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United States

United States

Bothell, Wa

Transforming the food processing industry with materials control automation. Creating self-reliant customers with technical support. Collaborating with the Development team and the Implementation consultants in leading the food processing automation market.

Bellevue, Wa

Led team of >20 Software Engineering professionals – with a focus on driving an automation transformation of engineering services and creating an awesome customer experience.• Provided the continuous delivery vision, strategy, and roadmap; bringing together three separate teams to engineer an automated pipeline that decreased cycle time to Production from weeks to days.• Directed and oversaw the development of a single PaaS portal supporting two separate product platforms scaling the resources of my teams to support 400 + engineers.• Innovated the automation of provisioning, orchestration, and installation of two separate platform architectures increasing productivity through developer self-service.• Innovated an open source framework making it easy to integrate various test automation tools and teams increasing productivity and on-boarding for non-technical staff to integrate new tests and new products.• Scaled the workforce through automation self-service and integrated APIs to complete end to end automation. Saved resource costs of $350,000 over 1.5 years.• Aligned the efforts of product development, production operations, middleware and systems engineering teams to create a single, reliable process for product delivery to production.• Collaborated with the Security department to create a Security process that would be agile and compliant in response to an audit finding. Ensured secure products while it decreased time to market by an average of 25%.• Directed the Product Quality metric and processes for the PD department which exceeded the expectations of the Visa Internal Audit team resulting in the best audit rating possible and increased Visa Executives’ confidence in the newly acquired company and its quality controls and processes.• Oversaw the migration of all Non-Production systems, tools, and services to the state of the art Visa Data Centers.

Bellevue, Wa

• Responsively pivoted the direction of the newly combined Enterprise DevOps organization; optimized performance through alignment and collaboration, streamlining value delivery from quarterly to twice monthly.• Led and facilitated the Scrum of scrums leadership meeting to improve communication between distributed teams and align release goals. • Coached the product owner to improve product backlog grooming and prioritization and clarify sprint goals to the team and the customer.

Bellevue, Wa

• Scaled agile into the acquiring organization, doubling the number of teams being coached: transforming QA, Release, and Infrastructure team mindsets to adapt and flourish within the Scrum framework. • Provided agile governance and leadership that ensured stability of the production systems while rapidly delivering customer value multiple times a week.• Introduced customer-focused, agile delivery processes allowing scrum teams to gain competitive advantage in test automation frameworks accelerating innovation and decreasing regression testing from 2 weeks to 8 hours for the Enterprise platform and from 3 days to 6 hours for the Small Business platform. • Supported Sales/Professional Services with compute and storage solutions that optimized their engagement with customers.

Bellevue, Wa

• Led team through transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies and processes. Transformed organization and team cultures, engineering practices, and business engagement. Established the Scrum ceremonies of daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.• Designed and implemented the agile product quality metric and processes for the entire department, driving behavior toward the agile goals of increased product velocity and a 10X increase in quality.

Bellevue, Wa

• Built a highly effective QA team supporting the leading Small Business payment gateway in the U.S.• Instituted security testing and created a secure coding mindset throughout the development organization.• Implemented the test automation team, its vision, and current strategy.

Full Stack Web Development, Python: Black Belt, Mean: Red Belt, Java: Red Belt

Activities and Societies: Full Stack development of CRUD web applications in Python, MEAN, and Java languages. Utilizing the resources.

B.S., Geology

Bachelor of Science in Geology with an Engineering core.