Shawn Hall Email & Phone Number

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

As the head of the engineering organization at Kinney Group, I oversee cross-functional teams responsible for delivering analytics and automation professional services and also leading the development of an innovative Splunk enablement platform called Atlas. My role encompasses leadership across professional services, product management, product engineering, and customer experience, with a primary emphasis on cultivating a dynamic organization geared towards launching new products and services. Each day, I collaborate closely with my teams to tackle complex challenges, all in pursuit of ensuring our customers derive tangible, measurable outcomes from their technological investments.Spearheaded the implementation of an e-commerce solution that enables customers to seamlessly purchase our software products and services online. This initiative not only streamlined the purchasing process for customers but also significantly enhanced the overall user experience. This project also helped to optimize many of our back end sales processes and escalated our ability to convert sales to cash quickly.Orchestrated the seamless transition of all digital workloads from an on-premises data center to the AWS cloud platform. This endeavor marked a significant milestone in our organization's digital transformation journey, unlocking a host of benefits including enhanced scalability, improved performance, and increased cost efficiency.Led the implementation of a service management solution by deploying JIRA Service Management (JSM), resulting improved customer interaction and streamlined internal processes. This solution introduced greater efficiency in handling service requests and providing customers with a user-friendly platform for engaging with our Customer Experience Team.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Responsible for leading all aspects of the Product Development organization that is building a new software platform called Atlas. Led Product Management, Product Engineering, and Customer Experience with a heavy focus on building a scalable organization that is challenged with bringing a new product to market. Everyday I work with my team to solve challenging problems all in the spirit of helping our customers get tangible measurable outcomes from their investment in technology.

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Founded the Product Management function at Kinney Group who is working to bring a new software platform to market. In this role, I was responsible for creating all aspects of the product development organization and led the creation of new product features that drive customer growth. Managed product strategy and execution by creating vertical market capabilities that expanded the customer base of the product.

Indianapolis, Indiana

As the Director of Engineering, I managed all aspects of project execution and delivery in the data center virtualization and automation division of the business; directly manage a team of 8-9 Engineers, in addition to overseeing others who are assigned to project teams. Oversee project execution for multiple projects at one time, to include management of multi-million-dollar projects consistently aligning project spend with project delivery.Significant Projects and Key Results:• Spearheaded projects that represented a significant percentage of the company’s annual revenue and a majority of the company’s Government and DoD customer portfolio• Developed and matured Agile/Scrum as the execution framework for all projects under control• Led a project team to deliver an automated deployment solution for the DCGS-Army tactical systems program; used automation and orchestration technologies for a solution that reduced complex deployment procedures from weeks to hours and promises to deliver millions in cost avoidance• Led a Team that designed a solution for a large data analytics company, Splunk, that allowed technical support engineers to automatically identify issues with a customer’s software deployment reducing issue resolution times• Architected a solution for a project that facilitated the rapid deployment of DCGS-Army training environments reducing classroom setup times from days to less than an hour

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Served as an interim member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team with responsibility for leading the entire Engineering organization under the guidance of the President and CEO of the company• Spearheaded a reintroduction of Agile / Scrum as the company’s model for project execution• Introduced a customer-facing Agile approach that required Engineering teams to involve the customers in the iterative development process by holding regular sprint reviews and creating a consistent feedback loop opportunity for the customer during project development• Led the effort to capture two of the company’s largest revenue generating projects for 2016 and 2017, working with the Project Management, Sales and Operations Teams• Directed the transition of internally hosted Engineering tools to Cloud-based solutions lowering subscription costs and significantly reducing maintenance required by internal staff• Managed monthly budgets for all of the company’s Engineering cost centers

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Served as the Functional Lead in a matrix organization and directed the technical aspects of all Engineering projects for the data center virtualization and automation teams; tasked with improving staff utilization, providing technical guidance for project work and implementing colleague development initiatives• Set standards for Engineering Team’s processes and tooling; improved quality of project deliverables by adding accountability and traceability for code changes sent to customer• Hired new Engineers and grew team to support the business’ projects and strategic initiatives• Led Sales technical support efforts, project requirements analysis, and engineering effort cost estimates in business capture efforts

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Leveraged expertise in software build and deployment automation to initiate a DevOps practice for a newly formed software development department supporting Microsoft and Java development technology stacks• Architected the DevOps toolchain used to support all software build and release activities• Built DevOps practices for the department to help build the foundations of enterprise source code management, automated build and release engineering, environment configuration and change control processes; built an automated software delivery pipeline that provided the ability to deliver software releases from source code to production in minutes rather than days• Built an automated software delivery pipeline that provided the ability to deliver software releases from source code to production in minutes rather than days.• Selected the software to be used by the department that was used to build out the DevOps toolchain. DevOps tools included Git, Jenkins/Hudson, TeamCity and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).• Supported both Microsoft and Java based development technology stacks.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Designed, developed, and implemented custom automated software deployment solutions in both Windows and Linux environments in a highly virtualized data center; worked with the latest automation tools and technologies on projects that use technology to make complex tasks simple and user friendly• Worked on a project to create an automated deployment solution for a federal customer that reduced man hours required to deploy and configure a stack of virtual servers, 2 weeks to < 4 hrs• Automated system hardening to meet DISA STIG requirements• Helped to implement Agile development methodology for effective and timely product deliveryDevelop high impact data center automation solutions utilizing the latest data center automation and virtualization technologies:• Puppet Enterprise, VMWare, Splunk, Git• Linux (RHEL, CentOS), Windows• Utilizing programming languages such as PowerShell, Perl, Ruby, Bash

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Worked as DevOps Engineer/Build Master creating and implementing a completely automated Build and Release process for several highly-available SaaS solutions; collaborated with the Development, QA, and Product teams to deliver functional code to all environments throughout the entire software development lifecycle• Built and implemented tools automating the continuous build and deployment of software components for all environments while reducing deployment errors, minimizing application downtime, and improving availability of new code to production / non-production arenas• Automated deployment of multi-tier software applications to 50+ environments with hundreds of virtual / physical servers, multiple SQL Server databases, and an Akami CDN integration• Developed a business strategy for the Operations team to transition to a DevOps culture that promoted a more cross-functional and collaborative team environment• Implemented and supported all software build and deployment infrastructure while constantly working to deploy better technologies and introduce improvements to existing processes

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Senior Programmer and Systems Analyst on the Enterprise Application Infrastructure team implementing and supporting custom and third-party applications used for mission critical business and IT functions across the Enterprise.Designed and developed custom solutions that augmented vendor provided software packages. This required creating programs written in a variety languages and platforms including Perl, C#.Net, SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, MS SQL Server and Oracle.Provided technical leadership in the planning, analysis, vendor relations, and testing for installations, enhancements, customizations and upgrades of COTS systems; CA Clarity, CA SCM (Harvest), CA Service Desk (CMDB), MS SharePoint.Engineered and supported an enterprise software configuration management (SCM) system and process that ensures adherence to change management standards, compliance controls and SCM best practices for an IT organization with more than 400 developers and 135+ software applications.Worked on a project team to convert a knowledge base application from a vendor provided application to a Microsoft SharePoint publishing site. All customizations and utilities were written in C# using the SharePoint Web extensions API.Shared responsibilities for administering, maintaining and monitoring Windows servers in a high-availability clustered configuration.Oracle developer on Sallie Mae’s support team for a real-time data store of customer demographic and loan data. This position required the development and maintenance of Oracle PL/SQL triggers, packages, stored procedures and UNIX shell scripting.

Served as a senior member of a specialized team of developers who augment existing development teams working on high priority projects within the IT organization. This position required the ability to be able to learn new technical skills and put them to use quickly.

As a Marketing Associate I managed several effective marketing campaigns for Purdue University Press publications increasing repeat sales of annual industry journals. Coordinated Author's scheduling and attending book signings and representing the University Press at several trade shows across the country.Designed the Press' marketing catalog that was distributed to thousands of current and prospective customers.Helped to deploy, support and maintain internal software platforms used to manage and enhance the daily operations of the business.Designed and deployed the Press' first internet web site.