Thaddeus Thacker: Director of Technology in San Marcos, CA

• Provide technical and business oversight over the development strategy of all digital projects within the agency. • Oversee the coordination of development, testing and release activities with a near-shore development team in Costa Rica. • Partner with client service and project management teams to translate the clients’ business requirements to a sound technical architecture/approach. • Act as the primary point of contact for all queries regarding the knowledge domain and associated vendors and products. • Build a nurture long-term client relationships reinforcing a sense of accountability and responsibility for delivering the highest quality and value to clients. • Provide performance feedback to team to establish and achieve career goals; determine, select and approve training to accomplish personal and professional growth.

• Developed an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) façade of centralized SOAP and REST services, and client interfaces for various UI applications. • Lead and facilitated the Scum process for a development team consisting of on-site employees and offshore contractors. • Actively engaged with client Product Owners to refine and manage requirements, delivery plans and development schedules. • Developed, enhanced and refactored, resilient enterprise applications and services across multiple tiers and environments using best practices and design patterns. • Collaborated in problem analysis and remediation efforts with various teams, to improve processes and performance of systems and services. • Lead, trained and mentored team members on development practices and Agile methodologies. • Identified, evaluated and prototyped emerging technologies and practices toward continuous improvement in software development and maintenance efficiencies.

• Educate and promote Agile methods and practices across my organization. • Author and collaborate on documents and job aids for using Agile techniques. • Involved in defining a new Software Development Lifecycle Path for projects across AT&T using Agile methods.

• Coached teams in their adoption of Agile methods for their development projects. • Provided insight, instruction and critiques during Scrum meetings and ceremonies. • Communicated the work and best practices of the Agile Center of Excellence to individual development teams. • Assisted development teams to effectively use Agile Lifecycle Management tools within the Software Development Lifecycle Standards set forth by the company. • Educated and promoted Agile methods and practices within Corporate Systems and beyond to the greater IT enterprise. • Authored and collaborated on standards documentation and job aids for teams adopting Agile techniques and methods. • Subject Matter Expert for multiple Application Lifecycle Management tools, where I assisted teams in their use of tools to manage their Scrum projects. • Helped to define a new Software Development Lifecycle Path for projects across AT&T using iterative development methods.

• Collaborated with representatives from all IT towers to foster continuous improvement across the AT&T Development community. • Presented information on new development techniques and practices to teams within my organization.

• Lead a development team of employees and contractors to develop custom software solutionsfor various business units within AT&T. • Applied Design Patterns and best practices to design and develop resilient application architectures and modules for reuse within the entire Corporate Systems organization. • Worked directly with Product Owners to engineer their requirements into User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, that developers could translate into working software. • Collaborated with my fellow developers to define, estimate, and execute, on all designs, coding tasks and reviews. • Evaluated and prototyped technologies to determine appropriate technical solutions for enterprise applications and architectures. • Collaborated with teams across diverse areas of the IT enterprise to execute on common goals. • Researched, prototyped and recommended mobile development techniques and technologies. • Configured and maintained application servers and acted as the Release Manager for

• Developed a Game Content Server to manage and synchronize content delivery, player tracking and scoring aggregation, across multiple timezones for the world's first real-time multiplayer Interactive TV (ITV) trivia game. • Developed several web applications to facilitate the uploading, scheduling, and tracking of advertisements for the ITV game platform. • Developed utility applications to manage the graphics and trivia content of ten separate trivia games.