Joe Somma Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Grappone Ford

Currently managing business development & commercial sales operations for the Commercial Sales Department at the Ford store.

Greater Boston Area

• A Software Engineer and Web Application Developer building web sites and mobile applications for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
• Offering technology consulting services for SaaS, Web, Cloud, and Mobile software solutions.
• Member and student at FreeCodeCamp.com learning Full-Stack Software Engineering Technologies and pursuing Full-Stack Certification. Free Code Camp Portfolio: http://www.freecodecamp.com/jsommamtek

Greenwich, Connecticut

• Accountable for managing the complete portfolio of custom application development projects collaborating with client services managers and on-boarding teams providing compliance services to an extensive inventory of.
• Implemented communications strategy to optimize agile scrum process including video conferencing, daily call scheduling, and refined agenda items including accomplishments, blockers, and next up discussion items.
• Implemented tracking strategy in agile project management tool creating better visibility into sprint status including requirements gaps, testing status and progress, and more reliable release planning and execution.
• Introduced and implemented the Jira-Agile SaaS toolset to the organization to help with all agile sprint planning, execution, and reporting for all development projects across the entire business portfolio.
• Led an offshore team of 15+ developers executing client/business priorities, grooming backlogs, and sprint planning for several project areas including managing support and operations functions daily.
• Executed a new CDN deployment on Amazon Web Services to distribute training videos and content for a global financial services media organization.

Trumbull, CT

• Accountable for handling the entire array of Software Delivery activities including program and oversight while ensuring on-time delivery as well as SLA target achievement with reduced downtime, high quality.
• Directed the coordination and launch of keyfepara.com.tr website for the Turkey business unit in Q4 of 2013.
• Led Application Development, DevOps, and Networking teams implementing CMS platform clustering configurations in Trumbull and UK global data centers.
• Facilitated and established a repeatable deployment process for ongoing code/content releases on the new CMS platform.
• Partnered with EA and senior leadership team to plan CMS platform maintenance strategy including team roles and future development activities.

Stamford, CT

• Actively involved in providing thought leadership and technology direction for new retail startup with the objective to grow and expand the business regionally and nationally. Accountable for planning, organizing.
• Led the design and execution of all systems and application architecture for the Lifereel Production Systems (LPS) including customer-facing MovieMaker application, post-production automation systems, and cloud.
• Led production-editing resources in HUB overseeing workflow automation, custom movie production, and digital conversion activities.
• Key member of Senior Leadership Team working with retail partners and investors to execute store-in-store expansion strategy.
• Partnered with cloud vendor to design and host a custom branded video streaming platform to host personalized movies produced by retail customers using move-making software.

Trumbull, CT

• Retained and promoted after merger to lead member services application development and delivery team. Promoted client satisfaction with all technology teams and business partners by leveraging industry-standard.
• Promoted to direct upgrade and migration of critical membership systems from legacy Siebel platform to new.NET/Windows/Oracle platform. Project encompasses seven countries and 200-plus clients. Supervise delivery of.
• Key member of technology leadership team from North American and European technology centers, which oversees global systems enhancement and integration projects.
• Expanded and optimized development and DevOps resources for Trumbull development center by hiring and training top personnel.
• Key member of team that integrated infrastructure and business applications between loyalty and membership systems following merger with Webloyalty.com. Enabled continued servicing of clients on online product.
• Provided architecture oversight managing the migration of German bank client from Siebel platform to new Helix platform based on best-of-breed systems from Webloyalty and Affinion.

Norwalk, CT

• Hired by the CTO as an Architect on the core startup team promoted to build and lead a team of Software Engineers, Database Administrators, DevOps Engineers, and QA Analysts for the successful solution design, service.
• Built a portfolio of 100+ projects as an architect and developer of online enrollments systems, membership product websites, customer communications platform, in-house development frameworks, release and configuration.
• Consistently facilitated improvements in efficiency and productivity through effective leadership of software development, QA, and production initiatives.
• 100% PCI compliance achieved through three annual audit.
• Planned and directed critical platform migration from Windows server 2003 to 2008 including virtualization of all environments reducing overall costs.

Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Learning JavaScript by solving waypoint, bonfire, zip line, and base-jump coding challenges. Participating on.

A.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Deans ListComputer Science student.

Master Arranging Certificate - Online School

Studied music theory, desktop music production, and arranging.