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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Omaha, Ne

Omaha, Ne

• Work with the executive team to define company strategic priorities. • Oversee daily activities of three development teams, 1 QA team and offshore development operation. Including development and coaching of their managers.• Oversee budget and all activities for the Software Development and Quality Assurance departments. • Represent the Software Delivery team and their responsibilities through quality written and oral communications with executive leadership. • Strategic planning and goal setting Software and QA teams. • Define development priorities and set expectations pertaining to delivery.• Manage client relationships as they pertain to system integration and software projects.• Provide guidance, mentorship, remove obstacles and acquire training for all team members.• Manage partner relationships and contract negotiation.• Work with executive leadership to ensure resources are allocated in a direction to support company goals• Oversee definition and implementation of Agile practices.• Define development priorities and set expectations pertaining to delivery.

Greater Omaha Area

• Manage budget and all activities for the Software and Quality Assurance departments. • Represent the IT roles and responsibilities through quality written and oral communications with senior level leadership. • Strategic planning and goal setting for directly managed teams, IT as a whole as well as Proxibid business.• Manage client relationships as they pertain to system integration and software projects.• Provide guidance, mentorship, remove obstacles and acquire training for team members.• Manage partner relationships and contract negotiation.• Act as the business liaison between IT and the rest of the company.• Work daily with executive leadership to ensure resources are allocated in a direction to support company goals• Managed growth of IT department in conjunction with CTO from 6 to 21, including structure planning and vendor selection. • Led successful transformation from waterfall development process to agile.• Grew software and quality teams from 4 employees to 11 while hitting budget targets and improving respect of the department within the company.• Consistently increased productivity of team. A 30% increase per individual though streamlining processes and aligning focus.• Turned department from company weakness into one of its strengths with regular changes and upgrades and less than 1% critical defect rate.

Greater Omaha Area

Information Systems Manager (Business Applications)• Manage 7 Programmers, Programmer Analysts and System Analysts including writing reviews, managing schedules, employee development and setting salaries. • Prioritize projects and set team work load.• Manage the on-call rotation by setting schedule and developing structure.• Work with our management as well as other groups to develop intersystem communication that is reliable.• Provide guidance, mentorship, remove obstacles and acquire training for team members.• Coordinate Licensing and installation of needed software for team members. • Manage multiple projects currently being developed by my team. • Work with Director and VP to guide department’s IT direction. • Led a project to replace a legacy order file with a new one while meeting new and legacy business requirements. Completed the project ahead of schedule by over a month.• Worked with Team to identify various on-call issues and reduce the burden on the on-call rotation.• Hired new employees, and secured training for existing employees to fill a technology need in a new development technology.• Working to coordinate and rewrite internal web portal containing more than 100 applications. This requires close collaboration and communication with many internal clients..

Mba, Business Management

Activities and Societies: Beta Gama Sigma

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