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Omaha, Ne, Us

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Omaha, Ne, Us

Build and lead diverse IT team for hospital staffing company currently undergoing tremendous growth, cultivating strong rapport with department heads and contractors supporting 20 software applications. Leverage combined business and technical acumen to create software testing strategy and IT organizational structure, scaling with organizational expansion and ensuring cost-effectiveness of multi-level test strategy. Developed employee training and mentorship programs to optimize team skillset and create culture dedicated to maintaining strong internal relationships, ensuring entire team has tools to resolve limitations and deliver future success.• Established position as champion of employee professional development, managing growth of team from 40 to 160. Leveraged collaborative mindset, long-term leadership, and open communications, leading to internal promotions for 3 individuals to leadership positions.• Introduced root cause analysis strategy across organization to more precisely identify sources of significant issues impacting software quality; developed more focused testing strategy and improved future quality.

Led development of integrated test methodology for software development process to ensure quality of software systems deliverables to customers, implementing multi-layered system to QA processes ensuring customer satisfaction. Established operational strategy and managed team of 15 supporting creation of automated testing, implementation of standards, and increase of test coverage. Collaborated with customers on testing plans, engaging in direct communication to leverage testing feedback for improving quality.• Increased test coverage to over 50% and substantially reduced manual labor by introducing automated testing. • Developed compatibility test with mobile devices supporting testing of mobile banking across multiple systems and providing more comprehensive testing data.

Led build-out of system providing flexible medical payments, guiding creation of highly talented, cross-functional software delivery team and defining QA strategy for software delivery. Collaborated directly with external customers to integrate customers into system development, ensuring superior quality and customer satisfaction; performed bi-weekly demonstrations to obtain feedback for enhancing future product iterations. Ensured projects remained within strict timeframes and budgetary constraints.• Delivered $7M-$8M additional revenue for several projects by using demonstrations to showcase product enhancements.• Secured external customer generating $5M project revenue.

Sidney, Nebraska, Us

Served as key member of software management and testing team of 4 overseeing all testing for leading global company. Coordinated all testing of systems capabilities not related to functionality, including security, performance, and usability testing. Substantially improved software quality, eliminating outages due to volume and preventing future attempts at hacking customer information. • Coordinated development of entire QA department that established testing standards and KPIs, leading unit creation from initial concept through operations. • Led transformation from manual testing to automated testing, delivering significant improvements in number of tests performed with no additional labor.

Sidney, Nebraska, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management Information Systems, General

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Business Administration - Mba