Senior Director, Global Application Development

Randall Parfitt

Miamisburg, OH ***** 937-***-****

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Senior Director, Global Application Development/Strategic Infrastructure/IT Operations Management

15+ years’ success leading complex application developments for high-growth organizations

Driven Senior Director with a solid record of success spearheading the design, development, and delivery of global technical solutions/ applications enhancing core business functionalities. Expertise in leading large engineering teams of developers and managers to deliver award-winning and globally-recognized applications following the Agile development methodology. Solid leadership skills to effectively manage, train, and mentor direct reports towards superior performance and team effectiveness. Business communication and interpersonal skills to foster engagements among conflicting key stakeholders and to drive positive change.

Highlights of Expertise

Strategic Infrastructure Planning IT/ Business Change Management

Solution Architecture Management Software Project Management

IT Operations Management Software Engineering Management

IT Framework Establishment Agile Methodology

Vendor & Supplier Relationship Management Strategic Leadership

Contract Development / Negotiations Business Communication

Career Experience

LEXISNEXIS, Miamisburg, OH

SENIOR DIRECTOR, Global Application Development (2014 – Present)

Lead a multiple team of developers and managers producing solution design and solution delivery of high priority business requests. Oversee the overall software engineering project management and delivery, Solution Architecture, compliance with IT Governance, and IT budget.

Constantly drive efficiencies into the organization that improve the overall quality of business applications and functionalities.

Successfully direct the delivery of the complex change applications, including Lexis Practice Advisor®, the award-winning Lexis for Microsoft Office®, and LexisNexis MedMal Navigator® products utilizing .NET technologies and Agile development (Scaled Agile Framework).

Strengthen company’s position within competitive markets by securing the global recognition for the Microsoft Office® / Lexis Draft® application – 2016 CODiE Award for Best Solution for Integrating Content in to Workflow and the 2016 Australian Business Award, category – Product Excellence.

Manage, coach, train, and mentor direct reports, ensuring superior performance and team effectiveness.

Establish comprehensive objectives, goals, and KPIs, monitoring project progress and performance.

Initiate and deploy effective software engineering best practice vision, strategy, policies, and processes that aid and improve business performance.

Partner with Product Management team in aligning Scrum teams with company roadmap and ensuring application release within established timeline and budget.

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SENIOR DIRECTOR, Global Product Platform Development (2011 – 2014)

Oversaw, led, and guided a talented engineering team in developing feasible technical solutions using the Agile development process. Ensured product delivery within established timeline, quality standards, and budget.

Drove the key product development initiatives by directing and delivering new and enhanced infrastructure services as well as providing lifecycle systems support across a broad technology base (Unix, Linux, MVS, Windows).

Achieved operational excellence by significantly reducing the certification footprint and maintaining production commitments.

Secured 20% year over year cost savings through effective resource and hardware management.

Played the instrumental role of the GPPD representative in major contract re-negotiation with key suppliers for engineering resources.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, Global Content Systems Development (2009 – 2011)

Directed the large-scale managed service sourcing environment supporting the Content Systems infrastructure. Led cross-functional teams onsite and offshore to enable delivery of complex solutions enhancing core business functionalities. Established comprehensive procedures and metrics to track and monitor compliance with service level agreements. Spearheaded the capacity planning, production issues, disaster recovery, and technology initiatives across global levels.

Drove the transition to a managed service resource model from an 80/20 FTE to a 25/75 FTE to Supplier ratio.

Efficiently established the Service Level Agreement and restructured teams that optimized operational effectiveness.

Successfully developed project concepts, created plans, and oversaw the implementation of business solutions of moderate to high complexity.

Ensured the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.

Earlier Career:

Manager, Software Engineering, LexisNexis, Miamisburg, OH (2006 – 2009)

Technical Lead, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, Miamisburg, OH (2006 and prior)

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Technical Proficiencies

Windows, Unix, Linux, MVS, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, XML, Enterprise Software, .NET., Java

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