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Overland Park, Ks, Us

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Responsible for Data, Engineering, and Product teams. We utilize Software Development innovation to deliver Grocery Technology products that increase Independent Grocers profits and competitive advantage.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Responsible for a 40 person engineering org focused on developing, delivering, and operating platform SaaS products. Primary responsibilities are leading people, product delivery, and negotiating cross org initiatives. My area provides a Service Platform to 300+ Services, 100+ engineering teams running 110,000 containers. We provide tools to streamline service development, continuous delivery pipelines, and 100+ on-prem and cloud deployed Managed Kubernetes clusters.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Sherwood, Arkansas, Us

• Successfully led development teams in the creation of high quality software that exceeds the needs of our clients. • Acted as primary point of contact for Development, Project Managers, Business Stake holders and Customer Advocates with regard to project delivery• Collaborated with Enterprise Architect, Product Managers, team managers, technical leads, and development teams in implementing and ensuring best practices in software development • Routinely facilitated root cause analysis of production defects across all products and drove process initiatives to identify and prevent defects in the future• Participated in selection and interviewing process of Software Developers, Software Testers, and Business Analysts• Participated and influenced onboarding process for software developers and software testers• Responsible for managing continuous improvement on the development team by implementing: Change and Approval Management Process, Proof of Concept Process, Quality and Performance Measurements, Knowledge Management, and Onboarding Strategy• Accountable for providing guidance and processes to ensure the organization was compliant to external security measures including: PCI, HIPPA, Customer SLA's, and international rules and regulations• Prepared and facilitated software demonstrations

Sherwood, Arkansas, Us

• Lead a team of Software Test Engineers in all aspects of quality control and quality assurance • Formulated and implemented overall quality and test architecture, strategy, framework, and methodology to improve productivity, quality, predictability, timeliness, cross-group coordination, skills, and customer satisfaction while reducing risk and cost• Provided oversight to all test activities and analysis on a given project within entire department ensuring cross-team and cross-department coordination and cooperation• Defined test phases and execution plans for each phase, ensuring that methodology is applied appropriately • Coordinated identification and resolution of software issues between multiple departments, groups, and locations and ensured cross-team and cross-department cooperation• Participated in design meetings from a testing perspective and presented strategy for testing and expressed recommendations based on client desires, product architecture, cost, quality, and delivery timelines• Trained and mentored other software testing engineers• Participated in requirements definition, verified that requirements are testable, and provided preliminary recommendations for how each will be tested• Discovered and analyzed requirements (written and oral) to derive test plans and cases, test estimates, scripts, and reports• Mentored and coached testers across organization towards long term goals on capability building

Overland Park, Ks, Us

• Developed and implemented department Testing Methodology and Standard Testing Approach used for all projects and implemented System and User Acceptance Testing Policies• Trained all new testing associates on software testing processes• Created a test team website containing test templates, testing and quality information, updates on projects, and current task status information• Verified software matches customer expectations; assisted developers with producing software components that meet or exceed customer expectations including performance• Reported quality assurance and testing status in weekly project status meetings• Communicated daily with development team and present in all design meetings

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Founding member of the Testing Center of Excellence• Developed, published, and implemented test plans, and test cases and related documentation• Created test plans, scripts, cases, and results for all projects • Provided strategic direction to quality and testing associates including best practices and principles to drive improvements needed for quality, effectiveness, and efficiency throughout development teams• Performed all aspects of product testing including functional, regression, performance, usability, and integration and “Ad Hoc” testing• Designed a training course for testing processes including schedules, tests, and hands-on training in a classroom environment

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Emphasis In Project Management

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems