Jason Cone Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Maintains and executes staffing plans for the Engineering and SDET Teams to support the dynamic needs of the business, including defining budgets, working with third-party recruiters, screening candidates, facilitating team interviews, and coordinating onboarding processes.• Maintains and supports individual professional development plans for each member of the Engineering and SDET Teams according to each individual's strengths, desires, and weaknesses.• Coordinates training, support, and planning with Product, Sales, Marketing, Client Services/Operations, Business Development, and Executive Leadership Teams.• Normalized the department's job descriptions and salary schedule within the first 30 days, which was rolled out to the Teams over a 12-month period.• Supervises and participates in efforts to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL; replace a costly third-party SAML-as-a-Service vendor with a much more simple and maintainable in-house solution; de-identify PHI data for use in unprotected environments/contexts to increase development efficiency; and define metrics against which the business can measure the efficacy and stability of the product and platform as a whole.• Continued many of the responsibilities of a Software Engineer III position on a frequent basis.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Assumed ownership of in-progress implementations of web and mobile member-facing applications and coordinated (and participated in) their completion by the end of 2016 with a team consisting of both on- and off-shore personnel.• Completely automated the branding, code release, and binary release processes of numerous mobile applications such that qualified updates could be made available to end users in a matter of minutes as opposed to a matter of days.• Participated in a complete rewrite of our database layer and microservice implementation to reduce technical debt, remove support-intensive data modelling shortcomings, and improve clarity of the platform's functional domains.• Provided principal leadership and hands-on contribution in the onboarding of eight major clients, all of which were completed ahead of schedule and with minimal follow-up support.• Actively mentored the rest of the Engineering team across a variety of disciplines including data modelling, API design, front-end architecture, microservice design, data pipeline strategies, open source option evaluation, programming language nuances, and Clean Code strategies.• Provided primary technical input to our Product, UX, and Sales teams as it related to the future evolution of our member- and plan-facing solutions and products..• Designed and implemented an automated classification model for measuring member engagement maturity.

Irving, Texas, Us

Coppell, Tx, Us

Stewards the technical strategy and implementation for a new consumer-oriented community platform; provides mentoring and support to all software developers; facilitates conversations between product-related, cross-functional teams; and frequently participates in marketing and business strategy initiatives related to bringing a new product to market.

Irving, Texas, Us

Stewarded the direction, implementation, and technical vision for 3 distinct products; provided mentoring and support to all new software developers; facilitated conversations between product-related, cross-functional teams; and frequently handled sensitive external customer support scenarios (often solving problems that are categorically unrelated to our products).

Irving, Texas, Us

Participated in the design and implementation of a client/server knowledge management system by implementing distributed delta compression algorithms over a custom TCP/IP protocol and researched emerging web technologies (ActiveX, XML, SOAP) which ultimately resulted in the formation of a new product development effort.

Irving, Texas, Us

Participated in the development of retail Windows 95 training software using Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ 4.2.