Stephen Long Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.