Technology leader who thrives in challenging, fast­-paced organizations, delivering scalable, loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive architectures and applications that meet and exceed business goals, financial objectives, performance goals, and operating requirements.How I Bring Success:• Understanding that people are first• Strong collaboration with all stakeholders to provide a b​usiness compass ​to ensure all efforts are pointed in the right direction and within practical timelines• Strong experience with technology strategizing through b​uild vs open source vs buy ​to correctly align with business and technology goals• Research, training, and open discussions w​ith technology and business team members,​ to learn how to improve products, services, brand, and overall market identity• Building a culture of team through respect, trust, success, and agility• Building competent, energized, focused, and goal­-oriented technology teams• Attracting and retaining top talent through culture, career and personal growth• Progressive thinker and adopter of everything open source• Active technology blogger on linkedin.comCore Competencies:• Excellent problem­-solving skills through people, processes, resources, and never ­give up attitude• Product/service definition, technology selection, and implementation strategies• Cloud, microservices, API's, EDA, data modeling/architecture, EAS, & team leadership• Solutions architectures depicting both current and future state architectures• Modern software architecture and design with emphasis on delivering practical results over pure solutions per standards• Developing proof-­of-­concepts demonstrating applicability and "deep­-narrow­-pass" of targeted technologies• Building a cool culture and great teams through respect, trust, and accountability• Integrating agile scrum in a practical manner suited to the organization