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Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership by facilitating scrum ceremonies, iteration planning, iteration review and iteration retrospective in a devops CI/CD environment. Support team rules, progress toward team goals, remove impediments and coach for relentless improvement. Assist Product Owner in their efforts to manage the product backlog. Focused on on-prem and cloud initiatives including web apps, security, artificial intelligence and machine learning that allows for process improvement, forecasting and competitive advantage.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Used industry standard tools to determine equipment and/or identity fraud. Investigated identities, determined location and duration of residence as well as any relatives associated with the customer.Verified businesses with various tools to determine filling, status with secretary of state, formation of company with identities provided. Researched IMEI, SIM and MEID history to ascertain original, cloned or upgraded devices and add/remove devices from telecommunications non-pay, lost or stolen lists that allow for porting onto other carriers.

Developed and maintained relationships with C-level and senior technical decision makers in order to fulfill the role of a trusted advisor in a short period of time. Analyzed business strategies and ascertained potential pain-points in order to map and propose sound technical solutions to address business requirements or issues on-premise, hybrid or in O365 for our social collaboration software. Maintained ownership and oversight of partners and professional services engagement for North America.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Researched market software, tools and conditions, trending building materials and low-cost providers in order to hedge inventories of next generation resources. Migrated users to O365 and core infrastructure to Azure as well as implemented a DevOps cloud-based scrum frame work in order to cut support costs, free resources for strategic initiatives and provide CI/CD. Implemented a secure mobile device strategy using O365 for field support and sales. Lead penetration testing, security monitoring, event handling and incident response efforts.

Las Colinas, Texas

Develop and maintain relationships with senior level technical and executive level business decision makers of large corporations. Educate the customer on the business value that can be realized by implementing a Microsoft solution with a consultative approach using both technical and business acumen to ensure a positive experience through onsite discussions, briefings, evaluations and proof-of-concepts. Maintain oversight for all of the technical pre-sales resources working across multiple lines of business in the account including partners, product teams, Solution Specialists, Microsoft Consulting and others within Microsoft as well as within the customer’s cross functional organization.

Focused on enterprise business integration onto our social collaboration & analytics platform working with account executives servicing new and existing strategic accounts in the United States and Europe each with varying verticals and quota commitments. Worked with account managers and executive management to formulate and execute on strategies based off of initial discovery sessions with potential clients to influence business and technical decision makers and leveraged all internal company assets including product, professional services and support teams, partners and executive management. Initiated and led ideation via crowd-sourcing and mentored intern developers who began working on social analytics for business intelligence that provided the ability to demonstrate the ROI of social software and eventually led to an additional product offering and increased revenue for the company.Implemented a defense-in-depth strategy and led penetration testing, SIEM/SOAR software implementation for the organization. Led and managed the stabilization of existing and the creation of new functionality for integration points into LDAP, Exchange, Skype for Business and SharePoint. Linked directly to 1.185m bottom-line revenue in FY2010 for a 10 million dollar-a-year company. Received R+1 award from CEO for significant contributions to the company. This was the first time this award was ever given and is only given to one person who has been identified as a standout above all others.

San Antonio, Texas

Maintained corporate ownership of all web and enterprise-based technologies including IIS, Sharepoint, Biztalk, SQL and various LOB applications. Led day-to-day technical and managerial aspects including technology research and direction, escalation management, project management and mentoring for a group of highly technical individuals architecting and supporting various enterprise-wide applications in a 120,000 seat enterprise. Served as trusted advisor to senior line of business and executive IT management by researching business strategies, emerging technologies, market trends or specific products as they pertain to current or future business processes that may impact company productivity, profitability or competitive advantage.