Richard Schell Email & Phone Number

Plano, TX, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Charlotte, NC, US

• Direct a team of up to 30 onshore and offshore developers, quality control resources, business analysts, and project managers in the development and design of web applications supporting Bank of America’s enterprise.
• Delivered consistent, high-quality releases in a Scrum Agile environment, with responsibility for establishing the team’s culture, mentoring and growing development and QC resources, and managing stakeholder.
• Advocated for and implemented the use of testing and regression automation across four projects, using test automation engineers as primary quality control
• Managed the two-year design and deployment of internal data incident management web applications to prioritize and remediate incidents used in every line of business enterprise-wide, driving risk assessment and funding.
• Provided Agile training to development teams division-wide in consultation with partner teams across the enterprise, driving significant improvement in stakeholder relationships and improved projects’ time to market

Charlotte, NC, US

• Served as principal architect and developer on an internal Infrastructure as a Service platform used by hundreds of teams in the global markets and research technology line of business
• Oversaw the implementation of Scrum Agile across a ten-member matrix team from two organizations with weekly iterations

Charlotte, NC, US

• Provided comprehensive architecture oversight during the transition of Countrywide Financial’s technology into the Bank of America infrastructure following its acquisition, with responsibility for providing technical.
• Leveraged relationships built over nine years at Countrywide to facilitate a forum for transition architects to present, discuss, and resolve complex architecture challenges, including integration timelines and.
• Delivered a comprehensive architecture diagram of hundreds of applications and thousands of integrations across 14 functional areas, providing a road map for architects and senior executives during the transition

Charlotte, NC, US

• Served as architect of the corporate-wide enterprise architecture program, with responsibility for managing relationships with other internal line of business architects, stakeholders, and primary vendors for.
• Launched an enterprise-wide software reuse program, including creation of reuse metrics, maturity models, program documentation, and an online reuse catalog using JRuby on Rails, saving more than 80,000 hours of work.
• Assisted the CTO with resolution of a severity 1 defect having significant impact on the ability to originate loans across all branches, working with lead technologies to isolate, identify, and remediate a defect.
• Consulted on enterprise-wide single sign-on failures impacting customers’ ability to log in, working with lead developers and hardware/network engineers to isolate, identify, and stabilize the infrastructure.

• Managed the development team and served as primary architect for a.NET/C# mortgage origination application that originated loans for two large U.K. banks, with responsibility for oversight of 35 developers, analysts.
• Led the architecture and development effort of centralized enterprise services for the company’s eBusiness division, with responsibility for deploying the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system in Java (still.