Warren Wright Email & Phone Number

Dallas, TX, US

Denver, Colorado, US

• Grew top line revenue 30% and net revenue 51% from 2020 to 2022 while leading Engineering and Product.
• Established agile practices (Scrum/Kanban), including smart use of agile metrics for team/individual OKRs.
• Built product management practice in collaboration with the CEO, including roadmap commitments, product newsletters, feature request and bug intake streams, and key involvement by stakeholders/engineering.
• Developed high-performing team by hiring 2 product managers and 12 engineers within the US and internationally through nearshore hiring contracts.
• Mitigated risks/problems across applications with monitoring, appropriate PII/secure file handling, and close management of Heroku applications and PostgreSQL databases.
• Ensured gradual codebase transformation through Tech20 practice designed to pay down technical debt and evolve systems over time.

Remote, US

• Developed and directed 3 agile teams in evolving core product offerings while providing leadership across all 9 geographically dispersed engineering teams.
• Led design sessions for innovative additions to the platform utilizing full stack Java, React Native, Oracle, RabbitMQ, and related technologies.
• Established a full-year roadmap across 9 teams in Portfolio for JIRA in collaboration with executive founders and CTO to modernize company approach to product portfolio management.
• Drove project priorities by establishing by creating new practices around product governance, including an organization-wide commitment to transparency.
• Delivered Benefitsolver SaaS web and mobile application, a growing platform serving 7MM+ users across 600+ B2B customers.

Brisbane, California, US

• Contributed to Stella & Dot Family of Brands exceeding $14MM in annual revenue by directing team to build multi-brand capability into an evolving, Rails-based microservice platform and launching everskin.com.
• Saved $350K+ in sales and subscription billing, adding $5MM+ in revenue for 2017 by leading major platform-wide implementations affecting 3 lines of business, including backordering.
• Led 3 agile teams in launching new brands and extending Stella & Dot’s microservice-based architecture.
• Managed engineers while growing strong technical leads for each team.
• Drove architecture discussions and collaborating in planning major shifts technical direction.
• Doubled platform’s order volume and revenue by serving as Council member and providing technical leadership while overseeing migration of the flagship Stella & Dot business.

Warrenville, IL, US

• Led fully remote project teams to deliver full-stack applications for Next Wave’s largest client.
• Spearheaded implementation of agile practices, including involvement as Scrum Master developing Next Wave’s key product initiative.
• Hired and directed mobile development team through creation of 2 e-commerce iOS and Android apps.
• Gathered and documented user stories for new projects and through deployment while working directly with Next Wave’s largest client.

• Automated key portions of a process related to the core business of FCS.
• Design and implementation of OCR algorithms required for automatic categorization of faxes.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Responsible for a multi-national team of 10 developers and 7 credit bureau analysts, with responsibility for FCRA compliant software development projects delivered to global financial companies (e.g. Washington Mutual.
• Hired and managed development staff locally and in Santiago, Chile.
• Infused strong development methodologies into the team to limit risk in developing applications that, in production, handle highly sensitive, highly regulated consumer credit information.
• Represented Experian as a technical SME in on-site customer kick-off meetings for major projects, such as Capital One and Pacific Capital Bank.
• Managed and contributed to projects through the full software development life-cycle from requirements extraction through the hand-off into ongoing maintenance.

• Application development for high-end engineering software intended to auto-route printed circuit boards.
• Made core design and development contributions to the final product, working primarily in C++, following object oriented design principles. I was given wide responsibility for algorithm development (and implementation).