Texas A&M University

Senior Manager at Arrow Electronics

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Grew the MyArrow application development teams from 22 people to 108 people in 6 weeks with teams in Denver, Portland, London, Costa Rica, Mexico and other locations• Upgraded the legacy web application from technologies written in 1998 to a modern tech stack including Angular, Java, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, Confluent, Concourse and other technologies• Reduced our deployment times from 4 hours down to just minutes• Improved website performance when viewing orders from 30 seconds down to 3 seconds and from 5 seconds down to 2 seconds when searching for parts• Improved quarterly planning estimates from 30% to 95% accuracy using Scaled Agile with 6 teams• Added automated testing after every build and deployment reducing the time spent performing manual testing from 2 hours down to 15 minutes

Arrow Electronics

Senior IT Manager

- Managing scrum teams developing in various mobile technologies including iOS, Android, and Xamarin• Helped set enterprise standards for mobile development technologies.• Reduced the release schedule from 7 weeks to 4 weeks per release• Completed fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for our patient facing mobile application  • Completed the first patient facing mobile application used by DaVita• Consulting with various other teams within DaVita to help them with mobile development standards and Agile practices

DaVita Kidney Care

Mobile Application Development Manager

- Managed 4 Scrum teams of various sizes including local development teams and near-shore teams in Argentina.• Helped team grow from working as individuals to working together as scrum teams• Set standards for the development teams such as: Definition of Done, Coding standards and code review standards • Lead teams by providing a vision, coaching team members and making staffing changes

Chipotle Mexican Grill

IT Application Development Manager

- Converted team from RUP to Agile increasing velocity by 25% in 3 months• Managed a diverse team of Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Software Architects and Software Developers in developing processing for Schwab Equity Ratings. • Completed a $1.2 million award winning project distributing international equity ratings to external clients and internal teams• Grew a team from 3 to 20 people in 9 months including an offshore team• Helped automate batch processing to save Schwab $500,000/year• Completed an RFP to determine Schwab’s long term business processing platform; Pegasystems• Earned Scrum Master Certification

Charles Schwab

Senior Manager

- Introduced and implemented Agile Software Development processes to GroupSystems, Inc. said by the VP of Technology to be the best technology team he's worked with.• Determine technical and feature recommendations and present those recommendations to executives• Interface with product owners to gather requirements• Responsible for assigning tasks and managing development and quality assurance teams• Published article for Dr. Dobb's Computer Journal on Online Collaboration and Agile Software Development• Earned annual awards for work performance• Evaluate employee performance and conduct reviews• Participate in advisory board meetings

GroupSystems, Inc.

Director of Software Engineering

- Lead a team of 4 people designing and implementing a Java based swing application using JMS to WebSphere MQ to access legacy application business logic written in COBOL• Implemented Web Services using AXIS to access business logic in the legacy application• Designed and implemented Web Services in Java. • Set up development processes for Java development within Computer Research, Inc.

Computer Research, Inc.

Systems Architect

- Technical lead of a team of 8 people designing and implementing tools using the MVC architecture. These tools are used to maintain Budget Rent-a-Car_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s website, <a href="http://www.budget.com">www.budget.com</a>. • Primary technical contact for the client • Wrote architectural assessments of the web site showing how performance and maintainability can be improved.• Refactored the <a href="http://budget.com">budget.com</a> website to improve performance, stability and ease of maintenance• Responsible for implementing software development processes• Assisted all development teams in setting up automated build, test, and deployment scripts and determined how current architectures can be used in future projects. • Developed a Java based, client/server application using JSPs and Servlets used to update an Oracle database

Indigio Group, Inc

Technical Lead of Web Development Team

- Technical lead of a 6 person team using the Rational Unified Process to develop a Java based, client/server application which verifies people requesting newsletters. The application uses Enterprise Java Beans as well as JSP and Servlets.• Developed a browser-based application for 24/7 Media, used to maintain inventory in an Oracle database. • Developed a large, Java based application used by CNA Financials specializing in the GUI portion of the application, specifically Swing components.

Interlink Group, Inc.

Senior Java Programming Consultant

- Developed a Java based, Swing application in Dresden, Germany for SRS, a subsidiary of SAP, to solve a potential Y2K problem.• Won two awards based on performance, Award of Excellence for 1998 and Phoenix Award for the 4th Quarter of 1998.• Created the project plan for the development of ReportClasses 6.0.• Developed ReportClasses 5.3, a set of APIs that allow developers to integrate reports directly into their applications. • Developed and wrote the tutorials for ReportClasses 5.3, which included Java, MFC C++, DSC++ and DSC.

XVT Software for Precision Technologies, Dresden, Germany

Java Programming Consultant

- Lead Developer of a 3 person team on an MFC Visual C++ application, CamRunner for Windows 95/NT• CamRunner automates the real-time capture and transmission of "live" images (JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG) to a homepage or corporate web site through a dedicated Internet connection or a dial-up connection.

Digital Camera Network

Lead Software Developer

- Developed an application, using VisualAge C++ for OS/2, connecting an AS/400 reservation application to Apollo, the reservation system United Airlines and several other airlines use for their reservations. • Over 80 reservations agents used the application for a year and a half without any major problems.

Doug Poirier

Doug Poirier