John Kerski Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Arlington, Virginia

● Led Definitive Logic’s Microsoft Practice to promote collaboration and best practices amongst Microsoft products including Office 365, Azure, and Power BI.● Guided staff on certifications, coordinating study groups and training paths.● Established Gold Partnership with Microsoft across 7 different competencies.● Delivered guidance to C-level clients across several federal agencies about Power BI and Office 365 capabilities.● Established Power BI Decision Tree for Veterans Affairs' Business Intelligence Service Line to guide staff on Power BI licensing, hosting, and data connections.● Developed Custom Power BI Visual on App Source to meet client needs and shared with the Power BI Community. ● Hosted Power BI Workshops to help developers understand new and advanced Power BI features.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

● Led SharePoint development to help facilitate and automate components of Veterans Affairs’ OI&T Performance Review process and processes for managing the life cycle of performance metrics overseen by VA leadership. Automation has eliminated a week’s worth of manual tasks for AMP every month.● Led migration of OP&A performance data to the Corporate Data Warehouse (SSIS/SSAS) and Power BI.● Built custom single page applications and Nintex workflows to automate business processes for AMP. Custom components leveraged SharePoint’s Client Object Model, OData feeds, React/Redux, Knockout.js, SPServices, and Material Design to provide ease-of-use and real-time updates.● Gathered requirements, performed analysis, and managed the schedule for Agile development within SharePoint.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led SharePoint 2010 development to help facilitate and automate components of the Monthly Performance Review (MPR) process and Annual Performance Plan (APP) process for Veterans Affairs’ Office of Performance Management. Automation of the MPR eliminated a week’s worth of manual tasks for OPM every month.• Built custom Data View Web Parts and Nintex workflows to automate business processes for OPM. Custom Data View Web Parts leveraged SharePoint’s Client Object Model, OData feeds, Knockout.js, Flot.js, Deck.js, SPServices, Bootstrap/CSS3 and jQuery Deferred to provide ease-of-use and real-time updates.• Gathered requirements, performed analysis, and managed the schedule for Agile development within SharePoint.• Designed ad-hoc reporting capabilities for OPM with Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel, a business intelligence solution providing in-memory calculations and charting.• Developed SharePoint event receivers in C# to provide column-level auditing that logged before-and-after changes for SharePoint lists. These event receivers provided OPM staff detailed information about changes in performance data.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Supervised and led a team of four project managers and forty application developers responsible for the maintenance and upgrading of enterprise systems utilized by 16,000 users monitoring 250,000 convicted felons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week across the State of Florida.• Oversaw the development of a Health Reporting System which collected various measures from across Florida’s prisons and provided executive level reports. This system included features like template report creation, drill down reporting, and the ability to export to PDF and Excel. System deployed using ASP.NET (VB.NET), Microsoft SQL 2005.• Personally designed the Department’s first ever distributed imaging system that converted paper records to electronic, developed an efficient search tool for these records, and help saved the Department over $700,000 a year in lease space for paper records. System deployed using ASP.NET (VB.NET), IIS 6.0, Microsoft Search Server 2010, Windows Services, and Microsoft SQL 2005.• Anticipated expanding customer base and pursued budget justification for and awarded the funding to modernize the Department’s legacy database structure which will result in a $500,000 a year savings.• Designed and developed statewide tools with open source software to reduce the Department's reliance on paper resulting in thousands of dollars in savings a month. Tools deployed using C++ 2008, .NET 3.5 (C#), WCF 3.5 (VB.NET) and ASP.NET (VB.NET).• Created a comprehensive, centralized knowledge system for error management which maximized Help Desk productivity and improved response times to customer issues by 5-10%. System implemented using .NET 3.5 (VB.NET), Microsoft SQL 2000, and data mining.• Received personal and team awards two out of the last three years from a prestigious non-profit watchdog for productivity/innovation because of significant costs savings for Florida’s state government.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Directed ten personnel to advance the Department’s strategy to reduce the numbers of ex-felons returning to prison as repeat offenders.• Led and executed the Department’s first statewide Re-Entry Summit; a meeting of over 300 experts, community leaders, and the Governor of the State of Florida coming together to address the barriers ex-offenders face when reentering the community.• Assisted in the formation of the Department’s Re-Entry Advisory Council, a twenty-member senior board of experts tasked to develop a strategic plan to improve transition/re-entry processes.• Successful Re-entry summit and advisory council made the Department eligible for and ultimately awarded millions in federal “2nd Chance Act” grants.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Handpicked as a trusted employee to restore integrity to the office after significant staff turnover.• Consulted with the Secretary and other senior Department leadership over protocol, grant, legislative, and budgetary issues.• Assisted in the organization and implementation of the Department’s statewide recruitment campaign.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Selected as part of a small elite group asked to perform code reviews of electronic voting equipment in cooperation with the Florida Department of State’s Division of Elections. In the wake of the 2000 and 2004 elections in Florida these code reviews were required to identify flaws in voting software intended for future elections.• Delivered several papers to election officials to outline steps needed to certify voting software prior to the upcoming election.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science