Forrest Ablott Email & Phone Number

West Jordan, Ut, Us

South Jordan, Utah, United States

Led multiple teams of developers and quality assurance specialists in various projects throughout a wealth management product. Directly responsible for 5-13 people at any given time.• Worked with an underperforming team, introducing Scrum and Agile methodologies as well as one-on-one mentorship, to enable them to successfully meet deadlines and exceed expectations.• Collaborated with Product Managers, UX Designers and CSMs to balance team commitments and emergent business needs, ensuring on time delivery.• Championed direct reports to senior leadership by setting up demonstrations and presentations of completed and in progress work.• Co-led accessibility group, committed to education and systemic improvements for employees and users. o Sponsored multiple hack-a-thons relating to color blind user experience and accessibility development and testing tools. o Delivered presentations and training, both solo and as a group to spread awareness and knowledge throughout the organization.• Organized logistics support for my location for company wide cloud computing and AI hack-a-thons.• Oversaw budgeting and planning of return to office events including socials, cause support, and employee recognition for over 100 people.• Tracked metrics for individual contributors and team projects to support personal growth and ensure on time project delivery.• Mentored other women in technology in various stages of career. Supporting through life and role changes and offering insight from personal experience.

• Completed a Development Manager Apprenticeship program, transitioning from individual contributor to leader.• Became a culture catalyst for my team and others in my location, ensuring the big picture was always in view.• Collaborated with firm employees across business units, teams, and countries throughout a half dozen projects primarily focused on the end-user experience of a wealth management tool.• Integral to getting Accessibility Guild off the ground, finding upper management support, and organizing presentations to the wider development community.• Assumed responsibility over metric tracking to learn more about management and keep teams moving forward.

Developed UI clients for hardware, both live and simulations. Communicated with engineers from different departments to find the appropriate solutions. Implemented unit testing as well as live test sessions in a lab setting.• Developed clients using C#, WPF and MVVM.• Gained experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular and VR using Unity.• Supervised a student group from a college in their Senior Design VR project.

Rapid City, South Dakota Area

Learned MEAN stack programming from a local startup in order to add a payment portal and improve the look and feel of their existing application and website.

Learned C# and SOLID programming skills, as well as Scrum. Helped create a chat application for customer service representatives to use for communication with customers. Also, ported and modified an existing IOS mobile application to C# and Xamarin as a cross platform Senior Design project.

Amg Gastroenterology Clinic

I participated in a summer project scanning medical records into an online database.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Area

I cleaned and took orders. I also did a lot of inventory and stocking, in addition to customer service. When unneeded at concessions I would help the box office and ushers as well.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Area

I made food for customers and was responsible for cleaning, opening, and closing the building.

Brandon, South Dakota

I made food for customers, and cleaned the store. I was also person in charge on many occasions and head opener/closer.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM, TGA (Tech Geological Association)

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honors Society