Recognized as a global leader and subject matter expert in JavaScript, Node.js, Cloud, and GraphQL, working with Pluralsight leadership to develop distinct learning pathways which have served more than a million users to-date. Authored multiple courses on technical subjects including Node.js, JavaScript, Cloud, and GraphQL.

As a founding partner for the Kansas City Developers Conference, Jon has helped grow this event from a small one day event for 100 people to a large scale multi day event for over 1200 people. Over this time, Jon has organized top tier speakers, coordinated speaker travel and entertainment during the conference, managed vendor relationships and contract negotiations.

Served as advisor and architect for cloud application projects valued at >$1MM each for Large and Mid-cap companies. Utilized Microsoft Azure Data Factory, Azure Dev Ops, Synapse Data Warehouse and PowerBi to develop custom data integration solution and reporting system for a large construction equipment firm, securing additional deals for exemplary performance.

Oversaw the product launch of St. Jude Children’s Hospital’s new patient care mobile application, collaborating with chief level executives and technical team to design strategic plan for this transformational software project. Spearheaded the development of the Webby Award-Winning patient care mobile application serving more than 7500 patients, building cloud architecture and implementation plans on Microsoft’s Azure platform. Oversaw adherence to best practices on the Microsoft stack. Completing the project on-time and underbudget.

Managed all product development activities for the Aacer line of business at Epiq Global. Primary focus on overseeing design, implementation, and deployment of web applications, APIs, and infrastructure supporting a key product line. Responsibilities also included mentoring developers on best practices, automated testing, and continuous deployment activities.Responsible for managing the relationship between the product development teams and the line of business and product owners.Developed and managed to key metrics around delivery and quality.

Developed an internal project development practice at Paige Technologies. Worked with the sales team to build business relationships with clients. Built project plans and strategies for clients based on business needs. Oversaw development resources in project implementation.Mentored clients on Management, Agile Delivery, and Software Development skills.

Manage and develop learning paths for Node.js, Javascript, and related content

As the practice director at AdventureTech, Jon Mills has the opportunity to help companies execute on their business objectives and deliver value to their clients. As a skilled mentor and trainer, Jon works with organizations to implement lean and agile methodologies into their project and coding practices to iteratively improve the productivity of their organization. With over 18 years of experience in Software Development and Management, Jon is a frequent speaker on agile and lean topics all over the country. Jon can be found on twitter at @jonathanfmills and he blogs at jonathanfmills.com

Assist IT project teams in implementing agile and lean methodologies Work with IT organizations in setting strategic directionOversee large scale and enterprise projects through the entire life cycle.

Responsible for managing 20-30 developers in both .Net and Java. Coordinated new build activities using Scrum and TFS 2010 for process management.Utilized Kanban for maintenance tasks and incident tracking. Managed Software Development Lifecycle for large scale consumer facing products using project teams including developers, QA, BA, and EPMOImplemented a work item tracking process to plan workloads for developers using TFS 2010 and various project templates. Designed and implemented a build and deployment process to improve build quality using TFS 2010 and MSBuild.Coordinate with EPMO, QA, BA, and other groups to ensure project timelines are kept.Implemented unit testing process to improve overall code quality utilizing both MSTest and MBUnit.

Responsible for coordinating the entire development lifecycle for the Perfect Source product suite. This includes reviewing Requirements, Architecture, and Test plan review. Facilitating hand-off of requirements to development and builds to QA. Also, responsible for coordinating production roll activities. Management of 8 to12 Developers and Contractors. This includes hiring, training and day to day management. Also, responsible for C# and SQL Server development for a product consisting of 1.2 million lines of code. This includes SQL Server and Oracle stored procedure development. Work on middle tier and data layer development in C#. Responsible for automating our entire build process using CVS and CruiseControl. This consisted of automated hourly builds and nightly deployment, database updates, and NUnit testing to our development system. Developed full scale automated testing for our entire product using WATIN and NUnit.

 Development of corporate intranet applications using ASP, HTML, Java Script, VBScript, MTS, IIS, ADO, SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic, and Visual InterDev.  Supervised seven interns from 5/99. Conducted performance reviews and provided technical direction.• Developed a document repository for spec, tech docs, and other project related documents utilizing ASP front end, VB COM middle tier using Component Services, SQL 7.0 backend, IIS, Windows 2000 Server and PVCS. The purpose of this project was to give tech writers a place to store documents in a versioning system and to later be able to build a front end reporting piece to retrieve the documents. When the project moved into development, built the data model for the application from scratch. Developed many of the ASP pages that allowed the user to tag a document with content types. Also, responsible for building the VB COM components that called the DB using ADO and the components that called the PVCS APIs to store the documents.

 Project Management for product installations. General database support on clinical systems. Assisted in general network support.