Bruce Onder

Past

Director, Application Development at ThinkCash
Manager, Offshore Development at ThinkCash Loan Services (formerly PayDay One)
Senior Vice President, Information Technology at LoanWeb.com

Principal Consultant at Neudesic, LLC
Technical Team Lead at Guidance Solutions
Senior Development Lead at Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
President at Digital Arcana, Inc.
Programmer/Analyst at Panalog Software Productions
Consultant at none (Sole Proprietorship)
Programmer/Analyst at Kennedy-Wilson, Inc.
Programmer/Analyst at Information Sciences Institute

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Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Bruce Onder’s Summary

My professional experience in the IT world includes a lot of work in a wide range of industries, so I know how IT and business gets done in each of them -- finance, lead generation, consulting, health care, automotive, foodservice, manufacturing, publishing, direct response marketing, real estate, finance, entertainment, and others.

For over 10 years, I have been learning, mastering, teaching, managing, and executing on Agile software development. This includes Scrum project management, Extreme Programming, and more recently Lean software development and Behavior-Driven Development (human-readable and machine-executable specifications).

I also have lots of experience in building offshore development teams, and integrating them with onshore development.

My goal is always to see "how high is high" with respect to business process optimization, business intelligence, and business results.

Bruce Onder’s Specialties:

Enterprise Architecture, Agile Development, Agile Project Management, eCommerce Operations, Business Management.

Bruce Onder’s Experience

Director, Application Development

ThinkCash

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Reporting to the CIO, oversee day-to-day activities of the application development group in Information Technology. Serve on the IT Management team along with the directors of network operations, data services, and information security. Serve on Business Management team with the rest of upper management and executive team.

* Envisioned, specified, and directed the development strategy and tactical implementation plan for Elastic.com, a brand new line of credit product, enabling company to reduce time to market by over 50%.
* Implemented Scrum and Agile methodologies with a highly waterfall-driven application development team.
* Introduced, mentored, and rewarded adoption of Test-Driven Development (TDD) for new development and web automation testing for legacy code, resulting in 70% reduction of “hot fix” releases following scheduled releases.
* Replaced existing, expensive tooling (project management, source code repository, testing automation, continuous integration build server) with Agile-friendly, open-source and inexpensive alternatives, saving over $150,000 yearly on licensing and support costs.
* Established architectural vision for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), bringing in trusted vendor products to replace in-house solutions, re-focusing 100% of all development effort back on core business value.
* Expanded offshore development capacity over 300% across three development offices and integrated into seven development teams, providing 150% more development capacity compared to hiring only locally.
Manager, Offshore Development

ThinkCash Loan Services (formerly PayDay One)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — March 2008 (4 months)

Oversaw all aspects of the offshore development program, reporting to the Director of Application Development.

* Identified and eliminated three critical weaknesses in current offshore development management approach, producing the company’s first successful offshore development team, delivering 100% on-time and on-budget on four pilot projects.
* Expanded the program from 2 people to 7 people within first 90 days based on pilot project success.
* Integrated offshore development team with onshore team through education on communications, scheduling, project management, and source code management strategies for success, achieving 90% “follow the sun” development flow across the teams.
* Rolled out a continuous integration server, resulting in 90% reduction of deployment failures into the production environment.
Senior Vice President, Information Technology

LoanWeb.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 7 months)

Oversee daily operation and strategic growth of Information Technology department, including software development, database architecture and administration, user experience, production systems, and support desk disciplines.

Work closely with other department heads to set strategy and execute on strategy to meet monthly, quarterly, and yearly business goals.
Principal Consultant

Neudesic, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Provided project management, software design, and systems architecture skills for clients such as Harmon-Kardon, Kelley Blue Book, Los Angeles County, Health Care Partners, Pacific Life, ABC Television, and Mattel.
Technical Team Lead

Guidance Solutions

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 10 months)

Provided technical team leadership on projects

Also one of founding members of company's Microsoft practice, contributing toward Microsoft partner certification efforts, building team capabilities in MS server products, generating proposals and proofs of concepts for prospective clients.
Senior Development Lead

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Real Estate industry)

February 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 2 months)

Led development of company's mission-critical loan processing software, which is still in use today. Worked with internal and external clients to design, develop, and deploy functionality to over 1,000 branch locations every three months.
President

Digital Arcana, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

December 1994 — February 1998 (3 years 3 months)

Operated a computer game design studio serving clients such as Activision Studios, MGM Interactive, Disney Interactive, and SouthPeak Interactive to provide staged delivery of game design documents and production scripts.
Programmer/Analyst

Panalog Software Productions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1994 — December 1994 (10 months)

Developed software for entertainment industry clients such as MGM Studios, Morgan Creek, and others.
Consultant
none (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1993 — March 1994 (1 year 1 month)

Provided software development expertise to clients such as Food4Less, Yamaha Motor Corporation USA, FlashTax, and Disney Consumer Products.
Programmer/Analyst

Kennedy-Wilson, Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Real Estate industry)

March 1992 — March 1993 (1 year 1 month)

Led design, development, and deployment of mission-critical project management software which successfully brought 90% of at-risk projects on-budget and on-schedule.
Programmer/Analyst

Information Sciences Institute

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1990 — March 1992 (1 year 11 months)

Worked as a software analyst and programmer to produce proofs of concepts as well as final software for clients such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.