Charlton Rose

Mar. 2020 – present
(full time)

Software Architect, Director Of Engineering, Alianza (Lehi, Utah)

• Manage cross-cutting technical concerns for multiple teams.
• Encourage a culture of robust technical communication.
• Administer technical design reviews.
• Work with Product to ensure technically sound requirements.
• Ensure teams' compliance with technical standards.
• Promote technical health of assigned domains.
• Train teams on Git usage and effective PR techniques.
• Develop and maintain AWS SNS topic registry.
• Ensure performance and delivery of 5 engineering teams.
• Address teams' engagement challenges and mitigate attrition.
• Strategically build and staff teams to meet changing business needs.
• Organize and simplify work management processes.
• Transition remote teams to on-call software ownership model.
• Lead technical interviews for front and back end candidates.
• Scrutinize and approve contractor invoices.
• Organize and clarify business requirements.
• Lead Angular/Java team to develop auto-attendant system.

Sep. 2018 – Feb. 2020
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Ancestry (Lehi, Utah)

• Develop and maintain mission-critical backend microservices.
• Mentor junior/senior engineers.
• Cost-optimize existing microservices.
• Present formal trainings on essential technologies.
• Design/create system for migrating large, in-flight production data sets between incompatible database technologies.
• Train team in new Java features, transitioning from Java 8 through Java 11.
• Prepare written overviews for challenging problem domains.
• Lead team in effective Git usage strategies.
• Develop unifying common library in support of multiple projects.
• Lead team in developing and adopting effective code review processes, promoting techniques for building reviewable code submissions.
• Develop Java client libraries for backend web services.
• Review all code submissions, offering written guidance for improvement and leveraging teaching opportunities.
• Lead team in Scrum ceremonies.
• Author resources for rapid code development.
• Implement/maintain GDPR support for multiple systems.
• Develop team's dev setup guide.
• Interview new manager candidates.

Nov. 2014 – Sep. 2018
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Workfront (Lehi, Utah)

• Lead development of tenant/user profile unification service for unifying profiles across segmented product line.
• Port flagship product to Java 8.
• Port flagship product to Wildfly application server.
• Overhaul configuration framework in flagship product.
• Invent procedure entry/exit logging framework with graphical visualizer for post-mortem debugging.
• Manage application deployment processes for complex, high-cardinality lane configuration.
• Maintain proxy sign-in service for customer support.
• Troubleshoot and repair complex bugs in flagship product.
• Design and build application gateway.
• Drive synergy between Dev and QA to improve knowledge transfer and testing effectiveness.
• Discover and proactively log numerous bugs outside assigned area concern.
• Promote sane unit testing practices.
• Maintain search indexer service.

Mar. 2007 – Nov. 2014
(full time)

Development Lead/Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Corp. Of The Presiding Bishop (Riverton, Utah)

• Manage employee performance:
  • Conduct monthly 1-on-1s.
  • Administer biannual performance reviews.
  • Promote employee growth through relevant challenges and feedback.
  • Address specific performance concerns through compassionate but direct intervention.
• Interview prospective employees and make hiring decisions.
• Lead teams developing enterprise software solutions for the church's missionary program, using Java and .NET technologies:
  • Architect and lead development of application to generate dynamic, individualized information booklets in multiple languages.
    • System mass-generates thousands of documents per week as part of an essential business process.
    • Complex documents are automatically assembled from 5 different media types on industrial printers.
    • System includes content editor and configurable rules engine to support constantly shifting business requirements.
    • System incorporates versatile, semi-automatic translation learning processes.
  • Manage development team building the application used by church leaders to make and record missionary assignments.
  • Organize and coordinate the emergency efforts of several product teams to address a sudden and dramatic change in missionary funding policies.
  • In general, routinely:
    • Architect effective solutions for complex problems.
    • Establish clarity from ambiguous requirements and build team consensus.
    • Manage teams using agile methodologies.
    • Develop, formalize, document, and promote team standards, processes, etc.
    • Build relationships of trust with the customer.
    • Plan and estimate projects.
    • Provide timely and effective customer support.
• Develop web portal for missionary force, automatically customizing content based on user role and status.
• Develop Facebook/Twitter module for uploading personalized photo badges.
• Develop Android-based personal organizer software for missionaries.
• Maintain statistics reporting system based on InfoPath web forms hosted in a SharePoint environment.