Leif Bennett
About Me
- StatusEmployed
- LocationCedar Rapids, Iowa
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Welcome - Glad that you are here!
This site serves as a quick guide to my work history.
You will find that I have a broad range of technical knowledge and significant experience in both of the telecommunications and financial industries. There always seems to be another project underway.
If you know of any opportunities where you feel that I would be a good fit, please let me know!
Resume
Roles and Responsibilities
Senior SQL Developer - Team Lead
July 2019 - Present Transamerica - ALM HedgingPrimary developer for all ETL enhancements and on-going production support for the Asset Modeling System (ATS) and the Individual Universal Life (IUL) applications.
SMTS - Manager - National Partner Operations
Jan 2016 - July 2019 Verizon - Digital & Strategic SalesManaged a cross-functional team of web developers, Database programmers, Business Analysts and Site Administrators.
Senior Software Systems Engineer
May 2008 - Jan 2016 Verizon - Business MarketsServed as project manager, technical analyst and primary liason between executive leadership, vendors, stakeholders and application development teams.
Software Systems Engineer
July 1998 - May 2008 Verizon - Small BusinessDesigned databases, stored procedures, reports and data table inputs and interfaces using MS SQL Server with C#/VB.net
Key Accomplishments
Senior SQL Developer - Team Lead
July 2019 - Present Transamerica - ALM HedgingCompleted a comprehensive modernization project for the ATS application that included upgrading the SSIS packages (2008R2 BIDS to MSSQL 2016), databases (2012 to 2016) while also upgrading the web, application and database servers from MS Windows Server 2008 to Windows 2016
SMTS - Manager - National Partner Operations
Jan 2016 - July 2019 Verizon - Digital & Strategic SalesReduced expenses by driving the replacement of third party development, hosting and software. The resulting in-house implementation of our own LMS/CMS application "Verizon University" resulted in savings of $1.2M annually and had over 10K users worldwide
Senior Software Systems Engineer
May 2008 - Jan 2016 Verizon - Business MarketsImproved customer contact data analytics by developing a web-based call tracking application which allowed for CS reps to track inbound call routing and process outcomes. It also provided the ability to pinpoint retention opportunities and monitor save attempts and associated close rates reporting results in both aggregate and detailed form. Over 18k calls are tracked daily.
Software Systems Engineer
July 1998 - May 2008 Verizon - Small BusinessReduced expenses by designing and implementing an application framework that would import both faxed and scanned images of hard-copy customer correspondence to allow CS vendors resolve via a web application. This effort not only minimized customer response SLAs from days down to hours, but also saved the company millions of dollars in long term storage costs.
Skills
Teamwork
As a part of many successful teams, I encourage every team member to actively contribute towards a common objective through personal mentoring and structured accountability.
Database
My database development and design experience includes all phases of the DBLC with a primary focus on implementation.
DevOps
Due to organizational structure, my teams have been cross-functional and this enabled us to deliver on our projects ahead of schedule and with minimal post-release cleanup.
Web
I am primarily a full stack Microsoft developer with ETL development experience centered around the processing of large financial datasets to accommodate modeling runs
Work Skills
Microsoft Database Administration
Project Management
Organization
Statistical Data Analysis
SQL Development
Design Thinking
DevOps
Data Modeling
UI Design
Release Management
Software Skills
MSSQL Server 2008R2 / 2012 / 2016
ETL / SSIS
ASP.NET / VB / C#
ASP.NET / MVC
Oracle 9i / 10g
Control-M
MS SSMS
AWS
JQuery
Postgres
MS Project
MS TFS
Bitbucket
SourceTree
MS Azure
Jira
Confluence
ApexSQL
Visual Studio 2013/2015/2017
Visual Studio 2019
WinSCP
WinMerge
VMWare
Powershell
Hadoop
RedGate SQL Compare / SQL Data Compare
Blog
Contact
Feel free to reach out!
I am always open to discussing any new career opportunities or learning about new projects and initiatives.If you think I can contribute to something you are working on then please introduce yourself - I would be glad to lend a hand!