Established automated testing framework and reporting, cutting testing and release duration by90%, and allowing the client to have trust in deploymentsCollaborated with other company leaders to grow the annual revenue from 1.7M to 4.6M over thecourse of two yearsIntroduced event storming as a requirements gathering tool, shortening development start timeby 75%Optimized the management and deployment of marketing website changes, resulting in updatesbeing pushed live 3x faster and with 98% lower error ratesImplemented recruiting practice to find and hire top quality employees. Utilized both onshoreand offshore to save the company half a million dollars, and double the size of the company, overtwo years

Recruited, hired, and retained a world class teamMentored new managers, sharing best practices and guiding them in their workCreated an atmosphere of learning, personally leading multiple talks on team improvementsInstituted new standards for writing stories to improve communication between product owners and developersReinvigorated retrospectives, ensuring multiple monthly improvement and avoid future issues completelyEstablished clear promotion requirements, giving team members concrete goals

Took a year sabbatical to travel the world with my family. You can follow our journey at https://www.goertzensonthego.com/

Guided six development teams, ensuring software met high standardsPushed for new way of having business and tech work together, resulting in better alignment, clearer requirements, and faster development of featuresManaged and mentored my team, producing motivated, engaged members and keeping turnover far below industry averageWorked with business leads to share and explain my technical vision, ensuring we benefited from cutting edge technology.Introduced GraphQL layer with service mesh to allow teams to develop and release on their own instead of coordinating and releasing with all the other teams. This reduced release regression cycle from 3 days to a few hours.Led a move to microservices with containers that cut release times from 2 weeks to 2 hoursBrought in tools to automate checks and increase code quality, stopping a large number of issues from ever making it to QA or ProductionCreated multiple open source projects to assist with our continuous delivery solutionEnforced unit test limits, improving test coverage from 20% to over 70%

Consultant specializing in all aspects of software development. Participate in project management, architecture, design and coding. Help improve development process, bringing new ideas to the agile environment. Recruiting new talent for the company.

Hired as sole developer and grew to lead all software development for the company. Created award-winning software that facilitated growth from a 5 person operation to over 100 people.

Responsible for all Java development in the company. Created applets to allow users to manage documents. Architected a solution for doing daily imports of users lists from customers

Created high and low level design documents from requirements documents. Assisted with configuration tool for telecommunication equipment.

Worked on many different Java applications.