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Houston, Texas, United States

United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Coached users and managers on the use of agile project management approaches to improve the outcome of software development efforts.• Designed and developed new features for myAuditHUB a project tracking tool to manage internal and external audits.• Consolidated, migrated, and managed all physical, virtual and cloud assets into Microsoft Azure.• Migrated application to Google Cloud. • Aided in troubleshooting performance issues and bugs.• Developed approach to migrate the product from a monolithic application to an Azure based micro service architecture to simplify maintenance and ease future feature implementations.• Migrated from on premises active directory and Exchange to an Azure Office365 solution.• Managed firewall and supported remote users.• Maintained and supported servers and cloud environments for the organization

Houston, Texas Area

• Coached the team through the implementation of scrum, Kanban and other agile methodologies to deliver product on time.• Led the team through the adoption of agile development practices (Partner Programming, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Scrum, SAFE, Kanban)• Organized the agile practitioners round table to discuss practices and help guide the adoption of agile best practices throughout the supply chain engineering organization.• Trained product owners and team members in the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria that allowed them to successfully complete sprints and deliver product in an iterative fashion.• Introduced teams to the DevOps practices and helped them to implement them into their workflow.• Led the development team in the creation of the firmware interface test suite using Python in a Linux environment to validate the firmware interfaces.• Created a series of RESTful web services used by the suite and other tools to report statistics and results to the reporting and planning portal.• Designed the reporting interface used to communicate the health of the factory software stack as it moved through the product development lifecycle.

Houston, Texas Area

• Coached the team through the implementation of agile methodologies including scrum and scrum ban to deliver product and fixes on time. • Lead scrum training sessions to help the team effectively adopt scrum and make the team more efficient.• Encouraged the team to adopt agile practices like test driven development, paired programming, code reviews, continuous builds and automated deployment.• Optimized Vertica schema by applying specific knowledge to create the needed projections and partitions to optimize query performance.• Designed and developed SSIS packages used to pull, clean and validate service data from disparate IT systems into a complete cohesive datasets used by the quality organization.• Lead the development of the tools portal which is provides access to quality data and information developed by the team.

Houston, Tx

Architect and Lead Developer for the Pulsar Framework. Lead the design and development of the next generation platform to be used by the commercial PC tools development team.• Coached team through the adoption of scrum and other agile methodologies (Partner programming, Acceptance Test Driven Development)• Lead the adoption of DevOps using TFS build, test and deployment servers• Lead technologist responsible for designing and delivering the framework solution to be used for development of all future applications by the commercial PC tools team.• Lead a team of four developers in the creation of the framework following the agile scrum process.Pulsar Component Module• Lead a team of six developers in the development of the component module. Coached the team on the adoption of agile methodologies.

Architect for the Commercial Notebook Business Unit’s engineering management system. This system is used by the engineering team and ODM partners to track the development of all commercial and consumer notebook PCs. Supported over 3000 global users in an around the clock operation. • Lead technologist responsible for researching and evaluating new technologies and best practices and guiding the team in the best way to implement them in the system.• Lead developer working with teams of two to four developers to drive projects from concept to completion..NET Migration• Developed the .NET migration strategy used to move the tool from a legacy ASP environment to ASP.NET while allowing for continued operation and enhancement of the existing system.• Researched and chose the technologies and architecture used in for future development.Certification Module• Designed the certification module used to track and coordinate the governmental certification process.• Allowed the engineering team to show that all legal requirements were met prior to shipping of a new product.Service Module• Designed the service module used to automate the part number creation of service spare kits used by the service centers for the commercial and consumer notebook divisions.• Reduced the time needed to generate part numbers and communicate them to service providers the by 80%.Supply Chain Module• Designed the supply chain module that automated the creation and maintenance of the supported configuration matrix and the program matrix.• Enabled the supply chain team to support a fourfold increase in the number of platforms with the existing resources.Schedule Module• Refreshed the schedule module to support tracking of the program schedule.• Added advanced search and notification capabilities so individual users could track milestone progress.Data warehouse• Developed the import and audit routines used to import data from and send data to corporate systems.