Jayme Edwards Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Whether you do programming, product management, QA, DevOps, or any other IT discipline - ...career coaching with Jayme Edwards will help you build your future on The 4 Foundational Pillars of a healthy career:• Making an Impact• Growing your Skills• A Healthy Work/Life Balance• Great BenefitsWhen you're not feeling fulfilled in your career, it's usually because you're trying to grow in the same way you did when you started!The first place to start, is to eliminate confusion around which of these pillars is most important at your current stage of career and life.A sign that you need a truly impactful change, is the presence of a surface desire. What do you feel is your biggest desire today for your career?• Have a plan for my career• Escape a job I hate• Stop burning myself out• Impress my boss or coworkers• Use new skills or technology• Work for myselfYou can get started making your desire a reality through career coaching today.Click the "Software Development Career Coaching" link in the "Featured" section of my profile, or visit:https://jaymeedwards.com/software-development-coaching/

Austin, Texas, Us

Many consultants are trying to win software work for a team. I work independently to offer you objective CTO-level advisory services - so you don't have to worry about being "upsold" to hire people you may not really need.After working on over 30 software projects, I'm occasionally available for high-impact engagements such as:- Educating executives and other stakeholders with straight talk on the benefits and challenges with pursuing lean product management, continuous delivery, and digital transformation.- Assessing team or vendor competence in scrum/kanban, code base structure, architecture, cloud infrastructure, change management, data architecture, quality assurance processes, release management, and more.- Evaluating proposals from other consulting firms who you're considering hiring to develop software for you.- Determining how ready you are for transitioning work done by another consulting company or technology vendor back to your staff.- Comparing available software technologies to make a decision on which best meets your requirements, enables you to pursue future business opportunities, and can be maintained at a reasonable cost.If I'm currently booked, I'm happy to add you to a waiting list for my services and work with you to plan when we can solve your software development project issues together.

Austin, Tx, Us

Process coaching, software design, architecture, and development for over 25 clients. ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Led the company to begin to use Lean Product Management, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps for client engagements.• Provided management consulting engagements to get product managers to prioritize ideas better, and cross-functional teams to collaborate.• Delivered web, mobile, and business intelligence solutions for clients.• Advised project teams on best practices for the software development life cycle.• Supported sales executives in winning business and drafting statements of work for clients.CLIENT WORK HIGHLIGHTS• iPad app and API for a company that provides services to Texas schools. Used C#, Swagger, Flurl, Xamarin, PDFTron, and Identity Server.• iPhone and Android apps for a large data processing company. Used Swift 2, Android Development Kit (Java), and the YouTube REST API.• Evaluated Continuous Delivery maturity for two large development teams at a leading online Tax software company.• Software development process consulting for a startup in the banking industry. Used PowerShell, LeapFrogBI, and SSAS Tabular.• Evaluated Continuous Delivery maturity and introduced an Enterprise Service Bus architecture and Master Data Management for a publicly traded company in the student housing industry. Used C#, PowerShell, NServiceBus, and SSAS Tabular.• A web application running on an embedded device for a leading computer manufacturer in Round Rock, Texas. Used bootstrap, Microsoft Web API, backbone.js, require.js, and knockout.• Executive dashboards and data warehouses for a major healthcare provider. Used PowerShell and SSAS Tabular.• Coaching on Product Management and SCRUM at a leading international grocer.• A mapping application enabling customers to determine the safety of freight shipping routes. Used Microsoft SQL Geospatial, ASP.NET, and Google Maps.*** Details of many additional projects available upon request. ***

Co-founder of an online healthcare data research platform for journalists, universities, and investors in healthcare. I provided product management and software development of the product.ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Co-created the LEAN business model canvas used to find market fit for the new business.• Designed the application user experience with Balsamiq.• Developed the product with ruby on rails, Microsoft Power BI, and SQL Server Analysis Services.• Used ansible to deploy to Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure.

Hartland, Wi, Us

I was brought into this company to help determine why a software product was late to market. Once there I concentrated on identifying improvements to product management and development processes that would get the product delivered to the market as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality.ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Identified and fixed development process hurdles in the organization. • Performed competitor and technology analysis to set vision for a new product line.• Worked with the president and development manager to create a roadmap for integrating with partner products in the ERP space.• Designed a new product in ruby on rails using AJAX and .NET backed web services.• Integrated Paper-Less products with vendor ERP systems using the OAGIS standard XML messaging format.

Waterford, Wisconsin, Us

• Performed competitor and technology analysis to set vision for a new product line. Built with DotNetNuke, ASP.NET and SQL Server.• Designed the user experience for and implemented a wall mounted touch screen user interface for lab technicians at pharmaceutical facilities.• Designed the user experience and implemented a web portal for executives and management at pharmaceutical facilities.• Authored formal development procedures allowing our products to be sold to customers that may be audited by the FDA.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

In frustration with 4 Windows applications that worked completely differently, prototyped a new unified web application experience simplifying their feature's use. Led a team of 12 to deliver a web application considered "our most strategically important project" by then-CEO of Rockwell.ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Designed and patented a portal product for manufacturing customers using ASP.NET. Built with ASP.NET, Java, SOAP APIs and Microsoft SQL Server.• Created a Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling third parties to add content to the portal.• Created a Software Development Kit (SDK) for resellers to deploy customized portals.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Designed and patented an XML messaging protocol for communicating with manufacturing devices.• Created an installation framework for deploying an integrated suite of software products at customer sites. Built with Visual Basic, C++, WISE for Windows Installer, and Active Setup.• Developed a commercial website for a product line at the company. Built with ASP.NET.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Developed and executed tests against various software components.• Developed sample programs to demonstrate to customers how to integrate with our software components in Visual Basic, C++, and Java. • Developed setup applications for installing products on customers systems.