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Chancellor Edwards

Also known as Chance Edwards

Application Developer · Product Manager

Houston, TX

Application Developer with experience building open and closed source software systems for public and private sector clients. Strong foundations in hardware, networking, databases, and object-oriented programming. Chancellor (Chance) Edwards brings a first-principles approach to engineering and product delivery.

Experience

Application Developer
Baca Stein White and Associates
  • Develops and maintains an enterprise application, a web portal that collects and stores data inside of Microsoft databases.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to refactor code, resolve bugs, and improve performance.
  • Contributes to data engineering operations — retrieving, transforming, and presenting data inside custom reporting dashboards.
Product Manager
Sanmore Investments LLC
  • Led product strategy and development operations across the full product lifecycle.
  • Orchestrated cloud engineering, application development, and design teams alongside business stakeholders to deliver focused solutions.
  • Oversaw feature prioritization and lifecycle management.
Application Developer
IBM
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Automated a business-critical process, clearing a significant backlog of cases.
  • Coordinated development across 4 components of a mission-critical application in an agile environment, delivering version upgrades on schedule.
  • Led sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
  • Ensured coordination between development teams and stakeholders.
UPS
  • Built and enhanced logistics software systems.
  • Led agile ceremonies and coached teams on Scrum best practices.
  • Improved sprint velocity and cross-team communication.

Skills

Programming & Development
Object-Oriented Programming · Web Development · HTML · Javascript
Systems & Infrastructure
Hardware · Networking · SQL
Methodologies
Agile · Scrum · SAFe

Certifications

  • SAFe Scrum Master
  • Design Thinking
  • HTML Development

Education

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
University of the Cumberlands
2021

Secretary, Cyber Club · Collegiate Basketball

Relevant Coursework: Hardware Systems · Networking · Database Management · Object-Oriented Programming · Web Design

General Studies
Weatherford College
2018

Collegiate Basketball

High School Diploma
Clements High School
2016

Varsity Basketball