Javier Rivera Email & Phone Number

Myrtle Beach, Sc, Us

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Technical Innovation services for Small & Medium sized business in the the areas of IT, Networking, Web Development & Software Development

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Facilitate standups. Execute Iteration/sprint planning meetings – Prevent over-commitment and scopecreep. Aid in estimation and sub-task creation. Facilitate Reviews/Retrospectives – Participate in these meeting and capture feedback. Jira Administration and Backlog Grooming – Work as the administrator ofthe Jira plan. Ensure that everything is up to date and that Jira provides a clear picture to the development plan. Product Scrum Master interface – work closely with the Libre product teamscrum master to ensure that the product Jira plan is in synch with the implementation tasks in the backlog. Reporting (as requested) – Regular analysis of burndown and other planningtools to understand what gets built and at what cadence. Remove Blockers – eliminate external blockers and manage internal roadblocks through process or workflow improvements.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Develop project plans to guide the team through phases of development. Manage sprints—planning and execution—for ongoing development and epics. Assist in gathering requirements & managing the development backlog. Create, maintain and update development requests via PM Tools. Manage the prioritization and tracking of essential bug fixes when they arise. Coordinate QA.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Focused on helping and guiding an existing team effectively host and enforce Scrum Rituals, help keep the efficiency of the team, create and maintain agile artifacts, and work with the Project Managers, Team Leads, Developers & QA across multiple projects

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Created and executed product and project strategy. Instituted agile workflow allowing organization to be able to deliver the next two releases in half the time than plenned

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Work with the existing team in implementing a new software system creating a PERT chart/CPM critical path method, for the project

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Initiated and executed product & engineering SOPs & workflows for an newly minted startup in the events & Covid space. Hired, led and managed a team of product designers, ux, QA, full-stack and mobile engineers. Implemented product innovation, development and release practices to allow for Continuous Delivery.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Managed the technical delivery of a handful of technical projects for some of the agency's clients

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Managed 3 separate and concurrent projects across requirement gathering, UX, Development and QA for a .NET Web Application Development Agency. This was a more customer/client-facing role interfacing with varying business and subject matter experts.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

provide agile, technical hiring, technical delivery and product management for a start-up in the HR/compensation space

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Managed agile team for a newly minted start up in the mobile shopping space

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Provide process & operational guidance for running a development shop in the medical data analysis field.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Providing team management, agile practices, business analysis, UX support, DevOps management and technical delivery

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Review Jira set up, recommend steps to improve set up, epics, and reporting for an Accounting Software organizaation

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

an eSports company building a Campaign/Creator management application

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Provided Agile support to a finance business wanting to deliver on a few critical projects.

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

a not for profit web hosting organization. Currently helping out on a Pro-Bono basis

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

Provided Technical Operations, Management and Delivery for a blockchain and software development and strategy agency

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

a gift giving web application

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Us

a web & software development agency

As interim Head of the new Digital Business Unit, accountable and responsible for creating and vetting Digital Development processes, road-mapping new revenue products/services and provide scaling and growth opportunities within Digital Services and Technology.

As Head of Engineering, provided leadership, direction and guidance to improve Engineering Production and Product Vision. Accountable to implement and lead Technical Delivery, Continuous Integration & Deployment

Introduced and executed Agile Development methodologies (Scrum for Software, Kanban for DevOps) by introducing Sprint Planning, improving Stand Ups, requiring Sprint Reviews, leading and guiding Sprint Retrospectives

New York, New York, Us

* Multi-faceted hands-on leadership & managerial role in:[People]: Development Manager[Process]: Technical Project Management[Technology]: Development & Technical Lead* Accountable for successful technical strategy, execution, delivery & deployment of $35M+ of digital business across 5 full service McCann Health Agencies covering over 37+ pharmaceutical brands* Provided Technical Leadership responsible for successfully deploying multiple tablet eDetails & mobile/tablet applications as well as Web properties (responsive, adaptive and web apps)* As of September 2014 - Thiola.com (custom PHP/adaptive), Rasuvo.com (full site pending - custom PHP/adaptive), Rebif Personalized Team site (requires sales team password - custom PHP), Alexion Complement Updates (requires direct e-mail link - CodeIgniter), Opsumit.info (select Italy - responsive) , hcp.tradjenta.com / hcp.jentadueto.com, Neurodegeneration Gap (intended for HCPs outside of US & Canada - parallax/responsive)* Lead, mentor & managed Development & QA group of 12+ staff, freelance and intern personnel across DevOps, Quality Assurance, Tech PM and End to End Developers* Responsible for 300% growth of Development Shared Services team via direct participation in hiring and leading recruitment efforts* Lead the on-going efforts of establishing a QA and Testing process as interim-QA Manager in addition to other responsibilities, by providing documentation, mentoring the QA Analyst and implementing the use of Test Plans and Test Cases on all projects

* Lead a successful revamp of the Aciphex Eisai iPad apps, by planning and managing a complete team involvement by dividing the workload to fit developer’s skill set so each could work without blocking each other’s code* Able to deliver faster, more scalable application while keeping code uniform, using SVN:externals to improve development speed and versioning of common code* Planned and lead closing meeting in positive manner to gather direct input from developers and their suggestions to what worked and what we should improve upon (Retrospection)* Managed and developed in delivering 2 concurrent Galderma iPad apps, including adapting to the change in team size without slowing down progress (ranging from 2-4 devs at different points of the project)* Fluidly brought in freelance animator as a Senior developer to assist in development of projects by assigning research and preliminary discovery to ensure smooth transition* Managed developers frustration while keeping them focused by listening/addressing issues to ensure continued service from developers and offered alternate solutions to reach milestones faster and more efficiently* Responsible for an improved management of process for development, both current and future products by planning out proper use of developers, taking into consideration their strengths and skillset to obtain success with different projects* Discovered missing steps/procedures in digital project timelines and defined solutions to improve our development process while educating the Accounts, Art, Traffic and other departments on the in order to help maintain open lines of communications* Led the internal team (project stakeholders) in requirements gathering, discussion of functional specs, education of technical issues and identified and modeled process requirements, while working with UX and PM personnel; educating the agency

New York, New York, Us

* Implement development/staging/production server environments, code versioning (Git), project management (Redmine) and style guides* Architect, design and implement the revamping of the production and development server/network enviroment hosting the MetaMeetings platform* Responsible for the design, development and support activities associated with the MetaMeetings platform to bring the multiple application offerings within one code base* Lead team on architecture and detailed technical design, including areas such as: designing schema, implementation direction/advice, performing code review* Oversee and manage objectives, priorities, as well as perform risk and performance management for software engineering team and freelance developers* Drive prioritization and detailed definition of product feature requirements and provide technical guidance as well as a pros/cons analysis to Product Management and other teams* Allocate engineering resources to projects according to priority and expertise, in regards to staff developers/engineers and freelance developers* Pull social media data from a proprietary platform using JSON to enhance user interactivity and use XML data access to display user lists and comments from social media* Update code for the reporting module to improve and offer different reporting mechanisms using MySQL server and SQL syntax* Direct participation in hands-on level in regards to designing and writing code

New York, Ny, Us

* Provided nightly technical and Broadcast Engineering support in the NBA Technical Operations Center to ensure 99.999% uptime for all games (between 3 – 13 games nightly) in all 29 arena cities, via verification of all recording devices, encoding/decoding devices and audio/video paths configured and routed properly in automation for all games*Manage and troubleshoot Harris NetVX frames, video/audio encoders and decoders, LEITCH router panel and frame syncs, ADAM audio panel, arena video recording servers and logging stations

* Consult and guide front-end programmers and system operators to demonstrate and generate code modifications, fixes and improvements, resolving new bugs and improving code such as presentation (CSS), screen functionality (JavaScript) and/or back-end reporting (PHP/JavaScript/MySQL)* Create new modules (as PHP and JavaScript classes) and functions to work within pre-existing framework. Repair bug fixes, initiate system improvements and features, such as ability to theme presentation screens via class files. Identify and document a plan to resolve existing bugs.* Research, discover and document bugs (80+), improvements and missing features within the pre-existing infrastructure and framework. Institute coding style guides, bug/issue tracking (Redmine) and version control system (SVN) for multiple developers.* Train, educate and update front-end programmers on the infrastructure, framework and back-end database implementation of the software as well as the WIMP Server* Took ownership of proprietary PHP/AJAX/MySQL framework codebase including system architecture, classes, data flow and database schema to be capable of creating modules and completing projects within tight deadlines ranging from 6 hours to 20 minutes of lead time.* Enhance MySQL Queries to match results and reporting required by the Production Department* Involved in the early stages of software development and architecture from design, discussion and documentation to propose a new version of the software’s infrastructure* Assist Lead Developers with smaller Use Case and Design projects as well as developing the web and stand-alone versions of the software for Live Demo purposes

* Influenced and improved in the design, architecture and maintenance of the network and server infrastructure. Executed the creation and maintenance of VMware Images and Systems* Implemented, configured and managed servers and network devices including Application Servers, Mail Servers, VPN and Firewall services (25-30 clients), File Servers, Backup services* Researched and installed Exchange Mail server and Outlook configuration, wireless network infrastructure, power protection (UPS for Servers and Workstations), virus / spyware protection (Servers and Workstations) and Server and Workstation backups and network / server redundancy

* Assisted Network Admin with maintenance of Linksys and Netgear switches, user accounts in the file server* Performed help desk duties to support in-office and remote users with Windows XP and Mac OS 10.5-.6 issues

*Administered the company’s e-commerce website (Netsuite) and repaired functional and design bugs*Coordinated a small team to gather information for Tech Support. Arranged the information to be used as a Knowledge Base and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the organization and website*Supported a client base of over 1000+ customers, including tracking Return Materials Authorizations (RMA) of defective or incorrectly shipped products. Supported Network and Servers

* Streamlined the corporate website, using PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, in the areas of design, usability and maintainability. Developed new website infrastructure including newsletter distribution component. Created a content management component to update the website* Maintained and upgraded internal systems such as Red Hat Linux web/email server, Windows 2000 network server, 50+ Windows 98/XP workstations and 10+ printers spanning the corporate office to the retail stores (WAN). Educated 20+ employees on web and office technologies* Overhauled a peer-to-peer network to a client-server structure running Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory, roaming profiles, network file share and printing capabilities

Midland Park, Nj, Us

* Aided the webmaster in creating and designing business websites using HTML, JavaScript and PHP* Met with clients and processed client's web site updates, initiated additional client requests and designed and incorporated additional web site features* Assigned to take over development of pre-existing inventory and project management software written in ASP and using a MSSQL database

Bs, Computer Science

Aas, Computer Information Systems (Data Processing)

Certificate, Computer Programming

Diploma, General Studies