Lead team of Principal Engineers in providing technical leadership and mentoring across diverse engineering and product portfolios. Responsible for developing key technology strategies and direction for Benefitfocus SaaS platforms within Voya’s Workplace Solutions division.

I’m a passionate leader and technologist with an insatiable appetite for learning. I’m currently leading a core senior team in a modernization effort to move to cloud native for our core legacy products. I’ve held various positions as a technical leader and people manager leading in the design, building and supporting of various enterprise web applications and complex integration systems for an enterprise SaaS product line. Work on high volume service oriented architectures. Help design optimal system designs with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability and availability. Also involved in helping build new frameworks and applications for automated inbound and outbound EDI processing. Have worked across most of our products as a developer, architect and manager leading diverse, global high performance teams. I’m extremely hands on building enterprise java and .Net applications.. I also helped build our first native Benefitfocus iOS app including architecting the entire backend architecture, api gateway and backend API

Develop enterprise level .NET based applications in C#.NET for clients in the government sector.

ASP.Net C# application development of web based healthcare software.

Independent software developer and consultant. Built custom business software solutions for various clients. Examples of experience: Delphi Win32 client/server applications, .NET (VB.Net and C#) Winforms applications, Asp.NET web based applications. Variety of databases: Paradox, Access, Advantage SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server. Custom integration with 3rd party solutions (UPS Worldship, UPS Connectship, Airborne shipping, Great Plains, etc).

RPG IV AS/400 Programmer - Also built small departmental applications in Delphi, built interface apps for ADP Payroll.

Various IT tasks ranging from troubleshooting Windows and laptop issues, setting up new hardware and servers, providing operations support for MAPICS and AS/400 system, VB and MS Access development

Built applications using Clipper for processing and building EDI transactions - interface with Platinum Accounting System for processing orders submitted electronically and building invoice from system to send to customers. Provided help and support for Novell Netware based network.