Graham Vriend
Graham Vriend
IT Manager leading remotely in Lynden, WA

About Me


Technical leader with 10 years experience in the company looking to make an impact in both a positive work environment and increased productivity. Seeking to leverage core skills of accountability, vulnerability, and transparency to drive developer success.

Highlights

  • Leader in an agile department. Primary focus on technical strategy, and long term technical growth for myself and the department. Serve as a resource in managing, planning, and implementing technical projects.
  • Experience working with offshore teams including leading the process and project management.
  • Led a developer bootcamp for the department. This bootcamp was a 3 day course to focus on the fundamentals and to get junior developers up to speed.
  • Created learning plans with colleagues to focus on improvement. Focused on weaknesses and development plans to overcome them.
  • Manage bi-weekly development releases. Responsible for planning, communicating, and delivering.
  • Extensive knowledge of software solutions for the K-12 education industry.
  • Wrote many REST API integrations including but not limited to: Wisconsin State Reporting, Google Calendar, Amazon S3, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Zendesk, Facebook, Twitter, Highrise, Zencoder, Canvas, Schoology, Salesforce, Magnus, and OneRoster.
  • Created a CSS/JS/HTML custom element framework used internally based on Google's material design.

Interests


My personal interests include:

  • Adventure. When I'm not behind my computer I love to get outside and explore new areas. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and have found a new home here even though I am originally from Canada.
  • Finance. I am a finance nut, always crunching numbers, researching, and staying informed on the markets.
  • Craft beer. I love a good IPA, the hoppier the better. Fortunately for me, I live in a great area to explore new beers.

Leadership Passions

Passionate about improving my leadership in the following areas:

  • Vulnerability - being more authentic with my peers and showing vulnerability
  • Emotional Intelligence - not letting small things bring me down and remaining calm with others.
  • Empathy - taking the time to relate to perspectives that are different than mine.
  • README - please read my README for my leadership style and expectations.

Programming Languages

What I currently do for a living:

  • Processes: Agile methodology, manage deployments, manage development processes, REST API design
  • Languages: Angular, C#, Coldfusion, MSSQL, HTML, JS, Jquery, CSS, Bootstrap, Cypress, Material Design
  • DevTools: Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, VSCode, Git, Azure Cloud, Docker, SSMS, Trello, CF API Manager, FileZilla, Office, Teams, NPM, and LucidChart.

What I have experience in but haven't used in while:

  • Languages: Sass, MySQL, PHP, Symfony Framework, Perl, XML, Java, Python
  • DevTools: AWS, NetBeans, Sublime Text, Atom, HeidiSQL, Subversion, CPanel, Wordpress

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