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Micah MacDonald - Senior Consultant

Experience Summary

Micah MacDonald is a senior consultant with 6 years of IT experience and 4 years of Appian experience. Micah is a Dev Lead working with an Appian development team to build customer solutions. Micah maintains the Appian Lead Developer certification and AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.

Work Experience

Groundswell 08/2021 to Present
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - One Agile Supervision System 11/2021 to Present

Senior Consultant

  • Supporting the project from day 1 of discovery to a successful go-live in Production with ongoing enhancements and maintenance.
  • Working as a Dev Lead leading a team of 3-4 developers.
  • Leading scrum ceremonies including stand-ups, estimation sessions, and product demos.
  • Assisting in design reviews of new features to ensure adherence to best practices in areas of performance, security, and user experience.
Groundswell Solutions 08/2021 to 11/2021

Associate Consultant

  • Developed Appian applications starting on version 21.2.
  • Designed, tested, and hardened processes that required strict security measures.
  • Analyzed and clarified customer requirements, drafted acceptance criteria, and wrote documentation.
Ozmo 09/2018 to 05/2021

Associate Integration Engineer

  • Wrote and maintained software tools (JavaScript, Google Apps Script, Python) and automations (Python, Shell scripts) that improved the efficiency of content development and maintained product quality.
  • Built real-time dashboards and data analytics (Google Data Studio, BigQuery, SQL) that visualized the key performance metrics and gave decision makers an accurate pulse on the health of production.
  • Supported production forecasting and ERP efforts through data integration scripts (Google Cloud Functions) that incorporated data from several services (Airtable, Jira, TSheets).

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech

Technical Skills

  • Appian
  • Agile (Scrum)
  • MariaDB
  • Javascript

Certifications and Training

  • Appian Lead Developer, Appian Corporation
  • Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services