Michael A. bruce

3621 Wynterset Dr. Snellville, GA., 30039

michaelabruce@gmail.com   ●   678-770-6528

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelabruce

 

 

·              Visionary technologist with ability to bridge the IT-Business gap with 18 years of IT Leadership in Application Development

·               Builder of highly effective software development teams with emphasis on high quality, offshore capability

·               Successful in implementing agile methodologies across multi-functional teams

Brightwell Payments inc, Atlanta, GA2015 - Current

Financial and Pre-paid card solutions

VP Application Development & Quality Assurance

Provide day to day direction and strategy for all development within Brightwell Payments

 

Continuserve llc, Boston, MA/Atlanta, GA2011 - 2015

Consulting Services, Business Process Outsourcing

Engagement Manager

Provide outstanding client delivery from project inception through completion

·               Manage onshore and offshore development teams for application development, quality assurance, business analysis for $3M internet project.

·               Played key role for the selection and purchase of Sitecore for healthcare company’s Wellness portal

·               Architected and lead development of multi-lingual employee engagement platform for Fortune 500 Company in 3 months using mixture of onshore and offshore team. Implemented rapid testing with quick defect resolution using continuous integration

·               Established software development process improvement for Healthcare Company to track fitness activity with ease of customization. Decreased development churn by more than 50%.

·               Implemented Office 365 internally decreasing licensing fees by 25% for over 300 users while providing enhanced functionality across the company without system downtime

 

Intercontinental hotels group, Atlanta, GA2010 - 2011

Director – Enterprise Engagement Intranet

·               Incorporated enterprise search into solution that allowed for hotels to quickly identify areas of weakness to increase their quality scores used to boost hotel revenue

·               Established agile development for team of over 20 Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Designers, and QA

·               Managed $4M in P&L for all internal intranet operations

Alere, Atlanta, GA2010 - 2010

Director – IHMS Portal

·               Directed the design and functionality of a health-lifestyle platform

·               Established weekly project control meetings with VP and CIO for budget and project review

·               Partnered with senior management to establish product direction

·               Transformed time consuming, front-end administrative tool composed of complex business rules and complex customizations to an easy to use client tool from 3 weeks to 8 hours

Independent Consultant Atlanta, GA2007 - 2010

Clients 

·               Sage NA

o  Lead Solution Architect for .NET Portal infrastructure

o  Responsible for evaluation and selection of Sitecore for Plumtree portal replacement

o  Instituted REST APIs for content delivery

o  Implemented Google Search Appliance

·               McKesson Provider Technologies

o  Lead Architect for McKesson Customer Portal

o  Designed deployment automation for over 60 sites on CSM Platform

·               Mountain Reservations

o  Lead delivery engineer for Endeca Information Access Platform

·               Development: ASP.NET (C# 1.1 -  4.5.1), JSON, REST, XML, XSLT, ColdFusion, ASP, HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Java, JQUERY, Adaptive HTML

·               CMS: Sitecore 5.5 – 6.5 Sitecore Certified Developer, Plumtree Portal, ALUI, Oracle Web Center Suite, Liferay, Alfresco

·               Enterprise solutions: Endeca, Plumtree Search services, SOLR, Google Search Appliance,

·               Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle

·               Cloud computing: Azure, AWS

University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Atlanta, GA   2013 - 2015

MBA – Executive Program

 

TROY STATE UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY, Montgomery, AL   2003 - 2008

BS – Computer Information Systems