a lead QA automation specialist.Introduced and defined the Scrum software development process to a twelve person development and quality assurance team. Manage the Scrum artifacts, meetings and development expectations for developers, business owners and senior management. Act as the Scrum Master.Act as deployment manager, deploying client-server binaries, SQL server scripts and Web Services to lower and production environments.Evaluated, analyzed and selected cloud-based hosting solution for fan selector application.Setup, Configured and maintained multiple Web Services, Web Apps, Virtual Machines, Storage Containers and SQL database environments in Microsoft Azure.Manage relationships and contracts with multiple contractor firms. Tasks include hiring and firing of consultants, track weekly billable hours and help manage a $1 million annual contractor budget.Communicate to senior management, ownership and the board of directors software development progress and future direction.Planned, executed and supported client-server application beta and production rollout for 1200 external sales representatives. Show less

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Introduced and defined the Scrum software development process to an eight person development team. Managed the Scrum artifacts, meetings and development expectations for both the developers and business owners. Acted as the Scrum Master.Participated in Corporate Executive Board leadership committee to evaluate, analyze and select an Enterprise Content Management System. I helped gather corporate wide content management requirements, evaluated request for proposals, assessed and… Show more Introduced and defined the Scrum software development process to an eight person development team. Managed the Scrum artifacts, meetings and development expectations for both the developers and business owners. Acted as the Scrum Master.Participated in Corporate Executive Board leadership committee to evaluate, analyze and select an Enterprise Content Management System. I helped gather corporate wide content management requirements, evaluated request for proposals, assessed and scored the selected platforms.Acted as technical manager for an eight person development team. Tasks include gathering project requirements, creating project estimates, project plans, managing scope creep, leading team code walk throughs and client demos, managing project issues and project status reports from other team members.Participated in the analysis, design, development and testing on multiple large-scale (1000 hour plus) internet and external web applications using C#, VB.Net, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, XSLT, SubSonic (DAL generation tool) and Oracle/Stellent Content Management product suite.Developed and implemented home grown content management system to replace Stellent CMS (now Oracle) due to support costs. Application has run efficiently on homegrown CMS for 5+ years.Participated and technically managed a large scale web interface/functionality usability project. Tasks included approving wireframes, setting up client questionnaires, setting up client and employee usability scripts, observing live employee usability tests, interpreting usability results and taking technical action on those results.Participated in hiring of internal employees including multiple Web Developers, a QA specialist and a Web Designer.Managed relationship with web development consulting firm. Tasks include hiring and firing of consultants, track weekly billable hours and budgeted future workload on a monthly basis. Show less

Acted as technical manager on large (500 plus hour) and small web projects. Tasks included gathering project requirements and creating project documentation (project charters, work estimates, and project plans), managing scope, leading team and client walk through, managing project issues and project status reports from other team members.Participated in the analysis, design, and coding of Intranet, Internet and Extranet applications using HTML, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Cold… Show more Acted as technical manager on large (500 plus hour) and small web projects. Tasks included gathering project requirements and creating project documentation (project charters, work estimates, and project plans), managing scope, leading team and client walk through, managing project issues and project status reports from other team members.Participated in the analysis, design, and coding of Intranet, Internet and Extranet applications using HTML, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Cold Fusion, Java Server Pages, and Oracle/Stellent Content Management product suite and using an enterprise database.Administered and supported content management system (Oracle/Stellent Document and Content Management System). Key tasks include: implementing and maintaining security model, responsible for maintenance and enhancements of the system and internally marketed product via demonstrations and training classes.Supported, troubleshot and debugged hundreds of Intranet, Internet and Extranet sites using a wide range of technologies that fall under the Land O’Lakes, Purina-Mills and CHS, Inc. umbrella of applications. Show less