Xennial Innovations Inc.

In my current accountability, I have been deeply immersed in the role of Community Manager for Xennial Innovations, a position that requires a unique blend of communication prowess and community-building finesse. 

My days are filled with dynamic tasks, from crafting engaging newsletters using ClickUp to keeping our growing community of developers well-informed and visually captivated, to managing the vibrant conversations within our Discord server.

One of my key responsibilities involves wielding the power of social media, particularly on platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn. 

I've honed the art of developing and executing strategic social media plans to enhance our brand visibility and foster meaningful connections with our audience.

In addition to my digital endeavors, I take pride in orchestrating community events that transcend the virtual realm. Whether it's a virtual gathering or an in-person meetup, I've been the driving force behind planning, coordinating, and executing events that bring our community together.

My role extends beyond the digital space—I've become a regular face at industry meetups, conferences, and events. Attending these gatherings has not only allowed me to represent our brand but has also provided invaluable opportunities to network with like-minded individuals, industry professionals, and potential partners.

This opportunity has been a journey of growth, creativity, and proactive engagement. 

I've fostered a sense of belonging within our community, ensuring that every interaction is not just informative but also enriching. It's been a thrilling experience contributing to the evolution and success of our community, and I look forward to many more months of building connections, organizing events, and shaping a thriving digital ecosystem.

Community Manager

TechTarget

I love writing about technical topics, and writing for TechTarget and TheServerSide has given me an opportunity to learn about a wide array of technical topics, while getting the opportunity to interview and work with experts and leaders in the field.

However, writing is only part of my passion. 

The other big thing that motivates me is working hard to get my message out to as wide an audience as possible. Which is why I take Search Engine Optimization so seriously.

I have over a dozen #1 ranked articles on Google on highly competitive keywords pertaining to Java, Agile, Scrum and Cloud Computing. 

In fact, my articles often rank multiple times on the landing page of Google for competitive keywords. I will often have 3 or 4 videos on the landing page of Google's video tab. That's SEO done right!

Technical Writer and SEO Expert

IngramSpark

When I went to pursue my Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications, I realized there was a real void in the market with respect to resources that guided the learner's path. This motivated me to write and publish the Scrum Master Certification Guide, a 325 hardcover book available on Amazon and bookstores everywhere.

I would love to be able to take full credit for the book, but I simply can't. It was a true team effort in which a community of experts came together to produce a product that I'm infinitely proud of.

Pulling together a network of experts from my social media accounts, meetup groups, industry connections and even friends and family, I built a team of people who were experts on a variety of topics including:

- Content writing
- Book publishing
- Marketing
- Email campaigns
- Image editing
- Scrum and Agile knowledge

The team helped with every aspect of the book, including technical oversight of the content. Editors and contributors corrected for nuance, edited for clarity and quite often fully rewrote chapters to show me a better way to express an idea or concept.

As I said, my name is on the cover of the book, which is most humbling, because it's the team who pulled the project together that deserves the credit, and I'm forever greatful for the team's effort.

To be honest, this book is perhaps the big reason I want to work in the field of team building and community management, because I've seen the power of a highly-motivated, self-managed team, and I've seen first hand how a group of talented developers create outcomes that are exponentially greater than the sum of their individual parts.

Author of the Best Selling Scrum Master Certification Guide

Linode

The people at Linode are the greatest people you could possibly work with!

As a Developer Advocate for Linode, I have assisted the social media team in content creation, product promotion and video publishing on YouTube.

I don't want to take undue credit for Linode's success, but after publishing my first video about Docker, which spoke about Python, nginx and Java, Linode's YouTube channel quickly gained 340,000 subscribers and surpassed the million follower milestone.

(Honestly, my content really had nothing to do with that, but given the timing, I'm happy to take credit for it *smile*)

Developer Advocate

Working to promote IBM's #TodaysArchitect initiative, I helped bring awareness to the community about how the the IBM Z System mainframes can be used to help accellerate work in the areas of intensive computing, including:

- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Science

The engagement included the creation of video content used to promote IBM mainframes, promotion across all of my social media channels, participation in media events, outreach and content planning.

Trend Micro

If you think Trend Micro is just about anti-virus software you'd be completely wrong.

Trend Micro has expanded far beyond its humble beginnings as an OS security platform into the industry's leading internet security platform. Sometimes people need to be reminded of this fact, which is why I was recruited as a Developer Advocate to help spread the message.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

To be clear, this is not a paid position like the others listed in the 'Experience' section of LinkedIn. However, being a community builder has taught me a great deal about how online communities are built and fostered, and that's a big part of my journey, so I feel it's fair to list it here. 

The AWS Community Builder program is a community-driven initiative by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to recognize and support individuals who are passionate about AWS and actively contribute to the AWS community. 

The typical roles and activities associated with an AWS Community Builder include:

- Community Advocacy
- Content Creation
- Knowledge Sharing
- Mentorship
- Feedback Loops
- Collaboration
- Evangelism
- Continuous Learning
- Community Events
- Visibility and Recognition

The AWS Community Builders program does not constitute employment with Amazon. It is instead a community of highly motivated individuals who want to spread positivity and enthusiasm about modern technologies and new approaches to DevOps based deployments.

Community Builder

Scrumtuous Inc

Founder

Lean? Agile? Goal-oriented?

That's me, and that's why I'm here spreading my love for effective product development with Scrum and other proven techniques that work within the Scrum framework.

And how am I spreading this love?

In a variety of ways, but the one I'm most proud of is my recently published Scrum Master Certification Guide. It's a real book, over 200 pages long and available in both hardcover and softcover on Amazon.

The feedback and reviews have been great so far, and it really warms my heart when I get messages from people telling me it helped them learn Scrum, get Agile and of course, gain a coveted PSM, PSPO or CSM designation.

I'm also very active on Twitter and YouTube.

I'm up above 250,000 followers on Twitter, and I think I've posted close to 100 videos about DevOps, cloud computing, Java programming, Python development and of course Agile and Scrum on my YouTube channel.

I've also been honored to work as a developer advocate with incredible and amazing companies including:

- Linode
- Xennial Innovations
- IBM and;
- Trend Micro

It's honestly quite humbling to be associated at all with such amazing leaders in the industry.

I'd love it if you both followed me on LinkedIn and connected.

I'm just at the start of my journey, and I'm excited to see where it all leads. 

Let's build something great together, and let's do it publicly!

I absolutely love talking about the challenges I face and the successes I've enjoyed with other like-minded and highly-motivated individuals. So let's share!

Darcy DeClute

Maricopa County

-Leading the modernization of our codebase by updating legacy DataExchange and code solutions from Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 to Visual Studio 2022 on an Azure and Microsoft Dynamics platform, ensuring adherence to best practices.
-Works closely with Program Manager to understand the organization’s business processes and assists in development of technical solutions to support those processes.
-Uses a custom (Microsoft.NET) API to build custom tools and services.
-Uses XML to create custom application pages.
-Maintains and modifies Microsoft architectures.
-Writes new programs of moderate to high complexity and scope, working with basic applications systems designs and specifications and utilizing standard methodologies and techniques.

Programming Analyst

Meaningful Causes Studio

-Developed a functional Gaming Prototype using Adobe products for graphic design and 3D Max.
-Utilized AWS DeepComposer for music integration.
-Employed pygame (Python) and SDL for coding.
-Showcased the working prototype at Arizona's Largest Gaming Expo, Game On.

Business Owner

HiMS

-Help maintain in house HIMS and help prepare from ASP/ASP.NET environment to an MVC
environment. Worked towards upgrading from XML, XSLT, SOAP to an Entity Framework/LINQ.
-Maintained Customer Databases, Optimization, Adding/Updating Stored Procedures, Views, Functions
in MS SQL 2000-2014.
-Trained new developers as they came onboard. Worked in SSIS creating pipelines to move data from
place to place.

Software Developer

State Farm

-Provided stellar customer service using customer support, business and technical skills.
-Help identify diagnose and resolve customer application issues.

Application Support Analyst

Intuit

-Submitted multiple ideas to the System Analyst on ways to improve the system to delight customers
and improve agent's tools and increase productivity.
-Walked customers and co-workers through the Trouble Tax Website and Mac/Win based Desktop
software. Would troubleshoot different problems and provide customers with active fix so they were able
to file their taxes.

Web Application Support 

US Foods

-Technical software engineer on Enterprise technical TIBCO application projects serving hundreds of
customers across multiple business and vendors groups. As a TIBCO developer I provided high level,
hands-on technical support of TIBCO software problems providing turn-around on most tickets in less
than 2 business days.
-Responsible for monitoring and tracking millions of transactions on Windows and Linux Servers, using
RDP for Windows and PuTTY to Troubleshoot performance, resource monitoring/control, determine if
Web Services need to be restarted or just a thread.
-Utilized TIBCO MFT for creating, testing, maintaining migration, integration, and synchronization of
current and all newly acquired companies.
-Lead integration developer tasked with troubleshooting and resolving any integration related issues
resulting from acquisitions.

TIBCO Developer

Rural/Metro Corporation

-Lead programmer on the company’s enterprise fleet management system, responsible for translating
business requirements into working code, building out the organization’s tracking, maintenance and
reporting capabilities over the course of 4 three weeklong sprints.
-Primary developer responsible for supporting 5 enterprise applications, fixing over 80 defects across
the systems over a period of 8 months, utilizing ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, ASP.NET Web Forms, C#,
MVC, JavaScript, ADO.NET, MS SQL, Telerik, JQuery, Bootstrap, CSS JavaScript, ADO, CSS, HTML,
MS SQL.
-Collaborated with project managers and system stakeholders to define project goals from initiation
planning, and execution, providing guidance on the technical approach needed to achieve the needs of
the business.
-Consulted the business on migrating their existing legacy data to Oracle HRIS, creating a data map for
every table, encompassing over 90 fields.
-Used my previous Integration knowledge for Integrating Rural Metro and AMR Systems.

Web Software Engineer

Robson Communities

-Engaged the business providing HTML mailer templates based on content supplied by marketing,
delivering thousands of emails daily to our marketing lists.
-Built and optimized WordPress themes, customizing basic templates into robust sites for use in
marketing operations.
-Utilized Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and a mix of code languages: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and
SQL to achieve the technology goals of the business.
-Helped Increase Sales by rebase lining projects behind schedule, bringing them back into alignment.
-Projects included Website Updates, Newsletters, promotional e-mails and 3D Home Walkthroughs.

Web Developer

Computerized Facility Integration

-Created a customized Barcode Maintenance System for Stanley integration, utilizing Maximo to
significantly improve warehouse performance using mobile tablets and scanner devices instead of
keyboard input.
-Used CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, JSP, Java, REST and XSL for client customizations.
-Multiple Intregration between different OS such as different versions of Windows Server and Linux.
-Lead application developer responsible for implementing 7 instances of Maximo Asset Management
7.5 using CSS, HTML5, JSP, JavaScript, REST, Web Sphere, Apache, IIS and XSL, for clients such as
the State of Arizona, Stanley Electronics, Hydrate chemical, and Town of Oyster Bay to include a few-
(EAM) – built upon J2EE.
-Trained 40 BREAZ Employees for the State of Arizona on Maximo.
-Built 45 BIRT Reports for the State of Arizona, encompassing primarily inventory management.
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-Provided production support for clients utilizing the hosted method of Maximo, handling 250+ tickets
over the course of 23 months.

CFI Clients:

State of Arizona -CGI, Alamo Community College, Hydrite Chemical Company, Town of Oyster Bay,
Technimark, Stanley, Land O’ Frost

Application Tech. and Software Developer 

Brinkster Communications Corporation

-Helped small to large scale business owners create and fix server side applications using ASP, PHP,
ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, MS Access, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, optimizing Server
connections for Web Performance.
-Managed IIS, DNS and Apache for premium dedicated customers.
-Managed Hostable customers as well on a L.A.M.P. using and teaching users PuTTY as SSH and
telnet client to connect to CENTOS Linux.
-Trained customers on Word Press, Joomla, and Get Simple.

Web Application Specialist

As the sole Programmer Analyst at Maricopa County’s Office of Public Defense Services, I am responsible for developing, maintaining, and expanding enterprise applications. Drawing on extensive experience with renowned organizations such as Health Information Management Systems, US Foods, Rural Metro, American Emergency Response, and CFI, I independently handle all aspects of software development, troubleshooting, and resolving client, server, and integration-related issues.

My expertise includes upgrading legacy .NET applications from older. NET MVC to newer versions and the Power Platform, as well as working with ASP, ASP.NET, C#, Java, MVC, MS SQL, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. At Rural Metro, I was the lead developer supporting five enterprise applications and consulted the business on migrating their existing legacy data to Oracle HRIS.

Furthermore, I have extensive experience in TIBCO app development, utilizing TIBCO MFT to create, test, migrate, integrate, and synchronize current and newly acquired companies at US Foods. Additionally, I have expertise in CSS, JavaScript, Apache, WebSphere, IIS, XSL, J2EE, and REST for client customization at CFI.

I am proficient in web development and enterprise development and have worked with IBM Maximo, TIBCO, and Justware for enterprise software. My experience spans multiple industries, including but not limited to education, chemical, government, aviation, and healthcare.

In addition, I possess an excellent understanding of Windows platforms and Linux CENTOS and Linux Red Hat and have experience doing integration with SOAP and REST. Furthermore, I have hands-on experience in TIBCO and Maximo, along with BIRT experience.

As a Programmer/Developer, I have had the privilege of working with numerous esteemed organizations, including Maricopa County, Health Information Management Systems, US Foods, Alamo Community College, Hydrite Chemical Company, Town of Oyster Bay, Technimark, Stanley, Land O’ Frost, Moog, State of Arizona, CGI Rural Metro, American Medical Response, and Spirit Airlines, among others. My responsibilities in these roles have included utilizing various programming and development skills to support the technology goals of these organizations.

As an IT professional, I have provided support for various companies, including Apple, Dish Network, Pearson, Brinkster, Intuit Turbo Tax, and State Farm.

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