Devlin Liles

Experience

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  Tyson Foods

  Mar 2006 - Oct 2010

  Senior Programmer/Analyst (Senior Designer/Developer)

  Designed and developed inventory management solution.Responsible for leading the technical team for user experienceResponsible for application architecture and collaborating on overall system architectureCreated and presented regular enhancements to improve process and reduce technical debt.Re-Designed and developed a Manufacturing Execution System.Responsible for leading a development and support teamResponsible for application architecture and leading architectural discussionsTechnologies and Tools: VS 2005, 2008, 2010, SQL, .NET MVC, WCF, LINQ, TFS, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS Show less

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  Cimetrix Inc.

  Oct 2010 - Jan 2011

  Senior Consultant

  Responsible for design and implementation of automation software.Implemented using Agile and TDD practices.

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  Improving

  Oct 2010 - now

  Improving is a company founded and operating in the philosophy of conscious capitalism. Our commitment to our varied and growing set of stakeholders will continue to shape the role of CCO at Improving. We are dedicated to our ambition of changing the perception of the IT profession. This role embodies that ambition both in operations and in public visibility.I will be regularly speaking globally to community groups, clients, and Improvers. I will participate in crafting the message for strategic sales, building relationships at the throughout the industry, acting as advisor to our partners and clients. In addition to those responsibilities, I will publicly reinforce Improving’s reputation as a thought leader in both business and technology communities. Show less Improving is a company that gives great amounts of trust and faith in our Improvers. Improving is an advanced software professional services firm. We challenge the basic assumptions of traditional technology service models. Our people are senior, seasoned professionals who bring years of real-world enterprise development experience to the table in the form of Agile software principles with an emphasis on Microsoft technologies.Specialtiesconsulting, mentoring, agile, training, rural-sourcing, microsoft, .net, java Show less Development and delivery of C#, Entity Framework, TFS trainingC# coding and mentoringDesigned and Architected build environment for iOS and Java builds through TFSArchitected QA tool and lab management to TFS 2012 integrationDesigned and developed international service oriented architecture to handle Digital content deliveryResponsible for code quality and demonstrable functionalityDeveloped with Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development practicesResponsible for integration and testing of partners and third party vendorsHandled large batch processing jobs using queue and multithreaded processingDesigned and Developed MVC 3 Administration UIManaged TFS build environmentModified and Managed Process workflow and QA integration Show less Developed training materials for a week long Entity Framework CourseTaught a 5 day Entity Framework Boot camp to ramp up a product team on ORMs.Technologies and Tools: VS 2010, EF 4.0, 4.1Video Game RetailerDesigned and developed international service oriented architecture to handle Digital content deliveryResponsible for code quality and demonstrable functionalityDeveloped with Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development practicesResponsible for integration and testing of partners and third party vendorsHandled large batch processing jobs using queue and multithreaded processingDesigned and Developed MVC3 Administration UITechnologies and Tools: VS 2010, SQL 2008, IIS 7, WCF, MVC3, Windows Services, C#, TFS; Micro-Processor Manufacturing software companyDesigned and developed hardware simulation applications on top of the existing framework.Responsible for code quality and demonstrable functionality.Responsible for application integration and architectural structure for messaging.Created and demonstrated regular enhancements to the application.Technologies and Tools: VS 2008, SQL, IIS, WCF Show less

  • Chief Consulting Officer

    Jul 2022 - now

  • President

    Apr 2017 - now

  • Vice President of Consulting

    Nov 2014 - Apr 2017

  • Technical Director

    May 2014 - Nov 2014

  • Principal Consultant

    Oct 2011 - Nov 2014

  • Senior Consultant

    Oct 2010 - Oct 2011
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  GameStop

  Jan 2011 - Jun 2011

  Senior Software Consultant

  Designed and developed international service oriented architecture to handle Digital content deliveryResponsible for code quality and demonstrable functionalityDeveloped with Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development practicesResponsible for integration and testing of partners and third party vendorsHandled large batch processing jobs using queue and multithreaded processingDesigned and Developed MVC3 Administration UITechnologies and Tools: VS 2010, SQL 2008, IIS 7, WCF, MVC3, Windows Services, C#, TFS; Micro-Processor Manufacturing software companyDesigned and developed hardware simulation applications on top of the existing framework.Responsible for code quality and demonstrable functionality.Responsible for application integration and architectural structure for messaging.Created and demonstrated regular enhancements to the application.Technologies and Tools: VS 2008, SQL, IIS, WCF Show less

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  OZ Systems

  Apr 2011 - Apr 2011

  TFS ALM Consultant

  Implemented a TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 migrationStream lined development practices and work items templatesHelped to convert process templates to assist in CMMI level 2 certificationTechnologies and Tools: VS 2010, SQL 2008, IIS 7, TFS, SSRS

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  Enterprise Products

  Oct 2013 - Sept 2014

  Foundation Architect

  Responsible for planning, design and managing the technical execution of foundational modules for application development. Responsible for creating, standardizing, and evangelizing design patterns and best practices to support multiple development groups in application development and testing.