James Jeffers

The world's fastest growing hotel data platform.  Recruited to manage three teams through eight direct reports and a $1.2M operating budget.  Provide technical and strategic direction to engineering team, mentoring staff on development best practices.  Lead full software lifecycle development of products and features; defined product roadmap.  Contribute to architectural decisions including scalability, performance, and maintainability of the solutions.  Establish software quality standards and improve quality by conducting code reviews for pull requests.  Recruit and hire candidates including applying pair-coding sessions.  Conduct periodic reviews of developer performance and goal setting; organize training for team members.

A subsidiary of IBM that provides open source software products to enterprise customers.  Designed, coded, tested, debugged and maintained software applications, components, and systems for RedHat Satellite group, focusing on the Katello rails engine for the Foreman web application.  Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product managers, quality assurance engineers, designers, and other developers to deliver high-quality software products.  Served as subject matter expert at conferences, demonstrating software use to customers’ engineers.

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