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Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

The company’s software competes in hotly contested markets, so product development required nearly as much marketing acumen as technology expertise. It was while conducting a prototypical research project that I discovered a gap in what security competitors were offering. I brought the opportunity to the attention of stakeholders and won agreement to refocus an underway creative effort on designing an industry-disrupting product. The company’s consequentially being positioned as a pioneer and is expected to balloon revenues tenfold. Fortunately, I had earlier influenced a variety of changes that made success in this new venture more likely. I accelerated the team’s ability to bring products to market by integrating CI/CD processes into their development activities. My incorporation of LEAN agile methodology in software creation raised throughput 50+%. As scrum master and Kanban leader, I aided in crafting an agile JIRA tracking system. I further gained the group’s agreement that no releases could be downloaded without first passing thorough performance testing. In this enhanced working environment, 80% of historic software issues never arose.Altering the paradigms that mandated internal operations also came under my purview. The most significant transition was to give third parties and freelancers responsibility for developing web-based and in-house mobile applications. The shift increased the company’s operational capacity 400+% with no capital investment. Similarly, I championed replacing dated, proprietary instruments with a standardized purchased suite to test printed circuit boards and firmware flashing. My resolve contributed to a 200% hike in area productivity.

Charlotte, North Carolina

This position proved my versatility, as I moved from banking to the transportation industry and inherited a formidable, doubled-in-size personnel responsibility; 30 system development and quality experts. After a cursory review of how the team operated, I recognized that for the department to function at my standards, a variety of procedural changes were needed.I started by introducing daily stand-up group meetings. There’s something about dealing with issues while upright and away from tables that makes voicing radical ideas and opinions easier, encourages collaboration, and energizes attendees’ engagement. Holding these gatherings daily made sure nothing slipped through the cracks.My group’s output also needed refinement. The unit lacked operational SOPs and standardized testing procedures, so I held a series of training seminars to explain the nature and value of such systems and put them into place. To increase source code consistency, I led a conversion of the code repository base to Microsoft’s team foundation server. To reinforce the stability of our software, I required all programming be testable, introduced recurrent code inspections, and wrote analysis milestones into the development lifecycle. The planning safety net these upgrades provided freed those bright, dedicated technologists to search out and take advantage of architectural enhancements. It also produced an eagerness within each member to as quickly as possible satisfy requests for new features. In addition to being 50% more productive, the work the squad produced was of 75% higher quality.

Jefferson City, Mo

My prior banking experience and technology expertise earned me a position that was tasked with increasing client productivity by integrating document tracking and imaging software into their operations. I pressed my 15 development specialists forward in initiatives that benefited our 250+ customers with a consistent stream of novel product and service offerings.Third-party software vendors proved fertile partners in product development. I collaborated with them regularly in creating new ways of exchanging and integrating data with $15 million of incremental sales being attributed to my efforts. To take full advantage of the new technology we offered, clients needed to know how to properly operate the tools. To ensure adequate understanding, I authored training curricula geared to instruct customers and the internal staff. I also traveled with our field teams to gain insight into unfulfilled customer needs and to demonstrate contemplated offerings to get feedback from prospective users. By delivering knowledge along with innovative product features that solved revealed productivity issues, we repeatedly converted 100% of customers to our new solutions.

Springfield, Missouri

I was hired to design and startup the content management function and given a staff of five and $750,000 to get it done. In addition to providing the department’s vision and mission, I also introduced the team to document imaging products that suited lending, deposit oversight, and data filing.The group took to our many projects with enthusiasm. Working together, we identified all the manual processes that confounded everyone’s daily routine and brought onboard an automated workflow system that boosted operational efficiency 300+%.Warehousing and retrieving data posed a large expense. We recognized that technology existed that could ease the burden. To ensure selection of the most suitable solution, I crafted a sophisticated RFP roadmap that guided evaluation of available alternatives and eventual purchase of a solution that facilitated email archiving and electronic retrieval. The investment helped the company avoid $250,000 in data storage costs.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Associate Of Applied Arts And Sciences, Electrical/Electronics Drafting And Electrical/Electronics Cad/Cadd