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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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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

With distinction

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Information Systems Securities, 3.7

• Salutatorian