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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead the global 7-member Platform team responsible for integrating Panopto’s asynchronous communication solution with education and enterprise customers’ software (Blackboard, Moodle, Zoom, Teams, etc.). Manage critical identity / sign-in / authentication for all users. Handle recruiting, hiring, and performance management.Key Accomplishments:• Managed the process of uniting the education and enterprise platform teams into a cohesive workgroup, including efficiently merging sprint planning, daily scrums, daily standups, and ticket management.• Leading seamless transition to a new educational technical standard (LTI 1.3) in response to the deprecation of the previous standard, a high impact project that will modernize Panopto’s integration, provide a framework for new features, and propel user growth.• Partnered with the sales team to forefront development of features that will directly increase their potential to grow the user base, including a highly requested feature that will enable instructors to grade users based on participation.• Creating a generic specification that will enable a broad range of Caption vendors to integrate with Panopto’s software, which will speed up the integration process and grow the number of directly integrated vendors without increasing the team’s workload.• Drove development of a high-impact feature that makes it easier for instructors to re-use content, with filters that minimize the need for manual intervention.• Introduced a “FixIt” rotation to promote cross-training between the two newly merged teams and provide everyone with exposure across the entire team’s areas of ownership.• Implementing virtual events to help boost morale and foster a greater sense of cohesion and shared accountability between team members in Seattle, the East Coast, and Bosnia.• Elevated team performance, job satisfaction, and promotability by implementing weekly 1:1s to discuss project statuses, individual development goals, and career growth.

Seattle, Wa

Seattle, Wa

Recruited to lead development and customization of internal applications for the health services startup. Drove development of new applications and led a portfolio of projects to refactor existing code and / or create new features to existing core applications. Engineered several new backend processes.PROFESSIONAL MISSION:+ Tackle problems not despite them being difficult, but because they are difficult.+ Partner across the organization to build progressive, realistic technology strategies.+ Address emerging challenges by adopting new technologies and new techniques.+ Improve experiences and efficiency by automating away stifling inefficiencies. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Developed a strategy to update an EMR to handle multiple coding systems in order to comply with new coding regulations ahead of schedule while ensuring interoperability with 3rd-party systems that had not been updated.+ Designed and developed a document management system to replace an antiquated system, which increased efficiency ~300%, improved stability, and enabled the team to clear a 4-month backlog in just 1 month.+ Reduced the number of claims rejections due to invalid data to <10% and captured revenues associated with incorrectly rejected claims by fixing long-standing bugs and issues on an internal claims system.+ Introduced new features to the online Patient Portal, including online appointment scheduling directly integrated with the EMR and online patient records retrieval, to reduce administrative burden. + Provided a more secure single log on for internal applications by replacing multiple, individually managed systems with a new Open ID authentication system.+ Designed and began implementation of a new oAuth-based REST API to replace existing and shared code, allowing for less code duplication, easier maintenance, faster application development, and easier 3rd-party integrations.

Redmond, Wa

Led a team of 4 to develop and extend the marketing and information solutions company’s internal and customer facing websites and applications. Managed the entire SDLC, from requirements specification through testing and implementation. Worked directly with clients to resolve high priority issues and manage new feature requests.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Managed development life cycle for a set of new, highly-customized mapping tool features for a specific client. Collaborated with the client and the Data Processing team to deliver the custom features on schedule.+ Oversaw a project to expand the company’s customizable Flash application, a challenging project that required integration with an internal legacy system and creative solutions to handle a third-party’s service limitations.+ Created – as Lead Developer – a new multi-threaded client / server email address verification system in C#, a revenue generating new service offering and critical component to a new email marketing platform.

Redmond, Wa

Partnered in developing a portfolio of internal and customer facing software solutions, including web and desktop applications, with a focus simplifying order processing and enhancing user experiences.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:+ Spearheaded a project to improve the quality of a GIS system and simplify the process of adding new features. Implemented new mapping technology, developed a new API, updated the UI, and recreated back-end services.+ Created a custom Flash application and accompanying API that enabled clients to link to CIS’s counts database and engines and ensured consistency across multiple customer-facing platforms.+ Wrote numerous applications using C#.NET and FoxPro to handle customer orders, process large amounts of raw data, and import data into databases for use with applications and on websites. + Unified multiple back-end list processing systems with a single application, a multi-threaded program that was more stable, provided better error checking and recovery, and was easier to maintain.