Jennison is a leading fundamental equity and fixed-income manager of PGIM, the $1.4 trillion AUM global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).Development Manager · Tech Lead · Architect · Tech Talk Host• Provide technical leadership, project management, and people management to a team of developers with deep experience in creating, integrating, and maintaining distributed microservices, processes, custom business applications, data visualizations, and full-stack systems that support over $200 billion in global trading and business operations. • Build technologies to cover functional areas such as cash availability and administration, trade communication, transaction management, post-trade processing and settlement, rule-based notifications and routing, collateral management, portfolio accounting and reconciliations, financial reporting and analytics, security master & pricing, and reference data..NET Core 1-5+ (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, SignalR, Bot Framework), JavaScript (Angular 7-16+, TypeScript, SyncFusion, AngularJS), HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Akka with Oracle AQ, XML, PL/SQL, T-SQL, PowerShell, Autofac, Moq, Jasmine, xUnit, Selenium, Blue Prism, AutoSys, SSRS, Oracle, SQL Server, IIS, TFS, GitHub, Azure DevOps, BuildMaster, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, AI Builder with OpenAI GPT, Dataverse, Data Factory, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Studio

Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Companies 2014 and 2015Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Azure Circle PartnerClients Served: Pearson (NYSE: PSO), Direct Energy (NYSE: NRG), Hess (NYSE: HES), Zoetis (NYSE: ZTS), Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK)• Managed multiple teams of engineers, providing leadership, guidance, oversight, and mentorship.• Successfully drove the completion of bi-weekly releases and delivered more than $3 million Agile projects on time and on budget, with no production defects.• Built and led a positive, productive, and collaborative team environment.• Set technical objectives and inspired engineers to adopt the highest coding and quality standards for efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.• Implemented and maintained test automation, including unit tests, integration tests, API tests, and end-to-end regression tests, to ensure software quality. Utilized dependency management and mocking techniques.• Established clearly defined development, build, deployment, and release processes.• Applied branching strategies and feature toggles to enable seamless multi-team parallel development and releases.• Created CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and provide continuous feedback on code changes.• Managed build and deployment activities, overseeing lower environments.• Planned release cycles with the PMO and signed off release runbooks.• Organized and hosted internal tech talks and learning sessions.• Partook in client-facing pre-sale engagements, talent recruiting, and engineering on-boarding activities..NET 4.* (C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, WPF, Xamarin), JavaScript (Node.js, AngularJS, ES6, jQuery, JSON), HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, XML, T-SQL, R, AWS (EC2 CentOS, CloudWatch), Azure (App Service, Cloud Services, VMs, SQL, Storage, Service Bus, Redis Cache, Machine Learning), Unity, Autofac, Moq, Jasmine, MSTest, SQL Server, IIS, TFS, GitHub, TeamCity, Jenkins, SonarQube, Power BI, RStudio, SoapUI, JIRA, Rally

• Led a team of engineers in improving code quality and following Agile/Scrum methodologies. • Conducted tasking sessions and broke user stories down into tasks.• Tracked progress on Kanban and maximized team's ability to deliver in two-week sprints.• Established high standards by performing thorough code reviews and providing feedback.𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲• Pearson - Led the development of v1 and v2 of a Dropbox-like REST API and designed a flexible, high-performing, and scalable cloud architecture in Azure. The core microservice enabled hundreds of thousands of students and teachers to backup, restore, share, and archive user-created content, such as class notes, homework assignments, and class projects, through a high-profile iOS/Windows/Chrome OS app deployed in the nation's largest school districts.• Direct Energy/Hess - Led the creation of the v2 real-time energy pricing engine, position management, and enterprise ecosystem in AWS. Built new features and enhanced REST APIs and UI logic of two award-winning enterprise iOS apps, allowing energy sales reps to price proposals in real-time, finalize deals, and generate contracts for clients on iPads. Developed web apps to support mobile platforms and data delivery.• Zoetis - Applied supervised learning to predict animal health involving cleaning data gathered from IoT sensors, analyzing it with data visualizations in Power BI, and training ML classification models in Azure Machine Learning.• Shutterstock - Prototyped a Node.js rasterization service in AWS EC2 Linux instance with image editor instances that interacted thru IPC in Electron.𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻• Optimized queries by analyzing SQL statistics, indices, and execution plans.• Conducted cloud-based load testing, documented performance metrics, and simulated network speeds for high-availability services.• Developed a TCP ping process to monitor cloud performance and stability.

Fortune's Fastest Growing Companies 2009 and 2010 (NYSE: SF)• Led end-to-end architecture and solution design, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.• Created user stories and maintained an organized backlog.• Provided mentorship to junior team members, led code reviews, and established coding standards to elevate team performance.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀• Equity and Fixed Income - Developed a set of web apps to enhance user efficiency, including trade reporting, in-house and industry research report access, and intraday post-trade confirmations sent to institutional clients through fax and email.• Wealth Management - Integrated in-house financial apps into ThomsonONE/BETA using a custom JavaScript framework. Built multi-threaded apps to handle block orders and distribute account statements and confirmations through message queues.• Annuities and Insurance - Created a robust web-based reporting system enabling operations processors, annuity managers, and financial advisors to submit contracts, monitor approval progress, and search transaction history with a robust search feature.• Marketing - Redesigned the parent company and subsidiary websites with a new framework using MVC, SEO, and user-centered design, preserving web traffic and page rankings. Google Analytics confirmed that the new designs significantly increased branch and financial advisor visits and online visibility.• Compliance - Automated the validation and export of financial reports to FINRA, FSA, and vendors through daily ETL and scheduled jobs.• Enterprise SSO - Built a custom role-based membership system to secure over 50 web apps, including a user-friendly frontend for administrators to manage memberships and permissions.

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