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• Serves as chief design solutions architect for the CallerReady software platform. • Serves as cloud infrastructure owner for all cloud hosted solutions. These include both AWS and Azure.• Migrated IBM Softlayer hosted infrastructure and the CallerReady software platform to Amazon Cloud Hosting using AWS Services that include, EC2, Route 53, VPC, S3, AD, VPN, SQL Server Always On Clustering.

Game designer, executive producer, and creator of the IGN Network Hall of Fame Neverwinter Nights 2 persistent world, Realms of Trinity.Website: http://www.realmsoftrinity.com

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Directed joint application development and application support teams.• Established and facilitated cross department stakeholder product steering team committees to product road maps and strategies for product and platform adoption.• Jointly managed budgeting and vendor contract management with corporate procurement to renegotiate contracts for operational expense cost reductions.• Managed and evaluated all software contracts and vendor relationships for application support.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

IT Application Development and Support Manager. Drives product delivery, road mapping, enterprise integration strategy utilizing software engineering best practices and development architectures.• Manages internally developed and 3rd party SaaS applications used in the organization. • Leads full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.• Serving as chief application infrastructure architect and ensures development efforts are consistently implemented and supported.• Focused process improvement targeting legacy application remediation and application consolidation.• Service oriented solutions provider that ensures business systems readiness.• Manages IT vendor relationships and adherence to agreed to SLAs and business practices.

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Us

• Corporate Information Technology lead architect.• Designed, co-developed, and implemented learning management systems integrations and new end user systems.• Defined and implemented the web and application development team’s development practices and change management work flow.• Architected and implemented a new student facing web site and web services infrastructure, which consisted of three publically facing and fully fault tolerant web servers and two back end data processing systems.• Developed and implemented an ASP.net web service tier to allow extensive customization of the Brain Honey LMS (Learning Management System).• Developed and implemented LMS content exporter / importer, which allowed seamless importing of over 350 courses.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Managed of a team of nine web developers and supported over twenty marketing web sites.• Served as lead architect for all development projects and service oriented processes.• Architected and implemented a full Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud environment for landing page hosting and lead processing. • Overseen and participated over fifteen full web site redesigns and implementations from start to finish.• Migrated internally hosted web properties to Amazon Cloud Hosting using AWS Services that include, EC2, Route 53, VPC, Cloud Front and S3 Edge Network hosting.• Held a 100% uptime rating for critical lead acquisition services for over fourteen months.• Pioneered the use of the latest .NET web technologies, such as MVC and Web Service data consumption layers.• Implemented a full Team Foundation Server 2010 platform for full software development lifecycle and resource management.• Reduced operational costs by over $100,000 annually through retirement of unused resources and service contracts.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Developed and maintained EDMC's school web sites and lead generation systems. • Created and implemented a custom .NET framework business and application layer that all EDMC brand and marketing properties utilized for standard event processing, error handling, and architecture.• Developed a custom application portal that housed a multitude of in house developed systems and administration tools. These tools covered products such as a work item tracking and time management system, dynamic landing page creation and deployment system, business data management and change tracking, dashboard reporting, and web site feature content administration.• Designed and developed a web site production deployment windows service to allow seamless web site code deployments to large .NET web sites.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Microsoft .NET Architect and Enterprise Framework Developer, Student Information Systems Development and Support, Cross Platform Integration Specialist.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Provided regular support for applications developed for accounting and inventory tracking. • Developed an extensive inventory guide system that guided ordering and supplying of material to customers. • Developed an accounting valuation system that evaluates total material production costs through every step of processing.• Enhanced online Oracle PL/SQL Order Status reports for multilingual functionality. • Created batch data processing applications to synchronize IBM DB2 and Oracle databases.• Developed Java batch systems to process these transactions and store them into staging databases for further processing. Received awards of excellence for applications developed and the value they provide the application’s business owners.

• Developed intranet web applications that utilized ASP, and n-tier active-X architecture. These included inventory management and work order tracking applications. Managed and trained a group of on remote site network administrators.• Designed and managed 84 Components networks over the northeastern United States.• Set up and maintained Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Active Directory servers.• Installed and maintained a Novell Netware file and print servers.