Jared Connor Email & Phone Number

Buffalo

Consulting, advising and assisting medium-sized development teams working on building next-generation technologies for mobile and IoT devices and platforms on a Corp-to-Corp basis.

Tonawanda, Ny

Responsible, along with the Danforth IT Team, day-to-day operations, the care and feeding of the enterprise infrastructure, network/telecom, the application portfolio, service desk as well as the implementation of the vision put forward by C-level leadership. J.W. Danforth is one of the oldest and largest Mechanical Engineering and General Contracting firms in New York with offices in Tonawanda, Rochester, Syracuse, the Capital District and Poughkeepsie and a reach that stretches through the TriState area and South to the Mid-Atlantic region. The Danforth leadership team upholds a mission defined by the belief in the power of people and the ceaseless pursuit of perfection through continuous processes. One of J.W. Danforth's contemporaries may have captured it best when he quipped in his Scottish brogue, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”. That is the Power of People as described by Andrew Carnegie, and the core value that has sustained J.W. Danforth for 135 years.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Lead and manage a team of over 35 Software Application Developers in support of the enterprise healthcare management system, with responsibility for billing, payment processing, finance, information exchange, State and Federal regulatory reporting, ensuring audit compliance per State and Federal regulations. Supports a 24X7 processing environment: • Facilitated strategic project planning with peers, senior leadership and business customers. < Provided guidance on impact and risk, level of effort, and proper resource allocation.• Developed project plans for strategic projects as well as “run the business” upgrades. Monitored and reported on project status to key stakeholders. • Collaborated with other IT Leadership on mission critical system upgrades and emergency support. • Participated as a subject matter expert in the core application to enable significant initiatives, including a major data center build, thus facilitating the growth of system and business capability by 250%.• Responsible for devising a team structure to work under 5 Development Leads reporting directly. Mentored the leads in the creation of annual performance appraisals, day to day staff management, delegation of work assignments, promotions, disciplinary and other HR issues. • Implemented code reviews at the peer management level in support of building an SDLC.• Responsible for budget planning and resource estimation specific to projects on the company roadmap.• Key projects: Completed 3 defect free Facets system upgrades; implemented Healthcare Benefits Exchange application; Server Migration from outsourced vendor to managed at on site data center; completed 4 upgrades of Clinical Editing Management application in 1 year; Citrix Metaframe sunset with migration to XenApp; Sybase ASE 15.3 - 15.7 upgrade; AIX 8.0 to 8.2 upgrade; ICD-9 to ICD-10 Conversion.

Getzville, New York

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Pi Lambda PhiGraduated College of Science and Technology, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

Master'S Degree - Underway, Organizational Leadership

Facilitator Training and Fierce Conversations

Certificate, Organizational Leadership

Value Stream Mapping for Manufacturing

Certificate, Computer Science

Advanced IBM Message Broker Developer