Kevin Sharp Email & Phone Number

Took a career break to focus on family. During this time, I dedicated myself to supporting my son before he transitioned into Junior High, strengthening our relationship and managing his school and competitive soccer commitments. Additionally, I supported my wife as she took on a new role that required her to be on-site, allowing her to focus on her career.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Led a small but mighty team of 3 Senior Engineers and 1 QA, focusing on building and maintaining 3rd party API integrations and file ingestion solutions.
• Developed a clear technical roadmap for the Integrations team, ensuring alignment with broader product goals.
• Acted as Scrum Master, running daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives using tools like Figma, Jira, and Confluence.
• Collaborated closely with external partners to bring new integrations into our platform, guiding them through the entire process.
• Partnered with Product and Design teams to refine requirements and prioritize work, ensuring we delivered high-impact features.
• Worked hand-in-hand with QA to push for quality at every step, including expanding automated testing to improve reliability.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Worked on integrating 3rd party APIs, focusing on improving data ingestion and enhancing product features.
• Contributed to improving the product's technical maturity, working on key components like document parsers and playbooks.
• Collaborated across teams to discuss and implement architecture improvements, conduct design reviews, and resolve bugs.
• Regularly participated in code reviews and worked with QA to improve test automation.
• Helped transition our systems to a more scalable microservices architecture.

• Maintained and supported legacy Java applications to ensure smooth operations and system stability.
• Integrated the Data-Service-Reader (DSR) into the Phoenix platform, improving data flow efficiency.
• Created documentation to help new engineers quickly get up to speed on legacy microservices and the development environment.
• Led the effort to migrate a critical Enterprise Metric report from the old system to a new microservice.
• Researched and solved issues related to inventory and ad planning to optimize scheduling for radio stations.
• Played a key role in maintaining ad placement schedules, ensuring accuracy and performance.

Boise, ID, US

• Created a prototype to evaluate how a third party, BehavioSec could be leveraged and integrated with the Kount solution.
• Worked on foundational work to modernize the CORE product, from a homegrown framework, to a Laravel based framework.
• Led the technical side of the project, to implement Visa Merchant Purchase Inquiry (VMPI) where Kount integrated with a 3rd party vendor, chargeback911.
• Created a GO Service Template, which reduced the time needed to create the foundations of a Service from roughly one week to 30 minutes.
• For a year, was a Senior SDET to fill a void in the company. During that time I created exhaustive tests for multiple API's (100+ endpoints), created integration tests for the CI/CD pipeline, load testing, as well as.

• Managed the Development and Quality Assurance(QA) Teams.
• Lead a team of 5 Developers and 2 QA people.
• Established development plans for each team member for personal and professional growth.
• Implemented a Scrum Framework. Velocity increased by 44%. Reopens reduced by 29%.
• Coordinated and participated in SAAS application and implementing OWASP security guidelines.
• Point of contact for internal and external security penetration tests.

• Developed a Java enterprise web-based application which its intention is to help large companies and law firms manage their intellectual property portfolio's
• JIRA administrator
• Helped create a web service API
• Utilized Perl to crawl the USPTO for trademark data and images and import into a customer's instance of the application
• 18+ month consulting contract with Corporation Services Company

• Project Management for various custom software projects. Utilized PMI tools such as Microsoft Project, ROI, and costing. Varied from internal groups
• Technical Writer, gathered requirements, and wrote specs/procedures
• Acted as UI Architect on software projects
• QA in charge of testing to see if software met specifications
• Created multiple systems to help departments become more efficient, cut labor costs, and also capture crucial site specific measurements
• Point of Contact and evaluated multiple vendors on software systems that were in consideration for implementations globally

• Managed area that was responsible for the raw materials and finish goods of the Systems Assembly area
• Responsible for $75 million worth of inventory
• Managed a 24/7 team of 75 direct and indirect reports
• Handled all direct reports performance reviews and career paths
• Implemented Cycle Counting and best inventory control practices
• Created the operating budget and executed to it

• Oversaw the implementation plan for Receiving, Materials, and Finish Goods as we moved to a new ERP system, Baan
• Responsible for project plan for rollover dates and documentation on the transition
• Responsible for all training of Baan to the respective groups
• Directed activities to verify the quality of the data after the tranistion to the Baan ERP system

• Led a team of 9 direct reports
• Responsible for hiring, performance and employee development for the team
• Implemented process improvements to make our processes more efficient and accurate
• Responsible for all budgeting activities for my team

• Pulled materials for production builds
• Verified materials inventory counts by using cycle counting
• Verified the count and quality of parts returned from production after builds were complete

• Production Operator with a year of expertise in optimizing processes, ensuring quality, and collaborating with teams to meet production targets.