Dan Marquis

Hartford, CT (currently working remote)ยท dmarquis@hey.com

A technology professional with a never ending curiosity for building simple solutions to complex problems. Five years experience in a corporate IT setting, focused on software development, IT team leadership, and software architecture. Currently also focused on coaching developers into software engineers!


Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Travelers Insurance
  • Designing and developing chatbots using open source AI frameworks
  • Improving automated testing and delivery across my team's applications!
  • Piecing together what our future chatbot platform should look like
  • Mentor and grow new software engineers
  • Always always always learning
March 2020 - Present

Solution Architect

Travelers Insurance

Design enterprise-level, cloud-ready solutions to business problems and needs, keeping in mind reusability, security, and customer experience. Also responsible for working closely with software development teams to identify pain points and training/improvements to help teams work better.

January 2018 - March 2020

Adjunct Professor

University of Connecticut

Teaching part time in the Operations and Information Management department, specifically Web Business Application Development.

January 2019 - Present

Technical Delivery Lead

Travelers Insurance

Team lead responsible for the daily ceremonies of the agile team. Also responsible for working closely with the software development team to remove roadblocks and improve efficiency of the team. Regularly working with user experience, product owners, and architects to clear the way for the development team to keep building.

December 2011 - March 2013

Software Engineer

Travelers Insurance

Embracing the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology to facilitate the development, testing, and deployment of an enterprise-level communications tool in a very short amount of time. Technologies used include open-source packages, AngularJS, Node.js, MongoDB, and deployment to a cloud platform.

July 2010 - December 2011

Information Architect

Travelers Insurance

Responsible for creating an enterprise taxonomy for data types and ownership across multiple lines of business. Also responsible for providing information architect support on a multi-year project by identifying necessary data sources and storage locations across many decades-old databases.

September 2008 - June 2010

Education

University of Connecticut

Bachelor of Science
Management Information Systems

GPA: 3.46

August 2010 - May 2014

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Experience Highlights
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design & Development
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Public Cloud Development & Architecture
  • Modern Software Architecture
  • Event Driven Architecture

Interests

Coming from a mostly math and business background, I've spent the last few years learning the art of building software and the best ways to learn to code. Outside of my day-to-day as a software architect, I'm passionate about teaching others to build things and always on the lookout for new and transformative tech! Most recently I've begun diving into the world of public cloud at an Enterprise scale as well!

Outside of work I love to run and spend time with my wife in our hometown of Bristol, CT. I'm also involved in various community efforts around the Hartford area including Leadership Greater Hartford and Habitat for Humanity!