Kevin Lakey
South Jordan,UT
Summary
Motivated and Versatile Senior Software Engineer. Experienced with great coding, debugging and project management abilities. Quick to learn new technologies. Accomplishes project goals consistently with well designed code. Works great with team members under Agile and Scrum frameworks with excellent time management skills for on time delivery of requirements. Easy to work with and available to Clients and Team members alike with positive energy and effective communication. Driven to meet deadlines and deliverables on time and issue free. Successful at completing simultaneous development tasks for multiple projects. Decisive leader and reliable team builder with results-focused and motivated approach and the ability to mentor others.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Software Engineer
FIS
SLC, UT
02.2009 - 12.2023
- Integrated third-party APIs into existing systems.
- Resolved customer issues by establishing workarounds and solutions to debug and create defect fixes.
- Worked closely with development team members to identify and remove software bugs.
- Investigated production issues reported by users and provided timely resolutions.
- Collaborated with team members to ensure successful project completion within timeline constraints.
- Documented technical specifications and project testing methods for future reference.
- Recommended enhancements and updates to system software based on performance data and user feedback.
- Developed requirements for system modifications and new system installations.
- Evaluated customer requirements and provided cost estimates for projects.
- Modified existing software to correct errors, adapt to newly implemented hardware or upgrade interfaces.
- Collaborated with cross-functional team to define features and build powerful and easy-to-use products and customer-facing workflow tools.
- Applied prescribed policies to programming syntax in compliance with internal language policies.
- Created and implemented forward-thinking systems to meet user needs and improve productivity.
- Performed troubleshooting of post-release software faults to support live service and installed software patch design.
- Mentored and developed junior developers and engineers to increase productivity.
- Developed product and technology roadmap and strategy from concept to launch.
- Developed software for embedded systems, coding solutions for both new installations and in-situ hardware.
- Tackled development tasks based on system requirements and documented approaches.
- Collaborated with development team members to create and integrate high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Identified opportunities for process improvements to decrease in support calls.
- Drafted design objectives and system design documents.
- Resolved complex issues related to software applications quickly and effectively.
- Updated software upon release of vendor patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
- Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine design feasibility.
- Analyzed solutions and coding fixes for software problems.
- Identified issues in software processes and implemented optimization.
- Mentored junior staff members in coding best practices and problem solving techniques.
- Conducted full lifecycle software development from planning to deployment and maintenance.
- Identified opportunities for automation of manual processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Weber State University
Ogden, UT06-1999
Skills
- Web Applications
- Operational Support
- Data Center Environment
- Software Applications
- Project Documentation
- Client Requirements, Scope Development, and Design Reviews
- Proficient in C Sharp
- 3 years experience in Design and Development of UNIX shell scripts
- Software Installation of various proprietary software
- Data Extraction utilizing SQL Server as well as proprietary batch export software
- Technical Analysis of multiple products/proprietary software/and databases
- Tools Customization for various proprietary software tools used in database import/export and data processing
- Data Synchronization merging data from many different sources
- Project Budgeting/Planning/Review for many clients
- Team Leadership Abilities as a lead tech/project manager
- System Updates creating and deploying patches to live production environments
- Troubleshooting daily for Proprietary Software, C Sharp, UNIX shell scripts, Permissions Issues, SQL
- Customer Support on a daily basis for multiple projects at a time
- Database Design for backend data storage and data manipulation for Websites and imported from multiple file formats
- Consistently involved in Requirements Gathering, Research and Development
- New Employee Mentoring for many new hires and for new team members
- Daily Technical Support for all of my projects both in development and production
- Testing and Debugging before Deployment of new developments to clients
- Technical Writing at the end of each production rollout
- Programming for various customizations for Websites, Webservices, and Database
- Web Security design and implementation for various SSO implementations
- Performance Tuning of code and databases
- Quality Assurance Unit testing before introducing change to clients in UAT
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Sr Software Engineer
FIS
02.2009 - 12.2023
Bachelor of Science -
Weber State University
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