Mike Barber Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Mountlake Terrace, Washington, Us

Software development Team Lead architecting and delivering Microsoft full stack microservices to Azure.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Migrating, coding, and refactoring mission critical legacy SOAP services for Premera's Enterprise Service Solutions team in order to make services highly performant and examples of departmental coding standards. Refactoring effort includes preparing those services for future cloud deployment in Enterprise Azure tenant. Currently mentoring new-hire junior developer by using paired TDD in an Agile environment. Prior to ESS involvement, worked for almost two years in Digital Solutions (TED), developing greenfield micro services on Azure to deliver highly sensitive health insurance data to internal customers, the Premera mobile app, and high-profile customers. Have utilized and am currently utilizing XP, C#, ASP.Net, .Net Core, and MS SQL. Strong knowledge of Premera Facets schema and legacy systems.• Performed extensive DevOps duties by creating environments and web apps in Azure, with documentation to support future implementations• Created supporting VSTS build and release pipeliness for CI/CD• Developed and maintained critical Privacy and Sensitivity micro services which are compliant with Premera's strict security and privacy policies• Updated Member, Provider, and Claims services to provide additional features and enhance performance• Coded additional services supporting Premera's largest customer, aligning with stringent SLA requirements• Assisted in developing extensive functional and integration test suite to guarantee issue-free deployments

Seattle, Washington, Us

Developed features for CRM, Salesforce and in-house web applications in C#, .Net ASP, Javascript, and SQL. Coordinated with stakeholders, demanding users, teams with competing priorities, and exacting QA to design, develop, test, and integrate high quality features in an adaptive, fast-paced, cutting edge Agile SDLC environment. Responsible for identifying, communicating, and clearing blocking issues on Kanban stories and Pri 1&2 production issues. Led highly-visible monthly downtime releases to production systems requiring end-to-end integration testing. Performed triage and resolution of reported issues through individual analysis and team swarms. Integrated web services into legacy code. Mentored incoming software developers to reduce onboarding time.• Developed extensive feature set in C# .Net, Javascript, and SQL for Premium Access subscriptions resulting in $18M in deal value and with 38% of revenues being incremental for 2017, and over $35M in deal value expected in 2018. Upgraded subscription agreement UI workflow improved manual processing by 5-7 minutes per agreement.• Improved security by overhauling legacy credit card refund system and merging into global CRM system.• Conceived and implemented a streamlined process for tracking deliverables, artifacts, and release notes for Agile stories which greatly improved release process, reduced deployment downtimes, and eliminated release-related NOC tickets.• Developed C# iStock data migration application running daily imports of over 25M records each while preventing performance and revenue disruption to ecommerce web site and sales support software.• Frequently clarified and consolidated complex requirements with sales and finance stakeholders and product owners. Formulated flexible strategies and solutions, increased project velocity, and enabled continuous value delivery.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior Web Developer/Analyst Responsible for development and project planning roles to deliver numerous enterprise, retail, and ecommerce solutions in C# and SQL. During this time, Sur La Table’s store count grew by 50%, ecommerce sales quadrupled, and the gift registry business grew ten-fold. Managed software and hardware vendor relationships. Provided cost control recommendations to executive leadership. Mentored junior .Net reports developer. • Identified and authored business case and SOW which led to the implementation of the Gift Registry Revitalization Project, which resulted in Gift Registry revenue growth from $1M to $5M annually. Project launch positioned Sur La Table to promote Gift Registry business, eventually surpassing $10M annually. Coded and managed project through full SDLC and deployment to over 100 stores, nationwide.• Implemented C# ASP.Net upgrade of the Gift Registry ecommerce platform requiring complete overhaul of interfaces between inventory provisioning, order fulfillment, and point-of-sale systems.• Analyzed, designed, and implemented an in-house store receiving web application in C# ASP.Net which streamlined inventory management, tracked shrinkage, and reduced fraud.• Performed business analyst, project manager, and lead developer duties on extensive Accounting and Loss Prevention Reporting project.• Conceived and authored additional Loss Prevention Reporting business cases for identifying fraud, projected to save over $1M annually.• Developed mobile scanner app in Windows CE which drove sales by improving user experience.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Led a team of three developers and one QA specialist while serving as Project Manager and ScrumMaster through complete agile SDLC of a mission-critical, medium-sized web application. The application streamlined and expedited the moving of goods through the sluggish European Customs process. On Accounts Receivable project, scheduled and developed maintenance releases to 70 global installations. Responsible for triage of support issues, continued documentation, and cross-training new teams while establishing best practices.

As employee #4 in a consulting start-up environment, performed high customer-facing liaising with executive, product, and project management. Trained regional engineering staff on location. Architected, developed, and project planned inventory control web applications for Verizon's Inside Plant Engineering group to generate documentation, increase efficiency, reduce critical system downtime, and improve emergency response time.

Lawrence, Ma, Us

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

Hunt Valley, Md, Us