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San Antonio, Texas, Us

Led and managed a 20+ member engineering organization, cultivating a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency. This resulted in increased team retention and engagement, enhanced cross-team communication and trust, and measurable improvements in delivery velocity across teams by 20 percent.Designed and implemented formal Agile development processes while defining robust security, incident response, and patching policies, ensuring operational efficiency, system reliability, and compliance with industry standards. Developed and established a comprehensive career path framework for both leadership and technical roles within the engineering organization, promoting professional growth, role clarity, and employee retention.Collaborated with the Head of Product to establish formal release planning processes, ensuring seamless coordination, clear timelines, and alignment with business objectives and product roadmaps.Directed multiple technical product initiatives, including a complete redesign of the AveriSource Platform UI and the development of an industry-leading GenAI solution for analyzing mainframe applications to drive modernization.Architected and administrated a newly optimized hybrid cloud infrastructure, achieving a 15% reduction in monthly expenses while enhancing scalability and performance.Administered and configured Atlassian Jira, optimizing workflows, permissions, and dashboards to enhance team collaboration, streamline project management, and improve issue tracking efficiency.Identified key software architectural improvements across the AveriSource Platform and collaborated closely with the Principal Architect to strategize the integration of these enhancements for optimal system performance.Championed the professional growth of multiple employees, successfully advocating for promotions based on their leadership capabilities and technical excellence.

Durham, Nc, Us

Led and coached a team of 8 engineers with varying levels of experience as part of the Merchant Solutions team, contributing to the development of Spreedly’s SaaS-based orchestration platform. Fostered skill development, collaboration, and technical excellence to deliver innovative solutions for merchant integration and payment processing.Managed upward communication and collaboration with the Director of Engineering, ensuring alignment on priorities, reporting progress, and driving strategic initiatives.Championed the professional growth of multiple employees, successfully advocating for promotions based on their leadership capabilities and technical excellence.Partnered with product management to design and deliver innovative platform features, including smart routing, enhancing functionality and user experience.Conducted regular one-on-one meetings to provide mentorship, track progress, and support professional growth while defining and aligning OKRs to drive team focus and achieve organizational objectives.Administered Jira to customize workflows, dashboards, and project settings, while defining and implementing the team’s Agile processes to enhance productivity, streamline collaboration, and ensure alignment with project goals.Analyzed and outlined a seamless PostgreSQL upgrade strategy, ensuring zero business interruptions while enhancing database performance and reliability.

North Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Lead greenfield development project overseeing both backend and frontend development leveraging Java 11 and Vue.js of a 14 member development team.Implemented a modern UI leveraging Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Vuetify and Vuelidate working closely with UX designer and product management.Contributed to backend architecture built leveraging Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA and Vavr focusing on pure functional design / architecture following a monad design pattern.Worked with VP of engineering and product management to refine, improve and create new processes that enabled developers to deliver high quality code on time.Provided direction to the development team when technical challenges arise.Resolved conflicts between team members quickly and effectively.Mentored engineers to help them succeed and grow as individuals.Provided guidance to senior management on hiring recommendations and performance reviews.Leading all Scrum Master related activities and identifying areas of success and failure to increase development efficiency and consistency within PI and sprint iterations.Responsible for administration and setup of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.Influenced Agile transformation of product and development teams following SAFe guidelines.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Developed features for products, created and implemented front-end and backend solutions, and performed Scrum Master role as defined by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) guidelines.Evaluated and recommended next generation front-end frameworks for the Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plugin.Advocated for the use of a user experience design process which resulted in introducing wireframing to the project for the first time ever.Implemented VSI plugin which replaced outdated Flex solution with a modern and user friendly solution that continues to provide additional sales for supported products.Developed Groovy-based BaaS and DRaaS plugins for VMware Cloud Foundation platform providing integrations to Avamar and RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines products.Leveraged test-driven development, functional programming, design patterns, clean code and DevOps practices that help to create a product users wanted, on time, and in budget while maintaining over 90% line coverage.Performed and excelled at Scrum Master role as defined by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) guidelines all while being a highly effective engineer.Received the Dell Champion Award recipient for accomplishments and leadership.Advanced as a finalist in the corporate wide innovation challenge for new product investment.

Founded startup that provides cloud solutions for animal rescue groups to manage animal intake. Sold share of company in late 2016.Developed a SPA from scratch, with CTO, for animal rescues leveraging MongoDB, ExpressJS, Aurelia and NodeJS.Provided technical input and feedback to the CEO and CTO throughout development phases.Reviewed and gave input into the business plan, business direction, marketing, etc. to CEO, CMO, and CTO.Worked directly with UX designers to discuss and implement feedback on current UI design.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed the front-end JavaScript solution for an enterprise network management product taking into account all areas of usability.Provided architectural input on UI solution and implemented proof of concepts to assist in decisions.Presented architectural solutions to both technical and management teams.Worked closely with clients in resolving infrastructure issues with other IBM products.Assisted members of development team with internal processes and conducted thorough code reviews.Developed code adhering to security requirements and provided remedies for any found exposures.Followed Agile best practices to be adaptive and flexible to constant changes and new requirements.Assisted quality engineering team with test cases and configuration setups when needed.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed Java code for framework that provides clients/administrators a consolidated view of deployed Tivoli products.Adhered to all technical specifications during development to provide consistent and expected results of clients utilizing the framework.Leveraged cross-brand products in the design and implementation of framework including, WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x, DB2, Tivoli Directory Server (LDAP), IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and others to satisfy client requirements and scalability.Enhanced build verification process for product by leading the design and development of user interface automation strategy.Worked closely with various technical leads across the globe and business units in development of required features for clients.Proposed and implemented internal projects and solutions to increase team efficiency, processes and communications.Presented technical strategies to senior management on how to reduce infrastructure costs.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Provided technical support assistance to enterprise customers and IBM services for the WebSphere Portal product.Used technical and negotiation skills in collaboration with other support operations/organizations to prioritize and diagnose problems to resolution.Communicated action plans to the customer and IBM representatives. Recommended and implemented new improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures and processes.

Modularized code for upcoming new release based on .NET framework.Performed quality assurance testing and verification for product.

State College, Pa, Us

Enhanced custom BIOS features for modular computer boards and systems with emphasis on the PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, PCI/104-Express, and PCIe/104 specifications.Developed a 'quick boot' BIOS feature that generated a sales increase for all CPU-related products.