Lonnie Colman

About Lonnie Colman

Operational and execution driven software engineering leader, with specific expertise in…

Experience

1. Executive Vice President, Product Delivery & Chief Information Officer

   PrismHR

   Jan 2015 — Present

   Scaled, streamlined and matured PrismHR’s technology operation from a staff of 40 to a highly agile, accountable and predictable Product Delivery organization of 200 - encompassing Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Operations, Program Management and Documentation - at the leading HR software and payroll provider for the PEO market, during the company’s high growth phase in which revenues grew from $20m to $80m * Implemented a high throughput “matrix managed” product delivery function across 24 well coordinated, complimentary Agile “delivery teams,” aligned across current / next generation product initiatives, maintenance / escalations, and innovation.* Led the effective integration and healthy collaboration of multi-function teams spanning multiple time zones, and sourced through combination of aggressive organic growth, internal transfer, acquisition and outsourcing / offshoring.* Doubled velocity and reduced rework by 67%, yielding a net 2.5x increase in the average released output per engineer, through combination of upstream process improvements, steady best practice refinement, cross-training, and ongoing automation initiatives.* Transformed an underperforming production infrastructure, to a highly redundant, thoroughly monitored, scalable and SOC 2 compliant farm consistently exceeding 99.99% uptime and serving companies.* Introduced operational diligence, best practice adoption and repeatability to obtain SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, in a manner whose policies were sufficiently streamlined and compatible with the need to be agile and flexible to fast changing market needs.* Drove technology due diligence process on potential acquisition candidates, culminating in 5 successfully integrated, “high morale” acquisitions.* Represented PrismHR technology function through investor diligence processes for two successful Investor liquidity events.

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  BS, Electrical Engineering

Skills

• User Acceptance Testing
• Product Management
• Soa
• Loadrunner
• System Testing
• Regression Testing
• Product Development
• Integration
• Load Testing
• Testing
• Scrum
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Management
• Software Development
• Automation
• Agile Project Management
• Databases
• Manual Testing
• Performance Testing
• Start-Ups
• Cloud Computing
• Quality Assurance
• Test Planning
• Management
• Software Project Management
• Release Management
• Sdlc
• Project Management
• Web Applications