Grant Burnes

Achievements:

• Saved an estimated $2.3 million (reduced time-to-delivery costs by 4 weeks) by designing and engineering a ready-made framework for microservice migration. The framework fixed common configuration mistakes, automatically converted configurations from different data-sources, and securely generated trusts for secrets.
• Improved pipeline build times by 400% by designing and engineering a pipeline management utility. The system resolved dependency graphs, cumulatively built artifacts (no unnecessary rebuilds), and ensure coding best practices were enforced all while running over 200 times a day with 100% accuracy.
• Pioneered and implemented an ephemeral environment infrastructure design that allowed developers to make application changes in isolation automatically. Ephemeral environments were zero touch (no configuration), automatically provision, and automatically expire.

Responsibilities:

• Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
• Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
• Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
• Analyzed software architecture for weaknesses, recommending and designing software, process, and deployment guidelines.
• Participated in weekly meetings with teams and directors to discuss project direction and milestone achievement.

Achievements:

• 3rd lowest deployed hotfixes enterprise wide (outperforming last years performance by over 700% between 15 teams and about 150 developers)
• Pioneered and implemented a Software Development Lifecycle policy that improved recovery time objective by 88%
• Improved team velocity by 42% YOY by implementing a new project management process.
• Developed and mentored a senior developer who became my successor when I left Whole Foods (and is still currently the lead)

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met and exceeded expectations.
• Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
• Partnered with development team on product development, application support plans, and prototype programs.
• Prepared detailed reports on updates to project specifications, progress, identified conflicts and team activities.
• Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction, analysis, retrieval and indexing.

Achievements:

• Generated over $150k net new monthly revenue by working closely with sales to prioritize engineering efforts and designing solutions to meet 5 key customers short-term and immediate needs.
• Awarded Best Lightening Experience in Salesforce and achieved Platinum Partner membership by optimizing our conversion to the lighting design system. Leveraged a hybrid execution strategy by retooling existing assets and integrating tightly with Salesforce Design System

Responsibilities:

• Observed tight deadlines and strict budgetary controls to avoid waste and streamline costs.
• Supervised team of 15 engineers and delivered effective directions to keep teams focused and responsive.
• Remained highly composed and calm in very fast-paced, stressful and constantly changing environments to provide optimal leadership and achieve desired results.

Achievements:

• Awarded Most Valuable Professional by the SVP for driving quality, timeliness, consistency in standards organization and enterprise adoption
• Led and developed the organization of a new User Experience department
• Pioneered, designed, and implemented the first Corporate Style Guide for Front-End engineering

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
• Designed and engineered new product elements to simplify interfaces such as drop-downs with fuzzy searches, pick lists with fuzzy search and focus containers, or filters with contextual interface interaction
• Collaborated with advanced engineering business unit team members to design balanced scorecard for logistics to enhance client requirements transportation tracking and cost optimization

Achievements:

• Reduced overall IT spending by $34,000 by eliminating unused or redundant software and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Made recommendations for changes in funding process and policies based on data and judgment.
• Verified all building areas were working optimally and kept clean.
• Supervised 1 team member to coordinate with the business and support help desk requests
• Maintained external website and updated our monthly map upload to NIST

Achievements:

• Received Continuous Innovation Award by redesigning an internal policy that improved policy comprehension and information retrieval by nearly 84%.
• Developed a playbook for internal documentation design that reduced task completion times (from usability lab) from 10 minutes on average to 30 seconds.

Responsibilities:

• Improved and expanded project platforms using JavaScript to develop rich User Interfaces.
• Communicated with product managers and UX designers to translate project requirements and business objectives into polished user interfaces.
• Evaluated user research to convert abstract ideas and requirements into planning tools such as journey maps, user personas and storyboards.
• Engineered prototypes to support research and usability testing.
• Conducted research by interviewing users, external customers and various stakeholders.