Provide strategic business value through technology solutions that are cost efficient, secure, and highly-available. Drive profitable revenue growth and market penetration by leading architecture, design, development, and deployment of software programs and platforms that deliver powerful cloud transformation for enterprise organizations in an array of verticals.

Thought and process leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), QA and DevOps for Neudesic. Provide guidance, leadership, and implementation of Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and On Premise Continuous Integration and Deployment solutions. Initially recruited by this Microsoft Global Partner of the Year software consulting company to improve DevOps and QA strategies and practices through all lines of business. Developed best approaches for conducting QA testing within Agile development methodologies. Wrote marketing literature to promote Neudesic’s Technical resources, and assist sales staff in selling Application Modernization and QA services. Direct manager of up to thirteen full-stack developers, providing mentoring, performance reviews and market readiness assessments.--Additional responsibilities for QA operations. Interview, hire and train test engineers and other QA personnel. Oversee testing and quality processes, including offshore resources.--Conducted extensive training, webinars, and presentations for Microsoft during product releases.Instructor: Microsoft Cloud Immersion Experience: Kubernetes in Action on Azure – Orange County 2019Presenter: Microsoft Visual Studios 2012, 2010 kickoff eventsPresenter: Southern California Quality Assurance Association – Orange County 2012 ‘Designing Reusable Frameworks for Test Automation’ Presenter: SoTeC Conference 2011 – ‘Effective QA in an Agile Process’Agile 2012 Conference: Stage reviewerStarWEST 2010 – Microsoft booth for Test Manager and Team Foundation ServerMicrosoft Certified TFS Implementation and ManagementPrevious Roles: 2014-2015 National Architect, Platform Applications; 2008-2014 National Practice Director, Quality Assurance; 2004-2006 Senior Project Manager; 2004-2006 Principal QA Architect

--Integration Solution Architect, design the middleware for a global integration of multiple enterprise systems for a well-known sportswear manufacturer and retailer. Hosted in Azure Cloud, this solution is composed of multiple services and interfaces for the Enterprise Open Data Platform using Domain Driven Design. Connected SAP, Dynamics365, SalesForce Cloud Commerce and 30+ other enterprise systems to stream millions of messages and events in real-time using microservices and Azure Service Bus. Designed the cloud systems for resiliency, high availability, and autoscaling across multiple regions. Deliverables also include implementing infrastructure as code as an integral part of the continuous integration/continuous delivery. Designed the solutions to publish metrics and logging in order to trace individual transactions throughout the entire global system. Captured all system messages in Azure Data Lake for data analytics. Provided guidance and mentoring to several development teams.--Enterprise re-platforming and re-engineering multi-year project for a mortgage service company. Key leader and decision maker for the Program. I was instrumental in providing guidance to convert the enterprise into an Agile and Entrepreneurial culture. Architected and managed the automated continuous deployment process as part of overall DevOps and ALM duties using TSF and Release Management. Designed and managed the Continuous Delivery pipelines which provide hundreds of automated builds and deployments daily. Defined and deployed system infrastructures. Defined quality process and procedures for developers and scrum masters. Directed 10 teams’ 50 geographically dispersed QA engineers during all phases of updating the company’s primary business database, backend processes, and web platform to current MS technologies. Architected and wrote the test automation framework that tests a complex system of UI, REST services, and database using Protrator, Selenium, and C#.

--Architect Infrastructure as Code data center migration to Google Cloud. Create solutions for migrating Windows-based servers from multiple global data centers into GCP using terraform enterprise. Jenkins and Ansible complete the solution to provide a fully operationalized and recoverable replacement of the on premise software solutions.--Enterprise project for a hospitality software company. Helped develop new industry award-winning software for reservations, revenue management, housekeeping, etc., that simplified processes and significantly improved operational efficiencies. Provided direct Agile coaching and leadership to software developers, project managers and business analysts. Responsible for automated build and deployment of the system into Azure Cloud. Provided performance metrics for the Azure cloud based system. --Replatflorming project to re-engineer a marketing company’s primary business system. Utilized ALM and Amazon Web Services. Directly responsible for developing the Automated Build and Release of the system in Microsoft Release Manager.--Implemented quality processes for developing and testing Healthcare Exchanges for the states of FL, AZ and NV. Ensured high quality and strict regulatory compliance. --Several projects that involved insurance, mortgage, title, banking, and escrow

Designed the entire infrastructure to manage daily business operations at this start-up company that provided financial consulting for unsecured loans and lines of credit. Wrote 10 programs and designed 2 websites. Set up a searchable database of 8500+ banks and 96K+ local branch offices to support the sales team.Wrote all programs in VS2005 in C# and ASP.NET with SQL2005.Implemented Small Business Server; utilized SharePoint, Exchange and MS SQL2005.Performed Search Engine Optimization for the company’s primary website, enabling it to maintain a Top 10 position in all major search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo).

Led 35+ on-shore and 10+ offshore testers in rewriting and deploying KBB.com (the Kelly Blue Book website). Responsible for quality all of the company’s 10 other systems. Standardized practices and introduced Agile for testing and quality practices. Managed a multi-million dollar budget. Increased the quality of all KBB software applications for both internal and customer use.

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