Leslie K. Meadows
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Information technology professional with an interest in Business and Technology Development environments. Having combined work academic experience in the areas of Software development lifecycle. Solid project management, people skills; able to learn new technologies quickly and work under tight deadlines.
Project Management
Quantitative and qualitative research skills
Risk and Requirements development
Process Re-Engineering, deployment working on dev team
Detailed oriented, organizational, track, improve data quality.
Ability to meet deadlines
Strong interpersonal skills, stakeholder management ability, decision-making across a matrix environment.
Project Management, ability to manage multiple, timely priorities simultaneously, utilizing advanced multitasking skills; ability to filter and direct attention to immediate needs.
Focused self-motivator and resourceful; able to work and seek answers independently with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Sustaining vendor/client relationships, and devising data communications solutions for client objective.
Skilled at managing projects, planning, organizing decision-making, delegation and conflict management, proven adaptability, stress tolerance deadline driven communication skills.
Software development lifecycle, bug tracking, version control, builds, unit testing, integration testing, release management, Validation and Verification, production deployment environment.
Programming skills, requirements engineering for project management software based applications.
Liaise effectively with cross functions and establish strong relationships with the major functional stakeholders and business units.
Develop project plans to identify risk system and development requirements.
IT Support system build-out, testing and use technology to identify, track & improve data quality.
Quantitative and qualitative research skills utilized in academia and project based for devising specific technology solutions.
Learn new and evolving technologies to improve career development.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Technical presentations: Software development lifecycle, product rollout, re-engineering
Languages: Java, SQL, XML, Shell Scripting, HTML, JavaScript, Data Mining, R
Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Hadoop
App/Web Servers: Matrix, Tomcat, Apache, and ISIS servers Avid: Adrenaline, Avid Unity Media Manager Database, Interplay asset management system, Word Press CMS, Web development.
IDE’s: JBuilder, Eclipse, Weka. MS Office, PPM Clarity, Confluence, GIT Stash, RStudio, Subversion, Black Duck OSS, Risk Controls, SSAP, Application Risk Controls ACA’S BSIMM, Scrum, Release Manager, Jenkins,
Model-driven development processes. Component design, event-driven architecture, and physical database design.
SSH, UML, Visio, Jira, Technical Writing, Waterfall and Agile Methodologies Use Case, Excel, Selenium
EDUCATION:
Pace University
M.S. Computer Science-Weather Station Project
University of Phoenix
B.S. Business Administration
University of Kentucky
Communications
AWARDS:
Emmy Award -Investigative Series
Associated Press
RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Requirements Engineering, Project Management, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Relational Database Management Systems, Java Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics In Business, Economics For Business, E-commerce, UNIX, Computer Architecture, Business Telecommunications, Information Systems Planning and Policy, Finance and Accounting, Personnel Management, Critical Thinking and Decision Making, Business Law, and Business Research Applications, Managerial Finance and Knowledge Representation- Analyze company IT business Processes, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Analytics
EXPERIENCE:
Consultant- New York, NY April, 2015-April, 2016
JPMorgan -Big Data Software Solutions Group-Development Team
Technical Writer TSD’s maintain Confluence site
Project Manager-maintain dev team daily scrum updates
Release Manager- Prepare environments DEV/UAT/SIT/Prod CI/CD checklist versions releases
Troubleshoot bug fixes, maintain group JIRA’s and hours worked.
Waterfall and Agile software development/deployment
Liaise and build relationships across JPMIS LOB- Prod Ops, Engineering, Architecture and Build teams for rollout.
Signoff on ITSM’s change management/java
Jenkins
Keon Boks-Server allocation, Host groups, User groups, Route Access
EURC requests for SEAL approval components, decommission project
IDD, BRD reviews-business system analysis/Business Intelligence
BlackDuck/Quality Assurance/SecurityTollgate
SSAP, DEI, Fortify/QA
ACA, ARC assessments
Audit Reviews/Research/Requirements gathering
Vendor Management
SharePoint
Freelance- New York, NY 1998 –Present
Technical Manager, CBS News, FOX News Channel, WNYW –TV, NBC, CBS News Path Technical services. WCBS-TV, WABC, CBS Network, the CBS Evening News, Saturday Morning Show, Sunday Morning Show, Weekend News and the Early Show
TV Production abilities, creative and investigative Long form format magazine style editing on various shows for major broadcasting facilities.
Editorial/Edit Produce stories on deadline. Supervised staff projects coordinated with functional management and Engineers on technical projects and issues for the broadcast.
The Technical Production Manager provided front-line management of personnel, facilities, equipment and technology for a customer-driven production operations group supporting News and Business.
Collaborates with Show crew members to ensure vendor partners are managed, and contracts are fully leveraged for assigned programs
Work closely with producers and directors in planning programs and leading field, studio and manpower scheduling to minimize the costs of the customer and channel.
Collaborate closely with finance managers in preparation of show or facility budgets and expense reporting. Drive ongoing process improvement to deliver increasing operational efficiency in all broadcast and engineering vendor related processes.
Consultant IT-12/11- 2/12 Hawthorne, NY- Technical Writer ADL Data Systems - Integrated Clinical Billing and Electronic Health Record
Manage and complete writing assignments for user documentation.
Liaise with customer representatives, vendors and engineers to establish technical specifications for publication.
Collaborate with engineering for product update/rollout for the client user manual.
Consultant IT-02/12-10/12 Greenwich, CT- IT Project Manager/Support Engineer Jones Family Group (Tudor Investments) Private Wealth Management)
Responsible for the coordination, implementation, and completion of IT projects ensuring consistency with company strategy.
Lead the planning, of project scope, tasks, objectives and deliverables under the direction of the CTO.
Manage budget and track status with team members.
Provide support code fixes Web maintenance and server support software and hardware upgrades.
Present researched problems with solutions.
Co-Project Managed Data migration for data center move with Technical Lead.
Manage Offshore software development projects.
Weekly scrum meetings/Agile environment
Vendor management
IT Support