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Panton Vang

Software Development Manager/IT Director

 

401 S OPak Grove                                                                   

Patterson, MN 30142                            panton_vang.07@yahoo.com               715.720.7042

 

 

SUMMARY:

Results driven IT Leader with 19 years experience in overseeing and planning technology programs and administering multimillion dollar budgets.  Proven background in team-building, motivation and effective communication.  Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Experienced in working cross-functionally assessing situations, developing go-forward strategies and tactics to improve revenue, reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Adept at managing domestic and offshore teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director Application Development                                                                            2010 to Present

Mid Continent Group., Tulsa, OK                                                          

150+ million in annual revenue. Insurance Industry

Primary responsibility is managing two different technology groups; Software Development and Quality Assurance. Managing the software development activities, technical leadership and mentoring, process improvement, working with product management on new features and enhancements. Other responsibilities include providing technical direction on platform and technology selection, working with internal and external technology groups to design integration components, addressing customer issues/escalations, working with IT infrastructure team on software/hardware support, maintenance and deployment activities, working with HR on talent acquisition. Vendor contract negotiations and oversight.

·         Active key member of the Executive Steering Committee to establish company long and short term goals and identifying development’s role in supporting those.

·         Key member of the 2011 Annual SOX Audit – Zero Issues Found

·         Introduced and led a company wide initiative establishing new change request submission, prioritization, and construction and delivery process.

o   Consolidated submission and management tools from 4 to 1.

o   Streamlined the Project Review Process reducing the time to scheduling by 24%

o   Reduced the variance between estimated and actual development costs to less than 10%

o   Improved Quality Delivery (Post Production Repair Costs) by 12%

o   Implemented a development process based on an incremental predictive model versus a chaotic reactionary approach. 

·         Allocate appropriate resources to ensure predictable delivery of multiple applications and projects

·         Partner with product management to set the direction for application development

·         Attract exceptional engineers, building teams, and energizing / motivating the organization

·         Handle recruitment, training and performance management of team members

Product Development Manager                                                                                 2009 to 2010

Solarc Inc., Tulsa, OK and Houston, TX                                                

77+ million in annual revenue. Commodity Trading and Risk Management Software

Responsible for the Product Development of the core Right Angle product. Oversaw development teams in US, Canada and India, technology planning, development strategies, staff development, partnership relations, contract negotiations and project reporting

·         Set Development goals, processes & objectives.

·         Advise Executive Management in preparing long and short-range plans for product development.

·         Managed the delivery of 8 critical migration projects in 10 months.

·         Increased quality and performance by introducing benchmarks against industry standards

o   Increased primary development productivity by 16%

o   Reduced pre-release development repair costs by 47%

·         Implemented Release Management Process, reducing post release repair costs.

·         Established management controls to improve project estimating and risk management

Manager Software Development and Quality Assurance                                          2001 to 2009

United States Investigative Service (Commercial Division), Tulsa, OK                                                                 

$180+ million in annual revenue. Background Investigation and Pre-Employment Screening

Responsible for the Software Development and Quality Assurance Department with 38 full time employees, 6 of which are direct reports, and a contingent workforce here in the US and Internationally. Responsible for all customer facing, vendor interaction and Finance applications, specifically those related to Ordering, Fulfillment, Invoicing and Balance Management.

·         Responsible for setting Development departmental goals, strategies, & objectives.

·         Reassess and redefine priorities as appropriate in order to achieve performance objectives.

·         Advise Executive Management in preparing long and short-range plans for applications selection, systems development, systems maintenance, production activities and necessary support resources.

·         Responsible for formalizing and improving methodologies, processes, standards and tools for software development, implement and educate selected testing methodology for development projects

o   Implemented standardized development lifecycle (MSF). Enabled reduction in staff by 18% while still maintaining efficiency and quality.

o   Implemented Release Management Process, increased application delivery quality by 23%.

·         Key team member for initial Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance internal audit. No major findings in Development.

·         Key team member in multiple security audits and application vulnerability assessments with 100% compliance.

·         Negotiate, review and manage all development vendor contracts. Currently managing out-sourced development efforts in India and on site in Tulsa.

·         Manage multiple cross functional projects ranging in budget from a few thousand dollars to multi million.

o   IT Manager in charge of two accounting system migrations and custom integrations. Initially from an internally developed mainframe system to Great Plains and then from Great Plains to CostPoint. Currently the IT Point Of Contact of the Commercial Division for the new migration to SAP.

o   Managed the implementation of a new predictive dialing system to support our internal call center. This project resulted in a $600,000 first year cost savings. Built on Oracles automated dialing system and integrated into our internally developed workflow management system.

·         Support all aspects of our customer pricing, invoicing systems. Currently we are processing 4,000,000 transactions monthly totaling $15 million across 35,000 accounts.

·         Technical stack primarily driven by Microsoft Technologies to include C# .NET and Microsoft SQL. Due to legacy application support and as a result of acquisitions we do support the following languages, VB.NET, VB, FORTRAN, ASP, Ruby, and databases, Oracle and MySQL.

Manager Software Development                                                                               1999 to 2001

Higganbotham, Oklahoma City, OK

Energy/Mineral Rights Company, Start-up Company

Responsible for creating the strategic vision (Road Map) of the development group to support the overall vision of the company.  Responsible for managing all software development, quality assurance and the development infrastructure.  Played a key role communicating with our strategic partners, investors, internal customers, target acquisitions and 3^rd party technology partners.

·         Recruited, hired and retained all IT development personnel in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, OK to develop custom client software solutions.

o   Internet based mineral rights auctioning system. Enabling pre-screened users to auction mineral rights to qualified bidders. Site acted as a portal allowing the exchange of information among other interested parties within the oil and gas industry. Written in ASP utilizing a Microsoft SQL database.

o   Internal purchase request and routing system for a major telecommunication company. Due to client requirements, this system was developed utilizing ColdFusion with an Oracle database.

o   Several tradition eCommerce websites for clients in a variety of industries. Primarily built on Microsoft Technologies (ASP, SQL Databases)

·         Assisted executive management team by establishing a strong technology platform/direction.

·         Planned and built a development data center in Tulsa OK.

Squadron Software Development Manager                                                   1989 to 1999

United States Air Force, Stationed World Wide

US Military

Reporting directly to 55^th Communications Squadron Flight Commander. Responsible for most architectural design decisions and the management of two development teams that supported a key system for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

·         Military Aerospace Management System – This system managed the use of over 3000 DOD and FAA airspaces. This system would do real-time analysis of air crew flight plan nation wide. Evaluate the likely hood of a conflict and would send notifications to the flight crew that there was a scheduling conflict and that a required re-scheduling must occur. This system required a 100% safety tolerance. This system is written in COBOL on a VAX system.

·         Also was the lead on several DOD Flight, Squadron and Command level websites. These websites were written in ASP utilizing a Microsoft SQL database.

EDUCATION:

Community College of the Air Force                                                            

Major: Computer Science

Oklahoma State University                                                                           

Major: Architecture Design

Other Credentials

·         Microsoft Solutions Framework

·         Tulsa University Mini MBA(Center for Executive & Professional Development)

·         Certificate of Achievement – Intense .NET C#

·         Top Secret Security Clearance

·         United States Air Force Computer Programming Certification Course

·         United States Air Force Advanced Computer Programming Certification Course

·         NCO Professional Military Education Graduate – Academic Achievement Award

·         Quality Air Force Management Course

·         Awards

-          Air Force Achievement Medal

-          Air Force Good Conduct Medal

-          National Defense Service Medal

-          Southwest Asia Service Medal (Campaign Star)

-          Joint Meritorious Unit Award

-          Outstanding Unit Award

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE: SOFTWARE/LANGUAGES

C#, ColdFusion, TCL, VB.Net, ASP, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, .Net Web Services, Visual Studio.Net, Visual Source Safe, Subversion,  JavaScript, XML and XSL, HTML, VBScript , Visio, Visual Interdev, Visual Basic (3,4,5, and 6 including ADO, ActiveX, and Object Oriented Programming), SQL, MTS, COM, FrontPage, Macromedia’s Flash and Dreamweaver, All Windows Operating Systems. SQLServer and IDMS. Assembly, ADA, COBOL, Oracle 9i

Also extensive experience in most Software Development Lifecycles (Waterfall, MSF, Agile, Extreme), Project Management Methodologies (PMBOK) and IT Management concepts and policies (ITIL)

(References Available Upon Request)

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