BRENDAN GUALDONI 847-***-**** • wx42kh@r.postjobfree.com

**** *. ********* #** • Chicago, IL 60626

OVERVIEW

• Professional IT director and architect with over 10 years of hands on technology experience.

• Background is in E-Commerce and web-based companies.

• Technical understanding in web and Internet technologies, methods, and best practices.

KEY STRENGTHS

Communication - Understands business with the ability to translate those needs to technical requirements. Listens to business sponsors to find the right solution without over engineering while delivering projects on time.

Leadership - Built a team of software developers from interviewing through mentoring. Project management experience with gathering requirements, prioritizing, scoping, testing and implementation.

Technology - Software and technology generalist across the development life cycle with a background in open source and web technologies.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in E-Commerce Technology 2006 • DePaul University • Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts in Finance 1997 • Michigan State University • East Lansing, MI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sears Holding Corporation / Online Business Unit, Chicago, IL

Director of Web Development (June 2011 – Present)

• Lead multiple discipline groups of web developers.

• Collaborate with account and product managers estimating and providing technology expertise

• Manage multiple technology projects across the full technology stack (server to front end)

• Plan resource allocation, staffing, interviewing and career planning

Software Development Manager (October 2009 – May 2011))

• Manage a team of high level software developers. Motivating, training and mentoring.

• Rapidly develop technology and system solutions.

• Coordinate team’s activities to effectively utilize all roles and associates.

• Manage expectations with business sponsor.

• Manage all resources including off shore associates to complete projects and releases on time and within scope and budget.

Sittercity.com, Chicago, IL • June 2006 – August 2009

Technology Manager (January 2007 - August 2009)

• Responsible for the full software development life cycle.

• Championed Agile software design methodologies.

• Conducted product selection for web site add-on technologies.

• Managed release schedule. Held regular team meetings

• Grew the technology team. Interviewed, hired, and trained team of developers.

• Project managed website redesign implementation including requirements gathering and leading software application design sessions.

Sr. Web Developer (June 2006 - December 2006)

• Worked closely with online marketing team to ensure SEO standards. Implemented Google Analytics and third party pixels.

• Extensive front-end web development (Design, Heuristics, Usability)

• Designed and implemented a configurable workflow system

• Implemented software data structures and design pattern

DriveItAway.com, Chicago, IL • June 2005 - May 2006

Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented business focused web based solutions

• Built architectural and application level components.

• Worked closely with web designer to enable smooth integration of system features

Hewitt Associates, Lincolnshire, IL • January 1999 - May 2005

Java Analyst - Base Software ( April 2002 - May 2005)

• Provided detailed analysis for converting an existing web site architecture.

• Led small ad-hoc teams in order to define best practices for the development team.

• Project managed feature releases for pension payment administration website.

• Supported client team website that interfaced with proprietary software system.

• Implemented new web pages for software releases according to creative design human factors.

Project Manager/Developer (April 2001 - March 2002)

• Implemented, designed, and managed a custom software solution.

• Created functional and technical programming documentation.

• Translated business requirements into a working software model.

Programmer Analyst - Client Delivery (January 1999 - Mar 2001)

• Managed multiple projects in order to provide technological support to our processing and life cycle project teams.

• Interface coding creating batch jobs, unit testing batch jobs, and resolving programming errors.

SKILLS

Agile Methodologies

Data Flow Diagram

Entity Relationship Diagram

Flow Charts

Issue & Task Tracking

Metrics Reporting

Project Management Object Oriented Analysis

Open Source Technologies

SEO best practices

Source Code Management

Team Leadership

Use Case / User Story

User Interface Design Logical Database Design

Apache

MySQL

Java, J2EE

Javascript

PHP

XML

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