BEN HARDY
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Principal Engineer specializing in full stack web development for enterprise multi-tenant SaaS applications. I am an
expert in building complex data structures and using SQL analytics to create scalable and efficient applications. I
have been an avid mentor and strong team leader throughout the organization.
SKILLS
Java | SQL | HTML5 | CSS | JavaScript | JQuery | Tomcat | Framework Development | Git | Jira
Relational Databases | Schema Design | SaaS | Agile | SAFe | Product Management | Requirements Gathering
Customer Research | Roadmap Development | Functional Strategy | Risk Mitigation | Process Optimization
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Accruent | Minneapolis MN | 06/2017 - 03/2024
Partnered with product owners, services, UI/UX and clients to design new features and product lines
Created new framework components to modernize, standardize, and simplify application development
Mentored development and QA team members and promoted best practices and security enhancements
Code reviewed all development for asset/facilities management and remote monitoring (IoT) products
Managed transition to agile from waterfall and implemented agile processes, ceremonies and metrics
Partnered with QA to implement automated testing on a legacy custom framework
Designed and architected new workforce management and inventory management modules
Partnered with leadership team to define software capitalization process
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER
Verisae, an Accruent Company | Minneapolis MN | 04/2013-05/2017
Managed internal and contractor development teams for two enterprise software product lines
Collaborated with products and professional services to design a Jira workflow to improve efficiency
Standardized and built new web services with JAXB to support cross-product integrations
Designed and developed provider metrics reporting dashboard to display end user KPIs
Managed code deployment process using F5 load balancers to support rolling deployments
Partnered with DBAs to convert the database to UTC and split it into UK and US instances
Designed and built a mobile interface for asset/facilities management system using JQuery Mobile
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Verisae | Minneapolis MN | 04/2009-03/2013
Built remote monitoring application using IoT data and predictive analytics to forecast asset failure
Built the meter analysis tool to graph large amounts of telemetry and consumption data from various
device controllers using High Charts and Oracle Analytics
Trained new developers on custom framework and business logic and led offshore contractor team
Collaborated with design team to verify all designs met functional requirements
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Verisae | Minneapolis MN | 08/2005-03/2009
Built sustainability application to track emissions, carbon footprints, and consumption budgets
Partnered with device manufacturers to write APIs to ingest consumption data from utility controllers
Collaborated with offshore team to build a procurement application and kiosk interface
Rearchitected refrigerant tracking application to support scalability and larger client datasets
EDUCATION
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | St. Peter, MN | 2005
