SUMMARY

Digital Architect with 10 years of experience leading Agile teams both domestically and offshore. Expert in conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and deploying mission-critical products that drive significant business growth. Proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and maximize profitability. Eager to leverage my skills to contribute to your organization’s success.

Azure: Azure Fundamentals Certified, Azure Dev Ops, Static Web Apps, App Services, Functions
Content Management: Contentful, Cloudinary, Gatsby, Storybook.JS, Markdown, GitHub Pages
Databases: MS SQL, MS Access, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Salesforce Data Loader, MySQL, MongoDB
Google: Ad Words, Analytics, App Scripts, Calendar API, DFP, Firebase, Sheets API, Tag Manager
Java: Core Java, Java EE, JSF, Apache Tomcat, JUnit, Mockito, Spring Boot, Hibernate, ANT, Eclipse
.NET: ASP.NET Core, C#, Entity Framework, MVC 4, IIS, TFS, WebForms, Visual Studio, VS Code
Web: Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, KendoUI, Next.JS, React, REST, Storybook.JS, XML

WORK HISTORY

Great Wolf Resorts May 2023 - Present

Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, Il

Digital Architect
Night Owl: Night Audit Automation
Designed and implemented an automated night audit solution for 9 critical bookkeeping processes, improving efficiency and accuracy in nightly operations. Led a team of two developers and four IT specialists to develop the prototype using Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint. Successfully scaled the solution to 22 resort locations nationwide, providing a turn-key system that streamlined operations for over 200 team members.

Kin + Carta August 2021 - May 2023

Formerly Solstice Consulting Chicago, Il

Principal Technical Architect
Practice Leadership
Directed engineers at various levels, managing performance evaluations and professional growth.

US Foods - Ecommerce Modernization
Improved backend web services and DevOps processes using Spring Boot, Kafka, and Nest.JS, and optimized queries and pipelines with Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Kubernetes on AWS.

Lippert Components - Tech Support Platform
Led an Agile team to launch RV Tech Bridge, developing a component-driven Next.JS site and establishing DevOps practices for CI/CD and source code management.

Trimble, Inc. - Content Management and Search Modernization
Architected and implemented Algolia Search for multiple websites, enhancing user experience through refined UX designs and TypeScript integration.

Guidehouse March 2015 - July 2021

Formerly Navigant Consulting Chicago, Il

Associate Director of Software Engineering

Department Leadership
- Prepared project schedules with cost estimates and presented to clients for feedback and sign off
- Interviewed and participated in hiring decisions for frontend engineers, backend engineers and QA testers
- Led Agile training activities for new hires to demonstrate our process and strengthen our team

METRIX - HealthCare Revenue Cycle Management
- Gathered requirements to expand the call-center application to support smaller medical practices
- Designed transaction loads into the billing database with SQL Stored Procedures and C# batch jobs
- Led a project to automate the responses to denied claims using a random forest algorithm

Navigant Predict - Legal Technology
- Architected a lawyer friendly web application to review email evidence with our Chief Data Scientist
- Designed and developed a C# web application using Telerik widgets and deployed to the kCura platform
- The final product was offered to all our clients and the cost of the project was recovered within two years

Rewards Network July 2011 - March 2015

Restaurant Marketing Chicago, IL

Lead Java Developer
- Cut banner ad scheduling time from two days to two hours a month by creating a custom ad loading tool
- Migrated to Google DFP ad server for fifteen websites receiving a total of 3,000,000 page views per month
- Designed an API for Shell Fuel Rewards and United Airlines that registered over 300,000 new members.
- Implemented Java Spring WS to make business logic available to apps on iOS and Android
- Co-managed projects with onshore and offshore teams to launch 11 mobile websites

JasonV.com September 2016 - Present

Computer Science Tutor Virtual Nationwide

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Engineering
- Master of Science, Computer Science
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
- Founder, Computer Science Graduate Student Association