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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 organizational areas as needed based on ancillary experience in finance, construction and human resources.

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.• Conduct annual reviews. Use HR software process to gather feedback, set goals, apply performance results. Based on these factors, determine overall scores, salary increase percentages and goals for the following year.• Manage the hiring and termination of team members.• Primary architectural project for 2019 was to establish a POC for a Laravel based php solution to our aging legacy application. The POC has been accepted by architecture and management, pending resource allocation. This represents a 3-5-year commitment to refactor a brittle codebase currently processing over 1B in annual revenue.• Develop/Code features in Web stack when short-staffed.

• 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.• Enforced best practices and architectural standards for the Laravel 5.2 instance including use of Eloquent (ORM), dependency injection (IOC), service providers, routing, blade (template), external and internal APIs, stateless flow, and strict CAP and code quality standards.• Follow strict code review and CI standards using Bitbucket, Git, Gitflow• Follow both TDD (test-driven development) and BDD (business driven development) best practices.

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.• Approved Code Reviewer – LAMP stack. Approved by architecture team to follow architectural guidelines in assessing, raising defects or approving code submitted by other developers on the team.• Created PHP stubs to serve JSON mocks to the application.• Developed performance improvements that considerably reduced the application page load time.• Instrumental in making the Dine Booking flow IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) compliant.• Was successful in providing a path to make the teams BDD tests green.• Worked concurrently with over 300 developers within a continuous integration (CI) environment.

• 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, PostgreSQL, and SQL. o Solely developed a Maintenance tool allowing the system administrators to dynamically define and revise the questionnaire process while maintaining a consistent history of all previous process versions. Developed using Zend Framework, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, prototype, AJAX, JSON, fast-template, Smarty, Sybase, PostgreSQL, subversion. o Worked with other developers on various parts of the overall “Passport” system. Developed using Zend Framework, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, Smarty, and Bugzilla.• 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.

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• 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