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Dan Strohschein

Executive level Leader & Expert Developer

Building & growing teams is my passion, technology is my language

About Me

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Developing software since 1998. Building teams since 2015.

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Dan Strohschein

Director & Architectural Engineer

Hi! I'm an executive level leader and expert technologist based in Florida. For the past 7 years I've focused on building talented teams of software engineers and leading them to success.

I have 25 years of experience as an enterprise level architect and software engineer developing apps in various platforms and industries.

I currently work for Zywave, where I lead the Personal Lines, CPQ product suite development team to our next generation of products.

Whether it's building a new SaaS app or building a new team of talented engineers, I love what I do!

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7

Years in Leadership

25

Years as Engineer

3

Direct report Managers

20

Engineers on my Team

My Areas of Expertise

Where my strengths lie

Leadership

Service based leadership, with a focus on ownership and team empowerment

Engineering

Twenty Five years of experience as an enterprise level software architect in a wide set of technologies.

Agile Team Building

Embraced agile practices and became an evangelist for many agile methodologies, but focused on SCRUM.

Process Improvement

Focused on continuous improvement and growth for myself, my team, my product and the company.

What do I love about technology leadership?

I love being able to make an impact on an individual's career by mentoring them and providing opportunities for them to succeed. There is no better feeling than of helping someone grow.

Skills & Expertise

Some of my strongest skills

90%
.NET/C#
90%
HTML5 + CSS3
80%
Javascript
50%
Angular / Typescript
70%
AWS / Cloud
90%
SQL / Databases
70%
DevOps / Containers
80%
Enterprise Architecture / SaaS
90%
Agile Methodologies
80%
Leadership
100%
Communication

Work Experience

Where I learned my trade.

  1. 2021 to Present

    Zywave

    Director of Engineering

    • Lead team of 20 remote software engineers and 3 Managers on Zywave’s Personal Lines CPQ product suite.
    • Lead Agile methodology adoption for the team.
    • Created team mission, KPI’s and OKRs to guide and measure product success.
    • Initiated new successful hiring/interview process and set standards for team roles.
    • Designed fully automated DevOps processes for cloud based infrastructure (AWS).
    • Lead strategic direction for product growth and evolution to meet market demands
    • Lead feedback cycles with executive leadership and engineering
    • Created new practices for balancing product support while advancing new features
    • Mentored/coached managers and engineers on career and skill paths
    • Created place growth plans for whole team
    • Started recurring team building events to foster strong remote relationships
    • Lead technical and architectural standards in .NET/C#
    • Lead frontend and UX standards design in Angular and Web Components
    • Drove product direction and enterprise design discussions
    • Lead adoption, implementation, and design of AWS Cloud native development practices

  2. 2017 to 2021

    Presidio

    Software Eng. Manager

    • Managed team of 5 Senior software engineers for our Public cloud development service.
    • Updated existing KPI and OKR processes to track mission success.
    • Drove architectural designs in .NET/C#
    • Drove frontend and UX designs in Angular and Vue
    • Lead database designs in SQL, Mongo, and BoltDB
    • Created new process for estimating on-prem to cloud app migrations.
    • Implemented skills tooling and processes for engineer skill growth
    • Oversaw projects in managerial, architectural, and product owner roles
    • Mentored developers to build paths for career and skill growth
    • Established new estimation processes, time reporting processes, and introduced agile methodologies (SCRUM)
    • Lead design of modern Devops practices framework for clients to automate builds and releases
    • Developed modernization Framework to help migrate on-prem apps to AWS
    • Developed architectural guidelines for building cloud native/cloud first apps

  3. 2011 to 2017

    NASA - Kennedy Space Center

    Principal Engineer / Team Lead

    • Lead design, implementation, and validation of 20 enterprise level apps in a SCRUM environment.
    • Developed enterprise level microservices in C# and NodeJS
    • Developed database designs in MS Sql, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, and RavenDB
    • Designed and developed Android Java apps for specialized AR hardware
    • Mentored developers to help them gain new skills and promotions
    • Contributed significantly to the evangelism of Agile Methodologies
    • Lead architectural standards and design committees for evaluating new technologies
    • Designed and developed VS extensions for code generation based on DB designs
    • Lead design and adoption of modern CICD Devops practices to automate builds and releases
    • Lead adoption of frontend SPA frameworks such as Angular & Vue

  4. 2009 to 2014

    By The Fans, LLC

    IT Manager

    • Managed the IT Strategy, direction, and vision for a small 3 person SCRUM team
    • Mentored developers for career growth
    • Established gamified skill growth system for team.
    • Lead architectural design of a proprietary C# CMS application
    • Lead SOAP microservice design to allow others to consume data
    • Lead design of database in SQL & MongoDB
    • Lead frontend design standards to implement intuitive SPA UX practices in AngularJS

  5. 2008 to 2010

    Adventist Health Systems

    Program Manager / Team Lead

    • Developed and lead 27 public facing websites on the DNN platform.
    • Lead strategy council to set technology goals and marketing efforts.
    • Lead initiative to implement an Enterprise-wide search solution
    • Introduced Agile Methodologies to the development team
    • Lead development of multiple sites in C# with javascript front ends
    • Drove adoption of javascript/jQuery for frontend development

  6. 2005 to 2008

    Mitsubishi Power Systems

    Senior Software Developer

    • Designed and implemented a CAD Drawing program for part inspection in C# as a windows app
    • Developed a data collection app to retrieve 100x more sensors from turbines in C++
    • Developed custom CMS for company newsletter delivery

  7. 1998 to 2005

    Various

    Software Developer

    • Designed, built, and deployed windows applications across multiple industries in C#, VB, C++
    • Designed, built, and deployed web sites and web applications in classic ASPv3
    • Responsible for database design, business layer design, and UI design
    • Migrated customers from fat client applications to web based applications.

Education

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Associates of Arts, Computer Information Technology

Eastern Florida State College

General education degree with a focus on CIT.

Certified Scrum Developer

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

What do I love about technology?

Tech always changes, evolves, and grows. It's a field that one could never truly master, so there is always a new challenge. It never gets boring.

Get in touch

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or interest in talking to me

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