Tom Leake Email & Phone Number

Lindon, Utah

As a software engineer and Scrum master, I motivated and guided our teams to understand and apply the principles and practices of agile software development. Facilitated the agile transformation of 2 cross-functional teams through coaching, teaching, persuading, encouraging, and reflecting with the teams in informal and formal settings:- Taught teams to deliver completed high-quality work. Our product owner said “I don’t worry about demos in Sprint Reviews anymore, because now when we are done everything works”- Lead teams to improve completion rate of forecast work in each 2 week sprint from 33% to more than 80%.- Developed systems for improving quality of code base that retired over 2,000 legacy todo issues and more than 40 major issues of technical debt.- Taught teams automated testing and Test Driven Development. Teams developed more than 3000 unit tests and more than 800 automated integration tests.- Coached teams to develop engaging and effective sprint planning, which improved collaboration, ability to complete work and quality of work.- Coached habits of individual and group learning which improved engineering practices and team dynamics.- Key contributor in the UI/UX design and technical design/implementation, using C# and XAML, of new features which allowed content experts to more easily create and program document assembly templates.- Created integration tests for runtime and scripting that allowed easy verification of functionality.- Consistently championed and taught principles and practices throughout the organization, influenced company bonus structure to better reward teamwork.- Coached individuals on behavioral issues which reduced team conflict.- Assisted in backlog maintenance in Jira.- Facilitated Sprint Reviews, Sprint planning, Daily Scrums. - Worked with teams to identify and remove impediments.- Integrated with 3rd-party solutions, worked with 3rd-party vendors to resolve issues.

Lindon, Ut

As one of the senior engineers one an enterprise security application.- Provided technical and architectural leadership for a redesign of a data collection wizard in an enterprise cyber-security application written in C# using .NET Entity Framework and WCF. Improved UI/UX, quality, maintainability, performance, and ease of onboarding new developers.- Modified and enhanced MSSQL database including schema modifications, views, stored procedures, functions, and optimizations to support multi-terabyte MSSQL databases.- Created a novel user interface and backing web service and database access to select collection targets using filtered search mechanism.- Performed critical optimizations on several key features. - Used MS SQL Server Profiler to find key performance issues. - Achieved exponentially better performance by - Refactoring query architecture. - Finding and correcting issues with Linq queries. - Optimizing indexes. - Using findings from optimization helped other engineers to optimize new and existing features.

Provo, Utah Area

- Introduced Scrum framework to Think Subscription. Coached management, product owner, Scrum Master, and Development team. Eliminated an average 6-week wait between development and testing, and improved release cycle to be quarterly regular releases.- Worked with customers to design and implement a new rate import/export tool, worked tool implementation and design iteratively and concurrently with implementation. Design approval and delivery occurred the same day.- Designed and implemented a new back-end server (web service) components in C#. - Designed and implemented a testing framework in Java for server components.

Key contributor on a Scrum team creating a test harness in C# used to automate an extensive suite of automation tests. Coached Product owner and Scrum Master for first scrum team at Control4. Wrote and maintained power consumption modules for a home automation controller in C++ (GCC) for embedded linux.

Designed and implemented new features for an enterprise subscription management engine in C++Maintained an enterprise subscription management engine in C++

Provo, Utah Area

Created Java And maintained external API’s for a graph database engine similar to Neo4j. Created, maintained, and enhanced internal and external API’s for a graph database application in Visual C++ and Visual Prolog. Created and maintained visualization features for Graph database engine.Modeled complex data, including ontological structure.

Recruited and hired an exceptional team of 5 QA engineersLead QA effortsMade QA AssignmentsDemonstrated product at Trade shows.Organized performance testing.Created written progress and performance reports for senior executives.

Provo, Utah Area

Lead efforts to test a C++ Rapid Application Development Platform which provided fully interactive applications in a browser. Created and maintained build processes for external releases. Managed external releases.Hired additional QA team membersCreated and maintained install programs in InstallShield.

Recruited and hired an exceptional team of 5 QA engineers.Lead Testing efforts.Created and managed defect tracking systemMade final Go no Go decisions for all releases.