Developing the People Who Develop Your Software
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
test
Other
test
.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