Jason Woodford

Engineering excellence through automation, innovation, and a dash of agile magic — delivering millions in savings, slashing support issues, and building a culture that codes with a smile.

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of all IT automation throughout the organization, generating $2.1MM in ongoing annual cost savings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and PMO to prioritize backlog, balancing product features, performance, security, and reliability while providing transparent updates on development progress, resulting in a 20% reduction in customer support issues.
• Drive the development of high-quality, scalable, and reliable software using Automation Anywhere, leveraging the latest technologies and community best practices to create 31 automated processes running across 64 machines.
• Monitor and evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to inform software strategies and act as a strong advocate for technical innovation – executed software migration in 2023 responsible for saving $150K annually.
• Responsible for managing software and both on and offshore staff augmentation vendor relationships - eliminated $250K worth of yearly vendor spend by performing vendor consolidation process in 2023.
• Deploy agile best practices to ship code at high velocity and with high quality - maintaining an average development team sprint NPS score of 80.
• Perform team gap analysis and ensure developmental opportunities are provided to grow and cross-train staff, ensuring continuity.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence within the software engineering organization through communication, team-building exercises, and morale-boosting activities.

Transforming legacy tech into real-time powerhouses, streamlining costs, and inspiring a team of tech pros — one project at a time.

• Oversaw design, development, testing, and maintenance for 11 internal J2EE applications within a $210MM annual revenue product vertical, ensuring production releases and fixes were delivered on time and within a $6.3MM budget.
• Drove $1.68MM in headcount reduction (37 FTEs) through optimization and continual improvement of software solutions performing ANSI X12 270/271 EDI transactions to national insurance carriers.
• Spearheaded management and delivery of CTO’s modernization initiatives including the transformation of a monolith, batch EDI application into a message-based, real-time architecture, generating an incremental $23MM in yearly revenue.
• Eliminated over $600K in annual operational expenses through rationalization and consolidation of technology vendors.
• Fostered a collaborative working relationship with key stakeholders across IT and Operations, defining and executing short and long-term roadmaps, and ensuring continual alignment of product plans.
• Mentored, motivated, and developed a team of 42+ technology professionals with consistent attention to their career goals and evolving job performance.

Boosting inventory speed, doubling process throughput, and slashing runtime - all in a days' work.

• Improved the percentage of inventory processed in 10 days by more than 40% by establishing and managing key metrics to measure the effectiveness and quality of the work.
• Executed requirements gathering, development, unit testing, and delivery of business process automation, generating $450K in incremental monthly revenue by more than doubling throughput across processes.
• Provided technical guidance to the software development team - sharing best practices through design and code reviews, reducing the amount of time spent on rework by 12 hours weekly.
• Worked in conjunction with Database and Architecture teams to optimize database and query design, reducing runtime by over 25% for 50K daily transactions.
• Increased development velocity by >15% via successful transition of the team from Waterfall to Scaled Agile for Enterprise (SAFe) methodology. Championed the project by conducting comprehensive training sessions, implementing Azure DevOps to streamline workflow, and collaborating closely with stakeholders.

Leading a powerhouse automation team to slash costs, boost efficiency, and deliver high-impact solutions—making every process leaner, faster, and smarter.

• Managed the day-to-day activities of the business process automation team and ensured project plans and delivery commitments were met - achieved savings of 15 FTEs/$1.2MM in 2013 and savings of 44 FTEs/$2.25MM in 2014. • Established end-to-end automation group within the UHC Community & State segment and defined the go-forward strategy – responsible for delivering 6 high-value, repeatable automation use cases. • Built relationships with Operations leadership to fully understand business objectives and processes and collaborated to identify automation opportunities and priorities for enhancements. • Responsible for establishing service level agreements and developing procedures to monitor and ensure compliance in a 24x7, 365-day-a-week program.