Donnie H. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Taking time off to focus on myself and my family. Lots of self-care and parenting. Mediation, Mindfulness Checkins, Potty Training, a few mentor/coaching calls with talented colleagues still in the field. Riding Bikes without Training Wheels. Helping with Homework... and tantrums. Lots of tough work and lots of good outcomes. Looking forward to getting.

Chicago, IL, US

• Remotely Led the Conversations Team and initiated the development of the new Tracking team, demonstrating strategic leadership and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Championed leadership development, coaching, and mentoring, significantly enhancing team capabilities and productivity, as evidenced by successfully recruiting and nurturing engineering talent, leading to significant.
• Implemented Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery and problem-solving processes, effectively unblocking engineers from complex challenges and contributing to improvements in project completion rates.

Baltimore, MD, US

• Guided the development of customer-facing Rails applications and backend services, significantly enhancing product functionality and user experience, increasing user engagement.
• Achieved an 86% reduction in CircleCi run times, from 35min to 5min, by optimizing continuous integration processes, thereby improving continuous deployment efficiency significantly.
• Mentored and developed a remote team of 5-10 engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence, which led to the successful recruitment of top-tier engineering talent and a great.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led the development of a new mobile platform, by growing a team of 4 engineers using Swift, iOS, Xcode, Ruby, Rails, and RESTful JSON APIs.
• Implemented Lean & Agile Processes, significantly improving project delivery speed and team efficiency, as evidenced by the successful launch of the initial platform within a tight 6-month timeframe.
• Fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, Including a heavy emphasis on test automation from the beginning of the development life cycle, contributing to a significant increase in engineering team.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led a team of ~130 engineers in developing web-based consumer lending products, significantly enhancing product portfolio by launching 6 new products across 4 countries, while adeptly maintaining 6existing brands.
• Fostered a culture of trust and collaboration among stakeholders, effectively reducing time-to-value for all teams, by implementing Agile methodologies and fostering a strong leadership team.
• Spearheaded strategic partnerships with product leadership to align engineering efforts with organizational goals, resulting in improved project delivery efficiency and a better culture between Product, Design, and.

Chicago, IL, US

• Spearheaded leadership development for 4 full-stack engineering teams (~20 people), enhancing team productivity and alignment with strategic goals, increasing deployment efficiency, by implementing coaching new.
• Delivered numerous major product launches and maintenance tasks, directly contributing to the company's strategic objectives and product portfolio expansion.
• Cultivated strategic partnerships with product leadership to ensure engineering efforts were fully aligned with organizational goals, resulting in improved cross-functional collaboration and project outcomes.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led a full-stack team of 7 engineers, significantly advancing their career paths, by fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.
• Successfully delivered 3-5 engineering projects of varying sizes and complexity within tight timelines (1-week to 3-months), predominantly utilizing Ruby on Rails, demonstrating exceptional project management and.
• Implemented Agile methodologies to streamline project delivery processes, achieving a significant increase in deploying smaller incremental changes over time to drastically improve the teams workflow.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led a team of 5 UI Engineers, enhancing the UI quality across 6 brands by closely coordinating withQA in a collaborative fashion to deliver small incremental changes in an environment that was still slowly switching.
• Led the way for the creation of a comprehensive style guide, ensuring design consistency across all product lines and brands, which became a cornerstone for future UI development projects.
• Pioneered User Experience Research initiatives, significantly contributing to the product line's user-centric design approach, and setting a benchmark for research methodologies within the organization.

• Elevated a team of 3 UI Engineers to full stack Ruby on Rails proficiency, specializing in FrontEnd Development and Design, thereby enhancing team versatility and project adaptability.
• Consistently delivered high-quality Ruby on Rails User Experiences, directly contributing to the successful redesign and improvement of product features across 5-7 waterfall projects simultaneously.
• Was at the forefront of the transformation of traditional waterfall projects into Agile methodologies, significantly improving project delivery speed and team efficiency.

• Pioneered as the inaugural UI Engineer at CashNetUSA, successfully orchestrating 3 major brand redesigns for Ruby on Rails applications within the first 9 months, significantly enhancing user interface quality and.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led the development and deployment of large-scale JSP, Websphere, and Fatwire Content Management Systems for multiple corporate hospital chains, enhancing product adaptability and customer satisfaction by maintaining.
• Excelled in solving complex browser compatibility issues across a variety of devices and browsers, notably with Internet Explorer 6, significantly improving user experience and accessibility for diverse client bases.
• Achieved a significant optimization of the JSP codebase's rendering performance, leading to a marked increase in system efficiency and reliability, thereby enhancing overall product quality and client satisfaction.

• Single-handedly led the design, development, and deployment of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign's largest off-campus rental property consumer facing website for available rental properties in the area.
• Engineered a robust Linux Apache, PHP, MySQL platform on legacy BSD systems, demonstrating adaptability and problem-solving skills in constrained environments (developed with legacy vim).
• Innovated automated ETL processes for data migration, significantly enhancing the efficiency and reliability of property vacancy and pricing updates, thereby improving the customer-facing website's usability and.

During my undergraduate studies in Computer Science, I embarked on an entrepreneurial journey, offering independent consulting services from my dorm. This venture rapidly evolved from basic computer repairs to delivering comprehensive solutions, including corporate branding, web design, backend web development, IT infrastructure, and marketing strategies.

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• Played a key role in defining corporate branding and marketing strategy initiatives, demonstrating leadership under high-pressure conditions and contributing to the successful launch of key products, thereby enhancing.
• Through tight collaboration with the engineering team I began to practice Extreme Programming techniques, was introduced to mod perl, new templating systems, quickly adaptation to new technologies and old such as cvs.
• Played a pivotal role in navigating the team through production outages and aggressive timelines, ensuring project delivery and team cohesion by dedicating myself fully to the cause and the team's success.

• Discovered a passion for technology at the age of 15, after a curious exploration led to a two-day network downtime; this initiative resulted in being entrusted with part-time network technician duties, laying the.
• Volunteered to run Cat 5 ethernet cables through false ceilings and assist in building one of the largest WANs in central Illinois school districts, gaining hands-on experience with a variety of operating systems and.
• Self-taught in programming and networking, automating machine assimilation and setting up diverse server environments, demonstrating early proficiency in technology and a proactive approach to learning.