Ken Severn

Experience

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  WordPerfect

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

  Technical Writer
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  Novell, Inc.

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  Technical Writer -> Software Tester
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  O.C. Tanner

  Dec 1999 - Jun 2000

  Java Developer

  Responsible for developing Java classes to facilitate an E-commerce Web site and On-Demand-Print (ODP) brochures. Related projects included:- Contributing to the design of a new E-commerce Web site.- Developing classes to facilitate access to, and generation of, fixed-width flat files.- Developing classes to merge database-generated flat files together in an ODP-compatible format.

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  North Systems

  Jun 2000 - Jan 2001

  Web Developer

  Worked primarily on back end Web development including database integration.The company closed it's doors 1/2001.

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  XACTWARE SOLUTIONS, INC.

  Jan 2001 - Sept 2016

  Full Stack Developer

  - Improved data integrity by championing proper use of key references within our database.- Secured key client contracts by creating a complete help solution for 360Value including table of contents, index and search using XML, JavaScript, JSP, EL, Tag Files, Servlets and JSP.- Leveraged our existing technology by refactoring our help solution to service multiple applications, handle multiple locales, allow dynamic content and display cleanly from monitor to mobile, using Oracle, SQL, Java and AngularJS.- Increased data accuracy by creating a Web interface to multiple address-verification Web services.- Enabled custom, dynamic help authoring by independently creating a Web application employing Spring MVC and jQuery.- Expanded our department’s technical expertise by providing a jQuery training workshop. Improved code reliability and maintainability by refactoring legacy code to use REST, Spring, Domain-Driven Design, JPA, JUnit and Jasmine.- Increased our appeal to key insurance carrier clients by adding valuation pre-fill ability through consuming property data Web services and mapping the data to our property question fields.- Satisfied key customer requirements by adding an event-driven, email notification service to our application using Spring Caching and Velocity templates. Show less

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  Verisk Property Estimating Solutions (formerly Xactware)

  Sept 2016 - now

  Business Analyst/Scrum Master

  - Improved developer efficiency by writing user stories, training Product Owners to understand proper user story format and creating and approving Definition of Done documents.- Increased development team focus by creating Definition of Ready and Working Agreements documents.- Doubled team productivity by employing Agile principles and Scrum methodology.- Increased team transparency by writing a Node AWS Lambda function that gathers JIRA data, persists it in a cloud PostgreSQL database and displays it via Grafana.- Increased build uptime by querying Concourse PostgreSQL data and publishing uptime statistics on department monitors with Grafana. Show less