Robert L. Hays
Woodland
Hills, CA http://www.alephnaught.com/Blog H:
818.715.0806
purplehayz@earthlink.net C:
818.836.0509
Information Technology manager with extensive leadership
experience in software architecture and development. Detail-oriented
and flexible in changing work environments.
Certified Scrummaster Knowledge
of full software development lifecycle
Coaching Presentations
and public speaking
Budget management Enterprise
integration
Enterprise and software
architecture Java,
Python, PHP
DIRECTV, El Segundo, California 2010
– present
Software Development Manager
Managing a ten-member Java development
team customizing Comergent C3 for enterprise-wide
offer management, using Ant, Subversion, Java, Servlets,
Eclipse, Oracle.
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Created Java team; utilized agile approaches to
improve teamwork and morale
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Created and taught class on working with legacy Java
software, resulted in finding 2 bugs and improved performance and
implementation speed
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Used static code analysis to identify opportunities
for refactoring
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Improved performance of the Offers system by 50%;
created strategy for development performance testing to reduce last-minute
performance issues; managing cross-functional team to work on performance
issues
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Moving software build to shared continuous
environment based on Hudson to reduce downtime for developers during builds and
support development smoke testing
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Implemented FITness testing
framework, which reduced errors found in production by 25%
CLASSMATES.COM, Woodland
Hills, California 2008
– 2009
Software Development Manager
Managed a nine-member remote development team, consisting of
both software engineering and quality assurance roles, using Bugzilla, Confluence, Eclipse, Endeca,
Java, JavaScript, Jira, MediaWiki,
Perl, Resin, SharePoint, Splunk, Spring 2 and
Subversion.
·
Added to corporate top line by significantly
improving run-time performance of our best-returning ad, resulting in an
increase of over 100% in that ad’s revenue
·
Integrated team with company by improving
communications and moved team to the Scrum development process, resulting in
improved visit metrics for those parts of the solution
·
Improved agility by changing source code control
branching approach which reduced the time to repair and deploy fixes to
production by one week on average
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Increased quality through consistent unit and
end-to-end testing approaches and by implementing traceability for requirements
through code and test cases, reducing serious bugs found in production by over
80%
ABN AMRO SERVICES COMPANY, Chicago,
Illinois 1997
– 2007
Manager,
Enterprise Architecture North America, 2003 - 2007
Managed eight-member IT Enterprise Architecture team for the
North American region.
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Developed and implemented strategy for enterprise
architecture consisting of principles, reference architectures and glossaries
and taxonomies
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Defined common roadmap content, performed security
architecture, defined and developed reference architectures
·
Developed enterprise-level architectures including
J2EE, Business Objects and Oracle
·
Improved project delivery by creating an architecture
governance process integrated with the global ITIL (Information Technology
Infrastructure Library) change management process
·
Created IT policies and standards, and improved
processing exceptions to corporate policies and standards and added reference
architectures as part of standards to provide implementation direction,
improving project delivery and regulatory compliance
·
Led team for proposals to the CIOs
and COOs for global application rationalization
Architect
and Development Manager, 2000 - 2003
Designed and developed novel integration solution based on
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
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Development Manager for a team of six developers, two
quality assurance and testing engineers, two information management
specialists, one graphic artist, and two support staff, with a budget of $1.4MM
USD with signing authority to $15,000 USD
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Created and used agile processes internally and for
six off-shore development efforts in India and Russia
·
Developed a spin-off company, Neogration,
Inc., which sold this solution; patent applied for this software
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Created RFPs and
participated in vendor negotiations with MySQL, an
open source database supplier, and Majoris, a
mid-size Indian offshoring company, valued over
$200,000
Senior
Programmer / Analyst, 1997 - 2000
Developed and supported interest rate derivative trading
tools using SunGard Infinity library, C++, and backoffice tools using JPython,
Python and TCL
·
Led team that built a data warehouse transformation
and load tool using Java and JPython; solution was
built within budget and time constraints and was proven to be scalable
·
Developed interest rate derivatives trading tools
using C++, CORBA, Java, Python and TCL
G-BAR LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Chicago,
Illinois
1994 - 1997
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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Developed software that found hedge spreads for
arbitrage trades and identified unmatched trades with the clearing corporation;
developed general front and back office software
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Managed UNIX systems and a Telekurs
ticker data feed system
Education
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Member, Toastmasters International
(Leadership positions), 2008 – present
Advanced Communicator Bronze, 2010;
Competent Leader, 2009
Member, MacValley
Users Group, 2008 - present
Member, Association for Computing
Machinery, 2007 – present
Scrum Master training, Danube
Technologies, Inc., 2009
Leadership Development Program,
ABN AMRO, 2005
Leadership Development Program,
Center for Creative Leadership, 2002
Managed a command, control, communications and
intelligence system for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces. Worked for a software product company for three years. Performed real-time programming in a
high-energy physics research laboratory.