Kelly Johnson Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

West Henrietta, New York, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Vertafore is the leader in modern insurance technology, with over 40+ best-in-class InsurTech solutions, which connect every point of the insurance distribution channel. These portfolio products serve more than 20,000 agencies, 1,000 carriers, and over 500,000 insurance professionals across 23 state governments. Vertafore was purchase by Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners for $2.7 billion dollars in 2016, and then later acquired by Roper Technologies for $5.35 billion dollars in 2020. During my tenure at Vertafore, I have hired a new development organization, taken over day to day management of over 15 portfolio products representing nearly 300M in ARR, increased internal NPS scores +26, QoQ team velocity improvements of 20%, and QoQ customer impacting defect reduction of 10%.

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

Directly managed up to 50 individuals. Direct reports included .NET software engineers, Java software engineers, SharePoint administrators, QA engineers, and Business Analysts. Responsible for the day to day activities of additional contract employees. Responsible for custom development of web-based properties for Catholic Health Initiatives. Drove the turn-around of the development group by implementing a consistent SDLC, software development best practices, QA best practices, and team building.• Implemented the agile methodology into Enterprise Web Applications team via coaching, mentoring, and hands-on modeling of daily activities.• Documented 10 fold increase in productivity in what had been one of the lowest performing development teams as a direct result of coaching and mentoring.• Provide training and guidance for the agile methodology for other groups within CHI. • Formed and led governance team to identify and implement software development and QA best practices.• Transformed silo-ed collections of individuals into cohesive highly performing teams.• Developed KPIs and metrics. Regularly reported the KPIs and metrics to executive management team providing transparency into product development productivity and progress.• Concurrently managing CHI’s Microsoft development stack as well as a Java/Linux stack.• Delivered products and solutions utilizing: SharePoint, Tomcat, AEM, iOS mobile, Android Mobile, Responsive Web, Java, and .NET.

Reported directly to the CTO. Managed 3 agile teams responsible for all product development of the SaaS based financial reporting and analytics products based on the global XBRL financial reporting standard. Routinely met with executive management including CEO and VP’s. Responsibilities included: Helping to define the company product road map, driving new development initiatives, release plans and schedules, architecture, software engineering, quality assurance, and interfacing with the Professional Services and IT groups to ensure smooth product delivery. • Delivered product development portfolio agenda successfully, deploying multiple product releases on schedule and budget with extremely constrained head count and resources. • Implemented best practices around unit testing, code reviews and QA successfully increasing code quality every release as evidenced by 45% reduction in hotfixes and bugs. • Collaborated with the CTO to establish a focus on employee engagement and talent retention resulting in a significant reduction in attrition from double digits to single digits. • Instrumental in the implementation of a company wide cross-functional training and mentoring program providing career paths into the product development organization. • Developed KPIs and metrics. Regularly reported the KPIs and metrics to executive management team providing transparency into product development productivity and progress. • Worked closely with Director of Product Management to develop release plans and schedules. • Worked with CTO and IT department to evaluate and determine new hosting provider. • Concurrently architected, designed and implemented next generation product.

Senior member of the development team responsible for the design and development of all aspects of Rivet Software’s web and MS Office based financial reporting products including all new development initiatives. • Principal member of the team that designed and developed Rivet’s flagship MS Word based solution delivering new product to market in 3 months.• Consistently relied upon by executive management to solve the most complex development issues.• Developed reputation for ability to think outside the box and create innovative solutions.• Identified many areas of need within company and during personal time, developed software to fill those needs. • Identified and championed new ways to solve old problems resulting in performance gains of over 50% and greatly enhanced product reliability.• Performed extensive mentoring of team members in the core technologies used by Rivet Software

Reported directly to the COO. Managed a team of 20+ developers responsible for all product development. Guided the development team through a large corporate downsizing. Guided the development team through a period of complete C-level turnover. • Delivered all product commitments and timelines despite enormous corporate upheaval and 60% attrition rates.• Successfully implemented the agile process at Rivet resulting in a significant increase productivity and moral within the product development organization. Provided much needed transparency to executive management.• Instrumental in combining what had been separate and semi-combative development and quality assurance groups into a single cohesive high performing team.• Increased team cohesiveness and moral during periods of high stress and fear.

Performed maintenance on all aspects of Rivet Software’s financial reporting products.• First week on the job solved an issue that the senior members of the team had considered unfixable.

Performed all architecture duties for all company product lines. Managed all development and QA engineers.

Lead development teams of varying sizes. Responsibilities included researching new technologies, championing new technologies, ensuring timelines and budgets were met, and mentoring new team members.

Entry level developer.

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