Director of Development

Phone: 501-***-****

Address: **** ******* ***, *** *

Seaside, CA 93955

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taldodson/

Email: adc309@r.postjobfree.com

Tal Dodson

Director of Development, with over 22 years of experience in higher education, information technology, and software development. My career in higher education, from state to federal levels give me a truly unique understanding from the client, vendor and technical sides. Passionate IT Leader with a vast variety of experiences, always goal and mission oriented, striving for continuous improvement, with both clients and teams.

Clearance: Secret

Highly communicative and trusted leader with over 22 years of experience in Higher Education, Department of Defense, State, Federal and Private sector consulting and software development. REVERSE ENGINEERING: DLIFLC-STATS, DMDC, UALR-Web Applications & Instructional Design LEARNING/PRACTICE/STUDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:Blackboard/WebCT; Sakai, Moodle, Angel, Dentrix, Dexis, Kodak

(all), Dolphin, U4SM, Business World, Prevero

OPERATING SYSTEMS: All Microsoft OS, All Microsoft Server OS; MOSS 2003/2007; Mac OSX; Redhat Linux; Ubuntu. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Senior analyst gathering requirements for Java, Javascript, C#, C++, SQL, Mainframe and PHP, HTML, CUF, OOP, AngularJS, and Python projects. DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Primary SDLC methodologies Waterfall, RUP, LEAN, SCRUM/Agile, and Kanban honed skills. Utilizing PMP infrastructure through Microsoft TFS, Visio, MS Project, Rational Concert Suite, Maven Adobe Suite, AEM, SOAP, REST, Confluence Wiki, JIRA/JIRA Agile, Subversion, GIT, Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2007-2016, Extreme and Gang programming, RDBMS, Oracle, SQL, Salesforce, Service Now, and Cognizant. EXPERIENCE

Unit4

Senior Implementation Consultant

October 2017 to Present

My primary functions included providing High Level Estimates for Design and Implementation, Assist in Pre-sales Research and Calls, Gathering Client Business Objectives, Architect Solutions and Project Management. To best support Student Management, my skillsets in Software Development, Business Analysis, Process Design and Development, and as a SCRUM Master, aided seven different startup implementations, including 2 Nursing Schools, 2 Universities, 2 Colleges and 1 Medical School Start-up. On a daily basis I was responsible for Client U4SM Demonstrations, Application Training, Implementation, Configuration and Processes Design Documentation. It was through these interactions that I was able to develop QA, IST/UAT Use Cases, for testing purposes and improvement of implementation methodologies. I aided in the Re-Architecture and Re-Design and Manual Testing of the Security and Permissions areas of System Management. My Commitment and Passion to the client is always my goal, as their success and understanding is directly proportional to success implementing Student Management. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center-Presidio of Monterey

Student Information System Director of Development/ Scrum Master/PM April 2016-June 2017

My primary functions at the Defense Language Institution Foreign Language Center(DLIFLC) was to spawn, manage, and supervise a 3-year project plan for the delivery of a Web Based Real Time Student Tracking and Academic Management System reverse engineered from a 20-yr old system, and revive a stalled 7 year contract. This system was designed to provide Linguistic Instructors an Hour by Hour Assessment of their cohorts of students in any of the 23 Languages taught at DLIFLC. The new SIS was designed to advance hybrid methodologies and integrate with the Saki LMS for team cohesion. I wore many hats on the project, including Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner and Team Lead. The AGILE teams I supervised were cross- functional teams, combining Product Owners, Stake Holders, QA, Development, and Business Analysts. Through these teams I created a new AGILE Tennant of “Where we are at..”meetings allowing for each member of the team to “drive” the product, creating a better understanding of the navigation and operation of the tool that was being built. This Obliterated Roadblocks, between Stakeholders and AGILE teams, creating more efficient SPRINTS. This lead to a more centralized repository of documentation founded in Team Foundation Server, Microsoft SharePoint 2016, MS Project and JIRA. This lead to the Confluence Wiki, being easily updated after each Sprint.

Defense Manpower Data Center/HPE

Senior Agile Business Analyst IV/Product Owner

April 2012-April 2016

My primary functions as a Senior Business Analyst IV and Product Owner was to act as the Contractor Interface between the Government Product Owners and the development teams, authoring Functional Specifications, Help Desk Manuals, as well as an Excel Tool that showed all 425 Web Application running and their dependencies. I was responsible for developing granular user stories for transition from current software format to the Common Update Framework(CUF) subject processors, moving the SDLC to AGILE from Waterfall. I utilized JIRA and MS Project to track team metrics, tickets, and produce user stories for development. The tools allowed me to refine the existing web application documentation, insurance email system, and contact management system, resulting in reduced time to production.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Associate Director of Extended Programs/Director of IT Development EXP

January 1997-March 2009

As the Associate Director and Director of IT Development of Extended Programs I oversaw the Recruitment, Training, Provisioning, and Development of Professors and their courses to the WebCT/Blackboard LMS. This dictated the creation of a Help Desk, a Scholarly Technology and Resources Center, and providing new equipment to all those in every department at the University. Over my 11 year tenure we grew from 225 students in 1998 to over 10,000 students over 5 continents, by my departure, eleven years later. The Extended Programs Department saw an 800% growth over the first 3 years and steady 400% growth over the next 4. The University saw many advancements that ExP, as a self-sustaining unit, participated in. This included an Ellucian ERP/Banner Transition and Implementation. My roles and responsibilities included product management, assessment, academic services, enrollment, financial services, information technology, student regulatory compliance, information assurance, training, and maintaining a 24/7 help desk for students.

I documented all of Extended Programs policies, processes, and procedures for Facutly, Staff and Student Interactions. I acted as the customer interface for all bespoke customization, training, IT purchases, and satellite campuses, associated to Extended Programs.

EDUCATION

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

MA Criminal Justice/AA Information Assurance

August 1997 to May 2004

I received a MA in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Technology and Policy Analysis. I also acquired an Associates in Information Assurance.

Arkansas State University

B.S. Psychology

August 1993-December 1997

I received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a Minor in Criminology. My emphasis was behavioral and neurological psychology.

SKILLS

REVERSE ENGINEERING:DLIFLC-STATS, DMDC, UALR-Web Applications & Instructional Design LEARNING/PRACTICE/STUDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS:Blackboard/WebCT; Sakai, Moodle, Angel, Dentrix, Dexis, Kodak

(all), Dolphin, U4SM, Business World, Prevero

OPERATING SYSTEMS: All Microsoft OS, All Microsoft Server OS; MOSS 2003/2007; Mac OSX; Redhat Linux; Ubuntu. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Senior analyst gathering requirements for Java, Javascript, C#, C++, SQL, Mainframe and PHP, HTML, CUF, OOP, AngularJS, and Python projects. DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Primary SDLC methodologies Waterfall, RUP, LEAN, SCRUM/Agile, and Kanban honed skills. Utilizing PMP infrastructure through Microsoft TFS, Visio, MS Project, Rational Concert Suite, Maven Adobe Suite, AEM, SOAP, REST, Confluence Wiki, JIRA/JIRA Agile, Subversion, GIT, Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2007-2016, Extreme and Gang programming, RDBMS, Oracle, SQL.

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