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Reporting to the President, lead Agile software development, continuous deployment and QA teams, expanding technical focus to improve user experience. Partner with CEO on strategic initiatives, including RFP responses. Established predictable & consistent Agile scrum velocity, enabling smooth & efficient delivery by Marketing & Product on an aggressive roadmap. Prepare & facilitate technical reviews & discussions, technology demos and internal & external presentations. Oversaw automated unit & integration testing on both front- and back-end to ensure few bugs make it to production, and more time is devoted to developing new code. - Established microservices-based architecture, resulting in improved fault isolation and scalability, eliminating long-term commitment to a single tech stack, better articulating service functionality for developers and supporting application adaptation to other markets. - Led development & deployment of fully RESTful APIs within application, improving evolution of interfaces over time without breaking existing clients and allowing for more adaptable upgrades & enhancements through loosely coupled front & back end. - Extended Object Oriented Design, resulting in extensive code reuse & recycling, enabling developers to focus on new development and easing code maintenance.Methodologies: Microservices, RESTful APIs, Object Oriented Design, Agile, Scrum, Kanban.Tech Stack: Linux, Python, Javascript, Angular, Typescript, PHP, Jira, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Chef, Git, Crucible, Sphinx.

Reporting to the President, oversaw team of 70 software engineering & professional services staff, partnering with fellow executive team members to create & implement strategies focused on managed growth and balanced budgets. Developed distributed scrum team leadership, incorporating collaboration & build-management tools into development environment and introducing product roles to ensure products more accurately reflected market demands. Improved software development forecasting & estimation accuracy, resulting in consistent on-time delivery within established product roadmap milestones. - By focusing delivery on customers’ essential core business areas, increased professional services revenue by over 200% (2012-2013). - Developed continuous integration methodology, resulting in going from quarterly releases to weekly releases.Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban.Tech Stack: Linux, JQuery, Dojo, ColdFusion, C++, JavaScript, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins.

Partnering with the CIO, oversaw IS team of 90+ , including development, project management and support. Established hosting & support standards for departmental OS software requirements, based on open-source platforms. Collaborated with Provost and cabinet to establish campus-wide process improvement initiative. - In response to dramatically increased IT demands, introduced & directed development of a Project Management Office (PMO), resulting in response time decrease from months to days. - Drove PMP certification initiative for IS, resulting in 8 certifications within 2 years. - Led introduction of Agile/Scrum and Lean strategies, improving responsiveness to software requirements, increasing efficiencies by removing unnecessary steps & expenses over 2 years.Methodologies: Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, ITIL.Tech Stack: LAMP stack, Oracle, Sungard Banner.

Principal Strategic Consultant (2007-2008)General Manager, Western Region (2003-2007)Account Manager (2001-2003)Principal Project Manager, ERP Implementations (1998-2001)Director, Enterprise Process Engineering (1996-1998)Senior Developer (1995-1996)