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Vineyard, Ut, Us

Leadership and Direction: Successfully led a team of 4-5 developers, providing clear direction and guidance to ensure optimal performance and collaboration within the team. Sprint Management: Effectively managed sprint planning, execution, and review processes, optimizing workflow and ensuring timely delivery of project milestones. This involved coordinating cross-functional efforts, setting sprint goals, and maintaining focus on project priorities.Mentoring and Collaboration: Actively mentored team members by providing guidance and support in overcoming technical challenges, code-related issues, and stakeholder concerns. Collaborated closely with individuals to unblock obstacles, advised team members on how to prioritize tasks and structure their work efficiently, and encouraged knowledge sharing within the team.Strategic Planning: Organized and planned quarterly objectives, aligning team efforts with departmental goals and ensuring that projects were executed in line with the organization's strategic vision. Contributed to the development of a forward-looking roadmap that considered both short-term goals and long-term objectives.Operational Review: Conducted weekly operational reviews, analyzing dashboards, security issues, and on-call incidents. Leveraged insights from these reviews to identify areas for improvement and implemented actionable tasks to address issues. Monthly, conducted a thorough analysis of scalability and past issues to identify recurring trends and opportunities for enhancements.Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Led a director-level team-wide Root Cause Analysis meeting weekly, involving over 9 teams and 100 engineers. These meetings focused on reviewing individual team RCA documents, sharing knowledge, and learning to improve processes and mitigate future outages. These insights led to more resilient systems and better incident response.

Complex Project Leadership: Designed and successfully led 4 development projects characterized by high levels of ambiguity, complexity, and autonomy. This resulted in the successful delivery of critical solutions that met business objectives. My most recent project my stakeholders gave me the feedback that this was exactly what they were wanting. Process Optimization: Revolutionized the hiring process by automating a previously time-consuming 15-30 minute scheduling interview process. This transformation reduced scheduling to mere seconds, providing recruiters with several recommendations for interviewers. This initiative played a pivotal role in handling high growth and distributing interview responsibilities across the engineering team.Automation and Transparency: Eliminated several manual tracking processes and cumbersome spreadsheets by implementing an automated system. This not only improved operational efficiency but also brought transparency to employees throughout the company.

Provo, Utah, United States

- Migrated E2E testing to a new in-house framework using a component-based approach.- Supported 3 teams by enhancing testing maturity through collaboration with team leads.- Created an integration testing framework to streamline integration testing development.

- Onboarded a team with no prior QE experience onto various QE systems. (Python, Node.js, Redis)- Established an end-to-end testing environment, including creating a user management service and an API service to set up and clean up the testing environment. (Node.js)-Automate End to End test of critical paths of internal product 400 + tests- Automated processes to prevent 2-3 major outages per month in CI/CD.- Acted as CI/CD SME, advising and maintaining deployment pipelines for automated testing. Created a queuing system to only run E2Es on a single MR at a time but allow async builds.Optimized automated builds from 42 minutes to 15-18 minutes. (Jenkins, Rundeck)

-Develop internal billing & commission system using ASP.net MVC, C#, and SQL Server 2012-Used Jira to managed and track work assigned to me and used git on a daily basis-Updated core public-facing UI using WPF -Participated in design reviews to discuss software design

-Maintain and Develop College Web Site and Applications-Develop in ASP.NET framework, C#, and SQL Server-Design systems and integrate technology to support the Faculty, Staff, and Students.-Scripting in Powershell and Apple script.-Computer support for faculty and staff. Consisting over 200 computers

-Managing and supporting use of Enterprise Monitoring solutions including: Splunk, Appdynamics, Apica, Solarwinds, and Nagios-Coordinating with Engineers on monitoring needs and then design and implement a plan on which monitoring tools to use and training them on how to create the necessary checks.-Auditing systems to determine state of monitoring and recommend improvements to the monitoring coverage-Creating video tutorials on how to use monitoring solutions-Splunk Power User Certified

-Computer Support for over 1,200 Computers.-Included support for the University President and all other officers-Troubleshooting computer issues and software-Diagnose Computer Hardware then replace any failed components.

-Gaffer for various shows including BYU Football Media Day and Community Connection.-Managed a team of 8 students, involved with training, interviewing, and leading with the execution of light design-Coordinated and communicated with producers and directors to ensure their vision for set and light design was executed properly.-Create lighting designs and led students in lighting and set construction for Studio C, AFR, True Blue, Sports Nation, Nexos, and other BYU broadcasting productions.-Programmed and ran ION ETC lighting board using Cues, Magic Sheets, and Effects.