Vice President, Software Development Resume Example

Responsible for the success of over 40 full time staff, and over 20 off-shore contractors for the Project Management Office at Truckstop.com.  The PMO consisted of Development, QA, Project Management, and Business Analysis departments.

• Responsible for the success of over 40 full time staff, and over 20 off-shore contractors for the Project Management Office.  The PMO consisted of Development, QA, Project Management, and Business Analysis departments.
• Lead the transformation of the PMO from a waterfall model to agile model within the first 3 months.
• Created two week release cycle for all major projects.  Previous to this, release dates were unpredictable. 
• Standardized JIRA projects and process workflows to drive efficiency. 
• Lead the implementation of automated build processes for all major applications resulting in a 75% reduction in effort.
• Organized Sprint Review process for Truckstop.com management.
• Mitigating duplication of code and processes by improving communication between teams.

• Responsible for the success of over 40 full time staff, and over 20 off-shore contractors for the Project Management Office.  The PMO consisted of Development, QA, Project Management, and Business Analysis departments.
• Lead the transformation of the PMO from a waterfall model to agile model within the first 3 months.
• Created two week release cycle for all major projects.  Previous to this, release dates were unpredictable. 
• Standardized JIRA projects and process workflows to drive efficiency. 
• Lead the implementation of automated build processes for all major applications resulting in a 75% reduction in effort.
• Organized Sprint Review process for Truckstop.com management.
• Mitigating duplication of code and processes by improving communication between teams.

• Responsible for the success of over 40 full time staff, and over 20 off-shore contractors for the Project Management Office.  The PMO consisted of Development, QA, Project Management, and Business Analysis departments.
• Lead the transformation of the PMO from a waterfall model to agile model within the first 3 months.
• Created two week release cycle for all major projects.  Previous to this, release dates were unpredictable. 
• Organized Sprint Review process for Truckstop.com management.
• Standardized JIRA projects and process workflows to drive efficiency. 
• Budgeted, tracked and foretasted spend on technologies and development efforts.
• Lead the implementation of automated build processes for all major applications resulting in a 75% reduction in effort.
• Mitigating duplication of code and processes by improving communication between teams.
• Reiterated and drove positive culture across the software department by encouraging feedback.

• Reporting to the CEO, oversaw all aspects of the Development, Systems, QA, and Omail departments consisting of 42 people. Direct reports included three directors, two managers, and the Architecture team.  
• Team consisted of 5 Management, 12 Developers, 9 Systems, 6 QA, 6 DBAs, 2 Product Managers, and 2 members of Omeda's Omail team, which is an internal ESP application.
• Responsible for ensuring the entire Omeda platform was running with high availability and speed, and ensured new enhancements were developed to department standards.
• Implemented biquarterly 1:1 meetings to discuss progress made towards short-term and long-term employee goals.  Designed to commend when projects are going well or to talk through any issues preventing them from achieving their goals.  
• Set standards and KPIs for Development, DBAs, Systems, and QA departments to ensure continuous improvement in performance as new features were built.
• Architectured Omeda's Olytics application which captures user visits and actions on a website, and connects it with known customers in the Omeda platform.  Oversaw its completion and highly successful rollout.    
• Participated in RFP process, gave product demonstrations during the prospect and sales process.
• Made purchasing and hiring decisions.  
• Set aside time each month to keep development skills sharp by creating an internal server monitoring application, log file monitoring tool, and File Reader Utility.
• Advocated for company culture by implementing a bags league and creating a web application to support it. At it's peak, 32 members of Omeda participated including the president and CEO.

• Reporting to the CEO, oversaw all aspects of the Development, Systems, QA, and Omail departments consisting of 42 people. Direct reports included three directors, two managers, and the Architecture team.  
• Team consisted of 5 Management, 12 Developers, 9 Systems, 6 QA, 6 DBAs, 2 Product Managers, and 2 members of Omeda's Omail team, which is an internal ESP application.
• Responsible for ensuring the entire Omeda platform was running with high availability and speed, and ensured new enhancements were developed to department standards.
• Implemented biquarterly 1:1 meetings to discuss progress made towards short-term and long-term employee goals.  Designed to commend when projects are going well or to talk through any issues preventing them from achieving their goals.  
• Set standards and KPIs for Development, DBAs, Systems, and QA departments to ensure continuous improvement in performance as new features were built.
  
• Architectured Omeda's Olytics application which captures user visits and actions on a website, and connects it with known customers in the Omeda platform.  Oversaw its completion and highly successful rollout.    
• Participated in RFP process, gave product demonstrations during the prospect and sales process.
• Made purchasing and hiring decisions.  
• Set aside time each month to keep development skills sharp by creating an internal server monitoring application, log file monitoring tool, and File Reader Utility.
• Advocated for company culture by implementing a bags league and creating a web application to support it. At it's peak, 32 members of Omeda participated including the president and CEO.

• Designed and developed scalable framework for creating custom registration pages.  The code base developed was used by all registration pages that were migrated from the legacy framework.  Application used our existing Web Services to get and post data to the database instead of interacting with the database directly.
• Performed technical sales demonstrations of our Web Services products.
• Standardized database structure for entire set of application suites at Omeda.
• Developed shared central authentication system in Java for intranet applications.

• Designed and developed scalable framework for creating custom registration pages.  The code base developed was used by all registration pages that were migrated from the legacy framework.  Application used our existing Web Services to get and post data to the database instead of interacting with the database directly.
• Performed technical sales demonstrations of our Web Services products.
• Standardized database structure for entire set of application suites at Omeda.
• Developed shared central authentication system in Java for intranet applications.

• Designed and developed scalable framework for creating custom registration pages.  The code base developed was used by all registration pages that were migrated from the legacy framework.  Application used our existing Web Services to get and post data to the database instead of interacting with the database directly.
• Performed technical sales demonstrations of our Web Services products.
• Standardized database structure for entire set of application suites at Omeda.
• Developed shared central authentication system in Java for intranet applications.

• Interviewed and made hiring decisions on all development staff.  During this time, department was expanded from five developers to fifteen and from two managers to four.
• Managed six software developers and database administrators.  
•  Created automated application build process using Ant and shell script. Process creates Web Application Archives (WAR Files) for nine different applications and deploys them to seventeen different servers.  
• Assisted in the design and development of a framework that extended Hibernate.  This ORM framework is used by all new applications that have been created since October 2010.

• Interviewed and made hiring decisions on all development staff.  During this time, department was expanded from five developers to fifteen and from two managers to four.
• Managed six software developers and database administrators.  
•  Created automated application build process using Ant and shell script. Process creates Web Application Archives (WAR Files) for ninedifferent applications and deploys them to seventeen different servers.  
• Assisted in the design and development of a framework that extended Hibernate.  This ORM framework is used by all new applications that have been created since October 2010.

• Designed and developed tool for internal users to maintain settings for each of Omeda's publications.

• Designed and developed tool for internal users to maintain settings for each of Omeda's publications.

• Lead developer of HiringAide.com and PostingPlus.com, a requisition-to-hire portal that allows users and subscribing companies to create requisitions, post jobs to multiple job boards and provides extensive applicant tracking features.
• For the first three years, was sole developer. Application was developed using J2EE and Struts.  During this project, I coded over 700 JSP's and over 1,000 Java classes.
  
• Project Technologies: J2EE, JSP, Java Servlets, JDBC, JRun, SQL, MS SQL Server, Struts, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, AJAX, Eclipse.

• Lead developer of HiringAide.com and PostingPlus.com, a requisition-to-hire portal that allows users and subscribing companies to create requisitions, post jobs to multiple job boards and provides extensive applicant tracking features.
• For the first three years, was sole developer. Application was developed using J2EE and Struts.  During this project, I coded over 700 JSP's and over 1,000 Java classes.
  
• Project Technologies: J2EE, JSP, Java Servlets, JDBC, JRun, SQL, MS SQL Server, Struts, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, AJAX, Eclipse.

• Technical project lead at Shaw's Supermarket in Brockton, MA helping implement and customize Cyborg's Employee Self Service Solution.
• Aided in a large benefits conversion of 30,000 employees. Conversion required developing routines that would convert all 30,000 employees from their current elections to their new elections.
• Designed and developed Shaw's Manager Self Service for Shaw's Supermarket using J2EE components, Java Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL. The web application allowed managers at individual stores to go through a paperless hiring and termination process.

• Technical project lead at Shaw's Supermarket in Brockton, MA helping implement and customize Cyborg's Employee Self Service Solution.
• Aided in a large benefits conversion of 30,000 employees. Conversion required developing routines that would convert all 30,000 employees from their current elections to their new elections.
• Designed and developed Shaw's Manager Self Service for Shaw's Supermarket using J2EE components, Java Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL. The web application allowed managers at individual stores to go through a paperless hiring and termination process.

• Designed and developed Homelife's Extranet using Silver Stream application server.  Web application allowed vendors and members of Homelife to log in securely and view product reports and other vendor specific information.
• Met with managers and executives of each department to gather requirements.  Created formal design for product and gained valuable business analysis experience.

• Designed and developed Homelife's Extranet using Silver Stream application server.  Web application allowed vendors and members of Homelife to log in securely and view product reports and other vendor specific information.
• Met with managers and executives of each department to gather requirements.  Created formal design for product and gained valuable business analysis experience.

• Founded and operated consulting company.
• Provided development services for Cyborg Systems Software, business analysis, data conversion project management, and custom website development.
  
• Clients included HBO, Homelife Furniture, Dime Savings Bank of New York, and Shaw's Supermarkets.

• Founded and operated consulting company.
• Provided development services for Cyborg Systems Software, business analysis, data conversion project management, and custom website development.
• Clients included HBO, Homelife Furniture, Dime Savings Bank of New York, and Shaw's Supermarkets.

• Helped design and was Lead Developer for Professional Services for Cyborg's Employee Self Service Software. Led a team to develop Cyborg's first web application from October 1999 - October 2000.
  
• Played vital role in defining functional requirements, and created use cases for the Employee Self Service product.
• Gathered technical requirements from developers, and explained these complex ideas to the designers.
• Developed web pages and back-end processes using JSPs, Java, XML, SQL, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Presenter at Cyborg's annual User Conference in 2000 for the Employee Self Service Platform.

• Helped design and was Lead Developer for Professional Services for Cyborg's Employee Self Service Software. Led a team to develop Cyborg's first web application from October 1999 - October 2000.
  
• Played vital role in defining functional requirements, and created use cases for the Employee Self Service product.
• Gathered technical requirements from developers, and explained these complex ideas to the designers.
• Developed web pages and back-end processes using JSPs, Java, XML, SQL, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Presenter at Cyborg's annual User Conference in 2000 for the Employee Self Service Platform.

• Professional Services Consultant working with both users and technical staff on implementation, and customization of Cyborg's Human Resources and Payroll software, Solution Series/ST. 
• Traveled to client sites and developed custom applications and solutions for Cyborg's clients.  
• Developed systems for time and attendance, benefits, human resources, applicant tracking, payroll, and custom modules.  
• Designed and led development of Cyborg's Audit Solution software. Software aided customers in identifying improper use of a two-digit year in custom programs for the Y2K bug.
• Instructed classes for Cyborg's Solution Center, and was instructor at annual conference from 1996 - 2000 for Cyborg Scripting Language techniques.
• Developed numerous utility programs to make development of programs easier for technical members of the consulting department.

• Professional Services Consultant working with both users and technical staff on implementation, and customization of Cyborg's Human Resources and Payroll software, Solution Series/ST. 
• Traveled to client sites and developed custom applications and solutions for Cyborg's clients.  
• Developed systems for time and attendance, benefits, human resources, applicant tracking, payroll, and custom modules.  
• Designed and led development of Cyborg's Audit Solution software. Software aided customers in identifying improper use of a two-digit year in custom programs for the Y2K bug.
• Instructed classes for Cyborg's Solution Center, and was instructor at annual conference from 1996 - 2000 for Cyborg Scripting Language techniques.
• Developed numerous utility programs to make development of programs easier for technical members of the consulting department.