Karl Jackson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a Managing Director at Slalom Build, I am responsible for the daily running of a 250+ person engineering practice. I am heavily involved in recruiting, people management, project staffing and sales solutioning. In addition, I serve as technical architect on our large projects, helping clients solution through their most strategic digital initiatives. The industries I have worked in span healthcare, hospitality, financial services, advertising and logistics.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Delivery Lead - Application ModernizationLed a 3 year platform modernization across multiple stakeholders, domains and codebases. Developed a migration strategy to move the software delivery organization to an Agile framework while fostering a culture to encourage innovation and receptivity to change. Managed 60+ people in 5 scrum teams to deliver incremental modernization of existing line of business applications.Principal Architect — HealthcareArchitected and led development effort involving multiple scrum teams to build a cloud based digital experience for a major healthcare insurer. Core technologies used include Microsoft Azure, .NET WebApi, Active Directory, AngularJS.Led 20 developers in three separate scrum teams across two product development lines in all layers of the technical stack – UI, services and data integration

Seattle, Wa, Us

UI Architect — HospitalityDelivered a cloud hosted multi-tenant property management system for major hotel software developer. Led major re-platforming effort to modernize the application front end from Backbone.js to AngularJS.Led 10+ person full stack scrum team to plan, organize and execute work and deliver on project milestones on time and on budget. Managed Agile process and for the team and led agile exercises of daily scrums, backlog grooming, sprint planning and retrospectivesSolution Architect — HealthcareWorked with a Silicon Valley startup to develop an external API solution for communication with clinical labs. Developed a feature set to enable the company’s core platform to be certified by the government for EMR Meaningful Use, including custom HL7 integrations. Technologies used include .NET, C#, WCF, WebApi, Amazon Web Services, MVC4 and Java Swing.

Reston, Va, Us

Led and trained three separate off shore development groups over a two year period. Participated in interviewing, training and managing professional growth of team members. Leveraged different communication technologies, encouraged innovation among the teams and promoted continuous improvement in skill sets. Multiple off site trips to Chile to work with developers there.Established self as critical player in shaping product strategy. Provided subject matter expertise in technology role to select multi-million dollar investments in vendor platforms. Worked to create budgets for personnel and capital expenses. Provided senior leadership and direction for technical arm of the product vertical. Expertise in driving complex projects from planning through execution.Experience with converting development teams to agile methodologies. Served multiple agile roles including scrum master and tech lead while leveraging Jira/Greenhopper for planning and task board management.

Reston, Va, Us

Architected foundation for advertising effectiveness reporting platform and ad server integration efforts. Developed applications in C# using HTML5 and Ext/Jquery front ends. Experience with multiple charting libraries (Sencha, flot, HighCharts, d3). Expertise in creating dynamic, engaging AJAX based web applications for reporting big data.Designed and developed a high load survey recruitment methodology using JavaScript and Perl on a 200 node Apache cluster. Leveraged multi-level caching using Memcache/Couchbase + Akamai CDN to reach over 200K users per day in 44 different countries in 20 languages.Developed product suite for internal Survey Operations groups that covered entire survey life cycle including planing/pricing, sampling, incentives, fielding and reporting. Led major integration efforts with survey data collection platforms including Confirmit and Kinesis.Core technology expertise in C#, .NET, JavaScript and SQL Server/MySQL.

Fort Lee, Nj, Us

As a technology analyst at Tranzact Information Services, I had exposure to the full life-cycle of software development including analysis, design, and programming. I was part of a team that developed a platform using Visual Basic, ASP.NET and XML that was used to implement an online count and extraction application. I also developed multi-tiered web applications written in ASP .NET using HTML, JavaScript, XML and XSLT with SQL Server databases. In addition, my responsibilities included researching new tools and technologies that could be used internally by the information services team as well as product opportunities that could help grow the core business.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed a building-wide wired and wireless network, performed various hardware/software troubleshooting, setup and installed network printers, taught software usage classes

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System Admin : Researched and implemented Subversion as a version control system for the web department.Set up and configured the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) program on a Linux system to enable real-time traffic analysis of onsite Cisco switches and firewall, as well as offsite Red Hat servers using SNMP.Assisted in administering Red Hat Linux and Apple XServe servers.

CRM Consultant: Put together and executed a plan to implement SalesLogix as an enterprise wide CRM solution.Sales Rep: Ran demos of different software from Best Software product line, prepared proposals and organized implementation.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering