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People-focused and passionate leader recognized for consistent excellence in employee mentorship, team development, and software architecture.

Sean Cooper
Resume

Manager, Cloud Architecture - OneStream Software

Oct 2024 to Jul 2025

In my current role as Manager of Cloud Architecture, I have significantly exceeded expectations by delivering strategic outcomes, enhancing operational efficiency, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability. My leadership spans across product ownership, scrum mastery, and development management, driving substantial improvements in team performance and project delivery.

Managerial

  • Strategic Product Ownership: Stepped into the Product Owner role to establish a robust backlog, leading to a 104% average sprint completion rate and a 140% increase in team velocity.

  • Scrum Mastery and Process Optimization: Overhauled sprint structures to maximize development time, resulting in more streamlined processes and a sprint completion rate that more than doubled.

  • Development Team Leadership: Managed a diverse team, significantly enhancing onboarding processes and individual performance, which directly contributed to the team's success in critical projects.

  • Significant Business Impact:Delivered 28 epics in H1 2025, improving from 18 in H1 2024, demonstrating a robust capacity for scaling output under tight deadlines.
    Achieved all R1 commitments and met R2 deadlines, enhancing predictability and reliability in project delivery.
    Implemented improvements in code standards and branching strategies, leading to cleaner, more efficient code deployments.

Development

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.NET, Agile, Azure, C#, Git

Software Development Manager/Interim Product Owner - PlanetDDS

Jul 2022 to Jan 2024

Onboarded to guide and improve an underperforming development team and oversee a new offshore team with a focus on making data-driven decisions.

Managerial

  • Improved team delivery velocities by 25% and 33%.

  • Improved team sprint completion rates by 37% and 69%.

  • Guided teams to the first on-time delivery of roadmap projects in over 3 years.

  • Served as interim Product Owner for three months

  • Improved team satisfaction scores from 5 to 9.5

  • Supervised over 60 code deployments during 2023.

  • Established tech roadmap for reduction of technical debt

  • Implemented a system to track key metrics for team performance evaluation.

  • Developed code standards and developer onboarding processes, and implemented key guiding principles.

  • Trained teams in SQL query optimization techniques using Postgres including working against tables with over 100M rows.

  • Refined teams' understanding of Scrum processes and principles.

Development

  • Improved key queries with > 1000% performance improvements against a 3.5TB database.

  • Delivered department-wide training on SQL development techniques and best practices.

  • Built a system to standardize, amalgamate, and report on development data for 12 scrum teams with information sourced from Jira, GitHub, and Azure DevOps in the company using C#.Net, Azure SQL Database, and Azure functions.

  • Built a tool to analyze dependencies across 32 GitHub repositories and create PBIs for updating them using C#.Net

  • Delivered product enhancements and resolved lingering technical debt issues using React and JavaScript/TypeScript

Other

  • Implemented new PBI workflow to streamline PBI management and provide increased visibility to stakeholders.

  • Presented training to all company Product Owners on creating effective User Stores and improving PBI refinement processes.

.NET, Agile, Azure, Azure DevOps, C#, GCP, JavaScript, Jira, Kubernetes, MS SQL Server, Mongo, Node.JS, Postgres, React, SaaS, Scrum, TypeScript

Lead Software Engineer - Cloud - Silverwork Solutions

Oct 2021 to Jul 2022

Joined the company to develop a migration strategy away from on-premise software installation to managed cloud services in Azure.

Managerial

  • Built and managed two development teams.

  • Assumed management of a support team with 6 junior developers

  • Built a team dedicated to deploying client infrastructure in Azure

  • Developed migration path for clients to move from on-premise to Azure

  • Established new standards for client infrastructure configuration

  • Drove security audit of all cloud resources

  • Managed remediation actions based on the results of SOC2 audit

  • Drove adoption of Azure DevOps for Product Management

  • Refined Agile processes including use of Scrum and Kanban

Development

  • Implemented IaC software for deploying client infrastructure in Azure and built a team dedicated to deploying client infrastructure in Azure

  • Developed deployment processes for cloud infrastructure

  • Wrote initial version and managed the development of C# libraries to simplify usage of the selected IAC provider

.NET, Agile, Azure, C#, IaC, Kanban, Pulumi, SaaS, Scrum

Director of Development - iPortalis

Nov 2020 to Oct 2021

Joined the company as a senior developer and delivered massive platform enhancements while changing company culture and processes.

Managerial

  • Responsible for setting the architectural direction of the product and continued to serve as lead developer

  • Managed team of 6 developers across Europe

  • Partnered with Product Management to develop and execute roadmap features

  • Championed and delivered a third iteration of the software

.NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, C#, MS SQL Server, MVC

Software Development Manager - iPortalis

Mar 2020 to Nov 2020

Joined the company as a senior developer and delivered massive platform enhancements while changing company culture and processes.

Managerial

  • Assumed management of a team of Europe-based developers and QA engineers

  • Planned and oversaw updates of the application to allow for deployment into Azure

  • Managed code base with over 2.8M lines of code

Development

  • Assumed management of a team of Europe-based developers and QA engineers

  • Planned and oversaw updates of the application to allow for deployment into Azure

.NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, C#, MS SQL Server, MVC

Director of UI Development - iPortalis

Jun 2016 to Mar 2020

Joined the company as a senior developer and delivered massive platform enhancements while changing company culture and processes.

Managerial

  • Initiated and led the transition into Agile development (Scrum) from Waterfall

  • Implemented development code standards and practices

Development

  • Architect for new UI and API (v7) using C#, .Net MVC, JQuery

  • Drove hiring of Test Automation Engineer and Scrum Master

.NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, C#, MS SQL Server, MVC

Senior Developer - iPortalis

Jun 2015 to Jun 2016

Joined the company as a senior developer and delivered massive platform enhancements while changing company culture and processes.

Development

  • Delivered significant UX improvements in legacy software

  • Delivered significant UI and database performance improvements

  • Delivered proof-of-concept and wireframes for new UI experience

.NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, C#, MS SQL Server, MVC

Senior Developer - Instec

Jul 2013 to Jul 2015

Joined Instec to work on automating deployment of resources as part of their migration to Azure.

Development

  • Automated creation of Cloud Services and storage accounts, and establishment of Config Transforms in Azure.

  • Developed Powershell utility for async uploading files > 500GB to blob storage maximizing speed while minimizing space utilized.

  • Championed greater system architecture documentation

  • Advised executive leadership on TFS implementation strategy.

Azure, C#, PowerShell

Business Systems Analyst, eCommerce - Chamberlain Group

Apr 2012 to Jul 2013

Onboarded to work with a team tasked with enhancing and streamlining Chamberlain’s eCommerce offerings

Development

  • Led business system transformations of the company’s Web/Cloud presence and eCommerce strategic objectives incl. performance improvements

  • Initiated and led procurement process (RFQ/RFP) for new Web CMS to facilitate redevelopment of brand websites

  • Sole support for 17 external sites and Intranet; largest site tied to $40M+ annual sales revenue; $100M total

  • Managed redesign from the technical/CMS side.

  • Delivered guidance to business units on SEO and microsite strategy

.NET, C#, JavaScript, MS SQL Server

Senior Developer - Intertek Testing Services

Jun 2011 to Mar 2012

Joined Intertek to manage a team of 12 developers and advance company’s architecture and practices to improve overall application performance.

Development

  • Reduced dashboard load time by 94% (four minutes to less than 15 seconds)

  • Implemented custom .Net controls, jQuery, and an XML-based framework

  • Analyzed codebase to identify and remediate inefficiencies.

.NET, Agile, C#, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, Scrum

Co-Founder & Lead Developer - Ideosity

Feb 2009 to Jun 2011

Co-founded the company with two coworkers to deliver product management sanity to manufacturing companies.

Managerial

  • Co-developed a Web/SEO evaluation tool suite for analyzing 60+ factors across multiple pages.

  • Developed XML and Web-based CMS systems.

  • Developed a cross-platform, in-text advertising system allowing clients to monetize content on their sites—precluding the need to share revenue with ad companies.

Development

  • Co-developed a Web/SEO evaluation tool suite for analyzing 60+ factors across multiple pages.

  • Developed XML and Web-based CMS systems.

  • Developed a cross-platform, in-text advertising system allowing clients to monetize content on their sites—precluding the need to share revenue with ad companies.

.NET, Azure DevOps, C#, Git, JavaScript, MS SQL Server

Team Lead, Application Development - WMH Tool Group

Jan 2006 to Feb 2009

Joined as the sole developer to move the company from MS Office-based applications to .Net.

Managerial

  • Drove company to embrace SDLC, SaaS/Cloud deployment, and a company-wide service-oriented architecture using early microservices.

  • Played a key role in growing annual sales revenue from $200M to $500M during tenure.

  • Built and mentored a 6-person development team.

  • Ensured team was cost-neutral every year due to implementation of cost savings and sales lift initiatives

  • Conceived, managed, and architected a project to redevelop brand websites in 5 months

Development

  • Led migration from Access-based to latest .Net development utilizing Web Services and compatible technologies.

  • Integrated internal applications with Active Directory.

  • Created architectures that delivered page load times of ~1 second.

  • Delivered websites with 50% smaller page sizes versus competitors

  • Delivered websites capable of handling 25,000 unique visitors with a single web server.

  • Doubled weekly traffic due to SEO enhancement & products had top 3 Google placements on average.

.NET, C#, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, SDLC

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