James Saffell Email & Phone Number

Greater Milwaukee

- Develop team member's technical and consulting skills based on individual needs and growth opportunities.- Mentor nvisia and client engineers on software development practices, patterns, habits, and skills.- Drive alignment between client leadership and nvisia consultants delivering excellent technical solutions.- Iterate on nvisia processes and training to insure high quality.- Solve business problems with a blend of code, technology, and understanding the domain.

Greater Milwaukee

Greater Milwaukee Area

* Act as a trusted technical consultant for our clients.* Lead a team of SPR consultants.* Mentor others on consulting and development practices.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Full stack web application developer for a variety of clients, primarily focused on Java/JavaEE, Spring, and Angular. • Successfully train/mentor coworkers and client teams on development best practices, current frameworks, and Agile teamwork.• Maintain a keen focus on the business need, and how the software or development tools can help to achieve that goal.• Identify and eliminate technical barriers to business success.

• Analyze client business needs, identify specific issues that must be resolved, and make recommendations for implementing a solution.• Architect custom data collection schema and UI's using a Groovy domain-specific language.• Build and maintain hundreds of faculty activity-related reports from XML datasets using Windward Reports and XPath.• Lead technical implementation of AACSB accreditation reports for all clients.• Maintain Java report generation codebase.• Process bulk data CSV to XML data imports/transforms and XML to XML schema mutations in Java.

• Designed and implemented ColdFusion and MS Access database-driven web applications to improve patron assistance times and to facilitate student academic research.• Designed and carried out a new web page layout in conjunction with a graphics artist.• Migrated the site to a DreamWeaver template based layout, reducing future development time and allowing librarians to maintain the information in their areas.

• Reduced turnaround on intranet updates from 6-8 weeks to 2-3 days by eliminating the backlog of over 600 change requests • Instrumental in implementing MS SharePoint Services for intranet communication under the direction of the Intranet Program Manager • Performed C# code debugging and bug fixes to help improve implementation time for the E-Commerce Development team, using MS Visual Studio, MS Visual SourceSafe, and MS SQL Server 2000