Resume
Thor Runeman
Leader of high-performing engineering teams creating beautiful systems from complex business, data, and enterprise architectures.
Seattle, WA 98118
thor.runeman@gmail.com
+1 774 452 2538
Proven success in delivering innovative solutions that can evolve with the business. Skilled in defining SDLC and DevOps processes to optimize quality, collaboration, and efficiency. Adept at architecting cloud and on-prem web, mobile, Salesforce, and integration systems. Extensive experience building and managing numerous scrum teams of on and offshore managers, scrum masters, developers, QA, and DevOps engineers across all enterprise applications.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
VP of Engineering
Forrester Research, Inc.
November 2007 to Present
Drive leadership team engagement on the 4 main pillars of the technology organization: Strategy, People Leadership, System Architecture, and Process
Management. Within the engineering groups, I have established a framework that celebrates the creativity and genius of the team and gives them the tools to realize it in an environment that demands quality, efficiency, and repeatability.
Key Contributions:
Scaled up engineering department from 10 to 50+ developers across scrum 10 teams.
Led career planning and goal process for Engineering managers and their direct reports - including local and offshore teams.
Designed client website and integration systems for full redundancy at HTTP, app, and data layers, including business continuity/disaster recovery server architecture.
Architected and directed migration from monolithic java app to microservice architectures.
Developed dev, QA, and support processes for Salesforce, ETL, and client portal teams.
Awarded “Above and Beyond Client Service” recognition and 2x outstanding annual performance evaluation.
Orchestrated Agile SAFe adoption.
Technology Portfolio:
AWS and Azure cloud-based services (Personalize, serverless functions, managed applications).
CDN and Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Content Management Systems (headless and traditional).
Homegrown machine learning implementation for content recommendations and search applications.
Microservices: Spring boot, Docker, OpenShift, Node.js, NGINX gateway.
Identity and access management, SSO.
Java, Apex, Vue.js, NUXT, JavaScript.
Kafka, Oracle, Mule ESB, Redis Cache, Node js
Manager/Architect
Accenture
January 2001 to November 2007
Client: Boston Scientific
Hired, mentored, and managed on and offshore development teams. I established and managed the client’s permanent offshore team for increased capacity with greater cost savings. Architected numerous features and large-scale site relaunches from code and application layers to server deployment. Served as project manager to estimate cost and duration of project work. Supported site operations in collaboration with DevOps and other technical teams.
Full Stack Developer
Razorfish
January 1998 to December 2001
Clients: Various
Full stack developer working on multiple client websites. Technologies include
HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, ASP, ColdFusion.
Head Women’s Rowing Coach
American University - Washington, DC
1998 to 1999
Editorial Coordinator
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
October 1996 to June 1998
Coordinate editorial review of ~30 scientific papers submitted for publication.
Support conversion of publishing process to digital-first.
Collaborate with scientists across the country to maintain review and publication schedule.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
September 1991 to May 1996
Skills
Agile Migration & Management
Technical Architecture
Team Building & Leadership Development
Process Design & Optimization
Incident Management
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Goal Setting
Product Management
Budgeting & Forecasting
Java
APIs
Git
AWS
Scrum
REST
CI/CD
Jira
SDLC
XML
Microservices
Graph databases
Jenkins
JMS
Docker
Kafka
JavaScript
ETL
DevOps
Multithreading
IT management
E-commerce
Content management systems
Search engines
SEO
Database design
High availability
Disaster recovery
Languages
Spanish
Intermediate
Links
http://linkedin.com/in/thor-runeman