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Wawa, Pa, Us

Responsible for the teams that develop backend service and systems development at Wawa to help our business deliver new sales channels and experiences for our many customers. - Delivered backend PaaS platform for delivering applications at scale in the cloud- Delivered new web sales channels built with modern platforms designed for the future growth of Wawa with an API first solution.- Delivering a new Kiosk experience for our stores combining modern technologies and offline capabilities.

Wawa, Pa, Us

Manage the technical direction of a profitable startup that brings together car dealerships and their vendors. The web and mobile based application is hosted on Heroku as well as Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS, SNS, S3, VPC) and integration partners like Twilio, DataOne, CDK and vAuto.

London, Gb

Manage a team of 100 developers, technical leads, scrum masters and analysts to develop the next generation of Barclays global software architecture. The new platform is based on an event driven asynchronous services using the CQRS design pattern. Heavy use of the Spring platform and many modern technologies including Kafka, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, OpenShift, Docker, AWS and others.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, Us

Senior consultant to the financial industry. Contracted with BarclaycardUS to help architect the future state platform using Java, CQRS, MongoDB, Oracle, Spark/Hadoop and deployed on OpenStack, OpenShift, Chef and GoCD.

Philadelpia, Pa, Us

London, Gb

As the manager of the "Business API" group, I managed a large team (70+) of technical leads, developers, scrum masters and analysts. The team was focused on providing the core services that the rest of the bank leveraged to provide customer data to the website, mobile application and call center. The services leveraged many technologies including high performance messaging, asynchronous communication and messaging as well as core data access. The primary concerns were performance, reliability and horizontal and vertical scalability.The business API team consistently pushed the organization forward with the use of new technologies and processes. All work was delivered using agile delivery through a combination of Scrum and KanBan teams.On the team, I served as a manager and as an architect for the team, relaying on my years of experience in development and design, I was able to ensure a solid consistent vision in the team concerns.Within the team I managed the team budgets, HR decisions and recruiting and many other duties to ensure a strong and vibrant team.

Blue Bell, Pa, Us

Design, develop and manage critical Java EE software systems for large financial institutions. Work included developing major components of a worldwide trading platform. Developed partner facing web services including SAML type service authentication and services for providing prescreening of applicants and instant credit for purchases.

• Developed, designed and managed software development projects for financial and pharmaceutical companies.• Participated in the full sales cycle for many projects from the first meeting until the handoff, including taking on a technical sales role when working with prospective clients.

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