Kevin Chase
Senior Director, Systems & Administration
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Chase is a seasoned IT leader with nine years in senior systems and program management roles, currently directing end-to-end business systems and operations at Comtech Telecommunications. He combines engineering roots and an MBA to bridge technical delivery, vendor and budget management, and strategic change initiatives—most recently launching a Data Analytics Center of Excellence that delivers dashboards and data stories to senior leadership. Kevin has deep experience across virtualization, VoIP, security and compliance programs and a track record of managing multimillion-dollar budgets and complex infrastructure builds. A hands-on sysadmin and night-shift native who contributes to open-source test automation (improving Python Koans’ test suite), he brings both operational rigor and a developer’s attention to maintainability. Based in Annapolis, he’s known for fostering cross-functional collaboration and cultivating continuous improvement within IT teams.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering at University of MarylandMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
English
Stackoverflow
3,906reputation
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122answers
2questions
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Github Skills (15)
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unit-testing10
unit-test10
python10
test-automation10
error-handling9
time-complexity6
algorithm6
byte6
iterator6
big-o6
regex6
fileio6
escaping6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gregmalcolm/python_koans
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Python Koans - Learn Python through TDD
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the test suite for the Python Koans project. Their contributions involved fixing test names, removing unnecessary mocks, and updating the test loading mechanism to load tests from a file. They made adjustments to existing tests, including changes to whitespace and structure in order to maintain consistency across Python 2 and 3 versions. The user's work contributed to the overall quality and maintainability of the test suite for the learning project.
learn-pythonkoanspythontdd
kjc/python_koans
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 35 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 1 month
learn-pythonpythonkoanstdd
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