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Des Moines, Iowa, United States

- Manage Quality Control, Support, and Project Management teams across three continents, ensuring alignment with company goals and deliverables, and controlling costs to achieve profitability.- Facilitate effective communication with global customers (US and AU), addressing quality and operational concerns proactively. Occasionally, meet with customers on site to get feedback, address concerns, and gather requirements.- Work with senior management team (Engineering, Product, Project Mgmt, HR, VP) to track progress on current projects, address roadblocks, and plan future projects.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Use SCRUM and tools such as Jira and Confluence to manage an international team of software engineers developing back-end services and web apps for Fortune 500 companies. Make use of automated build, test, and deployment tools and practices to achieve high scalability, performance, security, and reliability. Generate scalability and security reports for customers.

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

Technical lead on team that developed back-end services. Assisted with architecture and design of components. Primarily worked on the web app, which managed thousands of customer video decoder devices (settop boxes). Architecture utilized nginx to direct traffic to services, Python for coding, tornado for web services, web2py for web apps (portals), HTML/CSS & Javascript for portal front-ends, and MySQL for data storage.

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

Developed Java OCAP (True2way) stack implementation for clients of Vidiom Systems, including implementation of Java Media Framework.

A lead developer on back-end development team for large consumer finance client-server application.