Quinn Fautt
Carmichael
Summary
Information Technology Specialist II and Lead Developer with over seven years of progressively responsible experience leading enterprise application development and providing technical leadership within the California Highway Patrol. Currently serve as the technical lead for approximately 30 software developers, coordinating development efforts, mentoring staff, facilitating communication between business and technical teams, and guiding projects through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Information Technology Specialist 2
California Highway Patrol
Sacramento, CA
11.2025 - Current
- Serve as the technical lead for approximately 30 software developers within the Software Development Group, providing technical direction, mentoring, and guidance throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Lead the design, development, implementation, and ongoing support of multiple mission-critical enterprise applications, including Crash Manager, Citation Manager, Public Crash Search Website, OCR (Online Counter Report), and DRE (Drug Recognition Expert) applications.
- Act as the primary technical resource for supervisors, developers, analysts, and business stakeholders, providing expert guidance on application architecture, software development, and production support.
- Serve in a leadership capacity when the supervisor is unavailable by facilitating meetings, coordinating development efforts, communicating project status, and assisting with operational decisions.
- Lead meetings with Office of Primary Interest (OPI) representatives to gather business requirements, review enhancement requests, prioritize defects, and communicate technical solutions.
- Coordinate developers, business analysts, quality assurance staff, and stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and aligned with business objectives.
- Review and evaluate change requests, software enhancement proposals, and technical solutions to determine project impact, priority, and resource requirements.
- Mentor developers through technical design discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and implementation of development standards and best practices.
- Administer Azure DevOps by creating and maintaining projects, repositories, security groups, boards, iterations, pipelines, work items, user stories, bugs, and test cases.
Information Technology Specialist I
California Highway Patrol
Sacramento
06.2022 - 11.2025
- Lead developer.
- Plan, develop, test, deploy and maintain web and thick client applications.
- Develop in the .Net environment using MVC, API, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly and WPF.
- Work with Azure DevOps to create build and release pipelines.
- Utilize SQL Server to create/alter tables, stored procedures, views, indexes and functions.
- Work with Windows Server and IIS to configure web servers for all environments.
Information Technology Associate
California Highway Patrol
Sacramento
05.2019 - 06.2022
- Planned, developed, tested, deployed and maintained web applications.
- Wrote and analyzed SQL stored procedures, views, indexes and functions.
- Created SQL jobs and schedules.
- Developed a website using the .Net environment and the MVC framework.
- Created test projects for unit testing and integration testing.
- Led a team on unit testing different applications.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento01-2019
Skills
- Lead the Software Development Group by providing technical direction to approximately 30 developers
- Serve as the primary technical resource for supervisors, developers, analysts, and business stakeholders
- Lead meetings with Office of Primary Interest (OPI) representatives to gather requirements and prioritize work
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise software solutions on schedule
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain mission-critical NET web and desktop applications
- Administer Azure DevOps, including repositories, pipelines, boards, work items, and security
- Mentor developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and software development best practices
- Act on behalf of management by leading projects and coordinating development activities when supervisors are unavailable
Timeline
Information Technology Specialist 2
California Highway Patrol
11.2025 - Current
Information Technology Specialist I
California Highway Patrol
06.2022 - 11.2025
Information Technology Associate
California Highway Patrol
05.2019 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
California State University, Sacramento