Jack (John) Broughton
Chapin,SC
Summary
- Over 34 years of service in the Property & Casualty IT industry at leading insurance software and services providers.
- A history of providing excellent leadership and technical direction, internally and customer implementations.
- Highly regarded as one of the key architects and technical leaders by both internal development/services teams and customers.
- Hands on experience in the majority of modern technologies used in development and in large scale production implementations.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience addressing internal and customer audiences for the purpose of education and architecture evangelism.
- Confident Software Architect with years history collaborating with business stakeholders to achieve project objectives. Visionary professional with experience researching new technologies to determine alignment with strategic business needs.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director, Principle Software Architect
Duck Creek Technologies LLC
01.2017 - 06.2024
- Developed robust and scalable software architectures, resulting in reduced maintenance costs and improved system stability.
- Supported software architecture implementations for weaknesses, recommended improvements and helped provide patches or new releases.
- Integrated cutting-edge technologies into software solutions, staying ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving industry landscape, such as Azure Cognitive Search Engine and RESTful APIs.
- Designed architecture strategies for large-scale system-wide application deployments, including microservices for email processing, usage metrics and single sign on.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into functional specifications for streamlined development processes.
- Mentored junior and senior developers on best practices in software architecture design and coding techniques, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
- Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals, such as the introduction of suite-wide Azure Cloud microservices.
- Drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.
- Reduced software defects by implementing rigorous quality assurance procedures, including code reviews and automated testing frameworks that included common platform libraries and services used across the suite of applications.
- Oversaw the development of Platform level software used by P&C applications deployed in production for over 200 customers worldwide. Teams consisted of up to 30 people with various roles that also included contractors.
- Participated in many different roles over the years as senior developer, architect, delivery lead, scrum master, product owner, manager, supervisor with hands on development the entire time while helping lead implementations.
Senior Software Developer /Technical Architect
Duck Creek Technologies LLC
01.2007 - 01.2017
- Delivered high-quality code on time by effectively managing project timelines and prioritizing tasks accordingly that was used by over 200 customers.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate software components seamlessly into existing systems.
- Contributed to the architecture design of complex software systems, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Conducted comprehensive code reviews, ensuring adherence to established coding standards and improving overall code quality.
- Trained and mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices and coding techniques for improved productivity.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
- Primary developer to design and implement the Web UI for the Duck Creek Technologies user interface
- Supervised the Platform team that supported the core libraries that ran the Duck Creek Technologies software while also helping implement
- Contributed to the implementation of Duck Creek Technologies software for majority of the applications which included Policy, Billing, Party, and Core Platform
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC12.1989
Skills
- Software Development
- Proficient in Microsoft Technologies
- Creativity and Innovation
- Decision-Making
- Team Leadership
- People Management
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- Strategic Planning
- Verbal and written communication
Certification
Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Technologies
Microsoft Azure · C# · JavaScript · Solution Architecture · Azure Functions · Azure Container Apps · Enterprise Software · Microsoft PowerPoint · Microsoft Office · GitHub · Microsoft Copilot · Visio · Confluence · Azure DevOps Services · Azure Pipelines · Azure Cosmos DB · Azure KeyVault · Azure API Management · Azure Cognitive Search · Azure Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows) · Azure Communications Services · Azure Event Hub · YAML · XML · XSLT · JSON · Azure B2C · Authentication Protocols · .NET Framework · .NET Core · Duck Creek Technologies Software · ExtJs · AngularJS · Microsoft SQL Server · Splunk · Dynatrace · OpenTelemetry · Windows Server · Windows · Agile Methodologies · REST · WebAPIs · SonarQube · Postman
Timeline
Director, Principle Software Architect
Duck Creek Technologies LLC
01.2017 - 06.2024
Senior Software Developer /Technical Architect
Duck Creek Technologies LLC
01.2007 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
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