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Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Provide strategic leadership for team of .Net developers charged with integrating newly acquired El Paso pipelines into Kinder Morgan’s gas transportation systems. Strengthen essential relationships across groups and make vital decisions that impact business, acting as liaison between KM and El Paso user and IT groups. TEAM DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING — Transformed a business need to understand baseline system capabilities into a key training opportunity for a new team of developers, by involving the team members in modeling business processes. ** Accelerated build up of the team’s knowledge, yielded solid designs and increased developer ownership of project. SYSTEM DESIGN — Authored technical design documents detailing the legacy system and modifications necessary to support and schedule new El Paso pipelines. ** Design documents proved extremely valuable as we brought many user groups together and merged their business needs into one application.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Provided leadership to team of local and remote employees and contractors. Managed work assignments, provided career coaching and prepared and delivered performance reviews. PROJECT LEADERSHIP — Selected to co-lead $4.5 million large-scale project due to experience developing technical solutions to resolve complex business requirements. Tasked to rebuild complex back-end processes for the Western Pipelines nomination and scheduling systems, ensuring that FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) laws were followed, tariff rules were intact, pipeline operational requirements followed, and customer contracts were protected. ** Led development team to design robust solutions that eliminated many manual processes, allowing gas schedulers to focus their attention on customers instead of the day-to-day running of systems.** System was implemented on time and successfully.** Considered one of the largest and best implementations across the corporation, system contained state of the art technical solutions that leveraged C#, WPF, and Entity Framework as well as Agile software development methods and close collaboration with users. INCREASED REVENUES — Re-engineered a new system to balance customer’s pooling networks which now runs in a fraction of the time and balances the transactions more efficiently.** More gas is scheduled on the pipeline, resulting in higher profits.CUSTOMER FOCUSED — Partnered with business users representing 12 pipelines to design a consolidated transportation scheduling system. Supported business users by visiting customers to present and gather feedback on new system features. ** Facilitated requirements meetings to arrive at best practices among all pipelines.** Directed staff in 3 states and worked closely with KPMG and CSC Consultants.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Provided HR functions to include interviewing, performance evaluations and work scheduling. Provided software design, coding and testing. Managed on-call support responsibilities for business critical software systems.CONTINUOUS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS — Leveraged expert knowledge of business systems to propose enhancements to the Headstation Pooling service for the Rockies pipelines. ** Implementation dramatically slashed one of the largest shipper’s daily transaction counts by 2/3 while flowing the same quantity of gas, easing the daily transaction entry burden for the customer.TEAM ACCOUNTABILITY — Effectuated the establishment of department-wide “Rules of Engagement” to provide a set of standards for behavior and rules by which members were expected to conduct themselves. ** Held team members accountable for upholding those rules, creating a more positive environment and a cohesive team.ON-BOARDING — Led a team of developers to provide 24/7 support for business-critical gas transportation systems. Since the business and systems were very complex and the business was changing rapidly, it was critical to get new members productive as soon as possible. ** Hired, trained and developed staff to grow the team from 2 developers to 8 in less than 2 years.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Managed a team of ten employees located at multiple client sites throughout Colorado. Met with client managers, prepared and delivered employee performance reviews, provided written and verbal status updates while on contract as a software developer with full-time project responsibilities.

Duncan, Oklahoma

Managed the data conversion of subsidiary companies onto new Halliburton payroll system. Prepared and delivered presentations outlining features of new payroll system to subsidiary management team. Designed, coded and implemented enterprise software solutions.