Glenn LaBarre
Over a decade of modern experience
- Web
- Teams
- Solutions
Experience
Software Engineering Manager | Bright Health
June 2021 – Today
- Making Healthcare Right. Together.
Web Development Manager | Caleres, Inc.
August 2017 – March 2019
- Led a ten person team of both on-site and 100% remote workers
- Managed and delivered hundreds of projects supporting twelve differently branded e-commerce sites on time and on budget
- Pioneered team-driven processes to foster team cohesion and inclusion and grew individual skills through literature, courses, hackathons, fun mini-challenges, and lunch-and-learns
- Ensured talent growth and retention through objective tracking, performance improvement plans, regular reviews, promotions, awards, and consistent one on one meetings with each team member
- Ensured an effective resource capacity through long range and monthly estimating, planning, hiring, laying off, firing, and active resource management with neighboring departments to analyze current capacity against emerging projects
- Established a cross-functional triage process with UX, QA, product owners, and stakeholders to improve estimation accuracy
- Identified, evangelized, and led initiatives to increase page speed, site security, accessibility, and to incorporate emerging web technologies
Lead Web / Email Developer | Caleres, Inc.
August 2013 – August 2017
- Led the adoption of Agile methodology at Caleres by pioneering the use of Sprints, setting up and training others on tools such as Trello / Jira, and by championing a product mindset in IT
- Established and led an ongoing initiative to identify internal inefficiencies whereby we increased our velocity over 200% and simultaneously decreased bugs in our production environments
- Collaboratively established code standards, a peer review process, standard git workflows, and the adoption of modern design tools
- Mentored junior developers through daily, one on one training
- Built several fullstack Javascript applications to automate development and empower marketing teams to self-generate content
- Migrated platforms between four different Email Service Providers including Salesforce, Experian's CCMP, CheetahMail, and Yesmail
Web Developer | Caleres, Inc.
June 2011 – August 2013
- Completed thousands of collaborative web and email projects on time across twelve unique brands with impeccable quality
A PDF of my resume is available here.