Jon Stratton Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, Or, Us

Corvallis, Oregon

Benton County represents my first career move to a public sector position. The unique challenges, requirements, and rewards that come from working in this sector have proven desirable and long-lived. I am the Programming Team Lead for a team of three Senior Programmer/Analyst positions and one Programmer/Analyst position. I assign work to my team using a combination of a service request ticketing system (Kace) and a Kanban approach to an Agile-based workflow used in our business unit (Innovations) within the I.T. department. Tickets can originate from internal cross functional teams within the IT Department or can be submitted by staff members in outside departments or business units. I work with the other members of our unit and our manager to set standards and expectations for my team in terms of process, priority, and tools. As the team lead, I am also responsible for identifying and assigning applicable training for my team. As both a team lead and a programmer, I work with members of other units in the department whenever work crosses lines of responsibility.In my position, I am a project manager, business analyst, advisor, system engineer/architect, programmer, integrator, tester, and trainer in service to 16 departments with over 800 employees dedicated to providing regular, dependable service to the citizens of Benton County, visitors, and partner agencies. My work includes working with elected officials, the County Administrator, department heads, and personnel across all departments and at multiple levels of responsibility. I am responsible for providing expert recommendations and decisions considering budget, contract review, technology selection, software adoption, user training, system integration, and implementation of built and bought products for everything from single user tools to enterprise level process solutions.

Eugene, Oregon

I worked in the IT department of Motosport Outlet, a leading reseller of aftermarket parts and accessories for the motocross and ATV enthusiast. I was responsible for providing user support to all internal users for all software and hardware issues relating to desktop and server based applications. I also provided support to outside customers of the Web site. During this time, I had my first opportunity to supervise other employees.I designed and built several stand-alone applications to perform task-specific functions to meet the requests of management. I modified existing 3rd party code and authored original Java content for the retail Web site; a site based entirely on Java Server Pages, Servlets and JavaBeans. I also wrote and modified the HTML, JavaScript and CSS that controlled the site’s appearance.Originally the only member of IT, I performed all server, desktop and network administration tasks. I was responsible for minor maintenance on, and the administration of, the company’s primary sales application. Initially, I was responsible for all internal software development prior to the hiring of additional staff members.During a transition in organization and company environment, my position was moved out of the area and I left Motosport.

Salem, Oregon

During my tenure at SAIC, I had the opportunity to work with a variety of peers and customers on projects covering a range of scope from a single user desktop application to a statewide multi-agency data sharing system. Our division had multiple state and local government contracts that acted as my introduction to work in the public sector. The projects I worked on at SAIC included union represented employee scheduling, adult in custody sentence calculation, multi-agency data sharing, and several smaller projects. My duties included business analysis with users and stakeholders, architecting complete solutions and components of solutions, programming solutions to meet design, documenting every step of development, deploying solutions, performing maintenance, and user training. I also provided workstation, server, and network technical support for our division office and up to seven employees.My position here represented my first foray into formal project management with duties including customer proposal creation, proposal delivery, vendor product evaluation, contract review, contract milestone fulfillment, stakeholder management, customer interfacing, and solution implementation.

Dallas, Oregon

I managed the corporate website, corporate employee intranet portal, and did a variety of small programming tasks for internal team-level applications. My responsibilities necessitated working with personnel at every level of the company, outside vendors, and company customers. My largest project was initially maintaining, and then redesigning and rebuilding, a web-accessible application used by customers called QuickQuote. QuickQuote was for cost estimation in custom printed circuit board manufacturing. Besides the work on QuickQuote, I shepherded two complete redesign/rebuild projects for the corporate website and designed & implemented an employee intranet portal.

Corvallis, Oregon

At the Gazette-Times, a local paper in Corvallis, Oregon, I was a member of a four-person team exploring online publishing opportunities in the local market for enterprise-wide implementation. All team members shared duties for copy editing of news articles and article selection from local and wire sources (e.g., Associated Press) for publication in the online edition. One of my primary responsibilities was system administration for the website and workstations, using Apache HTML server running on a Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) server and workstations. We later transitioned to a combination of Windows based workstations and a single SGI server for hosting/publication. My other primary responsibility was as a developer of custom software solutions. This work was in the development of proof-of-concept development for customers needing some kind of data publication and/or data searching. The best example of this was a search engine that accessed the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data to provide a real estate search tool for website visitors before MLS had any significant web presence. My work here involved integrating and working with multiple departments of the newspaper, personnel at multiple levels, outside customers, vendors, and the website visitors.

Salem, Oregon

At the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC), I was a member of a four-person team tasked with designing and developing the Integrated Road Information System (IRIS). At this point, IRIS started its life as a road and road feature catalog system. Its primary purpose was inventorying the roads and features like pavement markings, culverts, speed zones, et. al. for Oregon’s roads. The application was originally a multiple document interface (MDI) application written in C++ using a Borland Paradox database. During my time at the AOC, the application transitioned to a Visual Basic application with Microsoft Access data storage.