Objective

To secure a technical leadership position offering opportunities for growth; blending business and technical skills.

Skills

Strong leadership skills focusing on team excellence, personnel development, and process improvement. Excellent technical abilities focusing on design, architecture, and coding as well as being knowledgeable of open source technologies. Capable, self-motivated, and eager to do a good job.

Innovation

Embraced the use of widgets to manage discreet units of web content over 5 years ago. See a WidgetWeb demo at http://playground.widgetweb.com. The primary site is http://www.widgetweb.com.

Experience

Pearson VUE, Bloomington, MN (April 2004-Present)

Director of Software Development (December 2007-Present)

• Responsible for Bloomington Software development organization.

Software Development Manager (July 2006-December 2007)

• Manage 20+ developers, contractors, Business Analysts, and Project Managers.
• Lead team responsible for software architecture and research of new technologies to assist business development.
• Lead team responsible for enhancement and modification of the scheduling software.
• Lead team responsible for enhancement and modification of the results processing and reporting software.
• Identified and promoted need for RIA interface to act as a common GUI toolkit for desktop, web, and server technologies.
• Research component and service-oriented architecture as common platform for business unit.
• Responsible for budget and forecasting.
• Managed small (4) offshore team of developers working as staff augmentation.

Product Architect (April 2004-July 2006)

• Designed, documented, and implemented:

1. Adaptive Algorithm used to score all GMAT exams delivered by Pearson VUE.
2. Test delivery software related to item selection, item scoring, item presentation, dynamic test definition creation.
3. Software testing application to allow client testing of selection and scoring based on varying input parameters.

• Provided critical Production support to IT staff to resolve numerous issues including several long-standing performance issues, memory leaks, and general system health concerns.

Integral7, Minneapolis, MN (June 2003-April 2004)

Development Manager/Project Manager/Product Manager/Release Manager/Business Analyst

• Managed 4 Software Developers.
• Instituted a predictable, and repeatable release cycle into SDLC.
• Introduced a modified form of Wideband Delphi estimating process.
• Managed critical rewrite of result processing software.
• Worked with primary partner to understand and document desired features and requirements.

Pearson VUE, Bloomington, MN (June 1997-August 2004)

Software Development Manager (3 years)

• Managed 10 Software Developers.
• Implemented process improvement activities including the software development life cycle modeled after Feature Driven Development, Fagan inspections, PSP, design by contract, and automated unit testing.
• Led the team responsible for research and development of technologies to assist business development.
• Generated and documented new business ideas and technology uses.
• Managed projects of sizes from 1 to 3 developers.
• Improved release process by instituting weekly builds, concept of small features developed iteratively, and frequent communication and collaboration between technology departments.

Software Developer V (3.5 years)

• Designed, documented, implemented, and maintained the:

1. credit card processing system used to process hundreds of thousands transactions per year,
2. financial system used to convey all financial information to clients,
3. system for web-based exams and the off-line exam delivery infrastructure,
4. several performance enhancements to the VUE Testing Software resulting in performance increases as great as 800%.

Program Coordinator (6 months)

• Managed 5 Customer Service Representatives.
• Responsible for program quality and performance.

ProCom, Lamoni, IA (May 1995?May 1997)

Manager

Managed 30+ Telephone Sales Representatives