Ian Garrison Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Development and execution of strategy to leverage partnerships with third-party tools to enhance Sketch's service offerings
• Facilitation of joint initiatives, including co-development projects, product integrations, and joint marketing activities.
• Identification of and advocacy for product feature "wish-lists" driven by real-world needs in existing engagements
• Serve as the primary point of contact and effectively manage relationships with customers who purchase third-party tools through our organization as a reseller

St. Louis, MO

St. Louis, MO

• Developed marketing strategy to grow conference to 400+ annual attendees
• Produced marketing and branding materials (signs, handouts, t-shirts, logos, website) to drive awareness of the conference and present a professional image
• Presented a talk on The Zombie Kanban Game – A workshop to help teams learn Kanban concepts via a team-based interactive exercise

St. Louis, MO

• Served as the Agile Coach for major enterprise initiatives, increasing speed to market, improving transparency and predictability of delivery for technology, finance and operations
• Trained 200+ people for certifications as Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and SAFe Change Agents, and established communities of practice for continued development
• Created a training series for higher-level Agile concepts to illustrate the responsibilities of the roles beyond following a schedule of meetings
• Launched 5 SAFe Release Trains to coordinate planning and execution between teams on a quarterly cadence
• Created visualizations of JIRA data, driven by the JIRA API, to drive decision-making through team and program-level metrics
• Received Equifax One award for helping the St. Louis Finance team implement Scrum/SAFe and improve their delivery predictability while reducing overtime

St. Louis, MO

• Revamped requirements process to use agile ideals, focusing on iterative development, incremental improvements, and Minimum Viable Product, to always be release-ready
• Led front-end efforts to unify 4 legacy systems with an AngularJS app and responsive design (using Bootstrap as a starting point)
• Let internal group focused on technical practices to give developers tools to write better, more stable code faster
• Revised the way we used site analytics to support feature-level decisions
• Helped bring business units (Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing) to the table when developing product ideas. This had historically been a one-way flow of information and became a conversation, ultimately.

Swansea, IL

• Led development efforts as we grew from a single engineer (me) team to a team of 8
• Built the billing system for CrowdSource, which processes millions of transactions per month and reduced invoicing time by 95%
• Introduced backbone.js, underscore.js, doT.js and other modern JavaScript libraries to enable rapid development of highly interactive UI
• Architected and lead development of a WYSIWYG survey building tool (like Wufoo) using backbone.js and MVC patterns in JavaScript. The tool reduced project setup time by up to 95% and enabled the fulfillment services.
• Worked with project management to establish an agile development process
• Started an automated regression testing process which reduced the number of bugs in production and enabled faster development cycles

Chesterfield, MO

• Developed a long-term product plan for a complete reboot of a primary feature set and carried it through release planning and implementation of the first two scheduled releases as project manager and lead developer• Founded a cross-discipline team (engineering, sales, account management) to develop new products with low overhead and short time to.

Saint Charles, MO

• Led an 8-person team to create an e-learning course on organ donation for the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration to raise awareness of the need for organ donors
• Introduced agile methods (XP and SCRUM) to software production process where no structured process existed in order to improve deadline accuracy and enable informed management decision-making
• Architected and implemented a Flash-based (ActionScript 3) platform for rapidly creating 508 and SCORM-compliant e-learning courses
• Created an XML-based scripting language and interpreter for modeling and rapidly prototyping e-learning courses to reduce time from concept to implementation
• Gathered requirements, performed business analysis, and managed external vendors to build a single-sourced publishing solution for both print and web
• Developed creative concepts for PSAs for non-profit and government clients

Saint Louis, MO

• Introduced an agile development process, which reduced schedule overruns by 90% and improved estimates accuracy
• Designed and built an application for categorizing the tone of RSS articles using naive Bayesian filter techniques
• Worked on a small team building an RSS aggregator to digest large amounts of data and compile it down to a manageable summary for Fortune 500 clients
• Generated.Net development estimates for new client projects using agile methods to obtain accurate delivery timelines

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering