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- Sales technical support- Solution Architect- Technical Architect- Development Lead / Delivery Lead- Career ManagerWorking with clients to design, implement and deploy integrated Microsoft D365 solutions. As a Technical Architect, responsible for technical design of requirement documents, implementing and deploying solutions. Additionally, mentoring and training both clients and other employees in integration, migration and best coding practices.As a lead Solution Architect for Avanade's West Region, working with Sales teams, other solution architects to produce an effective business solution to clients. Expert in utilizing MS stack of D365, Azure and Power Platform. Responsible for the solution, resource planning, costing, contract and mobilization to the implementation team.Dynamics AX and D365, Azure Services, Power Platform

Working primarily at customer sites to implement and deploy customization of Microsoft Dynamics AX Solutions. Responsible for technical design of requirement documents, development, mentoring, training and testing of solutions. Mentor peers in design, development and processes.Coding in X++, MorphX and C#. Creating Specifications, UML, implementing, testing and mentoring.

Perform a pivotal engineering role in the shipping of multiple releases of Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail Solution. Mentor peers in project management, database design and product integration.• Reduced customer’s IT multi-machine test platform setup from two weeks to four hours.• Improved customer partner satisfaction, based on tracked metrics, by streamlining the incoming and outgoing programing interfaces for three of the nine Dynamics AX teams.• Trained other cross team and cross discipline members on effective strategies to streamline their own interfaces to exceed various customer metrics.• Analyzed root cause failures and improved test methodologies to drive product improvements. Over four months, testing failures were reduced by 20% and product pass rate improved from 65% to 92%.Coding in X++, MorphX and C#. Creating Specifications, UML, implementing, testing and mentoring.

Lead and manage teams from a few key individuals to 25+ across multiple locations. Establish scope and nature of work; including budget and resource allocation, performance, security and scalability requirements and overall architecture.• Led teams in shipping features into the major applications encompassing Visual Studio.NET (versions 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008), .NET Framework (versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5), Office XP, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and Dynamics AX Supplier Resource.• Created a test specification for Microsoft’s implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD). Every team implementing their own versions of a validating XML reader or writer used this specification.• Managed and contributed to software design, user design, review of code changes and tracking deliverables. Modified the cross team milestone processes which resulted in expediting development of C# and C++ efforts and elevating quality control.• Directed testing and managed software release of XML-based developer tools in Visual Studio over a period of three years. This required a seamless coordination of resources and schedules between multiple Visual Studio and SQL development and test teams.

Create a sole-proprietorship company to provide expertise and mentorship to various company and government short-term projects.• Designed and managed a change control process that took place over 10 months for over 90 real-time applications that consisted of 15,000+ change requests across a group of mainframe and PC programmers.• Trained staff, from clerks to C-Class individuals, in how to maintain legacy systems, design new features and reports, and administer databases.• Automated management of components, maintenance and parts across a fleet of helicopters. Reduced time to track components from a few weeks to hours.

Lead and manage a team to maintain and improve all information systems to support manufacturing, inventory and human resources.• Managed and implemented a multi-location improvement of infrastructure to up scale from a single server environment supporting 15 devices to an enterprise solution of 500+ desktops and devices.• Designed and developed a custom HR system. Integrated the HR system into a purchased MRP system that resulted in accelerating summary reporting turnaround from three days to eight hours.• Trained accounting, human resources and select information systems individuals to reduce the IS team from eight to three people.