David Kelly

Building a high quality and efficient software development organization takes excellence in every phases of the software development lifecycle.  Software development excellence champion with 20+ years experience and career long focus on quality, delivery methodology, infrastructure optimization and process execution.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Making Infrastructure lean and agile utilizing Cloud technology and DevOps
• Build and lead highly collaborative teams across the entire software development lifecycle

• Define and deliver an SDLC operating model for Architecture, Design, Development, Testing and Infrastructure that speeds delivery and increases quality while reducing costs

• Increase project delivery performance by applying quality strategies each phase

Grant Thornton LLP – Oakbrook Terrace, IL                                                                                                                    2011 to Present

Grant Thornton is a $1.4B organization - the 5th largest Tax, Audit and Accounting firm in the U.S.  Grant Thornton differentiates itself from their competitors through distinctly better client service.
 

Cloud Practice/DevOps Owner – Architect and delivery lead for moving Grant Thornton data centers to the cloud:

• Certified Scrum Master and Kanban champion in Infrastructure

• Architected the strategy for moving Grant Thornton to the cloud – starting with Pre-Production environments first

  Lead vendor selection process for multiple VMWare vendors, and later to Microsoft Azure

• Built the plan and lead the migration of all pre-production environments (Sandbox, Dev, Test) – 1,000 cores

• Presented adding a DevOps practice to accelerated build of environments and deployment of systems

• In process migrating another 1,000 cores from UAT, Production and DR to Azure

Enterprise Testing Practice Owner

• Member of the IT Governance Committee to oversee all Enterprise Projects

• Built the Grant Thornton Center of Excellence - delivering 20% quality improvements to IT projects

  Creator of the Performance Test, Automation and Mobile testing practices

• Originator of First Pass Rate KPI and the Dev-to-Test IT phase gate

• Leading Test Data Management practice creation