Nate's Resume

Friday, August 20, 2021 by Nate Bross

Experienced Technical Architect and Team Leader with over ten years of experience working in consulting, custom software development, and product development organizations.

Experience

2018 - present

Senior Application Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago

Achievements

  • Champion use of agile work flows on the core development team.
  • Lead design and development of a public API for our products.
  • Integrate web technologies into non-web based products to meet functionality requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Build new modules for our products.
  • Extend existing module functionality.
2013 - 2018

Solutions Architect / Netrix LLC, Chicago

Achievements

  • Lead a DevOps team to identify areas of overlap between developers and operations and implement improved software deployment solutions.
  • Modernized a large legacy Real Estate website using modern development practices.
    • Produced detailed design and architectural documentation and lead the team through implementation.
    • Participated in on-premises to AWS migration.
  • Successfully orchestrated migration of software development processes from multiple disjointed procedures to a single streamlined course of action.
    • Reduced project overhead and startup time by using common procedures.
    • Reduced on-going costs by consolidating technologies and optimizing processes.
  • Advocated for, and assisted in increasing cloud adoption within practice area.
  • Reduced inefficiency in the processes of supporting existing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and implement solutions to meet client needs.
  • Lead project teams to meet release dates and produce client deliverables.
  • Organize and lead requirements gathering and business analysis meetings.
  • Mentor and guide team members.
  • Report to Creative and Digital Solutions National Practice Manager.
2007 - 2013

IT Specialist and Software Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago

Achievements

  • Architected, designed, and participated in the implementation of a large-scale infrastructure upgrade to a managed hosting environment. Including: network, storage, and compute resources.
    • Increased hosting capacity at reduced cost per unit.
    • Increased reliability and redundancy of critical systems.
  • Was a key contributor to a successful migration of all hosting infrastructure from on-premises to managed colocation facility.
  • Pioneered new product development in the web space, while assisting with existing thick client development.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for design, maintenance, and support of hosting infrastructure.
  • Lead software development of internal systems.
    • Inventory tracking and system up time monitoring
    • Management instrumentation and KPI reports to support hosting infrastructure.
  • Participated in product development.