The Walt Disney CompanySoftware Development Team Lead
Dec. 2013 - Sep. 2014Celebration, FLLead 8 front-end and back-end developers and coordinated the work of two offshore teams to complete a million-dollar transformation of Disney's Fastpass+ booking portal for the web and mobile web. * Overcame technical and logistical challenges under heavy deadline pressure by applying my technical expertise, negotiation skills, people leadership, project management ability and tenacity.
* Lead the technical transition from a traditional PHP workflow to an AngularJS single-page app.
* Mentored team members.
* Successfully transitioned our teams to using a feature-based development workflow with git source control, feature branches, new code review processes, etc.
* Built strong relationships with business partners (Product Management, Creative, Fastpass+ operations) that enabled rapid and successful solutions to challenges that arose during development.
* Delivered product demonstrations to business partners, executives.
* Became the subject matter expert over thousands of technical, business and creative requirements. Collaborated closely with our business analysts, project manager, product managers to ensure requirements were documented, understood and implemented.
* Estimated, planned, and continuously monitored development tasks using the Agile methodology. Served as the scrum master.