John Conde Email & Phone Number

Freehold Township, Nj, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Manager of a team of six software engineers developing and maintaining the core website platform and managing the vehicle inventory display, a critical feature of the platform. In addition to engineering management, I took on the roles of scrum master, project manager, and product owner, driving the team’s agile workflow, project timelines, and product development strategies.- Responsibility for the development and completion of project estimates used in one-pagers.- While delegating tasks to engineers, maintained ownership of the final deliverable, overseeing both the quality of the output and managing engineers' time to ensure timely completion.- Led the team’s processes for code reviews and testing; actively monitored the quality of output and transformed post-incident reviews into actionable tasks that could be prioritized to prevent future issues.- Oversee the team’s refinement process, including story pointing and breaking down tasks into manageable work units. Managed or co-managed agile activities such as sprint reviews, retrospectives, and daily standups.- Participates in incident commander on-call rotations, including after hours. Shares responsibility with other engineering managers for defining, maintaining, and upholding the engineer on-call schedule and the standards in the incident management playbook.- Ensures the timely and accurate submission of CapEx reports.- Provides continuous performance feedback through regular one-on-one meetings. Collaborates with engineers to set clear goals and routinely tracks progress against those goals.- Conducts informal performance reviews during the first and third quarters with formal written evaluations occurring at midyear and year-end. Prepares calibration materials for midyear and annual 9-Box performance assessments. Participates in calibration sessions with other managers to exchange feedback on their engineers and provide insights on other teams.

Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Us

Manager of three multi-discipline software engineering teams ensuring on time delivery of software, maximizing team efficiency, defining clear goals, honoring sprint commitments, and removing impediments to goal achievement. Teams are responsible for two dozen web and CLI based applications generating the majority of company revenue. PHP focused web development teams develop industry leading EIPP SaaS portal handling high volumes of users and payments. C++ and C# focused team develop an automated document factory tasked with processing large sets of data to produce electronic and physical documents and automate payments.• Conduct regularly scheduled one-on-ones to stay apprised of employees current level of morale and stress, track the status of performance and development goals, learn of obstacles to goal achievement, discuss specific current issues, provide feedback and coaching, and share formal and informal information about the team and organization• Perform an annual performance review which includes annual goals and performance based salary increases• Frequently interact with subordinates, customers, and/or functional peer group managers involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company. Regularly lead a cooperative effort among members of a project team• Research, design, and develop high-quality computer software systems. Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints• Provide mentoring, lead design activities, and set coding standards for an Agile/SCRUM development teamPHP development:• Architect, code, implement and support high-quality software solutions utilizing PHP (Slim, Phalcon, Zend 1 & 2 Frameworks) and MySQL utilizing my strong understanding of relational databases and SQL• Build dynamic front end systems utilizing JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype, AngularJS, and Angular) and HTML5/CSS that are mobile device friendly

Asbury Park, Nj, Us

Lead Developer and Product Manager for GoMo Campaign, a Software as a Service (Saas) and Gold Mobile’s primary source of revenue, lead the team through the full development lifecycle (development, quality assurance, pre-production, production). Utilizing the Agile Methodology and continuous integration product, deadlines are consistently met.Mobile Ecommerce• Rewrote entire Storefront ecommerce module using the CodeIgniter framework which increased application performance between 100% and 400% and reduced the codebase by half• Created a shopping experience tailored to mobile devices; orders can be placed through a mobile optimized web interface or SMS and SMS orders require a message body containing only one or two keywords to complete the order from placement through payment and deliveryConsumer Engagement • Continuing development on the Customer Relation Management (CRM) solution includes SMS (Text Messaging), Email and Voice communications, database management with filters for targeted communications and real time report generator • Advancing the API development to incorporate ecommerce elements including consumer registration, product management, and order placement

Dept of the Army/Fort Monmouth Security-Based Software Development• Built and enhanced software considered “essential” to the Fort in which all Army personnel, contractors and visitors were required to utilize the system for base access in addition to security personnel’s use to aid full awareness of who and where access was gained to the base• Adhered to strict security requirements set forth by the Directorate of Information Mgmt which included password complexity specifications, periodic password reset requirements, automatic inactive account suspension and automatic lockout for suspicious activityWebsite and Application Development • Designed and developed PHP application to capture and manage data submitted via a custom API behind secure user authentication; validated and managed data to conform to documented specifications; provided web based user interfaces (UI) with user-friendly designs to client and their customers to access and manage data • Produced security card application that allowed for customization of identity cards including photographs, dual-sided customization and magnetic stripe data• Created multiple PHP ecommerce websites; optimized existing website for increased sales and removed existing security holes to allow safer website operation; built new sites to scale, meet usability, accessibility, and web standards to perform at the websites’ highest levels• Single point-of-contact for web development projects for small businesses and brochure type projects; coded, supported site lay out and organization, and populated website data• Consolidated websites written in Perl, ColdFusion, or a combination of Perl, ColdFusion, and PHP, into only PHP• Decreased security vulnerabilities by orders of magnitude through server software upgrades and code improvements; increased accessibility, usability and site performance by converting existing codebases to web standards; enhanced maintainability by refactoring and removing PHP and JavaScript code

Ecommerce Website Development • Developed a highly successful fully customized ecommerce application that processed over 9,000 transactions totaling over $175,000 in sales during its lifetime• Created a fully custom front end utilized by customers to easily order in stock third party products for sale• Constructed a special interface allowed for customizable items to be configured to unique specifications and included with each order• Established an administrative interface to handle order processing and reporting• Integrated with third party vendors and tools such as eBay and ChannelAdvisor through APIs utilizing SOAP to handle special promotions and offers by accessing transaction histories • All websites and applications built on Fedora Linux running Apache 2.0 with PHP 5.2Internal Tool Development• Developed application to make monitoring and reporting competitors in an open ecommerce environment spend approximately 80% less time by automating reporting and offering tools for gathering information• Streamlined internal application queuing and communication process which allowed supervisors to track open applications and identify stalled applications before they hit a critical point where rejections or cancellations began to increase• Retrieved sales and customer data from third party APIs and created reports to identify which sales channels were most effective