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Salt Lake City, Ut

Consultancy specializing in: • Data Transformation and Systems Conversions • Custom Software Development • Agile SDLC and Agile Project Management Training and Coaching • Python/Pandas, AWS, T-SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, Data Integration/Pipelines, Advanced Excel/Google Sheets, Tableau.

Key contributor to the 285% revenue growth from 2019-2021.Moved product delivery from static paper-based model to an interactive online presentation. Spearheaded the development, execution and coaching business process solutions for back office and customer-facing products.

Led Backcountry's agile transformation efforts for the Product and Engineering organizations. Rotated through all 13+ Product teams as an Agile Coach helping bring teams online and establish BC's Agile culture. All team's achieved double-digit improvements in velocity and quality.Spent considerable time with the Technical Operations teams (Infrastructure, Applications/SA and Security) to evolve an Agile and DevOps model that fit their interrupt-driven mission and resulted in greatly improved responsiveness to and NPS (Net Promoter Score) from their constituents.Over the course of tenure lead other process improvement initiatives in the areas of Engineering, HR/Compliance, Finance and Marketing.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Senior manager responsible for corporate application development. Strategic and budgetary oversight ($9 Million) for development centers in Dallas, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and London.

Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

Senior manager responsible for development of strategic business products. Recruited to spearhead the development of the company’s next-generation audit tool. Led a team of 30+ with a budget of $3 Million to create a distributed, low-bandwidth, n-tier data analysis technology. Was the first company in the US to run a formal DSDM (Agile/Adaptive Methodology) project using accredited resources. Project was successfully delivered on budget and ahead of schedule.

Greater Chicago Area

Senior manager over an organization of 25 programmers and analysts working on upwards of 100 concurrent data transformation projects. Responsible for operational, strategic and budgetary ($6 Million annually) oversight in a fast paced, growing, and high-pressure environment.

• Converted and restructured Financial and POS databases from client mainframe and mid-range systems for use in a PC/LAN based automated auditing and analysis environments.• Designed and coded custom conversion utilities to map raw EDI transaction sets to compatible data structures for export to other data analysis systems.• Designed and coded prototype system for auditing Direct Store Delivery (DSD) transactions for one of the nation’s largest grocery chains.• Conceived, designed and coded in-house project tracking/management system used to initiate, track status, report, and archive history of current and completed projects.• Effectively translated ideas and concepts between technical and non-technical business parties.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for coordination of the Institution's outsourced data and transaction processing contracts and office automation requirements.• Recommended and facilitated automation strategies.• Coded data conversion software using C++ to facilitate data migration for various systems conversions.