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Springfield, IL, US

• Lead team in setting branded e-commerce architectural redesign priorities and vision, the application driving 85% of the company’s $4 billion revenue. This resulted in creating a strategy and architecture which.
• Serve as Business Relationship Manager collaborating with subsidiaries providing direction helping them reach their organizational goals. This was accomplished by becoming a change agent to align enterprise culture and.
• Direct internally-developed mobile and web applications team to provide solutions and insights for internal business units with the objective of increasing sales, customer compliance, and building customer relationships.
• Lead C# and Angular application developers specializing in enterprise web and mobile solutions to meet current customer and business objectives. Focus on analyzing resource and technology needs to reach optimum team.
• Defined roadmap and direction for the team to support the implementation of our applications Continuous Integration and Release Management practices, improving overall development efficiency and application release.
• Define and manage development backlog including application improvements, technical upgrades, and software innovation prototypes. This resulted in improved customer experience, application performance, and innovative.

Springfield, IL, US

• Provided oversight, collaboration, and support across the enterprise to achieve strategic priorities, ensuring efficiency, progress, and alignment according to the company’s core values.
• Partnered with business owners and sponsors to establish milestones and goals aligned with strategic priorities.
• Served as “Innovation Incubator” member focused on innovative ideas impacting end-to-end healthcare value chain.
• Provided “temporary” operational support to move enterprise-wide projects forward, helping team members to achieve project goals with needed leadership and mentoring.

Springfield, IL, US

• Led team of C# and database application developers engaged in enterprise-level web and mobile applications supporting business, successfully integrating e-commerce application to new ERP solution SAP.
• Managed ordering application driving 85% of the company’s orders and led internally developed web and mobile solutions for sales team driving increased customer sales and compliance. Coordinated and directed monthly.
• Identified and managed development backlog resulting in application improvements and technology upgrades.
• Performed Scrum Master duties including daily scrum, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner to analyze and prioritize product backlog with a minimum of 3 iterations of work ready at all times.
• Resolved resourcing conflicts, delivered performance and compensation reviews, performed career planning, and aligned department goals with allocated budget.

Springfield, IL, US

• Led development team, working closely with the business and product owner to design and architect customer and business solutions. Identified options for improved performance and stability.
• Participated in the architecture and design of new features and system enhancements. Created deployment plans for multiple environments.
• Supported and maintained existing legacy systems. Managing project schedules and time-lines.

Springfield, IL, US

• Worked with H. D. Smith product owner and development team to design and architect new end-user features to support clients e-business efforts. Gathered system requirements from product owner to create and maintain.
• Designed and developed new customer-facing web application features following the agile methodology. Application used C#, VB.Net, and JavaScript using a SQL Server backend.

• Developed end-user and database applications supporting and enhancing the client's end-user experience. Analyzed, developed, and optimized daily business solutions and processes to increase client productivity and.
• Designed and developed an inventory control system taking data from retailer's ERP system and allowing store employees to scan inventory to create excel variance reports.

US

• Served as development team leader engaged in enterprise-level enhancement, support, and re-engineering of business critical systems and processes supporting sales customer management systems. Worked with sales staff.
• Provided design and integration expertise for corporate website, customer applications, and back-end systems development. Facilitated communications between internal staff, customer leadership, and vendors during.
• Designed, developed, and implemented proprietary ERP system including Ordering, Purchasing, Receiving, Shipping, and Accounting modules. Managed team of four through the full life cycle development.

• Designed and developed data warehousing solutions that filtered and consolidated information from multiple sources into single repository supporting online transactions.
• Developed e-commerce system that directly resulted in 75% increase in sales.

• Responsible for creating XML/XSL style sheets that were leveraged by our sports data entry application to transform to a format that could be leveraged by our Newspaper partners printing format.
• Trained junior developers in XML/XSL