Project Manager Software Engineer

PROFILE

Adaptable project and technical manager recognized for strong leadership,

an emphasis on customer focus, interpersonal skills, and a proven record of

delivering innovative products in a fast-paced, challenging environment.

Areas of expertise include:

Leadership Project Management

Innovation Technical Architecture

Customer Focus Technical People Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LexisNexis, Dayton, OH

1990 - 2010

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled search and

workflow solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government,

law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions, and risk and

compliance assessment.

Technical Lead / Project Manager (2002-2010)

Responsibilities: Create and manage new product development designs

interacting on a cross functional level. This includes reviewing and

rationalizing concepts from different markets in order to create an overall

development plan for the legal flagship product (www.lexis.com).

Identify, develop, and manage the technical strategy and requirements as

they may impact lexis.com. Lead the product development efforts for major

strategic and customer experience enhancements. Act as liaison between

development team and business unit solution lines to rationalize business

and customer needs with architectural decisions.

Accomplishments:

. Technical Lead on $640m legal flagship product(lexis.com)

. Technical and Project Lead on legal flagship code base re-design from C++

to Java

. Technical Lead on .Net next generation legal flagship product

. Expert presenter at internal Sales and legal User Conferences

. Release Lead for 7 major flagship product releases

. Coordinator of 4 teams of offshore development resources

. Reduced number of customer issues with legal flagship from 500 to 150 in

three months

Technical Project Manager (2001-

2002)

Responsibilities: Provide overall technical project

leadership for the corporate and financial business unit projects on

www.nexis.com. Provide organizational leadership ensuring effective

alignment of department's mission in support of business strategy. Provide

proper resource allocation ensuring optimal employee utilization through

negotiation of desired requirements. Develop and implement applicable

business related initiatives. Communicate to Senior Management important

information in support of the business strategy regarding new initiatives.

Accomplishments:

. Coordinated 40 technical assessments of product development concepts

. Developed and maintained Technical Project Manager website

. Drafted 25 technical response documents for new development projects

. Successfully negotiated with Senior Management the launch of 25 new

development projects

Technical Lead (1996-2001)

Responsibilities: Provide leadership, influence, and drive to successfully

bring new infrastructure enhancements to market in a manner consistent with

the overall business strategy. Investigate and develop new product

opportunities, manage projects, priorities, requirements, and trade-offs,

and work closely with all departments in the company including Product

Development, Product Planning, Operations, Database Administrators (DBA's)

and Customer Support.

Accomplishments:

. Managed team of 4 senior software engineers

. Implemented Sybase database designs of 50 user information tables and

stored procedures

. Implemented and maintained 5 C++ interfaces to Sybase database components

. Implemented significant performance tuning on customer facing Sybase

database

Software Engineer - Billing Systems (1994-1996)

Responsibilities: Development and maintenance of billing related COBOL

infrastructure systems. Development and maintenance of Customer

Information and Control systems (CICS) and stored procedures for

replication of user information to the web based application.

Accomplishments:

. Designed and Implemented 3 replication systems

. Lead database tester for order fulfillment process

Software Engineer (1990-1994)

Responsibilities: Development and maintenance of billing and usage

reporting systems.

Accomplishments:

. Developed and maintained internal inventory tracking system

. Gathered requirements and performed usability testing with customers

. Developed and maintained COBOL programs and JCL for royalties and pricing

systems

EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS

Ohio University, Athens, OH - B.B.A., Management Information Systems, 1990

Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH - A.B.A., Business, 1988

SKILLS & TRAINING

Leadership

Technical Leadership Workshop Techniques and Methods for Workgroups

Effective Team Leadership AMA Management for Supervisors

Leading Effective Meetings

Technical

Certified Scrum Master Designing Interactive Web Applications

Agile Planning and Estimating LexisNexis Requirements Development

Web-Based Interface Design

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