Sr. Manager, Payment Gateways
Pavilion Payments, Raleigh, NC
Husband, father, software developer, aspiring-outdoors-man.
Abilities & Interests
Interests
- Coaching and mentoring
 - Agile leadership
 - Cloud architecture
 - Microservices
 - Containers
 - DevOps
 - User experience
 - Digital strategy
 
Languages
- Java
 - Kotlin
 - Javascript
 - HTML
 - CSS
 - C#
 - Go
 - SQL
 
Libraries
Professional Experience
Sr. Manager, Payment Gateways
(June 2024 - Present) Pavilion Payments, Raleigh, NC
- Responsible for Payment Gateways product development
 - Provide architectural guidance to development team
 - Collaborate with product organization to evolve roadmap for Gateways
 
Service Manager, Modern Apps
(April 2020 – June 2024) Insight Solutions, Raleigh, NC
- Manage a team of 20 software engineers through mentoring, coaching, and sponsorship. Communicate business objectives and manage through change.
 - Help sales team secure over $2 million in service contracts annually by leading estimation effort and scoping technical solutions for client needs
 - Collaborate across business units to build the Accelerated Consulting Experience Program (ACE) and grow the practice by 10% over 18 months through targeted junior hiring.
 - Provide delivery governance to project and program teams of up to 40 consultants ensuring accountability to deliverables and successful business outcomes for clients
 - Assess and analyze a client's legacy applications, and present technical best practices balanced with business outcomes to optimize their application portfolio and improve maintainability.
 
Architect
(January 2019 – March 2020) Insight Solutions, Raleigh, NC
- Assess and remediate performance challenges in legacy Java Swing application while documenting and sharing recommendations for modernization of solution
 - Lead development of Spring Boot API and Angular web app for a program management solution
 - Introduce to client re-usable patterns for adopting Microsoft Azure for net-new Java applications
 - Lead a 6-person team in developing Java and Spring-based microservices and data processing applications for a large retailer; collaborate with other business units and define team roadmap
 - Assist in driving sales through client presentations, estimation, and proposal development
 
Principal Software Engineer
(April 2017 – December 2018) Cardinal Solutions Group, Raleigh, NC
- Design and build a virtual front-desk solution on Node.js, Electron, and Azure that integrates with Slack and then migrate to Microsoft Teams
 - Architect a .NET and Angular cloud-native application to configure and run statistical analysis of user-provided data sets; configure CI/CD on Azure DevOps
 - Architect and develop a REST API for native mobile applications to bring a new product to market; utilize Spring Boot and the Spring family of libraries and manage deployments to Microsoft Azure
 - Mentor teammates and assist in career and skills development
 
Senior Software Engineer
(March 2015 – March 2017) Cardinal Solutions Group, Raleigh, NC
- Lead development of centralized authentication platform built on top of Okta and .NET; help drive adoption of Okta among other teams
 - Update enterprise financial management application from jQuery to AngularJS and vanilla Javascrpt modules; modernize Spring Framework middleware to improve API posture and produce more tailored responses for new front-end web components
 - Lead implementation of Javascript unit and functional testing for new AngularJS components within client suite of applications
 
Associate Software Engineer
(Summer 2012, May 2013 — March 2015) Prometheus Group, Raleigh, NC
- Architect internal project management and productivity web application with Backbone.js
 - Co-lead team to build hosted enterprise web application with Spring and Ext JS
 
Testing Development Intern
(Summer 2011) IBM, Durham, NC
- Extend Selenium UI testing suite in Java to provide more coverage for regression tests
 - Collaborate with team to integrate test suite into proprietary continuous integration process
 
Education
North Carolina State University
- Attended: August 2010 — May 2013
 - Major: Computer Science, B.S.
 - Honors: Summa Cum Laude
 
Northwestern University
- Attended: September 2009 — June 2010
 - Major: Computer Science