John Shepherd Email & Phone Number

Monett, Missouri, US

• People & Technology leader overseeing the development of the Treasury Management application. Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations and DevOps to ensure effective delivery of projects to satisfy.
• Daily management of objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, risk and performance management of all engineers
• Proven track record working collaboratively to deliver results on time
• Created a culture of creativity, collaboration, innovation, and accountability to elevate the quality and caliber of the engineering organization which increased engineering performance by over 20% and drove down bugs.
• Drove automated solutions that enable higher engineering efficiency
• Strong track record in recruiting, onboarding, training and coaching high performing engineers

Charlotte, NC, US

• Technical leader within Consumer AML to work hand in hand with senior management, line of business, development, QA and production support teams to provide architectural direction in the re-engineering of the current.
• Hired in a leadership capacity as senior architect driving solutions, application design and system integration in collaboration with line of business and senior leadership
• Identify priorities, provide direction and use influence to drive timelines, establish best practices and rearchitect file loading and application deployment policies
• Driving and overseeing the re-engineering and development of the current application from VB.NET to.NET Core 3 ensuring alignment with business requirements without disrupting the business
• Leading to drive Agile process improvement initiative and enhancement of cross team communication for up to 90 team members
• Mentor developers, provide code reviews and promote performance enhancements, stability and reliability of the application

Monett, Missouri, US

• Empowered to manage the Development, QA and DevOps teams for the Financial Crimes, Enhanced Risk Mitigation System (ERMS) providing BSA/AML and Fraud solutions to Jack Henry’s Customers. Provide cradle-to-grave.
• Responsible for team members weekly 1:1 meeting, performance management and reviews, resource allocation and realignment as required
• Managed departmental budget and forecast aligned to high visibility projects
• Hired new.NET development team members to accelerate development and application interfacing efforts
• Led the design and implementation of a C# ETL suite of scalable Microservices deployed into a hosted Cloud Foundry environment increasing performance by 400% over existing method
• Led the design and implementation of the CI/CD process using Jenkins and Octopus providing consistent delivery

Monett, Missouri, US

Charlotte, NC, US

• Technical leader of 25 onshore and offshore developers on multiple complex projects for the Consumer Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Department.
• Technical lead responsible for creating and presenting both high-level and low-level development designs for project efforts aligned with line of business’s business requirements
• Oversee onshore and offshore team’s development efforts to ensure final development is in line with expectations
• Provided influential leadership style enhancing team collaboration and promote team unity
• Managed the translation of business requirements to development requirements and assigned development tasks to team members for each project
• Utilized MS Project to manage timelines, budgets and resources for each project

• Rapidly advanced through several promotions, culminating to a director-level role overseeing the firm’s software development activities with 40 team members aligned. Led the architecture, development and deployment of.
• Managed teams of onshore and offshore Software Engineers, Quantitative Analysts and application architects
• Liaison between Executive leadership, stakeholders and technical teams
• Responsible for $10M budget, resource allocation, planning, process management, vendor resource management and research
• Proven record of recruiting, developing and retaining great talent producing world class analytics and trading software
• Delivered architectural guidelines and providing new and innovative solutions to meet the company’s overall objectives

• Managed a small team of Software Engineers in Denver, CO to develop a custom trading platform utilizing C# and other.NET technologies to trade US Equities intraday.
• Recruit, Train, Motivate and Mentor new “GreyBox” traders
• Architected and developed custom automated trading application for intraday trading strategies utilizing primarily C#, MS SQL and several 3rd Party API’s
• Developed “BlackBox” (fully automated) and “GreyBox” (semi-automated), US Equity intraday trading strategies