Principle Consultant at Headspring Systems
Austin, Texas Area
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- Principal Consultant at Headspring Systems
- Member at AspInsiders
- Director at Austin .Net Users Group
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- Technical Architect at Ascentium
- Director of eCommerce Technologies at Callaway Golf Interactive
- Global, Consumer Solutions Manager at Callaway Golf
- Principle Consultant at Empire Technologies
- Software Engineer at Perceptron
- Systems Engineer at EDS
- Education
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- Ohio University
- Bay High School
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Eric Hexter’s Summary
Developer, architect, mentor, and manager with ten years plus experience of producing technology solutions that deliver business value.
• Experience delivering high volume consumer facing websites and highly available enterprise systems.
• In-depth knowledge of full technology solutions from application development through hardware/network infrastructure selection.
• In depth knowledge of the Microsoft application/solution stack. Specializing in Internet Information Server, SQL Server and the .Net Framework (C#).
• Experience with database administration, design, and modeling.
• Comfortable leading and mentoring/coaching development teams.
• Experience using Agile methods, including: SCRUM, eXtreme Programming and Test Driven Development.
• Excellent communication skills. Comfortable communicating with organization members at all levels.
• Experience creating integrated source control solutions, automated software builds, and automated deployment process for enterprise systems.
• Active in the local developer / technology community.
• Experience working with the open source tools and solutions.
Eric Hexter’s Specialties:
eCommerce
Consumer facing (high traffic) websites
Development Methodologies
Agile Techniquies
Test Driven Development
Web Operations
Web Architecture
Enterprise Development and Architecture
Eric Hexter’s Experience
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Principal Consultant
Headspring Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 month)
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Member
AspInsiders
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (3 months)
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Director
Austin .Net Users Group
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for communications and special events, including the 2007 Austin Code Camp.
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Technical Architect
Ascentium
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)
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Director of eCommerce Technologies
Callaway Golf Interactive
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELY; Consumer Goods industry)
October 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 6 months)
Led the implementation and acted as primary technical contributor for the flagship consumer e-commerce initiative. Shop.CallawayGolf.com was a breakthrough for the golf industry in that Callaway Golf was the first manufacture to open a direct to consumer commerce initiative. This was done without compromising relationships with our existing retail partners. Was awarded the ELY Award for the delivery of this project. The ELY Award is named after the founder, Ely Callaway, and is given in recognition for Extraordinary Contributions to the Callaway Golf Company.
Delivered seven consumer facing e-commerce websites in the first two years or taking this position. This included extending the back-end fulfillment system to add alternate taxing and payment, and fulfillment methods.
Responsible for the architecting consumer facing production environment. The solution met the goals of delivering appropriate redundancy and maximum availability, while keeping costs to a minimum. -
Global, Consumer Solutions Manager
Callaway Golf
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELY; Consumer Goods industry)
March 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 8 months)
This position reported to the Senior Executive V.P. of Information Technology & Chief e-Business Officer. Was one of four leaders of the IT department consisting of 120+ employees. I had direct responsibility over ten software developers. During this time, we had a major organization transformation initiative which aimed at changing the organizations culture. My day-to-day responsibilities included acting as the technical architect for all non ERP development projects. I also acted as liaison between operations, networking and business applications departments because of my broad technology experience.
Additional responsibilities included participation on one of the Core Process Teams for the corporation’s six sigma initiative.
Deployed the first use of .Net technology in the enterprise on the CallawayGolf.com website. -
Principle Consultant
Empire Technologies
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Delivered consumer facing websites, web applications, and client server applications based on the Microsoft technology stack. Utilizing Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Server Pages(ASP), Sql Server, Visual Basic, and Crystal Reports.
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Software Engineer
Perceptron
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; PRCP; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Initial role was a project manager and system engineer. I managed the installation of the company’s first client/server (Windows NT/SQL Server 7) reporting system which integrated the legacy metrology equipment. I installed systems in 40 automotive assembly plants in North America. In this role I also developed 3 customer solutions which built on top of the reporting platform for one-off solutions, which could not be delivered as part of the shrink wrapped product. The solutions integrated with video displays and plant floor Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
Second role was part of the product development team to deliver the next generation metrology product. I was part of the User Interface and Reporting team. Some of the innovation my team delivered included the development of a rich user interface in a web browser using xml, javascript, dhtml and active server pages. The team used Rational Unified Process (RUP) to design and develop the software. -
Systems Engineer
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 3 months)
Developed plant floor systems for General Motors. Systems included: tracking and routing system for Engine subsystem assemblies, data delivery system for General Assembly, and Quality Analysis system for body shop metrology equipment.
I was recruited to work on a solution for the General Motors Midsize Car group. This built on a project developed at the Cadillac Assembly Plant. This solution was delivered to 9 assembly plants in North America.
Eric Hexter’s Education
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Ohio University
BSME, Mechanical Engineering, 1991 — 1996
Eric specialized in robotic simulation while in the Mechanical Engineering program at Ohio University. The result of this work was published in : Journal of Mechanical Design, transaction of the ASME, Vol. 120, No. 2, 1998 pp. 333-336
Received the Paul and Irene Black Scholarship – full tuition for senior year of college presented by Ohio University Mechanical Engineering Department Staff.- Activities and Societies:
- Vice President - Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
Jazz Ensemble
Jazz Percussion Ensemble
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Bay High School
1988 — 1991
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Eric Hexter’s Interests:
Spending time with my family Skiing Hockey - Go Redwings!
Eric Hexter’s Groups:
I am a director for the Austin .Net Users Group (ADNUG).
I was the chairman for the Austin Code Camp 2007., Agile ATX, hcbc
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E-Commerce Solutions member
Eric Hexter’s Honors:
Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance
Ely Award - Award from Callaway Golf (named after the founder, Ely Callaway) for extraordinary contributions to the company. This was awarded for the work on Shop.CallawayGolf.com
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