Andrew Carter

Experience

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  DuPont Pioneer

  Jul 2001 - Aug 2003

  Field Research Assistant

  Worked at the Corn Research Station as a Research Assistant each summer while home from college. Collected and recorded data, conducted actions in support of research as requested, led teams of part-time pollinators during pollinating season.

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  US Army

  Jun 2005 - Sept 2012

  Supervise all network operations for an organization of over 5,000 personnel. Led a team of 12 soldiers and DBAs, server, and network engineers. Administered proprietary DTMS platform for 5,000 individual users to ensure functionality and prompt payment of travel expenses. Supervise the planning and execution of all unit and individual training operations for 5 brigade units with 5,000 total troops spread across 43 locations in 4 states.-IT infrastructure Project Management-Applications Support Management-Operations Project Management-Policy Analysis/ Written Communication-Data Analysis and Reporting-Training Show less

  • Network Operations Manager/Training and Development Manager

    Sept 2009 - Sept 2012

  • Planning and Operations Manager

    Mar 2008 - Aug 2009

  • Deputy Director/Platoon Leader

    Jan 2007 - Mar 2008

  • Project Manager (Company/Battalion Fires Officer)

    Jun 2005 - Jan 2007
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  Advanced Disposal

  Sept 2012 - Aug 2015

  Route Operations Manager/Management Analyst

  Responsible for the safety, productivity, and customer service of 75 individual collection routes. Coordinate with municipal, public works, and business officials to facilitate collection. Administer proprietary payroll, routing, scheduling, and ticket assignment database in a Citrix environment for over 10,000 customers and 150 employees.-Operations Management-Data Analysis and Reporting-Applications Support

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  Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System

  Aug 2015 - Jul 2016

  IT Specialist/ Business Analyst

  Provide applications support in an Agile environment as part of a Scrum Team on a proprietary software application that manages over 270,000 members, over $1 billion in annual contributions, and over $1.7 billion in annual distributions.-Applications Support-Business Analysis-Data Analysis and Reporting-QA

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  SevenVerbs

  Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  IT Project Manager

  Consultant providing project management, analyst, and technical support to design and deliver solutions to problems for companies across a variety of technology and software projects.-Implemented Agile software development processes for a company that serves tens of thousands of students, enabling them to prioritize and deliver IT solutions where no standardized process previously existed.-Elicit requirements, design software solutions, and develop business process workflows for a home health care company to help them manage over 1,000 employees remotely with location and digital time tracking where only paper processes previously existed.-Served as DBA and project manager for a comprehensive student scheduler program, enabling thousands of students across the midwest to learn in the Personalized Learning philosophy.-Project Management-Business Analysis/Requirements-Applications Support-IT Consulting-Database Analysis-Cloud Infrastructure Show less

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  Coaching Actuaries

  Aug 2016 - now

  Serve as scrum master for an 8-person scrum team, and so much more. Supervise the IT infrastructure team, help desk, Agile software development process, QA, and CI/CD deployment process and source code management processes for all lines of business for a SaaS educational technology company in an Azure and AWS cloud environment serving tens of thousands of customers.Work with Product Managers and the Design Team to develop requirements and determine software project priorities. Allocate developer resources to accomplish these goals.Facilitate task sequencing across Devops, back end architects, and front end developers to ensure the organizational software delivery pipeline flows continuously and predictably. Remove obstacles and implement continuous improvements to this flow.Plan and execute sprints.Serve as backup DevOps guy and backup DBA. Get hands dirty in the infrastructure on a daily basis to stay fresh.Supervise QA process and push the merge button on all production releases.-Project Management/Scrum Master-Business Analysis/Requirements-Applications Support-QA Analysis-Database Analysis-Cloud Infrastructure Show less

  • Director of Engineering

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Software Engineering Manager

    Apr 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Project Manager/Scrum Master

    Aug 2016 - Apr 2022