Max Olarte

Experience

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  International Latino Cultural Center - Chicago Latin Film Festival

  Apr 2005 - Apr 2006

  Volunteer

  April 2005, April 2006, April 2009; Performed various customer service duties including interpreting English-Spanish-English.

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  Tripp Lite

  May 2007 - Nov 2013

  Application Developer

  Leadership Experience• I was the project lead for the creation of Tripp Lite's internal CMS in order for its employees – Marketing & Sales departments – to control and update content on their public website. The application was built utilizing Coldfusion, MSSQL, HTML5 and Jquery.• Throughout the duration of the CMS project I led 1 web designer and 1 copywriter by providing them with web scripts and wireframes so they could produce content and HTML templates while I coded the back-end.• Upon completion of each milestone I set up meetings with department heads to showcase progress and obtain feedback.Development Experience• Contributed to the creation of new pages and features and enhancement and development of functions and processes for Tripp Lite's public website and in-house CMS to improve user experience and usability performance.• Microdata Markup and SEO injection to increase search engine results.• Utilization of the back-then-new HTML5 Video Tags in order to publish Tripp Lite’s videos.• Development of multiple interfaces for their internal CMS in order for users to manipulate XML files.• New HTML5 tags applied to Spanish website to reflect updates from the original English version.• JQuery techniques and code applied to client side forms to enhance UX and usability performance.• Microdata Markup and SEO injection applied to increase search engine results.• Minor translation English-Spanish where necessary. Show less

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  Capsim Management Simulations, Inc.

  Nov 2013 - Aug 2015

  Application Developer

  Leadership Experience• As lead developer and technical project manager for the creation of their internal CRM application, I scheduled weekly and biweekly meetings with department heads to report project progress and milestones and to generate new user stories and requirements in order to start the next Scrum sprint in Jira for further development and completion.• Delegate tasks to a junior developer when needed.• Upon Beta version completion, I led 2 1-hour training and Q&A sessions with department heads and client services team.Development Experience• Tech Lead for the development, deployment and maintenance of their in-house CRM application (salesforce-like).• Teamed with third party vendors to integrate external systems with Capsim's.• Involved in routine debugging of website technical issues, isolation of problems during simulation sessions and source code analysis in order to propose solutions under tight time constraints. Show less

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  Achieve

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2017

  Technical Project Manager / Lead Developer

  • Tasks creation and work distribution among junior staff via Scrum meetings and Jira, so they can be initiated and completed during our Scrum sprint cycle.• Managed and mentored junior development team throughout the SDLC of major new features and improvements for both the Trustedpartner application and custom client requests, ensuring that objectives were accomplished on time.• Architectural decision-making, troubleshooting, new features planning and deployment of updates for both their CMS application called Trustedpartner and the websites generated by it.• Daily maintenance and bug control of the clients' websites based on tickets provided by the client services team.• Developed strategies and wrote data migration scripts in SQL for clients transitioning to a new instance of our application. Show less

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  Cosentino North America

  Mar 2017 - Jun 2018

  Technical Project Manager / Lead Developer

  • Collaborate with department heads to discuss and agree upon new features and improvements to Cosentino's in- house application called Job Tracker.• Lead Scrum ceremonies with development team to discuss weekly tasks and review code upon completion.• Generate tasks based on current initiatives and distribute work among development team via Jira board, as well as maintaining and updating Jira's workflows, backlogs and settings to improve the team's productivity.• Support development team with troubleshooting of technical tickets generated by the application's users.• Scheduled biweekly code and database releases upon completion of projects.• Maintenance and monitoring of Microsoft SQL and Coldfusion servers plus 3rd party tools accounts such as Postmark, Twilio, AWS, among others. Show less

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  Nonfat Media

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2021

  Sr Application Developer

  As an In-House Full-stack Senior Application Developer there are no set responsibilities. The company follows the Kanban methodology so we choose our own work from a Jira Board of projects and complete the chosen task regardless of the media and/or programming technology needed for completion; Coldfusion being the primary server-side language. Tasks can vary from fixing a minor code-bug to creating complex web application solutions that will aid the business unit increase sales and improve usability across all of company’s 15 websites plus their In-House CMS. Show less

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  Simpleview

  Aug 2021 - Feb 2022

  CRM Software Developer
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  Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

  Feb 2022 - now

  Programmer Analyst