John Beaver Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

* Currently leading a team of 7 software engineers within Amazon Web Services (AWS) building a software platform used by AWS region operators to support dedicated cloud regions. Previously led a team that developed and maintained AWS' marketing blog and its software launch management systems.* Primary responsibilities include technical direction on building highly customer focused and scalable software solutions, overseeing my team's agile software development process, working with various… Show more * Currently leading a team of 7 software engineers within Amazon Web Services (AWS) building a software platform used by AWS region operators to support dedicated cloud regions. Previously led a team that developed and maintained AWS' marketing blog and its software launch management systems.* Primary responsibilities include technical direction on building highly customer focused and scalable software solutions, overseeing my team's agile software development process, working with various stakeholders to create a team delivery roadmap, reviewing software designs and business requirements, addressing customer issues/esclations and providing production support to existing systems.* Sourced and hired 8 software development engineers internally and externally for my teams, promoted 4 of my team members and managed 2 low performers to their exits.* Wrote 7 scoping and resourcing documents read at the VP and Director levels, resulting in cross-organization roadmap changes and additional headcount for my team.* Contributed text and estimates to 3 documents read at the Director level describing teams' yearly plans and needed headcount with alternatives.* Mediated code review, task and technical decision related disputes between engineers on my team.* Core technologies and processes used by my teams: various Amazon Web Services (S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2, EBS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, \ldots), ES6/Javascript, Node.js, Scrum/Agile, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Linux. Show less

Seattle, Wa

* Launch owner for the EC2-specific Pricing Calculator, normally a role played by a senior manager.* During the launch process, contacted over 100 stakeholders including security, legal, marketing and others.* Migrated code for the EC2-specific Pricing Calculator into a new estimation platform, now launched as https://calculator.aws before I left the role.* Imported hundreds of external libraries into Amazon's build system

Greater Seattle Area

* Led a group of six contract software engineers to deliver a rewrite and expansion of the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator, a tool that helps an AWS customer to calculate the cost of her AWS solution before building it.* At management's direction, led a cross-team effort to itemize, storypoint and estimate time to completion for all work items required to meet a specific milestone.* Developed improvement plans for two employees that Amazon management had criticized, reframing their… Show more * Led a group of six contract software engineers to deliver a rewrite and expansion of the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator, a tool that helps an AWS customer to calculate the cost of her AWS solution before building it.* At management's direction, led a cross-team effort to itemize, storypoint and estimate time to completion for all work items required to meet a specific milestone.* Developed improvement plans for two employees that Amazon management had criticized, reframing their contributions and ensuring they had high-value work.* Argued for and achieved a test-driven approach to development early in the project, improving the product's long-term maintainability.* Wrote code against every part of the product, from frontend to backend. This provided the empathy and knowlege required to clear dozens of cross-specialty blockers.* Sought strategic direction from the Amazon product owner before the start of every sprint.* Argued for and achieved a reprioritization against an always-production-ready strategy during initial product development to improve inter-team communication, instill an operational mindset, allow external demos before release, and generally to make the project more agile.* Efficiently onboarded all of the team's products from a manual translation process onto an existing departmental translation/localization process* Kickstarted and provided initial feedback for an effort to improve requirements documentation to be more immediately comprehensible to engineers* Consistently challenged technical decisions to ensure all stakeholders were aware of their real impact* Topics: various Amazon Web Services (S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2, EBS, ELB, Lambda, \ldots), React, Redux, ES6/Javascript, Node.js, Scrum/Agile, service-oriented architecture (SOA), client-side/UI, Frontend and backend software engineering, Linux. Show less

Seattle, Wa

● Leveraged all data sources available, including operational reporting (New Relic), operational logs (Kibana, Splunk), architectural diagrams and business intelligence data (Tableau) across the enterprise in order to detect, propose solutions to, and ultimately resolve dozens of worldwide compliance problems.● Developed close professional relationships with 4 executive stakeholders, dozens of engineers, project managers and business analysts while ensuring the successful integration of… Show more ● Leveraged all data sources available, including operational reporting (New Relic), operational logs (Kibana, Splunk), architectural diagrams and business intelligence data (Tableau) across the enterprise in order to detect, propose solutions to, and ultimately resolve dozens of worldwide compliance problems.● Developed close professional relationships with 4 executive stakeholders, dozens of engineers, project managers and business analysts while ensuring the successful integration of DTSS software services with dozens of Disney products ranging from the Infinity console games to the Disney Movies Anywhere website.● Advocated for a client self-service strategy for Disney's customer identity service, driving the vision from concept to proposal to mature software product.● Ensured that customers' personally identifiable information (PII) was properly secured when designing new customer identity solutions.● Topics: Worldwide PII legal and brand compliance. Tableu, New Relic, Kibana, Splunk. Scrum/agile. OAuth 2.0, service-oriented architecture (SOA), client-side/UI. Ruby, Java, Javascript/HTML, SQL, JSON. Many web client-side, service-side and database technologies. Some exposure to Android and iOS. Linux. Show less

Fall City, Wa

● Elected official for an outdoor community theater that presents a yearly six-week musical theatre performance and that owns and maintains 95 acres of land in the mountains outside of Seattle.● Chair of promotions committee – Identified through point-of-sale surveys that 20% of sales in 2013 were directly due to a combination of online and print newspaper advertising. Revenues doubled in 2014 compared to 2013.● Strategic development – Identified that the major gaps compared to… Show more ● Elected official for an outdoor community theater that presents a yearly six-week musical theatre performance and that owns and maintains 95 acres of land in the mountains outside of Seattle.● Chair of promotions committee – Identified through point-of-sale surveys that 20% of sales in 2013 were directly due to a combination of online and print newspaper advertising. Revenues doubled in 2014 compared to 2013.● Strategic development – Identified that the major gaps compared to the theater’s own past and to similar organizations are in fundraising and publicity: few people are aware of the organization in Seattle and fundraising percent of revenue is less than many others in the industry. Considering a TV spot and a gala in 2015 or 2016 accordingly.● Financial reporting and planning – Built a spreadsheet to create the 2013 and 2014 financial reports; setting up Quickbooks for 2015. Influenced the board to reject a proposal to take a loan to finance maintenance activities, and instead to focus on traditional fundraising and volunteer recruitment. Show less

Seattle, Wa

● Technical customer empathy role for set of 12 e-commerce web services centered on a consumer's identity. Services were used by small to medium-sized businesses in cloud systems to power their eCommerce websites.● Topics: eCommerce, cloud computing. Scrum/agile. OAuth 2.0, service-oriented architecture, Python. Linux.

Bellevue, Wa

● Designed and evangelized a training solution for customer service agents, then adapted the software to three key roles in the organization: customer support agent training, automated testing of the agent software, and rapid prototyping platform for new agent software features.● Managed team of 5 offshore developers.● Topics: eCommerce, travel. Scrum/agile. Service-oriented architecture, Java, Javascript, SQL. Linux.

Seattle, Wa

● Designed and developed an automatic truck scheduling website used by warehouse managers and coordinators nationwide to order trucks from agencies, and by warehouse staff for management of docking bays. Website leveraged definitions of truck routes between warehouses and shipment demand predictions uploaded daily by an analytics team.● Created a live map to pinpoint the current location of all trucks nationwide using live truck data as reported by GPS tracking devices.● Topics:… Show more ● Designed and developed an automatic truck scheduling website used by warehouse managers and coordinators nationwide to order trucks from agencies, and by warehouse staff for management of docking bays. Website leveraged definitions of truck routes between warehouses and shipment demand predictions uploaded daily by an analytics team.● Created a live map to pinpoint the current location of all trucks nationwide using live truck data as reported by GPS tracking devices.● Topics: Supply chain, eCommerce. Scrum/agile. Ruby on Rails, SQL, Javascript/HTML. Linux. Show less

Boston, Ma

● Synthesized predictive data for genes and genetic functions with dozens of predictive variables in several organisms into \url{http://func.med.harvard.edu}, a novel website that displays predictions of the functions of genes across four different species, and re-used the platform to revamp two existing scientific websites.● Invented an algorithm for combining sets of computational predictions into a superior set of predictions.● Published scientific papers.● Topics:… Show more ● Synthesized predictive data for genes and genetic functions with dozens of predictive variables in several organisms into \url{http://func.med.harvard.edu}, a novel website that displays predictions of the functions of genes across four different species, and re-used the platform to revamp two existing scientific websites.● Invented an algorithm for combining sets of computational predictions into a superior set of predictions.● Published scientific papers.● Topics: Molecular biology. Python, Java, Javascript/HTML, SQL, Sun Grid Engine. Linux. Show less

Boston, Ma

● Founder – Identified a need for an additional Toastmasters chapter at Harvard while talking with the president of another club. Raised start-up funds from an internal development department and founded the club, acting as president until elected.● Awards – Recognized as a distinguished club only eight months.● Promotion – Established feedback loops between volunteers to create a unique poster each week and post it around campus to keep new attendees coming.● Building… Show more ● Founder – Identified a need for an additional Toastmasters chapter at Harvard while talking with the president of another club. Raised start-up funds from an internal development department and founded the club, acting as president until elected.● Awards – Recognized as a distinguished club only eight months.● Promotion – Established feedback loops between volunteers to create a unique poster each week and post it around campus to keep new attendees coming.● Building the core – Identified members who were looking for more and involved them. Established a board of the eight most active members.● External relations – Sent regular status updates to past supporters and volunteered at district conferences. Facilitated an annual district speech contest and led a district training session for the Secretary board role. Show less

Ann Arbor, Mi

Ann Arbor, Mi

● Created customer invoicing system for Nexcess' cloud services● Improved customer self-service cloud management system at CEO's direction● Topics: Web hosting, eCommerce. PHP, Javascript/HTML, Linux.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Ann Arbor, Mi

● Advised CEO on bionformatics topics and strategy● Presented novel products and offerings to clients ranging from Pfizer to various university labs● Led a team of four to develop and deliver a proprietary protein visualization tool as well as a contracted eye disease data analysis platform● Topics: Molecular and structural biology. Ruby on Rails, SQL, Java, OpenGL, Linux.

San Diego, Ca

● Leveraged an inhouse 3d protein visualization toolkit to prototype, productionize and refine five custom visualization and protein data analysis tools to the pdb.org website as well as several contrated websites. Main viewer is still the most popular of its class on pdb.org today.● Developed two internal protein data analysis tools● Published scientific papers● Topics: Molecular and structural biology. Java, OpenGL, SQL, Javascript/HTML, Ruby on Rails, Linux.

San Diego, Ca

● Developed several immunilogical protein and gene data analysis tools at various scientists' direction.● Developed a custom 3d protein visualization tool using platform developed at the Protein Database (above)● Published scientific papers● Topics: Molecular and structural biology. Java, SQL, Linux.

San Diego, Ca

● Developed several cheminformatic data analysis tools at managing scientist's direction.● Topics: Pharmaceutical chemistry. Java, SQL, Linux.

Masters Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, Leadership And Finance

Bs, Computer Science W/ Specialization In Bioinformatics