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Irving, Texas, United States

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Irving, Texas

StarterStep is a leader in web and mobile application development having built products on nearly every platform and currently leveraging bleeding edge technologies to provide the richest, most cost effective solutions for our clients. You have probably seen our work.. but don't know it!Our development approach is centered around an agile practice, relying on communication, collaboration, transparency, and a relentless focus on customer and business needs. At StarterStep, we are not… Show more StarterStep is a leader in web and mobile application development having built products on nearly every platform and currently leveraging bleeding edge technologies to provide the richest, most cost effective solutions for our clients. You have probably seen our work.. but don't know it!Our development approach is centered around an agile practice, relying on communication, collaboration, transparency, and a relentless focus on customer and business needs. At StarterStep, we are not just consultants, we are entrepreneurs and understand the importance of market timing, cost, and business value. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

YouScience is building a 21st century online career management process that engages young people continuously from late in high school until they land a permanent position in their chosen career. Our users first experience is to understand their natural abilities and interests and engage in a dynamic decision process to get valuable personal feedback, set a career direction, and begin to tailor their course of study. Later in college, we engage with the student to assess their 21st century job… Show more YouScience is building a 21st century online career management process that engages young people continuously from late in high school until they land a permanent position in their chosen career. Our users first experience is to understand their natural abilities and interests and engage in a dynamic decision process to get valuable personal feedback, set a career direction, and begin to tailor their course of study. Later in college, we engage with the student to assess their 21st century job skills. We then use this job skill data to help the young person gain a competitive advantage and interact with employers. Show less

Southlake, Texas

D2M is a wholesale service company helping manufacturers in the Powersports and Action Sports industries. Our goal is simply make it easier for manufacturers and dealers to do business with each other. We work with numerous brands and thousands of franchised and independent dealers across the U.S. and provide Sales, Technology, Marketing, AR, and Logistics services.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

TouchSpan is a cloud based information collaboration platform to help companies organize, share and collaborate online in a secure and configurable environment. Currently providing solutions in the healthcare, legal, and financial industries.

Technical lead for TripCase, a platform that allows users to manage post booking travel. Also managed offshore team during development of TripCase for Windows Mobile. Services offered through TripCase allow users to stay informed regarding changes in their travel plans as well as offers in transit services such as vendor information and alternate scheduling if a significant impact to the trip has occurred.TripCase is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and the Web. All… Show more Technical lead for TripCase, a platform that allows users to manage post booking travel. Also managed offshore team during development of TripCase for Windows Mobile. Services offered through TripCase allow users to stay informed regarding changes in their travel plans as well as offers in transit services such as vendor information and alternate scheduling if a significant impact to the trip has occurred.TripCase is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and the Web. All platforms are implemented using native sdks. TripCase's services tier is implemented using Ruby on Rails and integrates with other third party vendors such as Sabre WebServices and FlightStats. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Objective C, Java, C# Show less

Technical lead for an online community (http://cubeless.com) platform which allows a company to tap into the collective intelligence of its employees. Built specifically for corporate use, the system brings together employees from across the organization to harnesses their hidden skills and knowledge. Sabre has a branded version of cubeless internally called SabreTown. Technolgies used: Ruby on Rails

Responsible for mentoring software development teams on utilizing and embracing a more lightweight agile methodology. Mentoring needs vary dependent upon team's goals and include User Stories, Estimating and Planning, Acceptance Testing, and Automation.Conduct classes which cover content including: Writing the Most Important Test Cases, Testing 101, Scripting 101, FitNesse Workshop, and Acceptance Testing.Recruited to ensure testability during an organizational Hardening… Show more Responsible for mentoring software development teams on utilizing and embracing a more lightweight agile methodology. Mentoring needs vary dependent upon team's goals and include User Stories, Estimating and Planning, Acceptance Testing, and Automation.Conduct classes which cover content including: Writing the Most Important Test Cases, Testing 101, Scripting 101, FitNesse Workshop, and Acceptance Testing.Recruited to ensure testability during an organizational Hardening initiative.Design, Develop, and Implement FitNesse testing framework to allow testers to automate the SABRE Tpf applications. These applications have largely been tested manually for the previous 20 years. Framework is one of the most reused assets for Sabre. Technologies used: Java, HTML Estimated cost savings for 1st year in excess of one million dollars.Design, Develop and Implement middleware application to allow for the automation of form based Tpf applications. Application utilizes dynamic data from the mainframe applications to build an automatable user interface. Technologies used: Java, XML, ThinletDesign, Develop, and Implement project management tool based off of open source eXPlainPMT project. This tool allows for teams to manage projects based on work completion, instead of the traditional budget/schedule approach. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails Show less

Ruby on Rails web application which allows companies to assess themselves regarding agile principles and provides comparative analysis to other companies pivoted on differentiating demographics.Developed with partnership of Mike Cohn/Ken Rubin and Rails Studio.

The Agile Alliance is a community of agile practitioners that use www.agilealliance.org as a portal for the dissemination of information regarding all things agile. The application is a repository of information regarding agile techniques, blog postings, contact info, corporate members, conference information, news, events, articles, etc. Currently has over 3400 active members.Responsibilities include small enhancements and site maintenance.

Watij (Web Application Testing in Java) is a pure Java API created to allow for the automation of web applications. Co-Created framework and continue to support with maintenance and feature releases.Currently has a download count of 20000 and has 600 active members on Google group.

Ruby on Rails web application which allows users to review and research agile project management tools pertaining to user stories.Developed with partnership of Mike Cohn and Rails Studio.

Led design and development of location based services framework that enables the visualization of locations, routes, and directions in order to increase dispatcher effectiveness. Technologies utilized: Microsoft MapPoint Web Services, Java, JSP, Struts, Weblogic 8.1.3, xml, soap, wsdl. Instrumental in the merging of three internal business units, with a combined annual revenue approaching 100 million dollars. Provided application expertise, operational knowledge, and successfully… Show more Led design and development of location based services framework that enables the visualization of locations, routes, and directions in order to increase dispatcher effectiveness. Technologies utilized: Microsoft MapPoint Web Services, Java, JSP, Struts, Weblogic 8.1.3, xml, soap, wsdl. Instrumental in the merging of three internal business units, with a combined annual revenue approaching 100 million dollars. Provided application expertise, operational knowledge, and successfully facilitated the communication and collaboration between the businesses and IT.Represented the business in an R&D effort to understand the technologies required to handle a 10,000 percent increase in order volume. Worked with development team to understand business goals and to validate the technology approach, ensuring support of strategic needs. Technologies utilized: Hibernate, Spring, ULC.Led the research and analysis of emerging asset tracking technologies in an effort to improve the visibility of on-demand vendors while they are in route. Innovations in this area were greatly accepted by the business and were brought to the forefront of our technology roadmap. Show less

Successfully transformed UPS's business analyst process from a waterfall approach to an agile, light-weight method of requirements gathering. Mentored BA team on effective ways of capturing user stories in order to understand the true business need. Efforts improved the collaboration between the BA's and development team, resulting in increased business value for each software release.Led the design and development of an automated monitoring system to ensure availability of critical third… Show more Successfully transformed UPS's business analyst process from a waterfall approach to an agile, light-weight method of requirements gathering. Mentored BA team on effective ways of capturing user stories in order to understand the true business need. Efforts improved the collaboration between the BA's and development team, resulting in increased business value for each software release.Led the design and development of an automated monitoring system to ensure availability of critical third party services running in production. New system replaced prior manual process resulting in increased response time for production down issues. Technologies utilized: Java, Ant, XML, Bash, SMTPEducated UPS's centralized QA group on adaptive software testing of enterprise level applications. Coached team on best practices and the design of automated test architectures in order to support agile development processes. Show less

Led a team of 5+ QA engineers in conducting business analysis, quality assurance, and production support of NextJet's premier Transportation Management System.Instrumental in the design and development of a robust, web-based, test automation framework and the creation of a full suite of automated functional tests.Mentored team on agile testing strategies, technologies, automation approaches, quality standards and development techniques. Efforts lead to greater team effectiveness… Show more Led a team of 5+ QA engineers in conducting business analysis, quality assurance, and production support of NextJet's premier Transportation Management System.Instrumental in the design and development of a robust, web-based, test automation framework and the creation of a full suite of automated functional tests.Mentored team on agile testing strategies, technologies, automation approaches, quality standards and development techniques. Efforts lead to greater team effectiveness, higher quality standards and a deeper understanding of quality and development process.As a member of company's change management committee helped resolve business and technology issues and worked to improve current agile practices across the organization. Show less

Designed and developed an acceptance test management system that could report on numerous quality metrics. System strengthened communication and allowed upper management visibility into iteration progress.Managed numerous customer releases across multiple application platforms and versions ensuring all customers received quality application patches and helped customers with installation problems including database and deployment issues.Collaborated with development during planning to… Show more Designed and developed an acceptance test management system that could report on numerous quality metrics. System strengthened communication and allowed upper management visibility into iteration progress.Managed numerous customer releases across multiple application platforms and versions ensuring all customers received quality application patches and helped customers with installation problems including database and deployment issues.Collaborated with development during planning to ensure understanding of business requirements and to offer feedback during design. Interaction placed quality as the prime initiative and resulted in increased business value for each release. Designed and development streamlined build and deployment process for internal staging and external customer release builds in order to increase continuous integration of software components and decrease risk of erroneous releases to production. New approach replaced thirty-six individual processes with a single modular process. Technologies utilized: Java, Ant, XML, Bash, SMTPIntegral in the design of a proprietary automation framework aimed to create a modular testing capability which allowed QA's to automate pre-existing manual regression tests and future functional acceptance tests. Framework enabled QA team to develop automation suite that tightly integrated customer acceptance and story completion with continuous regression.Coached QA team to increase awareness of agile methodologies and practices in order to ensure true business needs were captured as requirements. Efforts resulted in estimateable, testable, and independent features which proved to decrease time to market due to ability to communicate with customers using common language.Implemented external defect entry applications to provide Nextjet's customers a personalized channel for defect and feature request management. Applications resulted in tactical development initiatives and reduced customer support calls Show less

Worked with K-12 and higher education campuses to strengthen infrastructure and create greater use of technology in the classroom in order to increase teacher productivity while also increasing students understanding of subject matter. Technologies used: SMART, Waacom, NEC, Infocus, Crestron, JBL, IBM, HP-Compaq.Designed and implemented solutions for corporate clients to increase collaboration for cross location divisions. Clients stated efforts resulted in healthier communication between… Show more Worked with K-12 and higher education campuses to strengthen infrastructure and create greater use of technology in the classroom in order to increase teacher productivity while also increasing students understanding of subject matter. Technologies used: SMART, Waacom, NEC, Infocus, Crestron, JBL, IBM, HP-Compaq.Designed and implemented solutions for corporate clients to increase collaboration for cross location divisions. Clients stated efforts resulted in healthier communication between locations and promoted investment in people. Technologies used: SMART, Crestron, Da-Lite, JBL, Infocus, NEC, IBM, HP-Compaq.Maintained company's largest account which consisted of one hundred branch locations and encouraged spending in excess of one million dollars a year. Profit generated from account exceeded two hundred thousand dollars annually.Designed and implemented extended warranty program and expanded rental program in order to expand MicroAge's solution toolkit. Efforts resulted in an increased company footprint and profitability by allowing MicroAge to respond to RFQ and RFP's that previously were ignored. Show less