Harold Hersey Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

- Managed majority of projects developed and released on the CengageNOW platform - an LMS that supported 300,000 students and professors with approx. $40M in annual revenue and a $10M annual engineering budget at its peak- Ensured budget and schedule expectations are met or exceeded- Managed engineering resources across 4 global teams: 2 engineering teams in Oregon, 1 team in Russia, QA team in India, and worked closely with a number of US-based remote analysts, project managers and support team members- Provided architectural oversight/guidance towards new feature implementation- Owned technical roadmap, reviewed implemented solutions for code quality and ensured alignment to architectural strategy and business need- Facilitated communication among all stakeholders and cross-functional-team members- Directly managed infrastructure team members and supported 30% growth of unique logins year over year in a high reliability environment- Coached team in the scrum and kaizen practices; helped teams self-organize and make scalable and robust solutions within available resources- Moved engineering practice towards continuous delivery, created strategies to improve unit test coverage

Portland, Oregon Area

- Spearheaded a continuous improvement of the engineering practices by implementing a Kaizen practice toward an agile/lean processes Instituted elements of pair-programming and oversaw legacy code rescue by migrating development to TDD/BDD- Developed tools to extract schedule and velocities from Jira to allow shifting of culture to view “the plan as the bad guy”- Lead and organized “war room” in times of crisis- Negotiated resource needs/scope with functional managers- Created, maintained and optimized budget for the program- Coordinated and made sure the various teams were aligned for the releases during planning and delivery- Owned triage, priority, reporting and cross teams coordination

- Drove the technical vision, design, implementation and maintenance of a software platform- Worked directly with all individual contributors discussing the best implementation strategy and reviewing the finished product- Lead cross-functional teams involved in technology projects valued at over $4 million- Evaluated and ensured overall quality, budget and schedule on all projects; ensured team alignment- Was in charge of managing feature sets development and scope throughout the project life cycle- Was responsible for anticipating internal and external customer needs and providing innovative solutions- Managed projects throughout development life cycle in a fast-paced environment

Eugene, Oregon Area

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Supervised three development teams working on numerous concurrent projects Involving multiple technologies- Oversaw technical aspects of all projects in the division- Coordinated resource allocation and productivity within teams- Managed employees’ career development and personal goals by mentoring, professional development, and cross-training plans.- Directed code quality and resource availability on projects- Made recommendations to executive team on business strategy and process improvements- Identified project scope and distributed work to resources- Became primary contact for the client and provided project leadership

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Directly managed high priority resolution and vendor management teams reporting into director of development- Enforced and implemented strategies and processes to enhance the relationship with vendors and clients- Developed using Java, XSL and XML technologies implementing critical path features, technology upgrades and mentoring junior developers- Responsible for maintenance and issue resolution

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Wrote simulation code for collision, cloth physics and water buoyancy- Large scale development with high end graphics, sound, and voice recognition libraries.- Mentored and trained junior staff on technical issues

Eugene, Oregon Area

- Designed and developed web-based case management applications with Java, JSP, HTML, STRUTS, SQL- Tested and maintained new and existing products- Built genetic algorithm to evolve neural networks to predict changes in market - Performed requirement gathering and specifications development for new product issues

Eugene, Oregon Area

Masters, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Won programming contest all four years