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As Sr. IT & Development Manager, I have designed and developed technology solutions to support and drive the POUND business forward.

I have built internal and consumer facing solutions and have the unique opportunity to contribute to product design and system scalability.

Lead the development department and act as the decision-maker on matters relating to architecture, development, integration, and maintenance of the solutions in order to keep up with our rapidly evolving business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the design, architecture, development, code review, and testing of business-critical technology solutions.
• Supervise and develop both in-house and contracted developer talent
• Define realistic timelines and LOE estimates, plan, and actualize on all new business directives
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities to maximize efficiency of the department
• Work closely with the product management and design team to define feature requirements and deliver a product that materially impacts the business and improves the customer experience.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and devise creative solutions.
• Design and implement web service APIs that scale.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL DB systems.
• Develop and maintain various internal tools that manage solution development, testing, and deployment.
• Work with the following technologies: Wordpress, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Node.js, microservices, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud.

As the sole in-house developer at Absolute Exhibits, I created and managed multiple company websites including e-commerce stores utilizing Woocommerce.

I created a custom, Woocommerce-based inventory management system plugin, which had the ability to book resources for future use and track availability across a given timetable. Then assisted in white-labeling the system and prepared it to scale as new clients were signed-on to use it.

Planned and lead a company-wide redesign and rebranding effort which finished five weeks early and under-budget by 17%.

Implemented a new Digital Asset Management system with custom API and custom Wordpress plugin to facilitate simple integration of digital assets to all company websites.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all planning, coding, and implementation of development projects
• Manage security and updates for all company web servers and websites
• Maintain internal marketing tools integrating with FileMaker and Job Pro systems
• Assess internal processes and architect solutions to enhance productivity
• Provide technical advice and weigh-in on key company decisions
• Continually optimize company marketing efforts for maximum benefit and to maintain SEO
• Consulted with teams and supported users throughout full life cycle of software product development.

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Key Responsibilities

• Worked with clients to clearly identify and continuously manage project scope, requirements, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Maintained effective communication to keep all stakeholders involved with the projects.
• Initiated, coordinated, and enforced systems, policies, and procedures.
• Improved the organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
• Maintained project quality by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Managing vendors
• Increased average profit-per-project 180%.
• Reduced average project lifecycle 35% (120 days to 78 days)
• Greatly improved client and employee satisfaction rates.