Kevin Rood Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

I lead the Engineering effort of an exceptional cross functional product team. We are focused on data and analytics products that form key parts of the Canvas LMS.Tens of thousands of users work with my team’s products each week. Our customers rely on our products to make key business decisions. Our products are hosted across multiple regions and my team supports them 24/7/365.I work as a part of a triad (Product/Design/Engineering) owning the feasibility side of product design and contributing to a healthy and beneficial working relationship with my counterparts (who are excellent to work with!) I also own the execution of our product development process, serving as the Scrum master and ensuring we successfully deliver product enhancements.I work very closely with our internal FinOps group to budget and forecast cloud costs for our products. I also interface with Customer Support, Legal, Privacy, and any other group that is needed in order to facilitate the development of the products my team owns.

New York, Ny, Us

In May 2021 I took on an interim role, Head of Product Engineering. I transitioned to a permanent role as Director of Product Engineering in January 2022.Through coaching managers and individual contributors who work under me, I help our teams stay focused on our customers and on delivering results. I remain actively involved in all of our key engineering initiatives, supporting planning and strategy. I help unblock teams and in some cases write code if needed.My role also involves working closely with other members of the larger Product team and working with key stakeholders within the business.

New York, Ny, Us

Led the engineering component of a cross-functional team focused on developing and supporting our company's primary web presence: generalassemb.ly. Our site helps students find, learn about, and purchase courses and products we offer.Worked with multiple teams as required to deliver software in support of the business. Closely collaborated with business stakeholders, product management, UX, and other engineering teams to deliver software to support our business objectives.It was my pleasure to hire, work with, and coach a team of excellent software engineers. Used and promoted agile and lean software practices to help our team work closely together to deliver high quality software.A key highlight from my time leading the Marketing Technology engineering work was to implement an A/B testing solution. After being implemented, the team regularly performed A/B tests on new experiences. This allowed us to avoid releasing permanent changes to our site that would negatively impact our business in the long-term and instead release experiences that provide significant and measurable long-term positive impact to our company's revenue. In a one year period my team used A/B tests to positively impact forward looking LTV value of users. Based on historical data we projected our A/B testing program increased LTV value by millions of dollars yearly through only improving features and the user experience.

New York, Ny, Us

Key responsibilities of this role included: feature development of critical line-of-business software, delivering software enhancements to support marketing efforts, and contributing to development of a new e-commerce platform to support the sale of new products. This role involved close collaboration with product management to build software to support business requirements.

Worked directly with the CEO of a job placement technology company to define and implement new features for the company's software platform.The company's software focused on enhancing the job placement process by rethinking key parts of that process, challenging the traditional approach used across the industry to place candidates. The company goal was to support lower placement fees, faster placement of candidates, and provide a better experience for job seekers and employers.Served as Scrum Master of remote software development team. Responsible for major enhancements of existing SaaS Ruby on Rails application in a DevOps environment. Enhancements include moving to a completely multi-tenant design and also integrating React for interactive UIs.

Full-time contractor on remote software development teams, also working with consulting clients to define project needs and implement software which address those needs. Software development primarily in Ruby on Rails, React, C#.Developed expert-level understanding of Scrum. Able to provide coaching to management and teams to implement Scrum successfully. Special focus on implementing Scrum as a remote team.Some of my contracting and consulting experience is highlighted in other employment history entries, providing details about some of the projects and teams I have been working with over the years.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Oversee the development of a line of business application for provider network management. Responsible for initial development and architecture, as well as ongoing feature development and coordination with offshore development. Using full stack end-to-end browser-based testing with cucumber and JRuby. Front end development using AngularJS, CoffeeScript, and Bootstrap. API development using Node.js, C#, and EntityFramework.Oversee development of data integration projects (ETL) to support reporting needs. Work closely with developers to implement batch processes using SSIS/SQL Server.Administer all aspects of the company's heterogeneous Windows and Linux server environment. Represented IT function as part of a cross-functional shared services team lead by the company COO.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Scrum team member working on Ruby on Rails engineering tasks. Active participant in the Scrum process: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and retrospectives. Always looking for ways to help improve team efficiency through process or tooling improvements.Regularly work with other engineers, QA staff, operations staff and product management to move features through the development process from concept to completion (planning, software development, code review, testing, deployment). Collaborate with engineers across Scrum teams as needed. Also work with engineers as a part of a higher-level platform architecture group.Languages and tools used include Ruby 1.9 & 2.0, JRuby, Rails 3 & 4, Haml, Minitest, Rspec, Chef, Chef Solo, Vagrant, Java, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, jQuery, MySQL, Git (Github) and Jira.

Austin, Tx, Us

Project lead with oversight of US and offshore developers. Deeply involved with project planning from both a technical and business standpoint. Oversee code reviews and software releases. Provide technical project leadership for key business initiatives. Ensure high standards of quality are adhered to for feature development - from requirements gathering, through higher-level architectural and code design, to low-level code quality and finally to deployment. Work to continuously improve the overall software development process at LIN Digital and improve team productivity.Languages and tools used include Ruby 1.8/1.9, Rails 3, Sinatra, Haml, Rspec, Cucumber, many Ruby gems, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, Mongo, Git (Github) and Jira.

Austin, Tx, Us

Work primarily with Ruby on Rails developing line-of-business applications in support of LIN Digital's primary business as well as new business initiatives. Also completed work with Hadoop, Pig and Java for large data set analysis. Participate in iteration planning and software design meetings as well as provide constructive input about overall software development process.Languages and tools used include Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Haml, Rspec, Cucumber, many Ruby gems, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, Cassandra, Java, Hadoop, Elastic Map Reduce, EC2, S3, Git (Github) and Jira.

Us

Part of an internal software development team focused on line-of-business applications. Most work involved developing and maintaining web-based internal accounting and CRM applications.Languages and tools used include primarily C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server, along with a small amount of classic ASP.

Worked directly with clients to analyze application requirements, create specification documents, develop, test, and install custom software. Designed, developed and supported critical line-of-business applications necessary for clients’ daily business operations. Worked with clients to diagnose and resolve technical problems. Worked with software vendors to resolve technical issues. Performed database design and implementation, development of complex SQL queries and stored procedures as well as development of complex reports for business decision-making. Performed object-oriented analysis/design & implementation, UML modeling. Completed many software projects with various development requirements.Languages and tools used include Microsoft Great Plains, Great Plains Dexterity, SQL Server 7 and 2000, Borland Delphi, Microsoft .NET (C# and VB), VBA.

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