Karen Bricker Email & Phone Number

United States

Summary:Results-driven and accomplished Engineering Manager with over 5 years and 9 months of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams. Proven track record of creating a collaborative and pleasant working environment for engineers while fostering innovation and professional growth. Skilled in implementing agile methodologies and facilitating effective sprint planning and retrospectives. Committed to delivering high-quality projects and aligning engineering efforts with business objectives.Professional Experience:Lead and manage a diverse team of engineers spread across multiple locations, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with project managers, designers, and business stakeholders.Cultivate a positive and productive work environment, encouraging engineers to explore new areas of expertise and supporting their individual career development goals.Implement agile practices within the team, including sprint grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives, resulting in streamlined workflows and improved project outcomes.Champion continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging valuable feedback from team members during retrospectives to optimize engineering processes and enhance overall efficiency.Successfully deliver projects on time and within budget while maintaining high-quality standards and meeting customer requirements.

As a lead engineer, I am working with my team from designing the system, DB structure to building and testing. My main coding language is C#. DB is mainly SQL, and I use Azureservices too.

San Francisco Bay Area

Daily working skills:. Manage team's project process, architect design, cross function team work .Deep Azure knowledge with Microsoft Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certificate.Web Service working with Office365 graph API.WS-Trust Federation.Expert on WIX .IE extension plug-on.JIRA.Github.Gitbucket.Slack.Ruby .Java on Eclipes

San Francisco Bay Area

32k Studios is a game system development company. I worked as a Tech Engineer Manager and senior engineer, Developing Game Clients and User Interfaces and had overall Game Client development responsibilities. 32k Studios Systems run in a .Net 3.5/4.0 environment with WPF and Unity.Designed and developed the WPF based game system client.Designed and developed of the Unity based game system client.Develop the customer management system in Java.

Triton is a Venture Backed Web Application Service Provider. I Worked as Lead Engineer creating software tools and services for the Travel Industry accessing different Global Distribution Systems. Triton is a Microsoft .Net 2.0 environment using multi-threading, Design Patterns, etc.Designed and developed a web site for commercial Air, Hotel, and Tour search for the Chinese and US markets.Technologies used: ASP.Net, Win Forms, Web Services, C#, Java Script, AJAX, Visual Studio 2005, N-Unit, T-SQL, SQL Server 2005, User Controls, Threading, Serialization, XML, XSLT.

LA County is among the largest county governments in the USA. The Office of Emergency Management Portal web site is a system designed to centralize all the information flow of The LA County Emergency Management operation into one platform used during county Emergencies (Fire, Earthquake, etc.) to assist in the coordination of the resources of the various agencies (Sheriff, Fire, OEM, City Police, etc.) It contains different websites including Emergency Management Information System (EMIS), EMIS for Health Department and Action Plan, The Grant Management System and Training Tracking System.Responsibilities: • Coordinate the design, development, and maintenance of C#.Net web sites and web based service and database by using ASP.Net, Photoshop, SQL, ADO.Net, and HTML• Create the New EMIS website using C# .Net• Create the Grant Tracking System using Java• Coordinate the design, writing, test, and documentation of web applications• Monitor and ensure that functional design for database, connectivity, security, etc., are sound and follow supportable methodologies;• Coordinate the automation of financial and administrative applications for use by management• Assemble specifications, flow charts, diagrams, layout, programming and operating instructions; documenting applications for later modification or reference• Analyze and resolve coding errors and participate in code peer reviews• Provide data standardization on and data matching to insure best possible utilization of information from disparate data sources• Maintain the Integrity and validity of the data contained in the database system• Ensure that the database is up-to-date, optimized, and has the correct analytic tools

• System Analysis and design of marketing and web-based applications• Programming, Testing, and debug using IBM AS 400 with RPG CLP

Project Management, Project Management, Certifate

Project Management Certified

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Master degree of Computer Science

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Architectural Engineering

Bachelor degree of Architecture