Travis Stokes, PMP

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ABOUT ME

Creative, Adaptive, Transparent, Excited to Learn and Teach

I am a creative developer with extensive and varied experience, that excels on fast paced teams that emphasize clean, efficient designs and well-structured projects. My experience has touched a wide array of industries from library management services, to tax accounting, hospitality, healthcare, and decision support services. I excel at rapid integration of new technologies and have used a multitude of different technologies including nodejs, Angular, sequelize, WPF, ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC and WebAPI), Knockout.js, JSON, Lua, and many others.

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined December 2017

EXPERTISE

Project management

5 years experience

Since day one in my career I've noticed one consistent frustration with software development both from the developer side and the consume...

Since day one in my career I've noticed one consistent frustration with software development both from the developer side and the consumer side - poor project management. All too often projects are rushed through without proper planning and the customer pays dearly for it. Seeing the cycle of projects failing to plan, failing to monitor, and failing to produce early in my career led me to pursue strong project management and execution skillsets. In that pursuit, I've sought out teams with various project management approaches to observe and learn from and have studied and been certified for project management with a Project Management Professional certificate from the internationally recognized Project Management Institute.

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

learn-to-code-rush-hour

JavaScript

adventofcode

Repository for Advent Of Code puzzles

Python

Stack Overflow

639 Reputation

Community Posts

Hiring a New Software Team

A quick guide to several of the most common and troublesome issues when changing developers for an existing project.

Motivational Lessons from a Five Year Old

How I learned some intricacies of motivating employees and coworkers from a 5 year old.

“Programmer” is the New “Author”: How Misperception is Polluting an Industry

A brief review of the state of education and standardization in the software industry.

EMPLOYMENTS

Director Of Software Development

Array Digital

2015-06-01-Present

As Director of Software Development at Array Digital, in addition to active, hands on development in a variety of technology stacks, I am...

As Director of Software Development at Array Digital, in addition to active, hands on development in a variety of technology stacks, I am responsible for: Strategic decision making regarding adoption of technical tools and software platforms (ex: source control and issue tracking tools, language, environment selection) Development and maintenance of standards for adoption of emerging technologies Management, coaching, and mentoring of software developers Ensuring continual improvement in the skills and abilities of the Array Digital team by working with each team member to create and monitor individual professional development plans Design, implement, and monitor software development processes for the Array Digital implementation teams Direct hands-on participation in all stages of the development process including coding, testing, and delivery of software projects Facilitating project hand-off to technical teams by acting as a bridge between sales and analysis teams and the technical implementation teams

Angular

PostgreSQL

Ionic

Angular

PostgreSQL

Ionic

React

ASP.NET MVC 5

Angular 4

Senior Integration Architect / Developer Advisor

Anthem, Inc.

2014-09-01-2015-02-01

Aided in the design and development of .NET based data integration services. Aided in analysis, development, and support of critical, hi...

Aided in the design and development of .NET based data integration services. Aided in analysis, development, and support of critical, high load billing operations systems. Helped screen, interview and on-board new development team members. Led the adoption and implementation of development standards and aided in the early phases of implementing and refining newly adopted agile practices.

Oracle

SSRS

ASP.NET Web API

Oracle

SSRS

ASP.NET Web API

IT Consultant

Marathon Consulting

2013-03-01-2014-09-01

Designed and implemented a budget management system used to track over $380 million in development assets Developed an integrated change...

Designed and implemented a budget management system used to track over $380 million in development assets Developed an integrated change request and processing system responsible for enabling efficient management of recurring project portfolios with a combined annual budget of nearly $10 million Aided in the application and data analysis portions of a major due diligence effort aimed at evaluating a multimillion dollar acquisition Aided in the re-engineering of a critical decision support and visualization application used by private and government emergency and disaster management agencies Provided thought and process leadership in the areas of system design, framework and platform selection, and implementation of best practices

Management

Product design

ASP.NET MVC 5

Management

Product design

ASP.NET MVC 5

PROJECTS

Hazon Drone Management SystemView Project

Hazon Solutions, LLC

2017

Hazon's Drone Management System was developed during my tenure as Director of Software Development for Array Digital. It provides drone s...

Hazon's Drone Management System was developed during my tenure as Director of Software Development for Array Digital. It provides drone safety and management features including operational status, positional tracking, inspection management, and lessons learned tracking all built on a pure Javascript (NodeJS/AngularJS) stack support by Postgresql for persistence.

Node.js

Angular

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Angular

PostgreSQL

ILLiad

2013

During my time at Atlas Systems, I was responsible for aiding in the maintenance of and design and development of new features for their ...

During my time at Atlas Systems, I was responsible for aiding in the maintenance of and design and development of new features for their flagship product, ILLiad. In addition to implementing various new features in .NET/WinForms and MSSQL, I was also responsible for leading an initiative that resulted in scripted automation of the application and dynamic custom forms via a LuaScript based add-on system.

WinForms