PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and strategic vision to a cross functional 2 Agile development teams consisting of 14 direct reports responsible for 3 product lines.
- Built relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders to accomplish business objectives through partnership, negotiations and influence.
- Improved software development processes by defining and implementing an Confidential styled Product Development Life Cycle including Agile methodologies, incident management and product forecasting.
- Partnered with Product Managers to execute on the product roadmap.
- Managed releases on both a daily and monthly for the product portfolio owned by my teams.
- Responsible for hiring development and quality assurance team members.
Confidential
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and strategic vision to a cross functional Agile development team of 8 direct reports responsibility for > $2MM portfolio of technology investments.
- Transformed an inherited floundering project by identifying a path to complete the project on time and significantly under budget, saving $250K of a $340K capital expenditure budgeted project.
- Led team to deliver the 1st .NET Core application to the new to the bank internal cloud environment using industry best practices including DevOps CI/CD pipeline, automated testing, containerization and microservices.
- Established an engineering culture of innovation and learning by instituting an innovation and planning sprint once per quarter.
- Built relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders to accomplish business objectives through partnership, negotiations and influence.
- Improved software development processes by implementing new to the bank Agile methodologies to plan the teams work, drive quality and meet committed goals.
- Partnered with Product Owner to create an Agile product roadmap and release plan for the product portfolio owned by my team.
- Responsible for hiring team members and augment staff with contractors.
Confidential
AVP, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Responsibilities:
- Provided leadership and strategic vision in the establishment and continued operations of a 2 small modern application development team with 9 direct reports and responsibility for > $1.5MM portfolio of technology investments.
- Initiated and drove the start of an Agile transformation spreading outward from my organization to our stakeholders.
- Manage vendor relationships to ensure timely project completion, monitor service level agreements and drive desired functionality to be included in the vendors future development.
- Manage project capacity planning and project start dates in conjunction with steering committee project prioritization.
- Led enterprise wide project loan servicing application functionality through integrations with our internally developed custom applications via data connections and web API’s.
- Presented development project status, issues and potential resolutions to the NorthMarq executive steering committee.
- Built relationships with leadership across multiple business lines to promote application development and resolve escalated issues.
- Changed the application development organization by establishing agile and hybrid project management practices, application development standards and best practices.
- Lead daily scrum meetings and iteration retrospectives to establish iteration work direction, remove roadblocks, enhance strengths and resolve weak areas.
- Mentored and coached team members about project management methodologies and application development best practices.
Confidential
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
- Led software development efforts in a shared services environment.
- Developed new functionality and fixed existing web applications in a complex development environment.
- Created new and updated existing SharePoint web parts.
- Built architecture level web service components used by multiple applications.
Confidential
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
- Enhanced Confidential 's web services security to become PKI certificate compliant in accordance with a mandated security standard enforced industry wide by NERC, an energy industry governing body.
- Developed functionality to integrate MCG's application with energy industry clearinghouse data through the consumption of web API’s.
- Developed stored procedures, views, triggers and tables supporting thousands of daily transactions.
- Developed WinForms, Windows Service and Web Service functionality for MCG SaaS applications.
