
Developer Lead at National City Bank
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Developer Lead at National City Bank
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
I am leading a small team of web developers charged with our online banking system. In addition to building and maintaining this application, we have been given a secondary mission to explore agile disciplines and demonstrate whether they will truly improve the state of development within our corporate culture.
Object-oriented development, refactoring, unit testing, coding practices, training and mentoring developers, technical evangelism (including broad reach presentations)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCC; Banking industry)
September 2008 — Present (4 months)
I am leading a small team of web developers charged with our online banking system. In addition to building and maintaining this application, we have been given a secondary mission to explore agile disciplines and demonstrate whether they will truly improve the state of development within our corporate culture.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCC; Banking industry)
May 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 5 months)
I focused on searching for answers to the puzzle of how we can reduce friction in our development processes and improve the efficiency and productivity of our developers and architects.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCC; Banking industry)
May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)
I was responsible for overseeing the architecture for our public-facing web properties, such as www.nationalcity.com and our Online Banking application.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — April 2006 (10 months)
I provided Microsoft .NET software development consulting services.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — July 2005 (1 year)
As a Developer Community Champion, I bring free developer-oriented training to the Greater Pennsylvania area through quarterly live events, user groups, and webcasts.
To see more, please visit http://www.greaterpa.net or http://www.msdnevents.com/ken
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CBR; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 3 months)
I was lead developer on several multi-year development projects for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)
September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)
I provided Microsoft expertise on an internal consulting team that focused on document management solutions within Merrill's Private Client group.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 7 months)
I provided software development guidance to larger, corporate Microsoft customers within the Gulf States District (Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama), with an emphasis on eCommerce and distributed LOB solutions.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — May 1996 (2 years)
Custom software development
(Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1992 (5 years)
(Computer Software industry)
1980 — 1987 (7 years)
Church history 1986 — 1987