Jordan Willis

⭢ Leading the technical development of a social media sentiment analysis pilot program using Azure Cloud Services and node.js custom connectors to collect and analyze data from 10 social media platforms in order to establish a company-wide social media marketing analytics platform. ⭢ Acting as chief designer and development lead of an internal real-time web reporting platform built using node.js, meteor, and mongoDB that has enabled real-time management and on-time delivery of 2 separate multibillion-dollar company divestitures. Platform was adopted by thousands of global users including senior management and the CIO and led to receiving a 2017 CIO IT Excellence Award.

⭢ Co-led an intrapreneur effort to develop a gamification platform and ideation game called “Make It Happen” using node.js, meteor, and MongoDB to promote a culture of innovation across the company. The gamification engine and game earned several backers and was highlighted several times in various forums around the company. ⭢ Part of a team that architected and developed a pilot to production future state Information Management platform using open source technologies to replace legacy systems and act as the single information refinery for the company. Resulted in future plans to implement the multimillion dollar project. ⭢ Co-led a team focused on rolling out the Scaled Agile Framework across the company resulting in hundreds of SAFe certified practitioners and an official pivot away from Waterfall practices.

⭢ Defined and promoted strategic direction, target architecture, and software development methodologies across multiple Channel IT domains for large multiyear high visibility programs resulting in on-time delivery of projects that reduced business costs by 10 million dollars. ⭢ Formulated strategic architectural roadmap and transformation approach to transform 9 legacy mission critical applications processing 18M transactions globally per week to an Event-Driven Service Oriented Architecture using an Agile methodology. ⭢ Defined architecture principles used by technical leads to design and develop mission critical HP systems reducing project timelines by 50%. ⭢ Established a metric-based software development estimation framework used to size major business projects that reduced the estimation time by 150% and greatly increased accuracy. ⭢ Participated in ongoing activities to establish and promote Agile processes, SOA, and Business Process Modeling (BPMN) across multiple IT and Business domains.