Matt Dever Email & Phone Number

West Chester, PA, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Led 5 engineering managers, 5 teams (US, EUR), and a span of 40 to deliver a re-architected consumer web/mobile patient portal with Rails REST microservices, APIs, MySql, AWS, Kubernetes, React
• Managed the Clipboards feature with 5+ teams from the long pole before me to ahead-of-schedule, within budget from my detailed roadmap/plan, with higher quality from my doneness criteria
• Developed velocity-based capacity planning which increased predictability 20% for our broader org
• Guided prioritization with product management and planning with engineering leads on a new video visits solution to achieve GA-readiness two months ahead of schedule after a partner client request
• Drove product collaboration, workflow analysis, and design on new features like enhanced portal self-registration which reduced duplicate patient creation and consent management for a key client
• Built high-performing teams that took on additional work from peer teams to mitigate risk of late deliveries for Kubernetes and Aurora migrations and a critical imaging feature

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Led 3 engineering managers, 3 teams, and a span of 25 to deliver a re-architected wellness solution with 50+ Ruby/Rails REST microservices, APIs, MySql on AWS, DCOS with 10+ React microfrontends
• Guided product management to create a stack-ranked priority list balancing technical and functional work across a 15-team program which reduced time-to-market on our highest business priorities
• Managed SAFE adoption for teams leading to 80%+ predictability in delivering planned business value
• Reduced MTTR 29% on 800+ SRs/year with better triage, docs, and consulting/support collaboration
• Led DevOps improvements (ops reviews, alerting, dashboards) to resolve issues before client impacts
• Improved quality by creating performance engineering, feature doneness, root cause analysis, and federal deployment processes leading to better GA-readiness and release quality than peer teams

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Led 5 teams (US, EU, IND), leads and scrum masters, 20 direct reports, and a matrixed span of 30-40 to deliver a business-critical Java EE, Javascript, MS SQL Server physician documentation solution
• Created a team of frontend experts to replace GWT with a Javascript, backbone, jQuery, etc. resulting in a 40-60% performance improvement, better usability, and higher physician satisfaction
• Advocated senior executives with a business case to replace an XML DB with a relational DB and delivered in a high-risk 15-month 3rd release to reduce data storage costs $1M+ per year
• Started a leadership scrum of scrums with product, engineering, and project management to quickly prioritize and unblock issues mitigating project delay risk and delivering on-time
• Reduced the regression error rate 15% after releasing the major changes above by increasing engineering testing capacity, better change impact analysis, and service pack content contraints
• Championed Kanban flow efficiency by creating department strategy, goals, behaviours, training in the US and India, and presenting to 500+ employees resulting in reduced waste and blocked time

Forchheim, DE

• Led 4-8 teams (US, EU, IND), leads and scrum masters, 20 direct reports, and a matrixed span of 30-50 to deliver a business-critical Java EE, GWT, MS SQL Server physician documentation solution
• Split into 10 teams, developed new team leads, and introduced weekly checkpoints to increase accountability and deliver on an aggressive timeline for the initial 18-month 1st release
• Used TDD, paired programming, CI/CD, and code quality metrics to improve cycle time and quality
• Integrated a team in Germany/Austria and hired a new support team in India which enabled delivering the 2nd 12-month feature release to achieve parity with our competition on schedule
• Interviewed 100s of candidates and hired 20 engineers, SMs, and consultants in the US and India

Forchheim, DE

• Led 4 scrum teams to deliver major enhancements for market-critical physician order entry Java EE solution leading to 40% increased physician adoption across client base
• Drove weekly design sessions with key customer physicians using Sprint reviews/demoswhich reduced feedback cycles to 1 week or less and increased physician satisfaction
• Prototyped, product managed, and architected a C#/.NET visual data comparison tool for system conversions using TDD saving 1000 hours per customer implementation
• Developed and managed an early C#/.NET bedside virtual appointment solution to alpha delivery
• Made critical fixes for clinical EMR nursing documentation and order entry solution in Java and C++

Forchheim, DE

• Developed dozens of new Java EE services and html/css/javasript frontend for patient registration modules for Siemens core electronic medical record (EMR) using early Agile/Scrum methodologies and automated acceptance.
• Completed development and rollout of a Java EE, Swing master file data definition tool by developing features and managing a small team of developers as a ScrumMaster
• Adopted agile, Scrum, test-driven development (TDD), paired programming, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) starting with agile in 2005 with SM certification in 2007

Master Of Business Administration, Business

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering