Warren Thompson
Profile
Award winning executive consultant and decorated military veteran, looking for full time strategic leadership opportunities. Effective at driving business model innovation and leading product strategy for proprietary commercial and enterprise software solutions to maximize market leadership. Recognized skills in mentoring and mediating between employees, managers, and in leading division level projects. Experienced at leading leaders. Fully knowledgeable in software lifecycles, including Scrum/XP/Kanban/Agile methodologies, and story creation, task estimation, sprint planning, proposal organization, contract negotiation, work breakdown structure, and project planning.
Executive Leadership
- Story Creation- Contract Negotiation- Task Estimation- Roadmap
- Leadership Coaching- RFP Response- Sprint Planning- Work Breakdown
Client-Side Architecture
- Angular2- Web Strategists- Webpack- TSLint
- ReactJS- JavaScript 5/6/2016- Material Design- Components
- JSON- Karma/Jasmine- TypeScript- HTML5/CSS3
Server-Side Architecture
- RESTful Web Services- N-Tier Architecture- Microservices- ORMs
- .NET Core- HIPAA Compliance- Entity Framework- Kafka/Rabbit MQ
- Business Logic Layers- Secure Coding- Data Validations- OAuth
DevOps/VCS
- Jenkins- TFS and Git- Docker- NodeJS/NPM
- NuGet/ProGet- NPM/NuGet Publishing- JS/TSLint- Intellisense
- Webpack/Babel- AWS EC2/ECS/S3- Amazon API Gateway - VSTS
Education
Masters of Business Administration (IP), University of Maryland University College
Masters of Science, Digital Forensics, University of Maryland University College
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, University of Maryland University College
Advanced Leadership/Management Course, (BNOC), US Army NCO Academy
Selected Accomplishments
Recognized by national level leaders for management of highest priority NSA mission.
Successfully awarded more than $30 million in contracts as Proposal Manager.
Managed department to Section of the Quarter Award on 3 separate occasions.
Led the charge overseeing large-scale ($2 billion+) project to production.
Led development of department ISO 9001 certification process.
Provides focused presentations to national leaders, including U.S. Senators Bob Graham, and former Director of NSA Michael Hayden.
Relevant Skills
Three (3) years proposal management experience for a Federal government contractor
Sixteen (16) years strategic experience in developing IT programs and solutions.
Fourteen (14) Years of management experience at the corporate and small team level.
Defined goals and objectives, mission, and overall creative and communication strategy for integrated online programs, including software development and IS strategies
Presented and communicated Web strategy to executive and senior leadership
Created schedules for IT programs and regular, measurable program metrics
Provide counsel and direction on web and software development tactics
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Professional Experience
Director of Technical Services - Med Centric, Inc., 10/2011 – 5/2018
Engaged as senior level management for multi-million-dollar lending start-up. Serves as contact for all strategic IT issues, including QA, hardware procurement, and agile software development. Reports directly to CTO and VP, developing a public facing, commercial, scalable application deployed to hearing aid stores nationwide. Generated $2million annual revenue in 1st year.
Software Development Manager – Epiq Systems, 4/2017 - Present
Software Development Manager with 15 direct reports, responsible for coordinating technology modernization effort across entire enterprise. Focused leader for rapid agile based team in developing REST services using micro service-based architecture. Worked with Directors and Vice Presidents across the corporate enterprise to establish new communication channels and leading edge architectural proposals. Created standardized development processes and procedures.
Strategic Consultant/Engineering Leader 05/2014 – 4/2017
Clients: Fulcrum Consulting, Safety National ID Experts
Lead multiple teams of senior engineers in updating legacy VB client/server code to stateless micro-service architecture. Created brand new n-tier architecture for commercial MyIDCare application.
Created client-side architecture using Angular2/TypeScript/NPM/Karma/TSLint
Created server side microservices architecture using .NET Core/WebAPI/AWS EC2
Created build automation architecture using Jenkins/Gradle/NPM/NuGET
Provides advisory architecture and mentorship to developers at Fulcrum customer sites, including Safety National. Leads offshore team responsible for building multiple SPA web applications.
Successfully ported two native Java applications to .NET MVC SPA applications using a variety of modern technologies, including Grunt, NPM, Backbone, Marionette, and ReactJS
Lead Web and Mobile Engineer - Altec 10/2011 –10/2014
Served as technical leader for all web related projects, organizing the development strategies to migrate international commercial software product to web-based solution. Identified risks inherent in legacy architecture and coordinated with engineers to develop stateless n-tier architecture. Managed all design, development, and build discussions on migration of flagship product to web based solution – met with engineers to outline best practices for moving to the web.
Independent Consultant 4/2010 – 10/2011
Clients: Credit Funders, Inc. (Director), Salem Health (Lead), Artazaar LLC (CTO).
Provided mentorship and guidance to teams of web professionals. Pushed for innovative and creative projects using the latest web standards, including an animated virtual “Holiday Giving Tree” and interactive web-based history book. Served as project manager on multiple occasions.
Director of Business Development - Systems Integration, Inc. 8/2006 – 4/2010
Promoted to Director immediately, responsible for responding to government RFPs and providing all marketing collateral. Provided business development services as required, meeting with potential customers and created 10+ winning proposals in excess of $30 million dollars.
Director of Operations - National Security Agency/US Army 7/1998 – 7/2006
Served honourably with the U.S. Army as a platoon sergeant and Director of Operations for one of the highest priority NSA missions during the GWOT. Provided high level presentations to national leaders and teams, including U.S. Senator Bob Graham, and Director of NSA Michael Hayden.
Led the charge in identifying and exploiting entirely new global regions of data on operational position, overseeing large-scale ($2 billion+) project from development to production
Performed as divisional level manager for over 60 professionals distributed amongst two twelve hour shifts. Organized shifts, technology, and budgeting ($2 billion+) for division.
Awards and Honours
KRSOC Divisional Technician of the Year, Manager - Section of the Quarter(x3)
Military decorated (JCOM, AAM, GWOT) for superior performance as IT Manager
Four Command Coin award recognitions from national leaders for mission accolades
