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Lee'S Summit, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Directing all company operations, focusing on consulting services and in-house product creations. Our scope encompasses software engineering, maker-related fields, product prototyping, and creative products.

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Overseeing digital signage development initiatives, planning, storyboarding, development, and product ideation. Managing an internal development team during my tenure and led a team of seven, including managers, from Pakistan for a 1½ year project. I continue to write, test, and deploy code. Additionally, performing server maintenance on over 450 servers. Initiate and executing the integration of Canva into our digital signage solutions. My role enables me to contribute in various capacities… Show more Overseeing digital signage development initiatives, planning, storyboarding, development, and product ideation. Managing an internal development team during my tenure and led a team of seven, including managers, from Pakistan for a 1½ year project. I continue to write, test, and deploy code. Additionally, performing server maintenance on over 450 servers. Initiate and executing the integration of Canva into our digital signage solutions. My role enables me to contribute in various capacities, emphasizing my hands-on involvement across the company. Transitioned this role to include broader operational responsibilities. We implement a blend of KPI and OKR methodologies to measure our progress. Accomplishing all of this while utilizing a $550k annual budget. Show less

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Leading a software engineering team in developing, documenting, and maintaining applications. Providing technical consultation to the Product Owner. Conducting team hiring, career plans, training, and performance reviews. Actively coaching and mentoring team members, reviewing product requirements, and providing leadership and technical vision. Responsible for a $1.4M annual budget, schedules, and resource allocation, ensuring successful sprint iterations and product releases. Using OKR’s to… Show more Leading a software engineering team in developing, documenting, and maintaining applications. Providing technical consultation to the Product Owner. Conducting team hiring, career plans, training, and performance reviews. Actively coaching and mentoring team members, reviewing product requirements, and providing leadership and technical vision. Responsible for a $1.4M annual budget, schedules, and resource allocation, ensuring successful sprint iterations and product releases. Using OKR’s to incentivize increased data consumption from the YouTube video APIs and push stored video counts to over 10 million on Elasticsearch Service (now called OpenSearch Service). Ensuring GDPR compliance, collaboration with legal teams, and informing upper management and staff of legal concerns as the Data Protection Officer. Serve as the primary point of contact for data subjects and stay informed about GDPR changes and newly proposed GDPR-like laws in the USA.I was a Senior Consultant at the end of my tenure as well. Worked in an advisory role to transition existing applications and future plans to leadership and technical staff. Laid out costs savings approaches for EC2 spot instances in ECS. Show less

Overland Park, Kansas

Initiate and execute plans to move on-premise servers to AWS. Working closely with our Chief Product and Information Officer, Senior Director of Software Architecture, and Operations team. Set up automation in Jenkins and package management in Artifactory. Conducting comprehensive training sessions for managers and over 100 developers to ensure their proficiency with these tools, including a large development team in Australia. As the shift towards AWS cloud-based applications gained momentum… Show more Initiate and execute plans to move on-premise servers to AWS. Working closely with our Chief Product and Information Officer, Senior Director of Software Architecture, and Operations team. Set up automation in Jenkins and package management in Artifactory. Conducting comprehensive training sessions for managers and over 100 developers to ensure their proficiency with these tools, including a large development team in Australia. As the shift towards AWS cloud-based applications gained momentum, actively guiding teams through this transition and educating them on embracing a DevOps culture. We are transforming applications into highly available and widely distributed solutions for our customers and their clients.Received an endorsement from the CPIO to create a Lab’s Team (think-tank and rapid prototyping). Facilitating the development of MSTS's first mobile application. Show less

Lee'S Summit, Mo

Designing the infrastructure for Wardy, a clothing management solution for movie costume designers, in AWS. Implementing Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment. Collaboratively managing Jira and conducting sprint planning to keep the project on track and on time. Facilitating effective git strategies, similar to Gitflow, and providing training to enhance team proficiency. Additionally, my responsibilities extend to tackling intricate coding challenges, such as PDF data… Show more Designing the infrastructure for Wardy, a clothing management solution for movie costume designers, in AWS. Implementing Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment. Collaboratively managing Jira and conducting sprint planning to keep the project on track and on time. Facilitating effective git strategies, similar to Gitflow, and providing training to enhance team proficiency. Additionally, my responsibilities extend to tackling intricate coding challenges, such as PDF data extraction of movie scripts and automatic color range detection in product images. Serving as the primary release manager for production deployments and coordinating with all product owners and team members to make sure our weekly releases are successful. Automating numerous tasks to enhance process consistency, stability, and predictability. Show less

Kansas City Metro

Created a comprehensive sports management business for organizations and their members. Developed a user-friendly web application to promote collaboration and provide communication. Conducted billing, sales, marketing, customer support, and various other roles to ensure smooth and efficient business operations. A few notable features include: Automated notifications for game time changes/cancellations, Automated team schedule syncing for mobile phone/desktop calendars, online payments and… Show more Created a comprehensive sports management business for organizations and their members. Developed a user-friendly web application to promote collaboration and provide communication. Conducted billing, sales, marketing, customer support, and various other roles to ensure smooth and efficient business operations. A few notable features include: Automated notifications for game time changes/cancellations, Automated team schedule syncing for mobile phone/desktop calendars, online payments and integrated accounting system, tournament builder engine, and team standings algorithms with tie break rules. Show less

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Leading the IS Enterprise team into areas of new innovation. Inspiring team members and management to create quality products that exceed regular standards. Mentoring other development teams and teaching them good practices with continuous builds, code quality and code architecture.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Designing a new payment solution to integrate with PayPal’s Payflow Pro product. Coordinating work progress with team members, management and business partners. Assisting QA testing staff and release coordinators. Training about 200 developers and business areas on how to integrate. Adding new enhancements throughout the next year. Also, provided support for our other payment processes. These applications are responsible for more than $660 million annually.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Creating two shopping cart applications for publications and data reports. Integrating inventory management, account support, payment solutions and reporting.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Creating and maintaining several company websites and the intranet. Running the website search appliance. Creating java applications as needed.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Writing SQR reports, Doing data cleanup, Aiding development staff

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Created and maintained websites, using good design principles to ensure an excellent user experience. Developed custom artwork and logos tailored to client needs. Managed all aspects of business operations, including sales and billing, ensuring timely service delivery.

Computer Science

Chemical Engineering