Jim Marquisette
Conway,United States
Summary
Dedicated and results-driven Director of Engineering with over 25 years of experience leading cross-functional teams. Proven track record of delivering high-quality software products on time and within budget. Adept at strategic planning, resource management, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. I am a passionate and effective leader who drives business value and customer satisfaction through innovative and agile solutions. I am committed to continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence, and I enjoy learning new technologies and methodologies to enhance my expertise and deliver value to the organization and the clients.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
Cadent
07.2021 - Current
- As the Director of Software Engineering at Cadent, I oversee the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software products and services for the media industry, working with a talented and diverse team of engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
- I leverage my skills in business analysis, SDLC, SAFe Agile, Scrum, and deep technical backgeround to ensure that the software solutions meet the business requirements, quality standards, and industry best practices
- Built several highly functioning scrum agile teams from the ground up to the point of being viewed as the 'gold standard' of development scrum teams within the organziation
- This included backend developers utilizing Microsoft .net and .net core RESTful APIs and UI developers using latest React tools
- Responsible for teams (6 teams) spread across multiple application product lines
- These teams consisted of contractor and full time employees
- They were located on site (Philadelphia) and remote (throughout the US) as well as Europe, South America, Canada, and India
- Developed and implemented engineering processes to improve efficiency, quality, and collaboration within the team
- Built bridges between and across organizational units, including partnering with DevOps, QA team, Data Science, and various other departments to ensure the needed functionality is delivered on-time, on-budget, and meets the desired functionality of the internal and external clients
- Championed the use of modern development techniques including migrating to AWS Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines utilizing feature flag concept to allow for rapid and reliable feature deployment to production
- Utilizing this technology allowed for bi-weekly deployments of software and features to production
- Broke up 'monolythic' application/s to more modern technologies as micro-services, lambda expressions, pub/sub message-bus communication between disconnected systems, etc.
Engineering Manager
Cadent
05.2019 - 07.2021
Director of Development and Delivery
ACSIS, Inc.
01.2017 - 05.2019
- Managed the implementation and integration of software solutions for supply chain management and visibility
- Responsible for providing technical direction of the entire development organization to meet project deadlines, budget, and requested functionality
- Hands-on leader who also was responsible for development efforts when the situation was required
- Subject matter expert for several custom applications built to fulfill the needs of the external client.
Product Development
ACSIS, Inc.
10.2012 - 01.2017
- Participate in all parts of the agile development methodology including daily scrum, iteration and resource planning and allocation, along with sprint reviews of developed functionality
- Full stack developer responsible for new code development, stored procedure creation, and all aspects of code development from UI to database and data model changes
- Conduct code reviews for development team members, identifying issues related to conformance to coding standards, code efficiency, and optimization
- Lead developer and primary development point person for mission critical client for leading industrial uniform rental company
- Participated in requirements gathering with client, onsite visits with the client, and working through the requirement gathering process as well as development activities.
Tech Lead
Paychoice (purchased by Sage)
01.2009 - 10.2012
- Responsible for new code development for payroll application as well as all stages of the software development lifecycle from design specification creation to general availability
- Application architecture is .NET 3.5 Windows Forms and Web development utilizing VB.NET, Sql Server 2005
- This application architecture uses a hybrid MVC/N-Tier design pattern, decoupling the UI (presentation layer) from the business/data layer
- Entire application has approx
- 1.8MM lines of code
- Team leader for a team of 5 responsible for specializing in particular area of the payroll application
- Mentored new team members and providing code reviews, design review, and development time estimation
- Also participated in interview process for hiring new development staff
- Responsible for managing an exercise to reduce all production support requests from consistently over 120, to less than 10 in 4 weeks
- Followed up on issues, made development assignments, and was point of contact for support request prioritization
Sr. Developer
AlphaLit
01.2006 - 01.2008
Director of IT
Innoviant Pharmacy
01.2005 - 01.2006
Education
Bachelor's degree - Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
Widener University
Skills
- SDLC
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SQL
- Software Development
- Agile Methodologies
- C#
- Scrum
- Requirements Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering
Cadent
07.2021 - Current
Engineering Manager
Cadent
05.2019 - 07.2021
Director of Development and Delivery
ACSIS, Inc.
01.2017 - 05.2019
Product Development
ACSIS, Inc.
10.2012 - 01.2017
Tech Lead
Paychoice (purchased by Sage)
01.2009 - 10.2012
Sr. Developer
AlphaLit
01.2006 - 01.2008
Director of IT
Innoviant Pharmacy
01.2005 - 01.2006
Bachelor's degree - Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
Widener University
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