Otto Kirby Email & Phone Number

Palm Harbor, Fl, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Release and QA Manager. In this role, responsible for driving and managing change initiatives within our organization while ensuring the quality and effectiveness of our products, processes, and systems. Responsible for implementing and managing release, quality assurance and change management processes for code through development, test, change management approvals and production environments.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Program Manager for the iFactory project "software for the factory of the future"

Clearwater Fl

Travelopia Splits off from TUI Travel PLC April 2015Oversaw team budgets and recharges, effectively managing resources and introducing the Central Product Owner role across multiple brands. Led the implementation of the Domino platform across 42 brands within Travelopia. Held responsibility for three development teams in the United States and the United Kingdom. Introduced Agile Methodology to other teams, utilizing custom Jira/Tempo solutions. Spearheaded Dev/Ops and Continuous Integration (CI) initiatives using Jenkins, New Relic, and Cloudflare.Managed all web-based hosting operations using Acquia, in addition to a small mix of servers housed in our Atlanta data center. Conducted internal department workshops and provided Agile coaching. Successfully managed 27 brands across two divisions.Websites, Customer portals and custom reservation systems

Clearwater Fl

Scrum of Scrum Masters - Software Development Manager - North American Specialist & North American Education Division - TUI Travel PLC Created and maintained a Travel based Website platform called DominoMethodology & Overview - Domino is a private Drupal Distribution based upon the Panopoly Distribution and Drupal Commerce, extended with a wide variety of modules built in-house to support Agile development of Web-based Marketing & eCommerce solutions for Travel Companies. Our foundational goal in building Domino is to reduce the scope of custom code required for each site across Travelopia’s various web properties, and to make sites faster to build and easier maintain from both a development and content entry perspective. Managed 27 Brands across the DivisionsWebsites, Customer portals and custom reservation systemsIntroduced Agile methodology to the Division for software projects and BAU Introduced Dev/Ops and Continuous Integration (CI)Managed all web based hosting using Acquia and a small mix of servers in our Atlanta data centerManaged Team Budgets, recharges, Resource Management and moreRan internal department workshops

Clearwater Fl

• Full service website developer, dedicated to creating user friendly websites that reinforce branding, increase site traffic and strengthen customer loyalty. • Website programming using the latest available technologies resulting in professional website design that will last, simple to use content management systems, shopping carts, blog and forum integrations.• Skilled in SEO friendly website design methodology

• Demonstrated broad-scope management skills in successfully steering everything from custom software development and major projects to employee training, coordination and supervision • Contributed dynamic leadership skills in managing all aspects of the Software Development Office, with full accountability for software design and analysis, as well as project and employee management.• Innovatively developed prototype of new product enhancement for credit/debit card processing and acquiring portal, instrumental in optimizing performance.• Exhibited critical thinking skills in developing and maintaining Systems Development Life Cycle and installing and managing the source control protocol, including use of SVN (Subversion).• Developed and maintained the Software testing methods and procedures as part of the SDLC.

• Directly oversaw employees, playing an instrumental role in developing top performing team members. • Boosted productivity and efficiency by prototyping, developing and maintaining a debit payment portal and integrating system with the call center and client services departments.• Proactively designed, developed, and maintained a card-holder portfolio management portal and an administration portal for the company products; identified and addressed existing and potential issues and created proactive upgrades and enhancements for optimal results.• Maintained full accountability for managing Quality Assurance of existing and newly developed internal and external products.

• Strategically planned, developed, and maintained new product enhancement systems for acquiring portal; maximized use of resources while controlling costs and meeting company needs.• Steered front-end GUI team and training of new merchant service employees and Quality Assurance of acquiring portal software and departmental portals, demonstrating exceptional multitasking and prioritizing abilities in achieving goals and timelines.• Relied upon to apply IT expertise toward developing web-based real time monitoring tools and procedures for internal technical support department

Secure-Bank Clearwater FL • Effectively contributed extensive IT knowledge toward prototyping, developing and maintaining credit card transaction reporting web-suite, with 3 interfaces. • Acquired valuable knowledge and experience in ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL server database, J2EE. Secondary software (independent) developed using a variety of tools including CGI/Perl, VB, SQL and/or Access databases.