Jerome Gagner

8822 NE 124th ST, Kirkland, WA

Phone: (425) 591-2931  Email: phpmonkey@gmail.com

Executive Summary 

• Agile Project Management, Metrics, and Coaching
• eXtreme Programming Coaching and Management
• Lean Software Development Coaching
• Agile Business Analyst Coaching
• Software Engineering Team Building, Coaching, and Management
• Delivering large enterprise software applications ($5M+ in revenue)
• Managing  mixed (distributed near shore and local) software development teams
• Deep technical understanding of software development

Work Experience

Software Engineering Manager

Pharmacy OneSource - Bellevue, WA November 2008 - Present

    At Pharmacy OneSource, I participated in a team that transitioned Pharmacy OneSource from a Waterfall project based company, into an Agile/Lean company. I was also tasked with managing the team that was delivering a rewrite of Pharmacy OneSource's largest application (by revenue) from J2EE to .NET. I provided coaching to much of the organization, from software developers to executives, on Lean and Agile practices. Helped drive change to entire organization, and identify metrics for managing the entire company as a lean organization.

• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, firing, and training of team members
• Responsible for management and follow through on all bugs/issues assigned to team members.  Responsible for re-assigning bugs to other team leads if appropriate.
• Responsible for process development and management within their team’s field of expertise.
• Required to perform daily coaching
• Required to provide individual feed-back, set expectations, mentor, and manage performance and abilities for team
• Identify team skills and areas for improvement
• Resolve employee issues and requests for information
• Required to work on projects as either project lead or part of team
• Conduct annual reviews
• Define compensation structure
• Report Directly to the VP of Technology.
  

Senior Application Engineer/Software Team Lead

Pharmacy OneSource – Bellevue, WA October 2006 – November 2008

• Responsible for identifying project goals and deadlines
• Responsible for identifying  resources required for project (from UI, Programming, and Database team members and software/hardware needs)
• Coordinate project team’s responsibilities
• Responsible for ensuring project is completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Required to work directly with the design team to manage trade-offs between design and technical capabilities of the entire team
  

• Designed and implemented middle tier architecture (ASP .NET 2.0, C#) for new projects.
• Organized software development process, implemented “good practices”
• Introduced continuous integration, test driven development and enterprise bug tracking.
  
• Integrated legacy J2EE applications with new ASP .NET architecture.

Web Applications Developer – Contract

Pharmacy OneSource/Volt – Seattle, WA October 2006-December 2006

• Maintained existing J2EE applications.
• Worked on web based products with JBoss, Hibernate, SQL Server (MSSQL) and Jython.

Lead Developer, ChipIn.com

Kealoha Technologies – Honolulu, Hawaii March 2006 - September 2006

• Lead Developer at "Social Ecommerce" site. Product allowed for group giving (gifts, fundraisers, etc).
• Listed as inventor on two pending patents. Design, architected, and implemented PHP based prototype.
• Managed consultants and junior developers.
• Designed and implemented merchant and partner API(s). Managed integration points with other partners.
• Managed rewrite to distributed Java, Spring, WebWork, iBATIS (ORM framework) and Resin application. Planned out hardware and software requirements, including technology stack and ORM design. Implemented features in code and database persistence.
• Wrote wrapper and utility functions for integrating Quercus (Resin clean-room PHP implementation) with WebWork as the presentation layer.
• Implemented integration with many different payment systems including, but not limited by: PayPal, ACH (Telecheck), Authorize .NET with both PHP and Java APIs.
• Implemented and managed the relationships between different tiers of the application, from presentation to database persistence.
• Screened and interviewed applicants for Senior and QA development positions.

Senior Consultant, ChipIn.com

Kealoha Technologies, Remote – Seattle Washington January 2006 - Mar 2006

• Designed an implemented prototype of group payments system in PHP and Ruby on Rails clone Symphony. Designed and coded all layers down to database persistence.

Senior Software Developer

Name Intelligence – Bellevue, Washington Oct 2004 - March 2006

• Lead architect and project manager for www.whois.sc as well as related projects (now www.domaintools.com ). Managed and coordinated development on a complete rewrite, which is currently in the testing phase.
• Managed development teams of Perl, PHP and C++ developers responsible for Windows GUI applications, data processing/pruning systems, and web site back ends.
• Coordinated testing and debugging process, as well as managed release schedule.
• Designed functional specification drafts and managed development team based on those specifications.
• Designed, implemented, and managed multi-server, load-balanced web solutions using PHP, Java, and replicated MySQL servers.
• Responsible for the architecture and development of back-end code, in PHP, including custom session objects, bit-mask based user permissions, template engine , DAL (database access layer), etc.
• Served as technology mentor, providing guidance and advice to other developers when presented with their difficult issues (C++, Java, PHP, C#)
• Wrote a black-box credit card processing, encryption, and storage system as a stand-alone HTTPS server in Java, all while complying with Visa CISP/MasterCard regulations. (Java)
• Designed a “distributed processing” system for data mining, as well as authored the “master” server (Java)
• Wrote web service test suites in .NET (C#, SOAP)
• Responsible for converting existing products to the SOA methodology. (SOAP, Web Services, Java)
• Created and documented web service SDKs, in .NET, Java and PHP for clients such as Register.com and Name.com

PHP/MySQL Developer

Netmation - Bellevue, Washington April 2004 – September 2004

• Developed MySQL/XML based web-applications.
• Imported/Exported syndicated data programmatically with PHP/XML
• Converted existing ASP application to the traditional LAMP platform

PHP / MySQL Consultant

Various Clients Jan 2000 – Sept 2004

• Freelance consulting work and learning experience with a number of projects for various Dot-Com startup companies.