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• Led a growing cross-functional squad of 7.• Successfully implemented a security program within the engineering team leading to better identification and resolution of risks.• Increased documentation around awareness of tooling and processes resulting in the reduction of production incidents and increased tooling awareness.• Partnering with the product team on strategy, scope, and schedule while balancing technical debt.• Fostered a collaborative and innovative culture while encouraging and pushing for engineering excellence.• Successfully delivering projects on time while maintaining quality, scalability, and performance.• Leading the Machine Learning team as it integrates machine learning into the company to help minimize costs while driving increased customer satisfaction.• Encouraging increased quality through test-driven development and increased automated testing.• Identifying and addressing inefficiencies leading to increased productivity through better processes.• Participating in budget discussions regarding resource planning and allocation alignment against planned and future roadmaps.

New York, New York, United States

• Managed up to 12 cross-functional developers, increasing effectiveness to develop full-stack.• Increased the team’s impact through pairing, coaching, and aligning more junior members with tenured team members to create opportunities for growth through learning and mentorship. • Planned projects and allocated team members up to 6 months in advance while encouraging agile 1-week development cycles.• Collaborated with other teams inside and outside of the company in different disciplines.• Increased teams’ impact through timely feedback and proper goal setting leading to three developers being promotion ready. • Built team culture and engineering excellence by guiding forums for developers to collaborate on learnings and solutioning through challenges.• Took the lead on identifying potential security risks and ensured proper auditing of PII through the teams’ tools.• Coached and mentored more junior managers on developer impact reviews as well as calibration sessions to ensure proper level setting.• Removed roadblocks and minimized teams’ interruptions by triaging incoming issues and performing code fixes. • Accelerated delivery of features by completing development tasks in Ruby on Rails with automated deployments to GCP.• Participated in primary on-call rotations supporting the system, including diagnosing and fixing challenges.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Managed and assisted a team of five developers by promoting career growth and working with them to successfully lead a team of contractors.• Increased adoption of the product by guiding development and ensuring the success of multiple embedded communication integrations.• Collaborated with other engineering teams across the company to increase customer satisfaction when embedding the product into other collaboration tools.• Drove engineering excellence, architectural development, AWS cost optimization, and operation monitoring for highly available services.• Participated in code reviews and development using Electron.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

• Led two teams of Developers and QA Engineers with 16 direct reports and 4 additional contract remote team members in an Agile environment operating in 3-week sprints using Jira.• Prioritized backlog based on OKRs and initiatives.• Worked with a team migrating technology stack from Rackspace to AWS.• Reduced operational costs while increasing reliability and scalability by actively researching and learning Docker.• Worked with teams to automate testing and build using Jenkins pipelines to drive efforts toward continuous deployments to further decrease time to deployment.• Identified opportunities to maximize employee capitalization.• Worked with internal and external customers on current and upcoming projects.• Monitored high transaction system performance and health and completed RCAs and incident reports.• Personnel management which included hiring, mentoring, disciplining, and firing. • Worked with internal and external customers on potential and ongoing projects.• Identified and mitigated production issues by working with fellow development managers.• Provided tier 3 on-call support.• Worked with MySQL database and Java backend microservices hosted in AWS.• Used Java to write tooling to be used for SOC compliance auditing.• Worked with Adyen, Cybersource, Paypal, and other payment providers to enhance payment options.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

As a team lead, I was able to recognize gaps that were impacting the team's bandwidth. I was able to reduce the distractions of meetings by discouraging the entire team to go to meetings by selecting key people involved with projects. Additionally, I was able to work with partners inside and outside of the company to increase quality by increasing external integration testing to prior to deployments.• Facilitated scrum meetings, effectively planned sprints, and prepared sprint report cards.• Led a team of 5 with 2 additional contract team members.• Ensured development items met proper load and audit requirements.• Handled sprint item overrides to see requests through the proper approval process.• Coordinated and attended internal and external meetings for current and upcoming projects.• Communicated effectively with internal and external clients related to projects.• Effectively worked to bridge communication gaps between development and operations.• Prepared and submitted a proposal to provide additional support to international regions.• Recognized, by peer majority vote, with Rockstar award for the work completed onboarding new clients.• Successfully implemented the backend services to support ApplePay allowing for easier e-commerce transactions.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

• Completed feature and defect items submitted to Axosoft ticketing system.• Wrote SQL statements executed against MySQL database.• Extended backend applications written in Java using IntelliJ and Eclipse in a high-volume transactional system.• Performed troubleshooting of reported production issues reported through Jira Service Desk.• Ensured that Github code was checked in and merged with appropriate approvals. • Partnered with another engineer to propose the accesso Configurator to make customer onboarding faster and less prone to human error.

Ocoee, Florida, United States

In order to improve the backup reliability of the system, I wrote a tool that would allow for a backup to a separate onsite server which led to an additional revenue stream as an add-on to the existing off-site backup service already offered. To increase the configurability of the product, I made the external tool's configuration files easily configurable from within the application.• Developed and tested code changes implemented from enhancement requests and bug findings.• Wrote and debugged complex SQL statements executed against PostgreSQL database.• Worked on developing the Point-of-Sale System written in Java using NetBeans and Eclipse.• Created touch-friendly screens for the POS in JavaFx and Java Swing using MVC best practices.• Tracked enhancement requests and changes in FogBugz ticketing system.• Maintained updated SVN/GIT repository with code revisions tested for deployment.• Helped migrate to an Agile/Scrum environment with 2-week cycles.• Ensured proper inventory was tracked through the sales and return process as well as HIPAA and legal compliance of prescriptions.

Ocoee, Florida, United States

Seeing people make mistakes when running saved "fix" scripts, I wrote a tool in Java that promoted the user for specific variables and then executed the SQL directly in the database which reduced the number of errors and time it took to resolve issues.• Provided exceptional remote support for customers with Point-of-Sale hardware and software.• Trained internal and external customers on Point-of-Sale hardware and software.• Helped customers set up and configure Point of Sale hardware, software, and networking.• Troubleshot and addressed issues with printers, network connections, routers, and interfaces.• Provided support for Windows and Linux customers averaging 35 calls per shift.• Assisted pharmacists with software and in getting third-party claims adjudicated while adhering to HIPPA guidelines and regulations.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Information Systems Management, 3.88

With distinction

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Information Systems Securities, 3.7

• Salutatorian