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Oregon, United States

Greater Omaha Area

Greater Omaha Area

Directing technology application in support of a fully SOA architecture, responsible for re-designing an in-house written 15 year old eCommerce and order processing system as an SOA architected solution using offsite and SaaS providers. Designed using Agile philosophies, including in-house developers, offshore resources, local consulting experts and business leads.Established first Agile (Scrum) team with success, and coached other departments in adopting agile techniques in project management.Mentored junior developers in software design and review in support of task completion and project goals.Responsible for choosing technology based on functional requirements and ability to maintain and support by in house staff.Worked with business leads to ensure communication and investment in project outcomes.Direct reports included Junior and Senior Developers (offsite and onsite), outsource teams, onsite contractors, as well as the Infrastructure Department.Responsible for the company IT budget (~$1 million), personnel, software, hardware, and telephony.

Omaha Ne

Hired on after being a consultant for 1 year. Provided design guidance and junior team member mentoring in software development lifecycles.Implemented first successful Agile process over 3 months, 7 iterations. Project was converted from waterfall midstream with a successful outcome.Constantly moved from one business area to another as each project was finished based on ability to quickly learn the business needs, interface with end users, and provide quality software in an extremely short timeframe.Acted as project manager for several outsourced projects, ensuring company standards were correctly implemented and documentation/handoff was achieved without interuption to realtime business processes.Sucessfully implemented leading edge technologies for the first time such as MS BizTalk, CSLA, Windows Forms / Sharepoint integration.Provided basis for shared in-house document management integration into existing applications.Designed and implemented direct EDI communications for payment processing utilizing Biztalk.Co-lead team tasked with automated software build and deployment processes under TFS2010 for solution containing 40+ VS Projects and 6 separate but inter-dependent applications.

Omaha Ne

In a consulting role, provided architecture guidance and implementation muscle in a full refactoring of a proprietary inhouse software from Foxpro to .Net.

- Manage and direct personnel toward a common goal of technology implementation and user adoption.- Determine technology needs and implementation plans, to include software and hardware platforms- Create environments that allow for seamless, near real time, cross platform data sharing- Develop web based interfaces for software configuration- Design statistical engines allowing the forecasting of market conditions related to the buying and selling of grain commodities- Design and maintain relational databases used in the collection and warehousing of data- Develop reusable software architectures that can be utilized for both data maintenance and reporting- Maintain and support network architecture and security- Manage hardware/software budget

Responsible for designing and implementing MS based solutions which interfaced with data engines on multiple OS platforms. Mentored and directed Junior programmers.Primary skills utilized include MSSQL, .NET Framework (ASP.NET/VB.NET/C#.NET), IIS. Some development experience in OO Perl, 4GL, Informix, Apache.

Designed and maintained configuration, reporting, and data collection from mobile devices used to track sexual offenders out on bail.

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