Kelly Churchill

With more than 17 years experience building web sites, including 13 years programming and application development experience, I am dependable, possess a strong work ethic and have an ability to turn complex problems and business rules into practical applications.

Technical Strengths

• Complex Web Applications, Database Design, Systems Analysis, E-Commerce
• Front End developer proficient in: NodeJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS
• LAMP developer proficient in: PHP/MySQL, MVC Frameworks (Laravel 4, Kohana), jQuery, Git/SVN
• Familiar with: Agile, Backbone JS, Underscore JS, Java, C++, Rails

Experience

• Managing and directing a team of six software developers across three project teams.
• Evaluating employee performance.
• Setting expectations and goals for department and individual developers.
• Recruiting, interviewing and coaching of developers
• Establishing and socializing common best development practices across all project teams.
• Maintaining a high level view into all development projects and providing dev lead support, when needed.
• Making recommendations for developer project assignments/workload balance.
• Contributing on an individual level, when needed.

• Heavily involved with enabling and supporting product team executives and management across Offering Management, Engineering, and Design globally
• Enabling the global FED@IBM community on:
  • Understanding user needs, and exploring user-centered designs
  • Specifying, building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and supporting front-end code
  • Identifying and addressing design, development, and delivery performance bottlenecks
  • Actively participating in code and design reviews, pair design, and pair programming activities
  • Coaching, educating, and advocating FED best practices

• Development lead for team of engineers
• Launched NodeJS microservice for REST API documentation
• Accessibility focal point for product UI
• Provide guidance to designers and front end developers for accessibility compliance
• Co-facilitated design thinking workshop

• Project lead role for multiple complex web application development projects including e-commerce and other third party integration
• Piloted junior developer mentor program which involved overseeing development from estimate to launch

• Lead Developer, Project Management, Systems Analysis, Application Design, Quality Assurance
• Managed the development of multiple complex database driven online applications with e-commerce

• Designed and built websites for a variety of businesses
• Built online registration system for a dance school 
• Integrated shopping carts, autoresponders, and multiple third-party applications

Volunteer

• Planned events for 600+ scouts
• 2013-2014 Oak Hill Service Unit Outstanding Volunteer award
• 2012 Pat Dugan Girl Scouts of Central Texas distinguished volunteer award recipient
• Oak Hill Service Unit Cookie Booth Manager – managed cookie booth assignments for 80 troops at 70-120 daily booth time slots, created web application with troop login to facilitate assignments (ohsucookies.com)
• Troop Cookie Manager and Troop leader

• Neighborhood Manager - managed 70 troop leaders and neighborhood events, facilitated leader meetings
• Troop leader, troop cookie manager

Education

• College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering 
• 3.12 GPA, 3.26 Major GPA, Dean’s List, Member of Association for Computing Machinery