Resume

Husband, father, software developer, aspiring-outdoors-man.

Abilities & Interests

Mentor and coach development team of 4 in software best practices including source control, code review, continuous integration, testing, and object-oriented principles
Hire 10 near-shore developers to augment Gateways team for 2 year-long modernization projects
Architect enhancements to Payment Gateways product suite to support delivery of more than 10 discrete projects
Drive upgrade and containerization of more than 6 .NET and Java services in a distributed system
Through continuous improvement, reduce incident frequency for Payment Gateways systems by over 50%
Collaborate with Product Management to evolve roadmap for more than 35 applications in the Gateways portfolio and balance innovation with management of technical debt

Manage a team of up to 22 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.

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

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

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

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

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