Grant Shoemaker Email & Phone Number

Castle Rock, Co, Us

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Castle Rock, Colorado, Us

Hired to lead a challenged software engineering department and be a change agent forprocess, communication, modernization and productivity. Acted as lead engineerimplementing several key projects. Responsibilities were 80% principal software engineer and20% leadership and management

New York, Ny, Us

Lead a team of developers as their manager and lead developer for a business intelligence platform. My responsibilities were 90% software engineering and 10% management. Worked closely with project ownership/management and development team to design requirements, solutions and determine technologies. Accountable for designing and delivering architecturally sound software solutions on time and achieving or exceeding business needs. Oversaw training and career development for direct reports.• Lead design and development of complete replacement of business intelligence platform to replace with completely new technology using .Net Core, Blazor, Power BI to name a few.• Designed and implemented concurrent multi-user full-featured forecasting module for use within business intelligence platform.• Was often regarded from employees as the best manager they have ever had.• Designed and implemented custom data alert system that notifies users when their data meets certain criteria configured in their custom alerts.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Oversee two direct reports. Responsible for software architecture, design of custom software solutions, defining requirements, researching and determining technologies to use (framework, architecture). Lead teams in technical software development and maintenance. Work with outside vendors to integrate custom and off-the-shelf software systems. Accountable for designing and delivering architecturally sound software solutions on time, within budget, and achieving or exceeding business needs. Oversee training for staff and other department employees. • Designed coding standards and software development design patterns for FPA that implement software layers, reproducible components, and recognizable code.• Designed, developed and implemented a new conference registration system for FPA that reduced the work-load for staff when configuring each conference while also providing a supreme user experience for users and providing all the desired functionality.• Developed four apps for mobile devices utilizing mobile web concepts (html5, css3, jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap) as well as native apps for Android and iOS.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Hired as contractor on a project basis to design and implement a replacement for FPA’s primary public-facing web application. Tasks also include mentoring and managing current on-staff development team. Was subsequently hired full time by FPA to oversee all development work.• Designed and implemented a robust, scalable and easily maintainable web application that provided consumers the ability to search for Financial Planners using several mechanisms including geographical location radius searches utilizing geocoding addresses and search terms. • Wrote prototypes to help the business determine requirements during the requirements gathering process to accelerate the design process. • Developed a Member Counts System – a reporting system using OLAP principles that reports all association membership changes, used by executive staff for forecasting and reflecting on a monthly basis their membership. • Created a CEU Import System that imports spreadsheets that contain data for members’ continuing education hours to import into the system to reflect the credits they should receive. Conversion from the previously manual process saved significant data-entry time.• Completed a project-based contract early to implement and in remaining contract time completed more projects at client’s request.

Co-founder of this software development services company. Oversaw software development projects with responsibility for meeting project schedules and maintaining client relationships of more than 35 customers.• Developed, implemented, and supported manufacturing fabrication and logistics system that provides inventory management, quoting, fabrication schematics, scrap minimization, and billing integration.• Sold and implemented additional features to provide clients with an integrated technological solution to their business needs.• Developed hybrid methodology for project implementation resulting in 60% increase of team productivity, using .NET, SQL Server, SSRS, and XML.• Solved a data reporting problem for a company operating a non-customizable legacy system and improved the timing and usability of reports tracking revenue, costs, insurance billing and other operations-related factors. • Established a system of software to create a custom e-commerce web application for a bike shop.• Devised an algorithm for minimizing scrap for a fabrication company, netting a 20% reduction.

Responsible for design and development of software solutions for internal and external uses as well as primary customer contact concerning development effort and project status. Worked very closely with clients to determine requirements and design, and manage changes. Served as advanced source of knowledge for the entire development team. • Led major integration development project with high visibility for very large client, using .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk , XSL, and XML. • Developed software for internal issue-tracking system.

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