Director of Application Development
CPI Corp
Jul 2007 - Mar 2012 (4 years 9 months)
Reports to the CIO. Responsible for department budget.
Manage team of 7 developers.
Led team to plan, design and implement a system named the Employee Application Center (EAC). The EAC encapsulates all employee related functionality including time keeping, the hiring process, open enrollment, and performance reviews. The EAC allowed CPI to decrease field labor expense by approximately 4%. The application runs on each computer in all 2600 portrait studios (approximately 10,000 computers).
Technologies used to develop the EAC include WCF (implemented both as web services and TCP objects), WPF, and LINQ.
Worked directly with senior management in human resources, payroll, finance and operations to