Vice President of Application Development Resume

SUMMARY

Experience leading, mentoring and managing multiple software development projects and teams.
Experience in creating best software development practices in agile environments
Track record of enhancing development team performance resulting in more effective software solutions
Effective communicator of complex technical information to internal and external customers and end users
Business acumen from working closely with management teams and business divisions that enable me to better understand business objectives and constraints that impact technical solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Vice President of Application Development

Responsibilities:

HR, with multiple specialists working with Workday and E - Time
Mutual Transfer Agency applications, with large team of specialists working with TA2000 and 200+ in-house developed add-on software solutions
Corporate Actions, Proxy and Class Action Settlements, with multiple specialists
Enhanced overall support capabilities by creating a team atmosphere where all the add-on applications had at least 3 Applications Specialists trained for support.
Built close relationships with business users translating into more clearly defined end products desired by business users resulting in faster and more targeted results from the teams I managed
Streamlined development, QAT, UAT and deployment to production of software and set a delivery schedule for each cycle stage.. Introduced team to Agile development technique.
Initiated efforts to use JIRA to track efforts in development, administrative tasks and support enabling us to feed Clarity and forecast requirements and better align our resources to get better results for delivery to the clients. Generated $250K in cost savings by gaining a clearer picture of resource needs and eliminating contractors for emergency coverage.
Developed opportunities for my development team to enhance their skill sets, including secure coding techniques, either as individuals or as a group.

Confidential

President/Engineer

Responsibilities:

Built and led a highly successful IT consulting and software development firm providing IT and software solutions for mid-market companies. Annual revenues of $4.5MM serving 20-40 clients at any time and over 200 throughout the lifetime of the firm.
Clients included food product, transportation, distribution, medical supply, service, pharmaceutical firms.
Software Development Focus - Noted by clients for software development capabilities that enhanced user functionality, provided clients tools and processes to gain better knowledge of their businesses and their customer needs.
Led Business Development efforts working with the engineering and sales/marketing team to identify new clients, define their requirements for staffing, equipment purchasing, network design and configuration, and performed upgrades, scheduled, fixes and patches.
Interfaced with C Level managers in multiple industries to assist with the sales process, to understand their requirements and describe or show the application solutions. Communicated complex technical information in a way that established a superior client rapport and trust.
Managed the internal and external software development teams to the highest levels of performance and always maintained close relationships with clients to insure client satisfaction. Interfaced with in house development, QA and user teams to define enhancements or requirements and then led or supplemented them to develop and deploy the requirements.
Evaluated potential vendors regarding joint sales agreements or specific client requirements. Wrote and reviewed RFP's and supported 3rd party agreements. IBM, Vision Solutions, Lenova, Connect Direct, Microsoft, Oracle and others.
Planned system upgrades for mainframes and networks, release updates, software installations. Worked with system users and managers to define, develop and implement application installations and release upgrades.

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