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Tampa, Florida, United States

Functional Leader - Tampa, FLLed a 40+ software department of a security and compliance application in the creation and management of processes, procedures, and tools to create innovative ways to increase efficiency and effectiveness. A large focus was on tools integration and automation with Jira/Atlassian products as the core. New and improved efficiencies gained in multiple areas including sprint efficiency, team communication/collaboration, routine release cadence, defect, and error tracking, and across the entirety of software development lifecycle using both tried and true method as well as innovative and creative new ways to achieve success.• Maximized efficiency utilizing new/revised processes and procedure, integrations, and automations through Jira, along with a focus on meeting optimization to realize 500k in capacity savings across the entire team.• Successfully led the team through multiple leadership shifts adopting new processes and procedures while allowing others to sunset that were no longer needed.• Improved and maintained Sprint Efficiency averaging higher than 90% every quarter on Capacity/Velocity Targets• Formed and led the growth of teams to be self-managing with minimal oversight, including a new automated testing team.• Led team members in their growth including elevating solid individual contributors and turning them into leaders that could head teams on their own.

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

Led a team of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance professionals in the ongoing development and maintenance of a highly complex and configurable cloud based B2B SaaS application. Creation, execution, and continuous improvement of processes and procedures. Servant Leadership focused approach to needs and goals of the team, company, and customers. Communication and collaboration were key components to the department and overall company success strategies.• Doubled team size of engineers, QA, and functional team while maintaining/improving effectiveness and efficiency.• Normalized release cadence of features/functionality and bug fixes with 50% reduction time between releases • Reduced team idle time by 50% by reducing and switching standing meetings to just in time/ad-hoc meetings, increased effectiveness of daily 30+ min standups culminating in 15 min sessions, and timeboxed/reduced other sprint ceremonies.• Delivered multi-quarter initiatives for new features and functionality on time and with minimal interruption to operations with effective change management and remained flexible to adjust with varying and ever-changing needs of the business.• Created open-door policies and workflows with processes/communication between engineering and the rest of company.

Formed and led dev teams to success in complex and demanding consulting environment. Customer interaction and communication were key to success. As a servant leader I ensured my teams ran efficiently and team members were part of rewarding and challenging software projects. Some highlights follow:• Organized forming dev team in greenfield creation of Internal Staffing pilot/poc web app for a Big 4 Accounting firm. App skipped pilot phases and entered internal use directly after testing completion, with subsequent enhancements enabling market to customers. Client realized positive ROI under a yr from project start.• Directed technology and cloud uplift of claim management system with extreme efficiency. Resulting in surplus funds for 1 year of additional enhancements and support beyond formal project end.• Chaired design/development of Water Meter Management Testing App to control physical test bench safely and accurately pumping 160 gpm at high pressure and velocity• Furthered and capitalized on longshot opportunity and collaborated with client to develop a multi-million dollar, multi-year, multiple-project relationship centered around creation of pension management and payroll app for an international organization.• Led and grew a small but highly effective dev team to success on the highlighted projects and other clients and initiatives cultivating a spirit of comradery and achievement utilizing agile and traditional management techniques focused around continuous improvement• Project Management tasks within Software Development managing features, scope, budget, timelines, staffing, risks, and issues in a consulting setting• Lead and coordinate Business Analysis and functional requirements• Encouraged Agile methodology while adaptively customizing team process and procedure to meet every customer, app, and challenge that arose• Facilitated sprint ceremonies as PM/PO/CSM on varying range of critical and complex projects• Software testing and analysis

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Provided highly available, virtualized, datacenter solution platform by generating converged infrastructure solutions that brought servers, clustered storage, and networking together. Managed internal / external asset acquisition for design / testing efforts of solutions. Supported development of technical product specifications to meet set forth needs in market requirements during product management life cycle. Developed training material to provide relevant skills to employees. Delivered sales focused presentations to educate, inform, inspire, and motivate clients / stakeholders to take sales focused action.• Achieved target workloads by designing cost effective / scalable solutions to meet capacity and IOPS needs.• Improved process efficiency through process flow documentation.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Devised IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) to deliver on-demand medical images, patient records, and other critical healthcare reference information. Implemented GE’s medical imaging solution to enable precision health in diagnostics and therapeutics. Generated solution architectural diagrams to abstract the overall outline of the imaging archive solution. Created procedural documentation to reduce operational costs and maximize efficiency. Supervised server / storage /software installation to ensure zero errors / failures in performance. Utilized IBM / HP servers combined with storage equipment such as IBMs XIV, SVC, DS Series, N-series, EMC Centera, HP disk solutions, and other disk / tape storage. Identified solutions to resolve issues.• Achieved 100% success / customer satisfaction by devising and implementing repeatable processes and procedures in the implementation of healthcare storage and archive solutions.