Software Development Director

DARCY ANDERSON

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Denver, CO 80212 303-***-****

EXPERIENCED, EFFECTIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Experienced professional in commercial software development in a range of technologies and

industries in global companies. A team builder who motivates and makes teams to be efficient

and cohesive.

Areas of expertise:

● Commercial Software ● Global Multi Team ● Software

Development – Management and Development

Desktop, Web, Client Building SOA, SaaS, MS,

Server, Apps, SaaS Open Source

● Team Building and ● Agile Methodology Budgeting and

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Binding Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Regis Company, (www.regiscompany.com)

Golden, Colorado November 2012 to June 2014

Director of Software Development and IT

The Regis Company is a leadership development consulting firm that not only teaches people what

to think, but how to think. TRC assists clients to become value workers in a fast paced global

business environment.

● Responsible for development of the core platform and custom customer websites which are

built on the core platform.

● Grew team from small dysfunctional team to a team capable of satisfying the business

needs while investing in the core platform. Team grew from 3 to 9, dedicating part of team

to core product development

● Instituted modern development practices and infrastructure to support faster custom

development for customer facing websites plus improved quality in core product.

● Initiated TRC’s shift from costly technologies and proprietary components to modern,

off the shelf technologies to focus on customer requested software.

● Moving hosting environment for clients from co location facility to cloud.

● Implemented Agile into the company culture.

● Headed development of TRC’s first SaaS product

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Technology: .NET, C#, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, Jenkins.

Maptek, Inc., (www.maptek.com)

Lakewood, Colorado May 2008 to July 2012

Director of Global Product Development – Vulcan

Maptek is a global, software company that has been developing 3D software and hardware for more

than 25 years, helping mining companies to make the most of their data.

● Responsible for development of Maptek’s flagship product, Vulcan, while managing three

development teams located in USA, Chile and Australia with team size of 42.

● Instituted modern development practices and infrastructure to support development across

regions. Streamlined to better suit global development.

● Initiated Vulcan’s shift from older technologies and proprietary components to modern,

off the shelf technologies to focus on customer requested software.

Technology: C++, C#, Visual Studio, JIRA, Hudson.

iggli, Inc., (www.iggli.com)

Boulder, Colorado June 2007 to April 2008

VP of Engineering

iggli, Inc. is a social music network based startup in Boulder, Colorado. The start up company,

founded by Tom Higley, developed online applications and technologies

● Founded, recruited and grew the engineering team from zero staff to a proficient team of IT,

R&D, and QA. Introduced Agile methodology. One of the first tasks was to find the right

architect and to drive out the architecture of the emerging social network platform.

● Streamlined IT infrastructure to support iggli's users from its infancy through launch.

Worked with hosting providers to plan for supporting iggli's large number of projected users.

● My mandate was to create, grow, motivate, evaluate and manage the Engineering group to

support iggli's development and support needs using Open Source frameworks on a

shoe string budget.

Technology: Open Source J2EE, Java, JSP, JSF, Facelets, Roller, Seams, AJAX, MySQL,

Hibernate, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL .NET Linux

Clear Technology, Inc., (www.clear technology.com) : June 2003 to June 2007

Westminster, Colorado

Director of Engineering

Clear Technology is a software company that provides process and activity automation solutions to

insurance, healthcare and financial services companies in the United States and overseas.

● Directed the engineering team to deliver on time and on budget the major and minor

releases of Clear’s Tranzax® platform which entails a workbench developed in Eclipse

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plugins and automatic deployment on J2EE technologies across multiple application

servers, databases and operating systems.

● Practiced Agile methodology.

● Successfully retooled team from a .NET to J2EE savvy shop with minimal training and staff

additions.

● Coordinated multiple release schedules for major and minor releases with other groups

including Customer Support, QA, Documentation and Professional Services.

Technology: J2EE, Java, Eclipse, JSP, JSF, Facelets, Hibernate, Ant, WAS, JBoss, DB2,

Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, VB, Oracle DB, Unix

Viewlocity, Inc. (www.viewlocity.com) : February 2000 to June 2003

Dallas, TexasDirector of Product Development

● Managed development projects through all phases of commercially available web based

application for Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM).

● Used Agile development methodology. Simultaneous management of multiple parallel

development teams.

● Defined and implemented source control and build processes.

● Managed multiple remote teams for the Application Connectors product.

Technology: J2EE, Java, JSP, Ant, Oracle DB, ClearCase and other Rational Tools

Unix.

NEXstep Inc. (acquired by Viewlocity): February 1999 to January 2000

Dallas, Texas

Principal Consultant

● Managed the implementation of WMS at a 300 store shoe retailer.

● Responsible for OLAP reporting development as part of an Oracle Applications

implementation.

Metasys Inc. /Optum Inc. (now Click Commerce): May 1994 to January 1999

Charlotte, North Carolina

Sr. Development Manager, Consulting Manager, Principal Consultant

Managed multiple teams to develop software connectors for Optum’s supply chain software

with ERPs OA and SAP. Coordinated with consulting teams to ensure successful

installation and implementation of products at client sites.

Government of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman: November 1992 to May 1994

Software Engineer.

Accenture/Synerlogic, Ottawa:: May 1985 to November 1992

Principal Consultant

EDUCATION

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Bachelor of Science in Computing Science

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