Is Senior Manager
Mount Prosepect, Il
Managed, planned, and directed full life cycle development and testing of core products. Oversaw development, upgrades, implementations, and project management for new product development and migrations: managed full-cycle software development projects, including customized and prepackaged solutions. Led software requirement analysis, design, coding, development, testing, validation, and implementation. Developed documentation; created and conducted training presentations. Responsible for establishing and facilitating the completion of release and resource planning objectives. Collaborate closely with the product management team to determine product requirements. Led a cross-functional software development team in all areas of requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support for a primary product line. Scope of responsibility included project management, staffing, and coordinating integration initiatives. Targeted IT standardization and strategies to reduce defects and drive cost containment, productivity, testing efficiency, quality, and compliance through structured iterative development methods.Introduced full transparency in IS operations.Led the effort to design and implement user-driven business intelligence to enable quantitative and business-driven management of organizational goals.Agile Development: Serve as team leader for all software product development processes.Saved a significant amount by integrating and consolidating vendors through aggressive contract negotiation.