Darren Van Soye

Current

Director of Software Development at ISD Corporation

Past

IT Manager at Experian
Programmer at McDonnell Douglas

Education

University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business
University of California, Irvine

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Darren Van Soye’s Summary

OBJECTIVE: Director of Software Development

Darren Van Soye serves as ISD Corporation’s Director of Software Development. His responsibilities include leading a team of software developers through the process of architecting, developing and testing leading-edge software systems. Mr. Van Soye has accumulated six years of direct-line technology management, eight years of IT project management and 10 plus years of hands-on software development experience, including recent ASP.NET/C# 2008 experience. He has worked in both the aerospace and financial services industries. Mr. Van Soye earned a B.S. in Computer Science and MBA from University of California, Irvine. He also holds PMP, ITIL and Scrum Master certifications.

Darren Van Soye’s Specialties:

Hands-on software development including ASP.NET/C# 2008, business development, website usability, process redesign, technology adoption, project management (PMP), service management (ITIL) and Scrum.

Darren Van Soye’s Experience

Director of Software Development

ISD Corporation

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

• While reporting directly to the CEO, stabilized a team of nine by reorganizing teams, redefining roles, reprioritizing work, developing annual performance plans, instituting a hiring policy and establishing meeting cadence.
• Rebranded an ASP.NET 3.5/C# 2008 web application built for the Superior Court of California. Created new master pages, skins and stylesheets. Updated ASP and C# code, retested and rolled out.
• Successfully managed a Department of Child Support Services contract with Superior Court of Calfornia. Practiced scope management through detailed requirements and a newly-defined change management process. These actions lowered risk and resulted in incremental revenue to ISD.
• Grew EBITDA of ePay-it site by 100% in 12 months through platform stabilization, financial justification, competitive analysis, feature augmentation, project management and talent acquisition.
• Implemented Agile (Scrum) development methodology for all court-based projects.
• Built Innovation Funnel process to capture new employee-submitted product ideas. Effort included website, defined process and templates.
IT Manager

Experian

(Public Company; Information Services industry)

1989 — 2006 (17 years)
Programmer

McDonnell Douglas

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

June 1986 — October 1989 (3 years 5 months)

Darren Van Soye’s Education

University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business

1984 — 1986
University of California, Irvine

B.S. , Computer Science , 1980 — 1984

Additional Information

Darren Van Soye’s Interests:

International travel, mountain climbing, mountain biking and running.

Darren Van Soye’s Groups:

Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), IT Service Management Institute, Member and SCQAA (Southern California Quality Assurance Association of Orange County).