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Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Software Developer for the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) for the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency Program including full-stack development in an Agile Scrum project setting.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Application Development Manager for the Arkansas Department of Human Services Information Support System contract for multiple time and materials and firm fixed price task orders totaling $10M+ annually. Managed a portfolio of IT projects across six business units supporting Arkansas’ DHS business objectives.• Managed a cross-functional team of 30 responsible for budgets of $10M+ in annual revenue. Responsible for setting the vision driving enterprise wide solutions and breaking down siloed applications for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, advising the agency's CIO and key IT staff, and coordinating with other departmental managers and the Project Management Office.• Focused teams on business objectives and project deliverables, and tracked progress to ensure milestones are completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.• Recruited, motivated and coached teams to achieve goals and assess performance.• Costed, estimated and planned projects, and monitored actuals against project budgets.• Managed multiple projects of significant complexity, size, risk and complex interdependencies.• Managed the day-to-day work on the program through delegation to project managers. Assigned tasks to team members, monitored progress and reported to the customer and manager and ensured quality of team's work.• Provided key performance metrics, and known issues/risks to the Program Manager.• Provided input and prepared task order proposals, business plans, work statements and specifications, operating budgets and other management work products.• Supported business operating objectives and contributed to business growth goals.• Participated on Northrop proposal team for the AR-ISS $54M contract re-compete as a writer, and delivered oral presentations to the evaluation panel.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Project Manager responsible for the Arkansas Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education portfolio of IT projects totaling $4M+ annually. Managed a diverse team of professionals from 10 to 20 team members including business analysts, testers, software developers and help desk support.• Managed software development, implementation and support of applications for the Arkansas Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education. Planned, scheduled and implemented all stages of the software development lifecycle, as well as, team staffing. Monitored progress to meet deadlines and cost targets, and stay within scope.• Increased annual revenue from $2M to over $4M, and grew the team from ten to 20.• Promoted to Project Manager II within nine months of taking the job.• Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and goals, created road maps, plans, schedules, work breakdown structures and progress reports.• Worked closely with clients and end users to understand business needs and manage expectations, issues and risks, and maintained high levels on customer satisfaction.• Set vision for enterprise wide software architecture standards using the principles of Domain Driven Design, and laid groundwork for master data.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Senior Software Developer Analyst responsible for all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including: requirements gathering, analysis and design, development, testing, implementation, and production support. In addition, performed and supported development efforts and testing functions in both waterfall and Agile Scrum project settings.• Gathered requirements, designed, developed and tested software applications and reports in ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET and SSRS for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, as well as, performed ETL processes and API integration using SSIS.• Participated in daily scrum meetings, and provided technical advice on bugs and enhancements, and resolved issues including going out to client sites.• Facilitated customization of systems by encouraging team to adopt responsive design web sites and layered software architectures.• Supported quality assurance to ensure optimal delivery and product stability for end users.• Developed and tested applications and integration of functionality as needed to ensure compliance with Arkansas DHS regulations and security policies.• Ensured secure coding practices were adhered to in all phases of the secure development lifecycle.• Provided weekly status updates to the project manager.• Worked with project and client testers to support systems integration testing and user acceptance testing.• Presented software development updates to project stakeholders in monthly meetings.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Technical Lead responsible for all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including: requirements gathering, analysis and design, development, testing, implementation, and production support. In addition, responsible for setting company standards and guidelines for software development, reviewing code updates, approving software releases, and assisting in selling the company’s products and services.• Performed database design, updates, queries, and generated reports and integration packages using SSIS and SSRS.• Administered and maintained the database and web servers to ensure server and application updates were released and deployed in a controlled manner.• Participated in interviews of software developer candidates.• Worked trade show booths to assist in selling the company’s products and services.• Developed and tested applications and sophisticated reports for oil and gas contract management, e-commerce and healthcare.• Responsible for maintaining code repository, and setting coding standards and best practices for the organization.• Presented software development updates to project stakeholders in client meetings.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Information Analyst with the EDS Arkansas Title XIX Program Team responsible for all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including: requirements gathering, analysis and design, development, testing, implementation, and production support for MMIS initiatives with the Arkansas Medicaid Program. In addition, performed and supported development efforts and testing functions in both small and large project settings.• Provided 24/7 daily support for batch claims and payment cycle for Arkansas MMIS, made CICS updates, and batch program changes in COBOL and JCL.• Resolved mainframe batch job abnormal endings for the Arkansas MMIS nightly and weekend batch cycles as the on-call monitor.• Travelled to Chennai, India to train developers on HIPAA changes.• Technical lead on a geographically diverse team for projects involving new eligibility and claims modules with the Arkansas Department of Health and the Arkansas Medicaid Program that were delivered on-time.• Performed Y2K modifications on IBM mainframe and VeriFone POS client-server software written in C.• Championed use of Microsoft .NET for replacement of Microsoft Access and FoxPro databases.