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Draper, Ut, Us

Draper, Utah, United States

Player-Coach: Coding in the trenches with a software delivery team while coaching through process, culture, and technical practice improvement initiativesDeveloped self-guided learning curriculum for lean/agile process improvement for all engineers and engineering managers. Also developed self-guided curriculum for other Continuous Improvement coaches. Acted as a councilor for those going through the program.Streamlined CI/CD pipeline to reduce waste in the processMentored VP of engineering on lean/agile practices and how they applied to his initiativesPublished an internal weekly newsletter for several months on practical application of relevant lean/agile principles

Draper, Ut

Influenced change of engineering culture to continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on outcomes over output and a "one team" mentality with teams thinking more about their overall impact on the businessInitiated process improvements leading to a reduction of development lead time from an average of 19 days per story to 3.73 days (an 80% improvement) and a increase in deployment frequency to 365 releases per month (an 197% improvement)Developed and led workshops on principles of flow and story decompositionOrganized and facilitated a department wide Angular training workshop for entire department during transition from AngularJS to Angular workshop from external an external teacher

Draper, Utah

Provided leadership around team process improvements resulting in significantly reduced time to deliverDeveloped and led workshop on TDD practicesEvangelize / train / mentor around best practices in development and processes including TDD, Incremental development, Specification by Example

Draper, Utah

Implemented an automated testing process utilizing SpecFlow, Go pipeline, Chef, Coded UI, White and Selenium to automate deployment and testing—Assisted in creating living documentation to help automate software testingLed adoption of story decomposition practices into thin vertical slices of business value and improved story writing using Specification by Example principles to help align business and engineering understanding of requirementsWorked directly with architects to decouple our suite of products so we could properly encapsulate each application to speed up our feedback loops when changes are made to reduce testing effort needed during release hardeningParticipated in the software architecture community of practice to help bring stability and maintainability to our suite of applicationsParticipated in the change transformation committee to help lead site wide process improvementsCompleted training on scaled agile framework (SAFe)

Sandy, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Led the Architectural Review Board, a team of technical and development leads who review architectural concerns of development projectsLed key projects

Salt Lake City, Utah

Oversaw development and maintenance of all external web applicationsManaged team of developers in accomplishing development objectivesWorked with Marketing department to define business requirements and establish project prioritiesImproved team productivity and morale by restructuring team project management processes and adjusting team roles to an agile development methodology (SCRUM). Formalized testing process to reduce production defectsStreamlined deployment process to improve accuracy of development estimatesImproved performance evaluation process by aligning performance objectives with daily work and by refining definitions for core competencies—developers better understood expectationsCreated on-boarding resources to speed up on-boarding and training process of new hiresWrote coding standards to help ensure best practices in code design and code readabilityMentored developers and directed them toward projects that would allow them to grow

Salt Lake City, Utah

Trained developers in C#, OOD, distributed architectureAssisted in the management of projectsEvaluated third party components for purchaseLed adoption of .NET framework from Classic ASPInitiated change from server based development environment to workstation based development environment to reduce development integration conflictsImproved developer productivity by modifying developer responsibilities, allowing them to focus effort on development and less on other aspects of the project life-cycle

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah