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Director of Technology

Top Management

Specialty in leading organizations in their ability to leverage technologies effectively to deliver innovative digital solutions of the utmost quality and value.

• 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.

Senior Developer / Scrum Master

• 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.

Agile Center Of Excellence Representative

• 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.

Agile Coach

• 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.

Development Center of Excellence Representative

• 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

Senior Applications Developer

• 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.

Senior Java Architect

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Thaddeus Thacker: Director of Technology in San Marcos, CA

Thaddeus Thacker

University of Arizona