Doug Yoder Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

** Project team lead ** Technical platform owner (Optimizely DXP) ** Engineering Manager **

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Design, develop, and deploy web solutions for a variety of clients of different sizes and in a multitude of industries. Quickly and efficiently grasp core needs and advise on related opportunities for growth. Communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel in a variety of roles, and explain concepts in language appropriate to the role.Position Description• Act as a “face” of Aware’s technical expertise and experience. • Clearly and consistently demonstrate thought leadership through blog postings, presentations, events and partner community involvement. • Serve as a technical adviser and an architect within a team environment. • Mentor and provide guidance to developers to ensure best practices are being followed. • Apply web development skills to design, develop and implement complex web based applications for custom applications, e-commerce, content management and database management. • Create requirements definition documentation for technical and business functionality. • Create, document, delegate and complete tasks for the development of projects.Daily Duties• Oversee development aspects of all team’s projects • Site planning and development• Sprint planning• Application development• Development quality control• Assist with test plan creation and execution• Provide direction, delegation and mentoring to team developers • Ensure team developers are following Aware’s development processes and best practices• Provide client and team members application training • Provide timely status updates on team projects to the Project Manager• Identify areas where the team can gain efficiencies and take back to other Senior Developers and the Technical Director to modify company processes• Create and present new solutions to existing clients and partners to drive renewal business.

Software architect & user-experience designer for next-generation architecture project written in C#. Worked in all application tiers – user interface, application logic, and database – including developing stored procedures in SQL Server 2005. Enhanced existing systems and provided architecture support to the application development team. Provided end-user support for system problems. Website development lead.• Developed ASP.NET master pages and WPF templates and styles for consistent look and feel.• Designed user authentication and authorization. Developed user modules for maintaining up-to-date authorization data.• Created progress tracking workflow and graphical management tool for Agile development practices.• Authored a quick filter option for data grids in proprietary software system (won Employee of the Month).• Added drag-and-drop support for receiving and extracting file attachments from Microsoft Outlook into proprietary system.• Implemented logging on all system-generated emails for internal verification of system effectiveness.• Developed a wizard for easily adding a new user with all associated details.• Coordinated 22 scheduled code upgrades to core system products, and performed dozens of emergency mid-release patches.• Investigated production problems to solve architectural inefficiencies and increase system performance.• Streamlined database queries resulting in thousand-fold speed increase (won Employee of the Month).• Implemented new online reports to provide live ad tracking data to clients.• Created user-specific secure web access to internal system files. • Maintained Serena TeamTrack workflow software. Per user requests, created and updated workflows for effective and efficient internal work tracking.

Designed and developed electronic health insurance claims transmission and processing software. Provided support for existing products to end users.• Met with customers to tailor products for custom programming; designed and developed custom solutions based on existing software written in FoxPro.• Managed project to convert features from existing software packages into one automated electronic insurance claims clearinghouse package written in C#.