Paul Werner

Background

About Paul Werner

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY - 20+ yrs in engineering leadership roles managing teams of 10-35+ engineers with multiple teams in multiple global locations- Experience includes Sr Software Engineering Manager, Engineering Manager, Implementation and Release Manager, Technical Team Lead - 15+ years software engineer/integrator - Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Music - Built new teams from ground up and reorg orgs/teams to SAFe/agile BUSINESS DOMAINS Health/Pharmacy Insurance, Health & Well-being, Data Center, Banking, Retail merchandising & supply chain, Imaging/Document management, Business systems. TECHNOLOGIES AWS, Kotlin, Java, C/C++, Python, Salesforce Health Cloud, HL7/FHIR, X12 Insurance, iOS, Android, Web UI, JSON, SOAP, HTML, JSP, Tomcat, Kafka/Kstreams, Hadoop, Git/Gitlab, Harness/Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Unix/Linux, Windows, React, Angular, Kong API gateway, New Relic, AppDynamics, HP Service Mgr, ServiceNow, Liquibase/Flyway, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, SQL Server, Cassandra, IAM/Identity and Access Mgmt, testing frameworks (Junit, Cucumber) METHODOLOGIES Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), agile scrum, waterfall, project mgmt, data architecture/governance, data analytics/big data, system/software architecture, MFE, BFF, ITIL, release mgmt, SCCS, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD), TDD/BDD. CERTIFICATIONS/AWARDS Software patent-holder, PMP, ITIL Foundation EXAMPLE DELIVERABLES - Transformed 900+ person organization to SAFe/agile methodologies engaging C-suite leaders to identify/prioritize competing strategic priorities- Built a successful software engineering org servicing a 50k+ employee business (Thomson Reuters)- Promote/architect/implement tech platforms to speed business delivery. Example, built a company-wide rules platform/web UI enabling business users to control business functions WITHOUT requiring time-consuming code changes- Lead engineering of mobile, web UI, and server-side changes for cloud-native/AWS health, insurance, and wellness platform, including leading shift from monolithic releases to modern continuous-delivery- Modernized US Bank's mobile apps to native platforms - iOS Swift, Android Kotlin- Cost savings of $15 million per year via software license tracking system which ensures that actual license usage can be accounted for on servers/desktops- Improved software quality via innovative approach to the CI/CD pipeline where related microservices and their ecosystems are built, spun-up, and verified as a whole.