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Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas

• Established a comprehensive documentation plan for all projects, ensuring clarity and seamless knowledge transfer, which increased project efficiency by 25% and reduced inter-departmental communication errors by 30%.
• Team management for company performing the hiring, mentoring, yearly reviews and goal setting for technical team.
• Managed and built a high performing development team of up to 16 team members collaborating across departments to drive business results through sharing of ideas and innovation in an agile development environment
• Managed, planned designed and coded the efforts of the team that built the Echo Park Experience site, utilizing Python, Django and Postgresql to create a user-friendly platform for customers to set up vehicle.
• Fortified Linux and Windows servers through automated scripts and regular updates, achieving a 99.9% uptime and reducing security incidents by 40% over six months.
• Proficient in utilizing a diverse set of technologies, including PHP, Python, Django, Wagtail, Kentico, Drupal, C# and more, to build websites and systems for various clients.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Set objectives and strategies for the software development and infrastructure of the company.
• Successfully drove the digital transformation of the company from Google Suite to SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive, administering and optimizing these platforms for enhanced productivity.
• Installed and configured Meraki networking equipment across all locations, implementing site-to-site VPN connections for seamless communication.
• Oversaw the procurement for all IT hardware, ensuring cost-effectiveness and alignment with organizational needs.
• Configured Azure GCC-High tenant to enhance the security stance of the organization’s cloud infrastructure.
• Led the 4 million dollar modernization project of the entire organization Achieved a notable 30% reduction in equipment and service bills by implementing efficient Intune device management strategies.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Facilitated daily stand-ups, story writing, back log management and sprint planning for the team, ensuring efficient Agile methodologies.
• Led cross-functional teams in the development of C#,.NET, Angular and MS SQL applications
• Managed Azure DevOps, overseeing the coordination and facilitating seamless collaboration in the development process.
• Developed a WPF application that programmatically uploaded files to Azure Blob storage. Utilized SignalR to send messages to a microservice, triggering the transmission of metadata to API endpoints. This allowed third.
• Coordinated PowerPoint presentations, ensuring effective communication of project updates and milestones.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Responsible for all software development and system infrastructure planning and development.
• Led and developed staff to perform various IT functions including business intelligence, core processing, infrastructure and software development
• Discussed work progress and obstacles with direct reports and provided advice, guidance and constructive feedback
• Managed IT support functions to deliver outstanding internal customer service
• Created the first Disaster Recovery Plan to ensure business continuity and security
• Planned and coordinated project plans, schedules, and related activities

Dallas

• Responsible for leading the team to achieve the goal of removing the legacy software and systems.
• Built and managed a team of 4 software developers to modernize core reporting and informational applications
• Worked with firm leadership to gather requirements and gain project buy-in
• Designed and built a new system to replace legacy Plumtree intranet
• Reduced equipment needs to support the system from 12 servers to 3 servers
• Implemented Slack and GitHub integration to increase team communication and code backup

DFW Airport, Texas

• As a key member of the management team for North America responsible for working with other leaders of the business to provide advice on information system needs both infrastructure and software.
• Established and directed the strategic and tactical goals, policies, and procedures for the information technology department
• Worked with global development teams to bring together multiple business applications and consolidate information across the business for faster reporting to global corporate leadership
• Mentored, coached and managed a team of 3 software developers and 1 technical support resource
• Researched new technologies to see how they can help with the mission of the business
• Reduced inventory time from 3 days to less than 24 hours and increased reliability by developing an internal system using Android devices, custom-coded app and web APIs. Optimized the North American infrastructure to.

Texas

• Lead application developer using C# and PHP to build out efficient code to increase performance of application and scalability.
• Mentored and assisted junior staff with development and proper IT procedures
• Reduced server costs by moving databases from MS SQL to MySQL and consolidating platforms in an open-source system
• Set policies for code retention, code release procedures, and business continuity processes
• Developed new code and refactored several PHP websites and C# console applications
• Promoted the company’s products using a custom-developed website, promotional materials, and SEO best practices

• Senior software developer responsible for full SDLC of projects and mentoring of junior developers
• Refactored ACH batch processing of files and increased performance by 50% using C#
• Created an intranet security framework to be used throughout all internal applications to consolidate how logins are performed across all business applications
• Architected and developed a new web-based claims management system converting an AS400 DB2 system to modern client-server environments
• Created Corporate Instant Messenger WinForms application using Active Directory
• Integrated Instant Messenger application into the new claims management system to increase efficiencies when representatives needed assistance from managers

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for all aspects of Information Technology supporting client project development, internal projects and infrastructure
• Maintained and supported all internal systems
• Negotiated new phone and internet service with vendor to reduce costs and increase services
• Re-factored and developed new functionality for in house custom CRM application
• Developed web sites for customers to facilitate order placement, fulfillment, and warehouse management
• Processed, developed and managed data for annual mailing of tax documentsEnvironment: VB.net, ASP.net, MSSQL, Windows Server 2005, IIS, Free SMTP Server

• Software developer for internal and external business applications.
• Implemented websites utilizing Microsoft best practices and upgrading the site to the latest.Net Framework 3.5
• Converted authentication of site to utilize Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Refactored tool that updated database from external source to increase performance
• Implemented new table of contents system using a Component Art splitter control and the Microsoft Treeview controlEnvironment: C#, VB.net, MSSQL, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Component Art controls, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Addison, Texas

• Software Developer for internal and external VB.net, ASP.net and SQL 2005 based applications and websites
• Spearheaded and led the transition from Microsoft’s CRM 1.2 to Microsoft’s CRM 3.0 and coded custom requirements using ASP.net, VB.net and SSRS
• Designed and developed the intranet and internal applications using VB.net and SQL 2005
• Developed and designed a data warehouse application to hold credit data and facilitate retrieval of that data for processing utilizing VB.net, ASP.net and SQL 2005Environment: Microsoft CRM, VB.net, ASP.net, MSSQL.

• Responsible for all aspects of Software Development and network infrastructure for the company.
• Converted the environment from Linux to Windows increasing performance and reliability to 99.9% up time.
• Pioneered the IT policies and procedures for the company.
• Management, hiring, and mentoring of up to 4 employees
• Programmed, developed, maintained and designed business and web applications using VB 6.0, ASP, ASP.net, SQL Server 2000, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript
• Created an instant messenger system to increase customer satisfaction when trying to determine what products or services were needed from the e-commerce site.Environment: Linux, Microsoft Server 2000-2005, VB 6.0.

Addison, Texas

• Responsible for the leading the development efforts of the company and being the point of contact for customers Environment: ASP, Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, SQL, JavaScript, Flash, Java, DHTML, E-commerce, ASP.net
• Led a team of up to 10 developers in generating the online presence and e-commerce capabilities for clients.
• Liaison between clients and developers.
• Gathered requirements from customers and turn them in to action items for developers.
• Developed e-commerce websites using Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, ASP and SQL Server
• QA testing of all the web applications prior to pushing to production environment

Masters, Master In Technical Management

Coordinated group projects with a distributed team that would be graded as a group and the individual contributions.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Computer information systems

High School Diploma, General Studies

Activities and Societies: French ClubFrench Club