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Lemont, Il, Us

London, Gb

Director of Technical Services, Responsibilities include successfully managing and leading a team of technical consultants and contractors for Confirmit's Voice of Employee custom solutions. Serving as the liaison between product teams and R&D on the creation of survey & custom reporting tools. With an additional focus on organizational hierarchy management to help support clients solutions.In addition to inherited primary responsibilities from previous Manager role, Director responsibilities include enhanced focus on team management, positive client experience, executive presentations/communication and solution delivery. The development team is comprised of .NET developers and the Agile Scrum framework is utilized for timely, focused, on time delivery.

London, Gb

Sr. Solutions Development Manager, Responsible for providing leadership and technical project management on custom development efforts. Major accomplishments included planning, developing and delivering a custom surveying solution to a global automotive supplier with over three hundred manufacturing operations. Manager primary responsibilities include global solutions team management; resource utilization planning; Application Lifecycle Management enforced through Agile (Scrum) principles; and software quality control and maintenance/support of custom applications. Team management consists of weekly one-to-one meetings as well as periodic performance reviews. Project governance & quality control are managed through an Agile scrum process template within Jira.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Application Development Manager, Responsible for providing technical guidance and leading a mid-size .Net and SharePoint software development team. Major accomplishments include planning and migrating existing TFS environment into the cloud based solution, Visual Studio Online (VSO). Manager primary responsibilities include team management; resource utilization planning; Application Lifecycle Management, enforced through Agile principles; and software quality control and maintenance/support of legacy applications. Additional responsibilities include department budget and cost management as well as project planning & coordination with the product managers. Team management consists of bi-weekly one-to-one meetings as well as periodic performance reviews. Project governance & quality control are managed through an Agile process template within Team Foundation Server. Other responsibilities include application documentation, template/document creation, process control and training management through Microsoft and Pluralsight

Hazel Crest, Il, Us

Software Development Manager, Responsible for providing technical guidance and leading a mid size software development team. Major accomplishments include conducting a successful implementation and deployment of PDS (Position Detection System) with one of the largest multi user container terminal operators in the industry. The suite of applications utilized in the PDS solution includes C++ Vehicle Side applications, C# windows applications running on the server and a SQL Server 2012 for data storage. A defined multicast messaging architecture is the primary communication protocol utilized in the solution. Manager primary responsibilities include team management, project governance, software quality control and maintenance/support of legacy applications. Team management consists of weekly one-to-one meetings as well as periodic performance reviews. Project governance & quality control are managed through the MSF SDLC process coupled with an internal project tracking system. Other responsibilities include proof of concept development, template/document creation, process control and training management.

Hazel Crest, Il, Us

Sr. Applications Programmer, Responsible for development and maintenance of online temperature monitoring system and electrical control units. The system is developed using .net 4.5 framework with C# as primary coding language and SQL Server 2008R2 as the data store. Hardware communication and status messages received via TCP/IP socket procedures in legacy system. Updated hardware communication is achieved by XML/REST services technologies. Ad hoc/ standard reporting achieved by using Crystal Reports. Primary responsibilities include new development, code review and refactoring, system application performance tuning and enhancements to existing procedures/modules. Other responsibilities include implementation of SDLC in midsize development group of software engineers. Demonstrated leadership skills by successfully implementing new policy, coding standards and build procedures amongst the midsize development team.

London, England, Gb

Lead Developer, Responsible for assisting in the architecture of an enterprise data capture and reporting application. The application is designed using Vb.net and XML with an Oracle Database, as well as third party tools. Third party tools are manipulated using exposed web services. Primary responsibilities include business requirement gathering, use case modeling, class object and database architecture using Sparx Enterprise Architect. The Microsoft Solution Framework is utilized on this engagement. Leveraged expertise in vb.net while working on proof of concept applications. Demonstrated leadership skills by successfully managing development projects with off shore resources. Other tasks include utilizing SQL Server Business Intelligence, Management Studio, Integration Services (SSIS), Analysis Services, project management and document standardization.

Us

Programmer Analyst II, Responsible for custom windows and web application development using VB 6.0, VB.Net, and SQL Server 2000. Responsibilities also included SalesLogix v6.24 CRM customizations using VB script and custom dynamic report development using Crystal Reports XI. Leveraged expertise in web/windows development by maintaining and enhancing several existing windows application and creating new web tools to expedite business processes. Created tools include new online credit application and automated transactional acknowledgments such as ordering, shipping and invoicing. Exercised leadership skills in managing several windows development projects throughout the entire life cycle. Manager responsibilities included SalesLogix CRM version upgrades and customizations, global data synchronization project and intranet development. Other responsibilities included project management, application content management and customer service.

Bs, Computer Science

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