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Seth Ford 

Last updated:  06/06/13

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South Jordan, UT  84095
US

Home: 801-282-0674   
seth.ford@gmail.com
Contact Preference:  Email

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RESUME

  

Resume Headline: Director of Accelerated Innovation

Resume Value: nw9xukffe4qmqggi   

  

 

OBJECTIVE:

Software development innovation leader with expertise in creation of enterprise level and SaaS businesses directing domestic and offshore teams. Using user centric and visual design first methodologies in the implementation of programs that increase development efficiency and improve customer satisfaction. Collaborate effectively with product management, QA, support and operations to deliver solutions in a manner that results in productivity gains and on-time, on-budget delivery. Excellent communicator with the ability to understand customer needs and translate information to drive technology advances leading to business improvements.

Specialties:User Experience, Visual Design, Mobile, Big Data, Real-time Analytics, Agile, BPM, BAM, budgeting, business and technical planning, customer relations, delivery, enterprise architecture, process engineering, quality, software development, application development, workflow analysis, strategic planning, training, people management

 

EXPERIENCE:

9/1999 - Present

Fidelity Invesments

Salt Lake City Utah, Utah

Industry: Financial Services

Director of Accelerated Innovation

2006-2013Joined the Devonshire Investment Private Equity team within Fidelity to take an internal product to the commercial market. Managed XTRAC Labs, a team dedicated to new products and new ideas in the Enterprise Social Workflow SaaS space. Developed real-time analytics Apps, mobile and web based. On-boarded new design agencies and development groups around the globe to help push the company to the commercial market place. 2005-2006Joined the Fidelity enterprise and architecture group as a director of architecture supporting future directions and implementations of Fidelity.com and FMR Co Portfolio Fund Management. Responsibilitues covered research and development into tools and supporting technologies lnet generation technologies, vendor selection and negociation and product development. 2004-2005Worked as a Development Architect for the online account opening process on Fidelity.comWorked as a Development Architect for the "Your Fidelity" application on Fidelity.com, a next generation portal effort using Flash and Ajax.2003-2004Worked as a Development Architect for Fidelity Corporate Services Group on Fidelity.com2002-2003Worked as a Development Architect for iStockPlan.com an Internation Stock Plan Services Offering for Fidelity Corporate Services Group2001-2002Worked as a Development Architect for Accounts and Trade as well as the Account Opening process onFidelity.com supporting the 529 and Stock Plan Services offerings.2000-2001Worked as a lead developer on Fidelity's Authentication and Authorization architecture.1999-2000Joined the eBuisness group and worked as lead developer and Architect for an interactive TV application on Fidelity.com.

12/1998 - 9/1999

BEST Consulting

Salt Lake City/ Utah

Senior Consultant / Architect

As a Senior Consultant for BEST Consulting, responsibilities are as follows: „h Worked for Beneficial Life writing Enterprise Java Beans, JSP(Java Server Pages), Servlets, JML and XML using Oracle Application Server as the middle tier. Also writing PL/SQL packages in Oracle 8i for the business logic. Utilized the following tools: Jdeveloper, Forte, Homesite & TOAD. „h Taught quarterly an internal Java Fundamentals class in which I lead the class in practical design and application of Java. The class covered: OOAD, Language constructs, AWT, Applets, Servlets, Swing, JSP, JDBC, Beans, EJB.

3/1998 - 12/1998

COMM.COMM

Salt Lake City/ Utah

Senior Application/Web/CTI developer

· Employed as a Senior Application Developer with functions ranging from IIS Administrator to the sole Web Developer to CTI Developer to Applications Developer.· Helped grow this startup CRM(Customer Relations Management) provider from 50 employees to over 2000 · Developed Cutting Edge CTI(Computer Telephony Integration) applications in Visual Basic using a C++ rapper of IBM’s Callpath. Also used and help create IVR(Integrated Voice Response) solutions that allowed information gathered in the IVR to be immediately available to the CSR(Customer Service Representatives) through communication over an Oracle Database· Developed a CTI based softphone application in Visual Basic & JAVA that allowed all communication with the telephone to be done through the computer rather than have agents use the telephone. · Created an ASP/HTML reporting web solution that allowed specific clients to connect to a secure extranet site to view dynamically created real time blended ACD reports.· Developed an Extra/Intra/Inter-net Strategy as well as a security package for these sites using Java, VB script, ASP, HTML, PL/SQL and Oracle as the Backend. · Created various backbone solutions for other internet startup companies on the web and through Visual Basic. These companies typically lacked the technology and support to create real time credit card transactions and manage customer interactions and relied on us to create the solutions for them.· Created Database Schemas, Stored Procedures, Jobs and Packages in Oracle for various front end and backend solutions also did tuning, indexing and general maintenance on the database.· Created various automated transmission applications in Visual Basic that created specific reporting requirements in excel, flat files or whatever the client need was.

3/1994 - 3/1998

American Stores

Salt Lake City

Data Management Analyst

· While with Americans Stores managed and maintained all systems maintenance and direct support requests and contact with the Account Executives from Hallmark, from which more than $180,000,000 worth of sales per year are generated. · Created various Visual Basic applications for Corporate Data Management and Data Warehousing. These applications imitated a direct user interface with a 3270 Host Application that replaced the need for manual entry into a Legacy system.· Maintained and managed the General Merchandise Email system for correspondence and issue escalation with Corporate Data Management and the California Lucky Division of Marketing Managers.· Maintained, managed and created over 30 different reporting approaches for a new Corporate Maintenance Data warehousing system as well as managed 6 people that also worked on resolutions to various business issues. · Was the Data Management Administrator for the Business Association Team; linking all corporate sales with the correct National Product Managers, VPs and EVPs .· Worked on Warehouse translation and the Store ordering process from the corporate to the divisional level.· Reverse engineered a ten million-dollar application that was purchased from an British outsourcer that failed in a practical business environment and developed a better system in Visual Basic.

 

EDUCATION:

5/1996

University of Utah

US-Salt Lake City

Bachelor's Degree

Major: English and JapaneseMinor: Linguistics

5/1993

Brigham Young Univesity

US-Rexburg

Associate Degree

A.D. in Arts and SciencesMajor: EnglishAchieved a 3.2G.P.A overall and 3.6 G.P.A. in major field of study

 

SKILLS:

Skill Name

Skill Level

Java

Expert

UML

Expert

Rational Enterprise

Expert

XSLT

Expert

Web Services

Expert

C++

Expert

Unix/Linux

Expert

Tomcat

Expert

Flex

Intermediate

Flash

Expert

AJAX

Expert

SDLC

Expert

Cassandra

Intermediate

Budgeting

Expert

IOS Development

Intermediate

Visual Design

Expert

User Experience

Expert

Derby.js

Expert

Ember.js

Intermediate

Amazon Web Services

Expert

Information Technology

Expert

Innovation & Change Management

Expert

Backbone

Intermediate

Spring

Expert

 

LANGUAGES:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent

Japanese

Fluent

 

REFERENCES:

Reference Name:

Jack Sneddon

Reference Company:

Fidelity Invesments

Reference Title:

Vice President of Development

Phone:

801-537-4775

Type:

Professional

 

Additional Info

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Desired Salary/Wage:

150,000.00 USD yr

Current Career Level:

Executive (SVP, VP, Department Head, etc)

Date of Availability:

Negotiable

Work Status:

Japan - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.
US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

US citizen

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Director of Accelerated Innovation

Alternate Target Job Title:

Architect

Desired Job Type:

Employee

Desired Status:

Full-Time

Site Location:

On-Site

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

No Preference

Industry:

Internet Services
Banking
Computer Software

Occupation:

Other

·          

IT/Software Development

My ideal company is:

An aggressive company that is cutting edge and well funded and has a bright future. I would prefer a company that is more than just paper or an idea but has laid some serious groundwork.

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

Japan
US-UT-Salt Lake City

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 25% travel