Jason Nardone

Certifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner
  Scrum Alliance

  AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  Amazon Web Services

  Certified Usability Analyst
  Human Factors International

  Situational Leadership II
  The Ken Blanchard Companies

Experience

• Duke Energy

  Feb 2015 - Now

  Product Mananger

  Served as Product Manager for the CI-CD Engineering, AWS Core Team, and CI-CD Application Security teams at Duke Energy. Responsible for modernizing the software release platform, migrating our products to AWS, formalizing the product upgrade cadence, and building an effective communication strategy for engaging with our users. Collaborated with multiple teams outside of our organization to build consensus and help drive IT goals across the enterprise. Leveraged Design Thinking strategies to build a customer interfacing engagement model that has positively transformed the way we partner with our users. Supported employee growth by prioritizing and balancing feature delivery with continuous learning efforts. Actively participated in several Communities of Practice outside of our team to build relationships and spread understanding of DevOps. Automated several operational customer facing functions by building a self-service portal saving thousands of hours of manual effort and eliminating hundreds of tickets.

• Ally Financial

  Oct 2013 - Jan 2015

  Software Development Manager

  Managed high performing technical team of seven developers responsible for Ally Bank’s storefront public facing website. Documented best practices and increased cross-functional collaboration by building from the ground up an internal user experience website containing a wiki, blog, and global style guide. Saved the department over $350k by restructuring team and aligning people to projects rather than lines of business for greater efficiency. Served as technical subject matter expert regarding online marketing, retargeting, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, as well as customer engagement through analytical insights. Worked directly with other discipline leads including visual design, information architecture, and content strategy to bring static documentation to life.

• Lowe's Companies, Inc.

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2013

  Front-End Development Manager

  Responsible for front-end development on retail ecommerce website with sales exceeding $1.2B and yearly comps of over 40%. Managed a team of as many as eight developers with responsibility of hiring, training, and conducting performance reviews. Improved page load times by 30%, which directly boosted conversion and revenue using code compression, best coding practices, and client request reduction. Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins to decrease deployment time and vastly reduce defects across 27 environments. Executed and publicly published a living style guide to consolidate user interface across Lowes.com, which consolidated and strengthened the company brand saving the team four months of work. Worked with Adobe CQ integration partner to provide direction during migration onto new enterprise content management platform, as well as transitioned code from existing services into Adobe Web Experience Management.

• Pace Communications

  Sept 2009 – Oct 2010

  Lead Front End Developer

  Managed front-end architecture for ecommerce websites. Worked directly with business stakeholders to architect technical front-end solutions. Utilized JavaScript libraries to improve shopping experience. Worked closely with QA and Creative teams to refine websites based on best practices and usability studies. Implemented site retargeting, tracking, and analytics tools such as Coremetrics on the client side.

• Reynolds American

  Mar 2000 – Sept 2009

  Senior Web Developer

  Project Lead for Camel brand website. Administered relationship with external creative agencies and brand managers. Programmed in C#, JSP, JavaScript, and XHTML. Utilized version control using Serena Changeman and Team Foundation Server. Converted brand websites to Visual Studio environment. Directly involved in testing across multiple platforms and web browsers.

• Ford Motor Company

  Jul 1999 – Mar 2000

  Web Developer

  Worked with team of developers to design web based application for Ford Motor Company. Responsible for building application by developing code in both Perl 5 and JSP. Practiced rapid development by using time boxing techniques. Learned key programming concepts by manually coding CGI scripts, ASP, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets. Used Visual SourceSafe for version and access control.

• General Motors

  Jul 1998 – Jul 1999

  Web Developer

  Responsible for Intranet content for General Motors Designers. Managed and maintained Apache web server access and log files. Hand coded JavaScript, HTML, and DHTML in text editor. Created CGI forms using Perl on a Sun Solaris platform. Produced new and unique graphics using Photoshop as needed.

Education

• Central Michigan University

  1994 - 1998

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

  Management Information Systems

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