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Cary, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Cary, Nc, Us

Drive continuous process improvements for a software stack including Jenkins, Gerrit, Gitlab, and source creation systems while leading six direct and three indirect developers in pipeline activity. Acted as the Scrum Master for over 100 two-week sprints. Scope includes outlining annual plan fordevelopment projects requiring scalable solutions, coding, customization, release, and post production support for API systems and web integration. Manage HR process of hiring, onboarding, training, mentoring, and advocating for employee recognition.► Strengthened team results while managing staff and providing regular one on ones, career development, technical direction, mentoring, and soft skills coaching on a day to day basis.► Enhanced information access capabilities by developing a highly visible dashboard and status system for promotion and composition using Kibana on top of an ElasticSearch and LogStash system.► Achieved continuous improvement by focusing on quality in processes and identifying opportunities for advancements to mission-critical functions.► Improved results by managing and mentoring a top-performing team to assist in overseeing 60 Jenkins instances and 8000 Gerrit repositories.► Increased transparency into results by regularly presenting to executive leadership on a variety of topics.

Cary, Nc, Us

Served as the CDP team Scrum Master for a team composed of 12 developers, a Product Owner, and a Development Manager. Developed and maintained the promotion and composition system for the Viya pipeline using Python. Played a pivotal role in hiring and onboarding.► Implemented a robust artifact retention policy for the Viya pipeline for all SAS CDP teams.► Provided rapid quality support to users of the Viya pipeline while managing support 50 Jenkins instances.► Ensured the continuity of builds and continued availability of shipped artifacts by completing business requirement driven, mass migration of artifacts from multiple instances of Artifactory.► Enabled continuous support for building, deploying, and automating projects by performing mass transformations on thousands of Jenkins jobs when necessary.

Cary, Nc, Us

Designed and developed multiple systems to improve performance and efficiency. Served as the Scrum Master for a team composed of eight developers and a Development Manager while also filling part of the role of Product Owner. Authored and delivered training courses for Git source control and Rally project management software.► Increased build feedback from once per day to 12 while participating in the design and implementation of the Mobius continuous build system for SAS9 solutions.► Delivered a large increase in build performance by identifying and resolving build infrastructure issues.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Identified opportunities for quality improvements of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies while assuming Senior Developer, Technical Lead, and Resource Manager roles managing teams up to 12. Mentored staff with less experience, identified training needs, and worked to develop a comprehensive training curriculum► Delivered overall system design/architecture for the Corporate Actions project while serving as a Senior Developer and Resource Manager for seven developers while writing Java code.► Streamlined user experience and dramatically increased client completion rates while leading 12 developers as a liaison between user interface and host teams for a project.► Minimized deviations from targets by translating business needs into viable technical requirements and solutions.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us