Wade Halsey

adm69j@r.postjobfree.com

314-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadehalsey

CAREER SUMMARY – People Code Process

Managing people, products, processes and technologies, then pulling it all together to produce business results. Broad technical knowledge combined with proven leadership ability and creative problem-solving skills in both strategic and tactical areas. Effective communicator with all levels of technical and non-technical individuals. Passionate about building highly scalable software products and platforms and managing and leading technology teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT at Nestlé North America

May 2018 – Current

• Regional Head of Marketing, Sales and eBusiness. Apr 2021 - Current

• Functional Relationship Manager for Marketing, Sales and eBusiness. Jan 2020- Apr 2021

• Functional Business Relationship Manager for Digital Marketing and Direct to Consumer. May 2018 – Jan 2020

Responsibilities include the Development, Operations, Innovation for Purina NA consumer facing digital platform of 45+ Web, Mobile, Social, Voice and eCommerce assets, which collectively see more than 100 million unique visitors per year. Other responsibilities include supporting Sales category through planogram and legacy solution support for both Nestle Purina and Nestle USA. To achieve the above, I lead an agile, high performing team of architects, developers, project managers, business analysts, system administrators and cloud analysts, as well as resources from a number of 3rd party agencies. A key responsibility is performance management, career objective planning and recruiting and retaining key talent. Multiple technology stacks are represented, including the .Net platform and open source Drupal and Magento assets, Salesforce Cloud platforms, all hosted on a variety of platforms including AWS, Azure and Rackspace.

Nestlé Purina North America

Manager - Digital Support Services

June 2014 - May 2018

Defining, delivering and supporting strategic digital technology initiatives. Slashed 3rd party development costs 70% by implementing a new digital strategy, negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.

● Manage and set priorities for design, maintenance, development, testing and evaluation of digital assets.

● Ensure local projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget

● Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.

● Provide mentoring, coaching, staff appraisal, career path guidance and escalation support for direct and indirect reports

● Recommend digital strategies, policies and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, evaluating trends and anticipating requirements.

● Preserve assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.

● Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances and initiating corrective action.

● Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organizational standards.

● Direct digital technological research by studying organizational goals, strategies, practices and user projects.

Kama Consulting

Architect/Lead Software Developer

Jan 2007 - May 2014

Lead Software Developer providing consulting services to Magellan Behavioral Health, Nestle Purina and Rose International.

● Web development utilizing C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Classic ASP, XML, SAML SSO, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

● MVC, WEBAPI, Redis and SignalR frameworks.

● Project management using the Agile methodology and SCRUM.

● Development and maintenance of SSIS Packages, stored procedures, user defined functions and triggers using SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012 and Oracle 9, 10, 11.

● Development of various .Net classes to enhance existing applications.

● Reviewing code of other consultants to ensure organizational standards are met.

● Extensive system testing, both web and application testing.

● IIS administration.

● Evaluation of new hires.

● Coaching and training new hires on organizational standards.

● Bi-yearly performance reviews of consultants.

Primedia Broadcasting Johannesburg South Africa

Digital Manager and Lead Developer

April 2002 – January 2007

As the Digital Manager I was responsible for Primedia Broadcasting’s online presence. I managed a team of 2 developers, 3 graphic designers and 2 content specialists. I worked closely with on-air talent, station management and the sales department to meet all organizational objectives. I was also the lead developer. Our sites were hosted externally and I was responsible for the disaster recovery plan, as well as backup procedures for the sql server databases and websites.

● Development of multiple web based applications and web services using VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, classic ASP and Coldfusion.

● Development of the four radio station websites: www.highveld.co.za, www.702.co.za, www.capetalk.co.za, www.kfm.co.za as well as a custom CMS for each site

● Development of a mobile web site highveld.mobi

● Development of a loyalty program website www.clubvip.co.za

● Development of an internal prize distribution website to capture, track and monitor prizes given out online and on air.

● Development of a staff performance appraisal website and an internal company formula voting website.

● Disaster Recovery policies researched and implemented.

● IIS administration

Real People Pty Ltd, East London South Africa

Software Engineer

Dec 2000 – March 2002

Software Engineer developing web and desktop applications for a Financial Services company.

● Development of business-to-business websites utilizing classic asp and Sql Server and PHP and Interbase

● Developed a Delphi desktop application to decrypt and print legal documents. EDUCATION

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, East London South Africa NDip Information Technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C#, VB.NET, PHP, VB5/6, Delphi, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, VBScript

Databases: MS SQL Server 7/2000/2005/2008/2012, Oracle 9/10/11, MySQL, Interbase Platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7/10, RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, DOS Software: Visual Studio, MS Office Suite, PowerBI, Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver UltraDev, Adobe Photoshop CS

Web Servers: IIS, Apache

Source Control: TFS, GitHub, VSS, MKS

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