Brad Davenport
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IT Product Management
Technical product manager with 20-plus years of experience within fast-paced chaotic environments.
Celebrated managerial professional with solid history of delivering quality, custom, standalone and trouble-free web applications and integrations. Highly successful in eCommerce software product management as well as driving new features, product roadmap, and upcoming releases. Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies and leveraging A/B split tests and data to determine optimal changes regarding sales and user satisfaction. Extensive skill in mobile and web application development, server, security, database warehousing and third-party integrations on top of platform knowledge.
Core Competencies:
eCommerce Transaction Systems
Full Life Cycle Product Management and Project Management
A/B Split Testing
Team Building & Leadership
Performance Optimization
Requirements Definition & Analysis
System/Web/Database Administration
Data-Driven Change Management
Client Relationship Management
Professional Experience
Kalio Commerce, Cupertino, California
Product Manager/Solution Architect/Software Engineer, 2004 – 2016
Drive new product features and prioritize software releases, act as progress liaison between executive and management teams, and reconciling business and technical needs to achieve on-time, on-budget results in scope. Other duties entail leading daily scrum team meetings reviewing user stories, completing production sprints, and leading cross-functional team organization. Client relations, formal presentations, strategic planning for IT initiatives, and managing third-party vendors, as well. Complete understanding of page life cycle from browser request to output response. Define business and product requirements, as well.
Key Achievements:
Designed and developed the world-class KalioCommerce eCommerce platform capable of handling $2 billion annual web site sales across 100 web sites.
Created repeatable best practices for maintenance of common software changes and integrations.
Architected systems integrating OMS, CMS, ERP, CRM, PIM, and other third-party vendors and operations models.
Spearheaded best practices for customer support, tier 1 case management, and issue tracking as well as sev1 incident response team methodologies.
Barcelona Design Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Field Application Engineer, 1999 – 2004
Headed, facilitated, and coordinated design and implementation of company products, including requirements gathering and initiating collaborations between software groups and developers. Enacted maintenance plans for database backups, source control backups, and offsite data storage.
Key Achievements:
Led design and implementation of flagship Java application allowing for more optimal circuit designs.
Integrated real-time payments with CyberSource e-commerce transaction system.
OMIX Inc., Redwood City, California
Software Engineer, 1997 – 1999
Created and developed web applications on IIS with active server pages, server-side VBScript and client-side JavaScript. Carried out administration and configuration of both IIS and MS SQL server.
Key Achievement:
Advanced embedded email client in Java for healthcare application using SMTP, POP3 protocols.
Developed real estate application allowing employees the ability to create custom reports and query multiple listing service data.
Technical Proficiencies
Platforms:
Windows, UNIX, Solaris, Mac OS, iOS
Languages:
C#, Java, C++, Visual Basic, Swift, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, VB Script
Servers:
Microsoft SQL Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), Orion, PostgreSQL database, Marimba Castanet, Weblogic
Integrations
NetSuite, PayPal, Amazon Pay, SLI and Hawk Search, Google Analytics, Optimizely, RichRelevance, MyBuys, MACH, Controller+, eCommetry, credit card vaults and myriad other 3rd-party integrations
Methodologies
Agile Software Development, Scrum, Waterfall, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Extreme Programming
Education and Credentials
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Business Leadership and Professional Course (Masters in Business Equivalent)
AJI Network, San Francisco, CA
Certifications
Certified Java Developer
Marimba Consultant Certification Program