David Mccandless Email & Phone Number

• Technical Product Owner for Brushfire, an all-in-one event management platform, responsible for:Product Ownership and Strategy
• Owning the product vision and roadmap, driving product development, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Leading product feedback reviews and product meetings to gather valuable insights and inform product decisions.
• Conducting customer interviews and surveys, and in-depth technical research to identify and validate potential solutions given current architecture.
• Writing comprehensive product requirements documents and user stories to provide clear guidance to the development team.Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication
• Connecting with Executive leadership, Technology, Design, Customer Success, Business Development, and other stakeholders to foster effective collaboration and ensure product alignment with company goals and vision.

• Axway System Engineer/Team Lead
• Axway Team Lead responsible for managing five direct reports, leading daily stand-ups, and coordinating updates with change control boards.
• Axway System Engineer responsible for operational support and administration of Axway API Gateways processing 1.2 million API calls per 10 minutes.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Scrum master responsible for facilitating meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, writing user stories with acceptance criteria, clearing roadblocks for the development team, and backlog grooming.
• Responsible for managing project boards in Monday.com to provide wholistic views of a project with project plans, meeting notes, product and development tasks and stories, and milestones.
• Project manager responsible for collaborating with executives and development leadership to establish and maintain a roadmap and quarterly goals for the team, as well as manage the product backlog.
• Responsible for managing intake requests from stakeholders, and triaging and clarifying requests to translate them into requirements and user stories.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Product owner responsible for defining the goals and vision for several products, including gatewaypeople.com and the Gateway Church iOS and Android mobile apps with features such as internationalization for.
• Responsible for conducting user surveys and researching and evaluating analytics and feedback to help determine user journeys and product features and priorities.
• Primary liaison responsible for communicating with multiple ministries of the church (clients) and development team to understand stakeholder needs and set the strategy of the products and deliverables for development.
• Responsible for leading and facilitating brainstorming sketch sessions, and evaluating and guiding low and high fidelity mockups and prototypes.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing development team, project allocation assignments, budgets, and year-end performance reviews for up to seven direct reports.
• Responsible for managing numerous contract development projects, as well as several full-time contract developers.
• Implemented Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as source control for the development team.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Java developer responsible for adding numerous features to the Gateway Church Android app, supporting user profiles and content via APIs.
• Java developer responsible for creating and maintaining three different conference apps, leveraging REST APIs via JSON for dynamic content.
• Lead developer responsible for maintaining and launching customized Table apps with multilingual support for over 20 different churches.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing development team, project allocation assignments, budgets, and year-end performance reviews for up to seven direct reports.
• Implemented Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as source control for the development team.
• Initiated shift from custom PHP websites to Drupal CMS with custom approvals for numerous websites.

Southlake, Texas, United States

• Lead developer responsible for architecting and developing a custom PHP event management application with requests and approvals for rooms and assets.
• Lead developer for a touchscreen kiosk application with printing functionality written in ActionScript for Macromedia Flash.
• Contributing developer on numerous websites and applications leveraging PHP, Drupal, JavaScript, APIs, and other technologies, for products such as gatewaypeople.com, conference websites, and an internal staff website.
• Contributing developer responsible for architecting and documenting numerous JSON REST APIs for several projects, such as conference apps and multitenant Table apps with custom user profiles.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Team Lead responsible for development and ongoing evolution of a distributed IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system, which handled 70% of 24,000 daily incoming support calls.
• Lead developer responsible for researching, designing, and implementing numerous features for a distributed system client/server application that provided simple access to complex functions (such as CLLI and trunk.
• Designed and implemented a real-time C++ application that read call records, stored looping calls in a database, and provided links to automatically look up route lists to detect problems on Nortel DMS switches.

Richardson, TX

Software engineering coop with the MCI division. Implemented new feature for the MCI software release for Nortel DMS 250 switches.