Ken Smith - Director of Technology (Engineering and Architecture)

Ken Smith

Director of Technology
(Engineering and Architecture)

Lake Oswego, OR

ken.l.smith@live.com

503.975.5742

Skills

Recent Leadership

Leadership • Management • Engineering • Architecture • Agile • SAFe • DevOps • Communication • Collaboration • Innovation • Mentoring • Influence • Growth Mindset • Continuous Improvement • Analytics • RFP • Customer / Consumer Experience • Influence • Automation • Quality Assurance • Infrastructure as Code • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Growth Mindset • Continuous Improvement • Cloud Native Architecture (CNA) • Distributed Systems • RFP • Customer / Consumer Experience • Quality Assurance • Influence • Automation

Recent Technologies

AWS • CloudFormation • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Cloud Native Architecture (CNA) • Distributed Systems • RFID • Java • JavaScript / Node / Typescript • Python • Automation • SAP • Scala • Spring • Akka • EC2 • Lambda • Kinesis • DynamoDB • Aurora • Postgres • MySQL • SQS • SNS • CloudFormation • Elasticsearch • CloudWatch • API Gateway • Jenkins • Splunk • SignalFx

Past Technologies

iBatis • Angular • React • Handlebars • jQuery • JBoss • Oracle Database • Struts • Hibernate • WebSphere • Jax-RS • C# • ASP.NET • Microsoft SQL Server • Progress 4GL

Professional Summary

Accomplished leader with professional engineering and architecture experience. Expertise in managing engineering and architecture teams globally. Focused on testing, monitoring and observability in scaled production systems. Foster professional development and growth in teams. Align team goals with the vision of the organization. History of developing agile and autonomous environments that promote skill growth and team ownership of business-critical solutions and implementations.

Professional Summary

Work Experience

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Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2003