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Dania Beach, FL, US

Directly lead technology, engineering, product development, IT operations and R&D departments for organization.Focus on short, medium and long term roadmapping in a constantly evolving new technology sector.Work closely with CEO to groom budgets, prospective opportunities and cost / benefit analyses and Risk mitigation.Assist and consult in other.

Merrimack, NH, US

• Primarily responsible for delivery of completed business requirements by Web, Java API and Salesforce teams.
• Constantly coordinating with Product manager, QA Management as well as DevOps, SysOps and Architecture to move features and tasks through the process from specification to production deployment.
• Developed performance accountability standards for development team members.
• As a software manager, I consider it my primary responsibility to remove technical and inter-departmental obstacles to the team member’s ability to be effective. I also consider myself a primary mentor for my team.
• Originated the “Tech Lead” role and promoted respective subject matter experts to those respective roles. Work closely with tech leads to coordinate tightly coupled solutions across the technology suites.
• Hold regular “one-on-ones” with every member of my team to discuss progress, performance, obstacles faced, and how I may experience a positive one.

• Architecture of major application components including credit model, APIs and stateless flow.
• Team Lead and project management of legacy code refactoring, credit model, P2P loan calculation.
• Personally, develop key modules of the application.
• Work directly with, and brief stakeholders and BAs on project progress and help drive major component delivery.
• Conduct “lunch-and-learns” for junior engineers.
• Continually Improving the extensibility, performance, security, and stability.

Dallas, TX, US

• Worked on the maintenance and stopgap refactoring of the www.spellingcity.com property.
• Worked with a development team to “decouple” existing legacy spellingcity.com application from a highly customized and outdated version of Joomla CMS.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Architected and developed “Course Builder” web application as a comprehensive solution to the authoring, configuration and deployment of Education department courseware.
• Developed using OOP, loosely coupled multi-tier methodology including RESTful web services and web client.
• Technologies employed included Linux, Apache, PHP 5.4, FuelPHP, REST, JSON, AJAX, jQuery, and Mustache.
• Worked on LMS (Learning Management System) team.

New York, NY - New York, US

• Project Lead of 3 person software development team working on re-implementation of the company’s rate-benchmarking website.
• Managed 2 software engineers as well as 3rd party vendors.
• Development using Atlassian tool suite, LAMP stack, Java RESTful services with Oracle and Solr data stores hosted with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Collaborated with Product Data Manager (PDM), BA, creative and QA during initial feature development and system integration of PEP (Personal Experience Portal): https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/.
• Developed within Zend 1.11 MVC framework using PHP, CSS, and jQuery.
• Unit testing with PHPUnit ensuring 95%+ coverage.
• Helped to lead functional test development using Ant, Selenium, jBehave, Selenium IDE
• Mentored other developers in the use of Behavioral testing and development.
• Worked in Agile environment with daily scrums, 2-week sprints, retrospectives and sprint planning.

• Personally designed, developed and maintained fully custom as well as existing web sites for clients.
• Provided consulting services to Aequicap Insurance Company. o Helped to finalize design of a new normalized SQL database that stored a generic, data driven workers’ compensation rating system. Work done in Sybase.
• Coordinated contractors including software engineers, DevOps, UX / UI and sales associates.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Refactor of “SIRS” (Social Issues Resource Series) line of web-based products into a Java Struts environment.
• Developed & maintained an in-house back-office accounting system. The system included AR, AP, PO, GL as well as over 100 separate customizable reports and tools.
• Developed in Delphi 7 and ran on all versions of MS Windows. Live and development Oracle 8i databases resided on SCO UNIX as well as NT platforms.
• Project Lead of the AP/PO module, which employed a Multitier Client/Server architecture (MIDAS).
• Project Lead of a Data Build application which re-organized data from a Research Database to application-ready datasets. This data was used to deploy Web-based as well as CD-ROM products.
• Refactored and solely responsible for all CD-ROM MS-DOS products.

• Operated own real estate corporation specializing in the purchase, rehabilitation and sale of multiple family properties in the Worcester, MA area.
• Managed 2 employees and performed all business operations including: Accounting, management, operations, purchase, sales and finance.

Jacksonville, FL, US

As a member of the Open Millennium team, performed the porting of Open Millennium applications from IBM Mainframe to VMS and UNIX environments.

US

• Design, development and unit test of GTE’s Electronic Key Management System using C-Pascal interfacing, embedded SQL, VMS, Ingres, And LSE.
• Performed System integration and testing in a heterogeneous environment using Sun Digital workstations, PC’s, and embedded systems.
• Developed Unit Test Plans and design spec documents per DoD STD-2167A using LSE and Scribe.
• Responsible for porting of various applications from PASCAL/VMS to C/UNIX environment.
• Held INFOSEC SECRET clearance.

Developed and maintained retirement plans’ department PC based CLIPPER applications.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

High School Diploma

Education record

Education record