IT Director, IT Manager, Program Manager, Project Manager
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http://linkedin.com/in/kerryhuntington
Kaysville, Utah
K e r r y A . H u n t i n g t o n
S O F T W A R E E N G I N E E R I N G – B U S I N E S S S O L U T I O N S – I T P L A N N I N G Technology • Architecture • Strong Technical Skills • Excellent Communication Skills Driven IT Director - strong Technical and Management skills in developing comprehensive plans for enterprise initiatives and complex systems. Passionate about directing the work and communication between business units and maintaining a high level of individual contribution and loyalty from advanced technical teams. Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving, analytical and relationship skills. Product and Project Management with best practice experience in Software Development, Architecture Directives, Strategy, and Execution. Expert team development for enterprise software development, web development, infrastructure, and implementation. Repeated success in multi-tiered systems analysis and design, strategy, concept development and implementation.
STRENGTHS
• Technical documentation including comprehensive
planning - RFP, RFI, budget proposals
• Program Management-monitoring/release planning
• Leadership in collaborating across independent teams
• Experienced PMO dashboards Atlassian Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, Tableau
• Defining unions in technology and solving business problems
• Technical and cost/benefit analysis of new programs
• Delivering process solutions for financial impact
• Strong architecture and design skills - ability to “deep dive” and apply to solve complex problems
• Direct professional teams in Agile development,
implementation and operation of technology systems for business
• Distilling customer needs into agile communication elements e.g. vision statements, UML Use Cases,
Activity Diagrams, Roadmaps, User Stories
• Expert-MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project
• Self-aware, confident - with a great sense of humor PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Telera Consulting June 2016 – Present
Director of Operations
Manage Day-to-day operations
Manage strategic vendor / partner relationships
Provide leadership, vision and planning that enables innovation and seeks to leverage IT trends that create cost savings, new business and service quality improvement
Develop existing staff, oversee recruitment of qualified contract consultants and training resources
Lead with continuous improvement mindset and ensure ability to report on value delivered
Deliver problem-solving leadership and participation in business development
Strategic IT infrastructure planning and development, project management, and policy development
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Fidelity Investments April 2016 – Jan 2017
Technical Project Manager
Delivery of critical back-end capabilities required for customer security including a full tech uplift for backend APIs for the Customer Protection Services Systems (CPS).
Manage migration and consolidation projects for CPS systems from current four data centers to cloud and VM environments to two data centers.
Plan and coordinate with systems engineers for the implementation of new deployment model
Identify opportunities to push the CPS application suite toward new future vision of operational infrastructure.
State of Utah – Department of Technology Services – Agency Services July 2008 – March 2016 IT Manager
Managed development of several multi-year - multi-million dollar projects including Utah’s Criminal Justice System, Automated Fingerprint System, Case Management System and other solutions.
Project Manager for development of more than 320 new Soap–based web services products for Criminal History Systems. These are mission critical real-time services that officers in the field rely upon for their work and safety.
Our team received Governor’s Award of excellence for the development of the Automated Finger Print Information System. AFIS is a passive system using a series of web services that interact with State and Federal systems to capture and perform checks and data validations for fingerprint images. A turn-around process once requiring batch processes and human interpretation taking up to 7 days now takes just minutes.
Recruited and led a team of 15 employees and 11 senior-level developers that enabled on-time quality applications.
Led the design process with development team, business stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Achieved and monitored use of more than ~4M in federal grant funding in a 6 year period.
Implement and performance management for staff - Set priorities, develop work schedules, monitor progress towards program/project milestones.
State of Utah – Department of Technology Services – Division of Enterprise Technology March 2000 – Jul 2008 Software Engineering Manager
Recruited and built a new development team of (11) developers and graphic designers. Established development standards from the ground up. Responsible for winning bids and contract work that would support an annual budget of ~1.8M for a team of 12 developers. Directed the development of enterprise software applications and managed software development life cycle. Direct engineering activities and cost management, and schedule performance.
Selected successes:
Leadership role in RFP process that selected vendor for Utah.gov portal.
Directed large scale case tracking system servicing 15 centers reporting to the Attorneys General Office.
Led and delivered a 1 million dollar State wide Intranet portal project.
Revived a failing State-wide Identity Theft project. The consultant that was used prior to my coming had moved on - project was reported as 90% complete, in reality was closer to 45%. We successfully delivered on time.
Won new business in developing more than 30 new web sites for State agencies and others e.g. Murray City, BrianHead ski resort, and private and non-profit organizations.
On own initiative established the Enterprise Development Group (eDG), designed, marketed and managed advertisement for eDG web site, and gained sponsorship from vendors. Developed and presented monthly curriculum to promote standards and best practices for Developers State wide. P a g e 3 3
EDUCATION
B.A. – BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – Minor in Marketing / University of Phoenix A.A.S. – COMPUTER SCIENCE / Salt Lake Community College ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
C.P.M. - Certified Public Manager.
Skilled in Product and Project Management.
Utah Electronic Commerce Council.
Adjunct Instructor – Salt Lake Community College.
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