Manager Project
Resume:
P ROFESSIONAL P ROFILE
Dynamic Director of Software Development and Project Management with 20+ years substantive experience driving change, effectively communicating strategic business goals, and leading high-performance teams in shared ownership of continuance of organizational success. Demonstrated ability to consistently exceed expectations in successful management of high-complexity, key software development, deployment, process, and integration.
Possesses strong clarity of purpose, ethics, and diplomacy, as a dedicated, integral influencer of long-term profitability and risk containment. Transcends barriers, removes obstacles, and resourcefully optimizes performance in operations. Translates diverse organizations’ strategies into top results and maximum returns aligned with corporate, client, staff, & global community best interests.
Coaches, motivates, empowers, and leads team members and organizations to their optimum performance. Unique ability to expeditiously and effectually develop collaborative, influential partnerships with executive leadership, staff, and colleagues, while maintaining consistency, transparency, and visibility.
Substantial cross-industry experience leading and developing global teams of diverse backgrounds, within large, esteemed, Financial, Insurance, Medical Research, Business Services, and Pharmaceutical corporations. Reputed clientele included: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Bristol Myer Squibb, Astra Zeneca, Merck, United Health Care, Charles Schwab, GE, Cigna Insurance, IBM, Liberty Mutual, Chubb Insurance, and Anheuser Busch.
Ensures adherence to project scope, schedule, and budgetary requirements, communicating status updates, and risk assessments to key stakeholders throughout. Develops mitigation and improvement plans as determined by process and project viability.
Delivers continuous improvement of existing software applications and architecture.
Dedicated Director and Board member of numerous organizational voluntary committee initiatives.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Eton Solutions LP 11/2018 – Present
Chapel Hill, NC
Director, Software Solution
Within transitioning start-up fast-paced environment of complexity, integral contributor to Software Development & Product Management lifecycle planning and roadmap, including client-centric requested features, and core product components.
Develops and oversees SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, & Time) module performance metrics for software development and SaaS environmental development operations.
Provided thought leadership and influenced Business to invest in supporting development tools such as Jira and Confluence, to improve tracking and optimize software SDLC framework.
Set precedent and drives consistency, by fully documenting and visualizing entire SDLC lifecycle, from requirement to release for adaption, and implementing executive policy across the organization.
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Chapel Hill, NC
Leading, Developing, &
Motivating Robust Regional &
Global Teams
Key Stakeholder Relationship
Building & Management
Change Introduction &
Management
Directing Software Design,
Development, & Implementation
Persuasive, Motivational, &
Consultative Communicator
Influencer of Process Obstacle
Surmounting
Customer Success, Enablement, &
Optimization
Innovative Solutions-Driven
Business Acumen
Strategic, Adaptable, & Agile
Project Management
Cross-organizational Network
Builder
Budgetary Forecasting &
Management
Audit Analysis & Regulatory
Compliance
Ethical & Diplomatic Negotiation
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D I R E C T O R o f S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P M E N T & P R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T Shawn Collins
linkedin.com/in/shawn-collins
Bachelor of Business Administration
(accelerated program- in process-
degree expected May 2021)
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
Associate of Science
Business Administration
Post University
Waterbury, CT
E D U C A T I O N
WORK EXPERIENCE / CONTINUED p a g e 2
Led ramp-up of Development Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India which includes Testing, Software Development, Business Analysis and Dev Ops Support.
Directs key business growth initiative to introduce, train, and implement Agile practices across global development teams. Consultatively create, measure and present reporting around development and testing team efficiencies, for better resource allocation and planning.
Participant in weekly Executive meeting, reports in detail on progress, risk, and remediation across all global programs.
Leads strategic capacity planning, subsequently executes management of interviews, hiring, training, onboarding and expeditious acclimation of all Developers, Testers and Dev Ops resources.
Implemented and manages Jira Service desk for customer defect reporting and training requests, ensuring client transparency.
Manages all external vendor relations, contracts, resources, and communications. Deutsche Bank – Global Technology Center 9/2013 – 11/2018 Cary, NC
VP, Software Development Manager
Integral in leading key software development for 4 global programs. Directed multiple teams for award-winning proprietary Knowledge Visualization, Tableau, Business Intelligence Tools, and a New York & London Securities Trading Application. Utilized technologies across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
Effectively led global engineering team supporting a 40 TB data warehouse consisting of global sales data from multiple feed sources, including Salesforce.
Executed global vendor management for multiple resources, including contract management and communications.
Led automation testers ensuring best quality of testing utilizing Cucumber and Selenium, resulting in 90% coverage across all application functions.
Created and presented SaaS, product roadmap, risk and complexity status to Executive Leadership. Ensured organizational vision and success, via understanding gravity and delicacy of maintaining positive corporate brand identity.
Demonstrated keen ability to proactively identify internal team member strengths and competencies, executing talent development and leadership succession methodologies. Achieved building and growth of robust, high-performing teams.
Oversaw maintaining compliance within highly-regulated banking environment: identified potential audit issues, mitigated and repaired to full resolution, and adopted investment technology standard roadmap toolsets.
Led global engineer teams and manage 11 direct reports, resourcing, planning and deliverables. Change agent and innovative resolution finder with consistency of delivery, owning, leading, and cultivating responsible corporate culture. Acquired talent, trained, coached, and managed with influence of best performance.
T E C H N O L O G Y
O V E R S I G H T
Programming Languages
HTML5, Java, Angular JS, CSS,
Highcharts, Selenium, Cucumber,
Protractor, React, Rest API, SQL
Script
Software Tools
Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Bit
Bucket, Team City, SonarQube,
Artifactory, IntelliJ, Eclipse, GIT,
Maven, PPM, Quality Center,
Selenium, Cucumber, Protractor
Visual Analytics
Tableau, Tibco Spotfire, Cognos,
QlikView, Cockpit (proprietary
custom visualization in-house tool)
Integration Systems
SaaS, PaaS, Azure, Ansible, Redhat
Openshift, Delphix, WebSSO,
Oracle, SOA, WLI, WLS, Service Bus,
Hazelcast, Docker, Sybase, Jenkins,
Kupernetes, DevBox
Electronic Medical Records
Epic
Shawn Collins
D I R E C T O R o f S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P M E N T & P R O D U C T M A N A G E M E N T L I C E N S U R E
North Carolina Real Estate Broker
- Contractual negotiation, and
strong attention to detail in
putting together a sale and
shepherding it through to close.
WORK EXPERIENCE / CONTINUED p a g e 3
Managed budgetary financials in collaboration with COO (Chief Operating Officer)team, in goal of achieving targeted forecasts.
Drove redesign and upgraded existing legacy application and supporting systems for optimized performance, security, and code quality.
Instituted critical process improvements, by automating build and deployment components. Strengthened data integrity, harness value, and drive complexity reduction. Created deployable, reusable data agnostic widget library framework.
Utilized integration systems, and testing & automation programming languages: Angular JS, CSS, HTML5, Highcharts, Java, and Hazelcast, in an agile environment. Duke University Medical Center / Apex Systems Inc. 1/2013 – 9/2013 Durham, NC
Senior Project Manager (Consultant)
Led Epic Maestro Care (unified electronic medical record and clinical care application) integration across Duke Office of Clinical Research for Duke Health. Implementation included over 2,000 studies and 16 Clinical Research Units.
Lead Manager for Epic Training Facilities with then projected training of targeted 14,800 users by June 2013. Diligently maintained weekly program level status reporting and attained and included Executive Leadership overview.
Directed LabCorp interfacing implementation into Epic throughout all Duke ambulatory clinics. Included build, functional testing, mapped record testing, and resulting.
Oversaw planning and monitoring of numerous software development builds, risk assessment, resourcing, and cross-dependencies.
Maintained cognizance and instilled in team throughout developments and integrations need for constant HIPPA compliant confidentiality and security of data, to uphold organizational brand identity and reputation. Quintiles / Vaco 5/2012 – 1/2013
Durham, NC
Senior Project Manager (Consultant)
Managed custom software development efforts, proof of concept solutions, and middleware integrations successfully.
Directed multitude of development teams, inclusive of off-shore testing and development in Bangalore, India, for custom SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) for visual analytics and data virtualization. Utilized numerous factory sources, custom data links, and Tibco Spot Fire technology.
Responsible to financial stakeholder for managing all project financials, time tracking, resource allocation, reporting, and regulatory compliance.
Acted as Lead for middleware integrations, enhancements, consolidations, and upgrades utilizing SOA, WLI, WLS, and Service Bus. V O L U N T E E R I S M
Deutsche Bank:
- Leader of Cary Graduate
and Intern Program
- Sitting Board Member of
Global IP Repatriation Team
- Shared Business Solution
Architecture Committee
member
Pitney Bowes:
- 9/11 Disaster Recovery Team
Shawn Collins
D I R E C T O R o f S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P M E N T & P R O D U C T M A N A G E M E N T W O R K
E X P E R I E N C E
P r i o r t o 2 0 1 2
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North
Carolina / Tek Systems,
Durham, NC / 9/2011 – 5/2012/
Senior Project Consultant –
ICD-10 Vendor Management
and Risk Assessment
Pitney Bowes – Document
Messaging Technologies,
Danbury, CT / 8/2006 – 9/2011/
Senior Project Manager
Blimpie Subs and Sandwiches,
Shelton & Danbury, CT /
5/2003 – 6/2006 /
Owner of 2 Franchises /
Manager
Pitney Bowes Management
Services, Stamford, CT /
3/2001 – 8/2006 /
Senior Systems Engineer /
Project Manager
TranScape (a Pitney Bowes
Company), Shelton, CT /
5/1998 – 3/2001 /
Level 2 Technical Support
Specialist / Supervisor
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