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Personnel Manager across multiple Agile Sprint Teams for a group of Software Engineers across all experience levels. Provides standard Personnel Manager coaching, career discussion, compensation review, performance feedback, and support for Direct Reports.Scrummaster for a Agile Sprint Team with duties of facilitating Team meetings, process review, workload status checking, retrospective facilitation and preparation, and OKR review and creation.Liaison for various… Show more Personnel Manager across multiple Agile Sprint Teams for a group of Software Engineers across all experience levels. Provides standard Personnel Manager coaching, career discussion, compensation review, performance feedback, and support for Direct Reports.Scrummaster for a Agile Sprint Team with duties of facilitating Team meetings, process review, workload status checking, retrospective facilitation and preparation, and OKR review and creation.Liaison for various Vendors in supporting the technology and Vendor partnerships of Sprint Teams.Performs audits on tooling in order to decrease complexity, review new additions to tooling, and create best practice documentation for the R&D Department to follow. Seeks a collaborative process to review and form these best practices with theSoftware Engineering Team.Performs audits on R&D Department process and documentation in order to increase Sprint Teams clarity on the development lifecycle process, role definitions, and other. Show less

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Senior Software Developer on Agile Scrum team closely interacting with product owners, designers and testers to create and iterate on value driven customer-focused features.Owns Technical Lead, and Agile SCRUM Master roles with responsibilities of maintaining and building out 6 web applications/microservices, mentoring new team members, coordinating Agile ceremonies, facilitating developer design working sessions, and working with team stakeholders to build product roadmaps.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Member of a Agile Scrum Team maintaining a single page Java Spring Web Application that facilitates day-to-day operations for call center activities. Implementing updates to web client using Javascript, jQuery, underscore, and AJAX. Development of Java back-end utilizing DB2 Native Stored Procedures to interact with the DB2 database, and COBOL Stored Procedures to access company business functions.As Security Development Lifecycle Adviser ensured OWASP guidelines were performed on code… Show more Member of a Agile Scrum Team maintaining a single page Java Spring Web Application that facilitates day-to-day operations for call center activities. Implementing updates to web client using Javascript, jQuery, underscore, and AJAX. Development of Java back-end utilizing DB2 Native Stored Procedures to interact with the DB2 database, and COBOL Stored Procedures to access company business functions.As Security Development Lifecycle Adviser ensured OWASP guidelines were performed on code base for each implementation. Guided team through a full security analysis of internal application becoming externally accessible by third parties by implementing OWASP Secure Coding Practices.Participated in Oncall Rotation cycle involving 1 week increments of 24/7 coverage on processing failures Show less

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Member on a Traditional Software Development Lifecycle Team implementing changes to a Z/OS system with JCL and COBOL. Experience in designing and implementing large rules driven batch processes with nightly run time constraints. Technical writing experience related to business level documentation, process change documents, tests for internal clients, and management discussions for project implementation.Onboarded Development Team's documentation and workflow from traditional files… Show more Member on a Traditional Software Development Lifecycle Team implementing changes to a Z/OS system with JCL and COBOL. Experience in designing and implementing large rules driven batch processes with nightly run time constraints. Technical writing experience related to business level documentation, process change documents, tests for internal clients, and management discussions for project implementation.Onboarded Development Team's documentation and workflow from traditional files to Atlassian Product suite of JIRA and Confluence. Transitioned with team from Traditional Waterfall Software Development methodology to a Agile Scrum methodology. Participated in Oncall Rotation cycle involving 1 week increments of 24/7 coverage on processing failures. Show less

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Providing support as a member of a dedicated Production Support Team that performs analysis and corrections for high risk production issues in COBOL and JCL.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Developing a VBScript automation testing framework within HP QuickTest Professional to support QA Testers writing regression test suites for web based applications.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Developing a VBScript automation testing framework within HP QuickTest Professional to support QA Testers writing regression test suites for web based applications.

Computer Information Systems, Compter Science

Activities and Societies: Platteville Gaming Association Semester Study Abroad in Ireland at Mayo-Galway Institute of Technical College.

Certificate: Java Professional Developer, Computer Science

The IT Java Professional Developer certificate from Madison College is designed to prepare information systems professionals to use.

Certificate: Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Computer Science

The Microsoft Visual Studio.Net Certificate at Madison College is designed to prepare IT professionals to use Microsoft’s Visual.

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