LYNN ROY THACKERAY 615 South 680 East Payson, UT

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1 LYNN ROY THACKERAY 615 South 680 East Payson, UT CAREER SUMMARY LinkedIn Profile TEACHING & INSTRUCTION Experienced University level instructor. Have taught computer science and Information Technology on-campus and on-line courses. Subject Matter Expert in programming languages, web development, mobile development, software design and architecture, project management, team management Developed educational technology curriculum for delivery of classroom and online coursework. Experience training technical instructors Possess excellent communications skills as a technical instructor and trainer Ability to research and review new teaching material and technologies with focus on quantitative and qualitative elements Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills PROFESSIONAL Effective leadership and successful team builder: Have led Software Development, Web Development, Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, Project Management, MIS, and Technical Support departments Lead architect on several successful enterprise level software systems Successful record of accomplishment of software development and project management using the agile project life cycle process and test driven development methodologies. Received industry recognition for the most successful agile scrum enterprise development process for 2005 Have managed and provided leadership for several internationally distributed development organizations, with team members in Russia, Canada, UK, Saudi Arabia, India, and Uruguay. Have successfully re-engineered several existing product lines, which increased efficiency and extended product lifecycle Deep experience with quality assurance testing, test suite creating, and product release management. This includes managing multiple simultaneous product deployments using multiple testing frameworks, workflow management tools, and distributed source code version control and management systems. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE Operating systems and systems administration. Deep experience in computer architecture, including Instruction Set Architecture of Intel 8088/80386 chip family. Web and Internet savvy. Skill set includes: ASP.NET, HTML 5, CSS, XML, JSON, JavaScript, jquery, Java Applets, Flash, Adobe CS suite Mobile applications expertise includes web based development using HTML5, CSS, Canvas, and Android native development using Java, Eclipse, ADT, Android Studio Deep professional experienced in several development languages, including: Java, J2EE, C#, C/C++, Visual Basic, Python, SQL, 8086 Assembly, SQL Database expertise, including Microsoft LINQ, MSSQL, Access Quality Assurance/testing workflow, Unit testing, and issue tracking: NUnit, JUnit, Grinder, JIRA, IBM Rational, Bugzilla, Zoops, etc. Microsoft office products expertise.

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Utah Valley University Lecturer, Computer Science 08/2015-Present Teach courses in Object Oriented Design and programming, computer architecture, web programming, and other technologies. Faculty Development Committee Member Chair, Faculty Awards Committee for College of Technology and Computing Computer Science Networking/Web Technologies Committee member Course Mentor for CS 1400 and CS 3260 (Object Oriented Development using C#) Faculty Advisor for Computer Science Club Sponsor and Advisor for Capital Reef Field Station Project Courses Taught: CS 1030: Foundations of Computer Science CS 1400: Fundamental of Programming using Visual Studio and C# CS 1410: Object Oriented Programming using C++ CS 2550: Web Programming using HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, AngularJS CS 2810: Computer Architecture, machine and assembly language CS 3260: C# and.net software development Independence University 01/ /2015 Associate Dean of Computer Science Instructor of Computer Science. Teach advanced courses in Object Oriented Design and programming, Databases, Website design and creation, Server Side programming, C++, C#, Java and Visual Basic programming languages and other technologies. Manage faculty teaching loads, schedule courses, and serve as subject material expert for advanced Computer Science courses. Senior member of Computer Science committee that designed and developed curriculum for new Bachelor of Science program in Software and Mobile Applications Development Developed all courses for Mobile Applications Development specialization Course Mentor for Object Oriented Programming and programming languages courses Served as academic coach and mentor for students. Senior trainer for new faculty, Student capstone and internship advisor. Courses Taught: APP 126: Introduction to Databases PRG 102: Computer fundamentals PRG 103: Operating Systems PRG 305: Software Development using C# PRG 321: Object Oriented Development using C# PRG 412: Web Development II PRG 423: Programming Concepts III PRG 410: Web Programming with database support (client/server) PRG 330: Mobile Applications Development I

3 PRG 335: Mobile Applications Development II PRG 343: Database development and Software Integration PRG 351: (Java I) Object Oriented Development using Java PRG 451: (Java II) Object Oriented Development using Java PRG 441: Database development with emphasis on creating business related reports & charts PRG 411: Senior Capstone PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Career Step, LLC, Provo, Utah 03/ /2012 Director of Software Development and IT Career Step is a career collage that provides Medical and Information Technology training programs online. As a member of the Senior Management Team, I managed the departments of Software Development, QA, and Technical Support. Provided leadership and management for the development, design, deployment and support of Career Step s suite of web based, high traffic product line, including their enterprise level Learning Management System (LMS). 1. Designed, architected and developed a commercial web based skills evaluation and testing system. Served as a subject matter expert in the development of IT courses 2. Established software development and product lifecycle processes, which have increased development velocity by over 50% and allowed for greater inter-departmental communications and reporting 3. Revamped security infrastructure and processes to bring organization into HIPAA compliancy 4. Resolved long standing reliability issues by designing and implementing a new 24x7x365 hosted environment that supports a suite of high traffic distance delivered educational systems 5. Restructured the IT department and established best practices security, systems redundancy, backup and disaster recovery procedures 6. Initiated the procurement and evaluation process, negotiated contracts, and implemented companywide CRM and financial systems 7. Successfully executed the migration of companywide to new, high volume Exchange System 8. Organized and facilitated physical move of corporate headquarters to new location. This included moving and setting up of all company networking and computing servers, computers, and phone systems. Service Repair Solutions, Inc., Orem Utah 01/ /2009 Vice President of Development Responsible for the development of the subscription based, SaaS product lines of SRS. Managed a distributed organization of engineers located in the U.S and abroad. Realigned the development organization and established an Agile (Scrum) project life cycle process to better support the design and creation of the next generation of hosted web based and mobile products and services for SRS while maintaining the integrity and support of the current product line. 1. Reorganized development into a more efficient functional based organization, using agile and test driven methodologies, which allowed for greater development velocity that shortened existing development schedules by over 40 percent 2. Retooled a non-functioning build management and product release process. Created and staffed the department of build and release management 3. Conducted full web based threat analysis and implemented companywide security control and assessed management program

4 4. Made available for general distribution 23 product releases within 18 months with a higher level of quality and reliability than previously delivered 5. Developed an automated web based customer product feedback system that streamlined the critical error reporting process to the Support Organization, which greatly reduced the rate of hot fix releases by over 70% 6. Established a successful agile process (Scrum) that integrated Product Management and QA into the development process which dramatically shortened both the product requirements phase and the testing phase of the development lifecycle 7. Worked with Marketing and Product Management to develop a comprehensive development road map, and implemented this plan by leading the architecture and development teams designing and building a new generation Web based product line SirsiDynix Corporation, Orem Utah Senior Director of Development 1/ /2006 Led a 56-member distributed/outsourced software development. Reorganized development into a more efficient functional based organization, which allowed for greater development velocity that shortened existing development schedules by over 40 percent. Led design and development of all new software product line, including a new web-based product. Produced the company s first comprehensive product roadmap in collaboration with the Executive Team, Sales, Marketing, and Operations. Organized and managed an internationalization effort that localized our products for distribution in over seven countries. 1. My department organization was identified by Jeff Sutherland, founder of the Scrum development process, as having the most successful enterprise development process for Introduced agile (Scrum) development process with the net result of SirsiDynix going from 5 product releases a year to over 14 product releases in my first year. All with a higher level of quality and reliability than previously delivered. 3. Re-engineered existing SirsiDynix product line: By using refactoring techniques systematically eliminated 275,000 lines of code to achieve better usability 4. Led architecture team in design and implementation strategy of next generation multi-platform web based and installed products 5. Established a release management group and implemented structured build and release procedures that allowed the release and tracking of multiple products. This eliminated the scheduling bottlenecks that SirsiDynix was experiencing 6. Led in the design and deployment of localized versions of the SirsiDynix product in international markets. This included China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Spain Financial Fusion, Inc., Orem Utah Senior Vice President Research & Development 05/ /2001 While in startup mode, I built from scratch a successful IT organization. Directed the recruitment, hiring and training of technical and management staff. Created and built the departments of Research & Development, Professional Services, MS, QA, Technical Product Support, and Technical documentation. Led the architectural effort that conceptualized, designed and built innovative client/server and web based banking applications. Also responsible for P&L for all departments, defined development and departmental communication processes. Established project management, and helped define product strategy. 1. Grew the technical division of Financial Fusion into a 100 plus member e-commerce development and support organization 2. Led the architectural effort that conceptualized, designed and built cutting web based banking applications 3. With other members of senior management, defined company strategies and evaluated

5 potential partners and new technologies 4. Technical evangelist. Represented FFI at various national technology and banking conferences 5. Heavily involved with professional services and customer relationship management: pre-sales calls, customer negotiations, customer training, and technical customer support Novell Inc., Orem, Utah Director of Development, Internet Commerce Division, Novell, Inc. 10/ /1996 WordPerfect Corp., Orem Utah Software Developer/Manager 05/ /1994 Singer Aerospace, Sunnyvale, California Programmer, Link Flight Simulation Division 04/ /1987 PRESENTATIONS National Summit for Educational Equity Five Focused Approaches to Retain and Support Women in STEM April, 22, 2017, Washington D.C. UWHEN Leadership Conference Defining your Space Women in STEM: Overcoming Subtle Messaging of Exclusion April 7, 2017, Orem UT Teaching for Learning Conference Overcoming Subtle Messaging of Exclusion: Empowering Utah Women in STEM March 27, 2017, Price, UT PROFESSIONAL Certified Scrum Master Completed certification training in Certified by the Scrum Alliance to teach the Agile development processes. Patent Designed and led the development of a new electronic pre-paid processing technology (US patent number ). Golden Key Honor Society (Graduate Honor Society) National Information Standards Organization (NISO) ( ) Voting member of NISCO, which is an association accredited by ANSI that identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in a digital environment. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Voting member of the world s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. Member of the Utah Technical Council Open Financial Exchange Technical Steering committee ( ) Voting member of the Open Financial Exchange committee, which is a Microsoft sponsored sevenperson National committee that provides technical direction and management for this open e- commerce and Banking financial protocol.

6 EDUCATION Doctorate of Education, Northeastern University 08/2016 Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Research focus on curriculum and teaching methods in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Dissertation: Women in Computer Science: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis that explores common factors that contribute to women s selection and persistence in Computer Science as an academic major. Master s degree, Utah State University (Honors Graduate) 08/2008 Instructional Technology Emphasis in Web and Internet technologies used to support distance delivered education. As part of my cumulating experience, I traveled to Africa, and worked onsite at the Polytechnic of Namibia with members of the UVU Digital Media Department to create an Asset Management Archival System. Bachelor s degree, Brigham Young University 04/1984 Design Engineering and Computer Graphics Technology Broad technical curriculum including engineering design principles, digital graphics and animation, software development, operating systems, algorithm analysis, and data structures.