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Kirk Richardson

Kirk Richardson

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Design. Build. Run the Future.

  • Education

    • Scrum CSM

      2013 -

    • Lean Six Sigma

      2017 -
      Green Belt

    • US Army

      1978 - 1981
      Information Technology - Computer Programming 74F 4.0

      Activities and Societies: Letter of Commendation - Honored for achieving an overall grade in the MOS 74F (computer programming) training program that few other students had accomplished.

    • Central Texas College

      1980 - 1981
      Information Technology

    • Metropolitan Community College

      1991 - 1993
      Information Technology, Management

  • Experience

    • Gordmans

      Apr 1987 - Apr 1996
      Team Leader

      Lead applications team responsible for supporting the distribution center. Systems engineer responsible for CICS and IMS DB administration. Sr Applications Developer supporting the PARIS retail information system.

    • TechPro, Inc

      Apr 1996 - Jan 2000
      President, Owner

      Started information technology consulting business. Developed strategic customer relationships at major Nebraska organizations. Provided staff augmentation resources primarily for applications development needs.

    • Lozier Corporation

      Jun 2000 - Oct 2014
      Applications Development Manager

      Managed applications development teams on the Oracle/UNIX, Web/.Net, and IBM Mainframe platforms. Supported manufacturing operations, warehousing, distribution, engineering, customer service, financials, and client data integration and reporting.

    • Pitney Bowes - Presort Services

      Oct 2014 - Jan 2018
      IT Leader, Applications Development

      Managed applications development and data delivery that focused on bringing value to our sorter operations, business development, and client engagement teams. Our Agile/Scrum product development was centered almost entirely on custom applications that deliverd innovation, operational efficiency, and client intelligence. We primarily created on Microsoft development technologies like .NET, C#, VB, SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, BizConnect, and Visual Studio. In addition, we were growing our skills in several exciting technologies - Angular JS, HTML5, and others. We were always looking to learn and expand our capabilities with tools like Cloud Forms, Git, Jira, Jenkins, UrbanCode, and Jama. We recently explored the Oracle Exadata platform to consolidate our data management, maximize performance, and provide our business and clients world class information services. Show less

    • Valley Irrigation - A Valmont Company

      Apr 2018 - Mar 2022
      Manager IT Software Products

      Led a global product development team located across multiple continents. Responsible for delivery of new SaaS product platform; comprised of 20 man-years effort delivered in one calendar year. Team established all new cloud infrastructure & Dev Ops to support new SaaS platform. Recommended and oversaw implementation of a dual-stack high-availability infrastructure.

    • Prospera Technologies

      May 2021 - Mar 2022
      Manager IT Software Products

      Same team as with Valley - renamed as part of a merger.

    • Concentrix Catalyst

      Apr 2022 - now
      Director of Delivery

      The Concentrix Catalyst team leads experience design and engineering at Concentrix. Delivering Customer Experience transformation solutions to strategic clients. I manage the client engagement and ensure our clients receive the expected value and efficiency gains from our global technology services & CX organization. We are delivering these benefits in many ways and technologies, including RPA, Gen AI and digital transformation.

  • Licenses & Certifications