Jesse Empey Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Utah, United States

WETx leverages blockchain technology to help governments, corporations, and individuals inventory, manage, and monetize their water rights. Our goal is simple: provide a product that is a delight to use to make water more abundant.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Key contributor to the recruiting process, building the development group from 16 individuals to 60+ while maintaining a startup culture that is based on respect and trust
• Oversee implementation of professional Scrum development process
• Ensure teams success by filling key roles, providing necessary tools, and infrastructure needed to design, develop, and deploy world class blockchain products
• Mentored Development Managers, Architects and Developers in all aspects of the SDLC
• Assist CTO with technical reviews of potential Portfolio Companies
• Oversaw the creation of the Agile, DevOps, Blockchain, and Mobile Dev Centers of Excellence

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Senior Product Owner Ellucian Mobile Solutions
• Provided product direction for Ellucian's native mobile applications available on iOS and Android
• Provided product direction for cloud based configuration application and associated on client premises servers that supply content and services to the mobile applications
• Work directly with the distributed development team to manage and groom product features
• Drive innovation at Ellucian, including championing location aware features utilizing Bluetooth beacons, migrating the build and deploy process to a fully automated DevOps pipeline, and evangelizing a mobile first.
• Interface directly with large institutional customers to gather requirements, solicit feedback, and coordinate beta and production releases

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Software Development Manager Ellucian Mobile Solutions
• Managed Ellucian Mobile's distributed development team responsible for creating a mobile solution for Ellucian’s various student information services. The solution included a Grails based web application that provides.
• Coordinated cross team communications and efforts to extend the mobile application’s features and functionality
• Supervised customer escalation issues that require software development support to ensure the needs of the customers are met
• Worked closely with Client Services on large contracts including DeVry University to ensure a successful customized development, deployment, and product launch
• Worked closely with Product Management to ensure quality products are delivered on time

• Managed SunGard's cross platform mobile project and the development team responsible for creating a consistent mobile solution for SunGard's various student information web based applications utilizing the RhoMobile.
• Managed 5 key product development teams, and the associated budgets. Personnel were located throughout the US, China, and India
• Trained and supervised Scrum Masters responsible for the feature backlog, planning, and tracking of projects
• Introduced a Kanban based development process that fit our execution model for support teams, decreasing our cycle time and allowing us to release early and often

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Key contributor to the implementation of our scrum based agile development processes
• Led our development team as acting manager during frequent absences of our development manager
• Planned and implemented team building activities that created a more unified team
• Lead programmer on enterprise class web content management application for universities leveraging Documentum’s tools and API’s. Designed and implemented many features of the product from the data structures to the.
• Worked closely with Universities to establish future requirements and system enhancements
• Provided development support for Universities to increase client satisfaction

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Worked on site with the University of Nottingham to augment their web development team and customize their content management system implementation
• Implemented site specific features as requested by the University of Nottingham

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Developed an enterprise class web content management application for universities leveraging Documentum’s tools and API’s.
• Designed and implemented many features of the product from the data structures to the user interface

Associates Of Science, Computer Science

Private Pilot Endorsement, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General