Becca Gronau

Responsibilities

• Accountability for 3 out of 4 customer facing products; Ask, Sense, and Dialogue
• Modernization of legacy platform
• Mature software delivery processes
• Directed organization of software engineers in fully remote work setting on 3 continents and 6 timezones

Achievements

• Rollout and integration plan for new Design System across Perceptyx platform (2022 Q4)
• Matured agile delivery (2022 Q4)
• Improved ability to forecast work and deliver on commitments (2022 Q4)
• Designed and delivery training program for early in career leaders (2022 Q4)

Primary technologies: GoLang, Vue, JavaScript, AWS

• Guiding mid-career professionals to achieve their goals through 6 month one-on-one mentor relationships
• Spotlight speaker

Responsibilities

• Digital transformation of commercial line of business
• Modernization of legacy platform
• Quality engineering discipline across Fifth Third
• Direct organization consisting of 5 directors/100+ software engineers in hybrid work setting (in person/virtual)

Achievements

• Delivered strategy to accelerate modernization of commercial digital by adapting current standalone solutions into a platform with micro-frontend and domain services. (2022Q3)
• Transformed quality engineering tools support team to capability model with focus on driving excellence in Quality Engineering across all of Fifth Third (2022Q1)
• Delivered strategy for Digital IT to improve quality yielding fewer defects and quicker time to market (2021Q2)
• Built entirely new leadership team from ground up including managing out pre-existing ill suited leaders (2020Q3 - 2021Q2)
• Elevated talent through hiring new engineers, up-skilling existing staff, and focus on developing disciplines (2021Q1 - 2021Q2)
• Re-imagined Quality Engineering for Digital IT (2020Q4 - 2021Q1)

Primary technologies: Java, Angular, JavaScript, WebSphere, AWS

Responsibilities

• Delivery of BAU projects and investment cases for multiple industry leading, customer facing platforms
• Set technology vision; defined architecture and roadmap; established priorities
• Directed global team consisting of 8 software engineering leads/40 software engineers across three locations on two continents
• Owner of $7.9M budget (people, hosting, licenses)

Achievements

• Implemented Research Technology's site strategy by relocating teams to preferred sites (2020 Q1 - 2020Q3)
• Involved hiring at preferred sites, transferring knowledge, and retaining existing team until transition was complete
• Guided team through re-architecture from monolith to micro services and micro UIs (2020Q1 - 2020Q3)
  
• Complete overhaul and modernization of visual design and user interaction (2020Q1 - 2020Q3)
• Search engine platform migration from Microsoft FAST to Elastic Search (2020Q1- 2020Q3)

Primary technologies: Java, React, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Tomcat, Oracle, AWS, SOLR, Elastic Search

Responsibilities

• Delivery of BAU projects and investment cases for high volume, high availability platform (350 transactions per second, 3M unique users per month, 99.95% annual up time)
• Set technology vision; defined architecture and roadmap; established priorities, best practices, and technology standards

Achievements

• Guided team through transition from monolith to micro services and micro UIs (2019Q3-Q4)
• Led team through conversion from outsourcing to insourcing model. Phased out outsourcing partner in US and India and hired in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019)
• Implemented innovative, no cost methods of training above and beyond what is possible with standard training budget (2019)
• Secondment to another area of company for struggling business case. Within 3-months, implemented positive changes allowing department to start delivering on commitments. Was offered permanent position with department in UK. (2018-Summer)
• Personally led $1.2M business case as architect, tech lead, and scrum master. Delivered all requirements on time and within budget. (2017Q1-2018Q3)
• Led team through multiple methodology adoptions such as Agile, SVPG (Silicon Valley Product Group), and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

Primary technologies: Java, React, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Tomcat, Oracle, AWS, SOLR

Responsibilities

• Architect for web tier of 10+ search and analytic products
• Guided development teams on best practices and technology standards
• Completed architecture feasibility assessments for new products and major enhancements, including architectural approach, impacted development areas, and high level estimates
• Worked closely with product owners to refine requirements while staying within bounds of original estimate

Achievements

• Internationalized mature product in order to secure revenue in new markets
• Substantially improved performance of product through analysis and recommendation of changes on both server side and client side
• Remediated security vulnerabilities by analyzing product and recommending solutions. Incorporated security best practices into development life cycle.
  

Primary technologies: Java, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle