Director, Product Development
CurrentManagement Accomplishments:• Chaired product/platform committee responsible for driving the direction and strategic vision for the registration and housing application, CMR’s core product.• Worked directly with software development teams on systems infrastructure and application architecture of new products with a focus towards interoperability and interchangeability. • Identified systems architecture inconsistencies and designed schedule, plans, roles and execution goals for the consolidation and merging of software applications.• Coordinated with Application Development Manager the implementation of agile development schedule covering 3-month development sprints and releases. • Conducted quarterly customer check-ins to evaluate customer product satisfaction, qualify/quantify feedback and strengthen overall relationships. ►Result: Deeper customer product satisfaction and improved cost control of software development. Substantiated quantifiable customer satisfaction relative to the development of its product suite.Technology Accomplishments:• Led project management and development teams in development of new front-end CSS editor application, website feature/functionality configurator and database content builder. • CSS, configuration, database build functions previously handled by front-end engineer, now combined in to complete Content Management System and handled by operational position Web Content Manager.• Led project management and development teams in migration, consolidation and merging of divergent application portfolio in to one consistent architecture. Applications originating from Classic ASP, .NET4, Drupal, PHP and Microsoft Access built in to MVC framework.►Result: Greater scalability in product development. Greater software component interoperability and interchangeability. Reduced customer website development time from 2 weeks to 2-3 days. Improved efficiency led to significant increase in customer base.