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.

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