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Development Manager / Software Architect Resume

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Indianapolis, IN

SUMMARY

  • Strong managerial and leadership skills gained through an MBA in addition to real world work experience.
  • Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex information to individuals at all levels of business and IT.
  • Business process expertise that culminated in high visibility project assignments.
  • Cutting - edge technical knowledge combined with comprehensive business experience and vision.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Business Administration
  • Trouble Shooting
  • Client Relations
  • Technical Background
  • Team Leadership
  • Provides Guidance
  • Proficient in technology evaluation
  • SDLC Processes
  • Agile / SAFe
  • Entrepreneurship mind set
  • Thought Leader
  • Leader in technical vision for products

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Development Manager / Software Architect

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the technical vision and implementation of Confidential ’s Credit Portfolio Analyzer line of products including Financial Data Automation, Credit Portfolio Analyzer for Lenders, and Credit Portfolio Analyzer for Agents and Sureties.
  • Supervises three key software development teams
  • The teams consist of a total 12 developers, 3 business analysts, and 3 quality control analysts
  • Works closely with firm partners to develop strategies to meet the goals of the firm by:
  • Creating architecture road maps
  • Determining team size / team structure
  • Providing quarterly updates to firm partners
  • Responsible for recruiting, hiring and training of the teams
  • Ability to digest complex problems on a daily basis and separate them into more manageable problems the team can solve
  • Overhauled the support process in order to decrease costs and improve efficiencies.
  • Initiated and completed major process change from Waterfall to Agile
  • Provided process training
  • Oversaw process changes
  • Work closely with the product owner in order to align both product and technical visions by:
  • Developing estimates on projects
  • Identify and advocate for technical features and enhancements
  • Responsible for the teams process and tools such as:
  • Updated team tools to match Agile methodology
  • Updated daily process to match Agile methodology
  • Develop best practices in the development life cycle such as:
  • Unit tests, branching strategy, peer review, BA expectations and sprint milestones
  • Possess strong knowledge of the software development and IT product lifecycle.
  • Adept in building strong relationships with IT staff, customers, vendors and third party contractors.
  • Analyzes complex business needs presented by the user community and recommends technical solutions.
  • Administered and mentored Agile/Scrum processes with over 15 years of Agile experience.
  • Ability to initiate and manage cross-functional teams and multi-disciplinary projects.
  • Attend and participate in many different Community of Practices Groups within the company including Security, Agile, and Azure groups.
  • Participate in the company’s corporate compliance group to insure products and processes adhere to the company and legal standards.
  • Involved in the yearly corporate IT audit as the representive of Credit Portfolio Analyzer line of products.

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the technical vision and implementation of Confidential inspections.
  • Management including four software development teams containing forty developers, BA, and QA members.
  • Two sets of application suites consisting of customer facing portals, service layers, databases, and integration tiers.
  • Oversee annual operation budget of over $4 million a year.
  • Applications suite of technologies include
  • Customer Facing Portal - MVC, Unity, JQuery, AZURE Compute, WebAPI
  • Service Tier - WCF, WebAPI, Unity, Linq, AZURE Compute, Azure Blob, Azure Queue
  • Data Tier - Azure SQL, Redis
  • Desktop Applications - WinForms
  • Oversee system development and the integration with existing systems.
  • Possess strong knowledge of the software development and IT product lifecycle.
  • Adept in building strong relationships with IT staff, customers, vendors and third party contractors.
  • Manages and mentors multiple technical leads to solve challenging problems through discussions, idea sharing, and clear expectations.
  • Identifies design patterns, researches new technologies, develops prototypes, and recommends solutions.
  • Works closely with internal and external technical resources to define optimum solutions to integration issues.
  • Leading efforts to improve Confidential inspection processes by working closely with the team’s scrum masters, IT managers, and IT Directors.
  • Define the technical product roadmap based on the strategy and vision; manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, site performance and operational support load.
  • Core leader within the Confidential Inspection teams due to strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
  • Acts as a liaison with 3rd party customers, vendors, and different lines of internal businesses.
  • Participates in recruit, hiring and training of the teams.
  • Ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.
  • Works closely with the business/product owner to understand and identify the functional and non-functional requirements to create a successful technical solution.
  • Collaborates directly with the Enterprise Architects to insure adherence to current policies and assist in creation of new policies.
  • Analyzes complex business needs presented by the user community and recommends technical solutions.
  • Develops presentations on architectural solutions and present proposals to the Architecture Review Board and to other Senior Leadership.
  • Reviews all designs, code and unit test plans where applicable.
  • Administered and mentored Agile/Scrum processes with over 10 years of Agile experience.
  • Ensure the creation and maintenance of all written documentation, including system and user manuals, license agreements, and documentation of modifications and upgrades.
  • Ability to initiate and manage cross-functional teams and multi-disciplinary projects.
  • Ability to create solutions that meet technical objectives that are fiscally sound in the eyes of the stake holders.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Member of the Architecture group.
  • Met monthly to discuss different types of architecture and lessons learned from projects across the company.
  • Technical Lead on numerous projects:
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) for Air Warrior Program - WPF, Unity, MVVM
  • Enterprise Content Management System - MVC 2, Linq, JQuery, Unity
  • Augmented Reality System for Aircraft pilots - .Net, OpenAL
  • Desktop GUI / Windows application – .Net/.Net Compact
  • Enterprise Portal application. – J2EE, WebLogic, Hibernate, Spring, Mule, CXF
  • Member of the research and development team assigned to create proof of concepts and rapid prototyping.
  • Lead peer reviews of documentation and code.
  • Supervised the team to ensure that the software department delivered the requirements on time and on budget.
  • Assisted in development of sophisticated algorithms.
  • Developed the software architecture and documented the design with class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and data flow diagrams.
  • Supported and mentored other engineers with architecture and coding issues.
  • Lead of multiple teams that were recognized for outstanding achievement.
  • Trained and certified on Confidential Six Sigma.
  • Created software estimates based off of system requirements.
  • Taught Confidential class on UML for software department.
  • Abstract accepted to present for Confidential ’s Information Systems and Computing (ISaC) Symposium 2012.

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Developed portal applications for Confidential agents and brokers using a variety of J2EE technologies and tools.
  • Lead developer and architect of a independently created content management system (CMS) to meet all content needs of the portal team:
  • Designed complex data scheme to allow dynamic creation of new content types with as many attributes as the user defined.
  • Planned out an API for the CMS to allow different systems to connect to the CMS to query, retrieve, delete, and add content.
  • Implemented CMS system using JSF and Hibernate connecting to Oracle 10 database with Active Directory authentication using LDAP.
  • Contributed and led design ideas making current Confidential ATG portal implementation adhere to industry standards.
  • Implemented 3rd party integrations with various Confidential venders.

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