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Lead multiple teams working in several different Agile Release Trains (ARTs) by providing project direction, technical guidance, and mentoring. Manage planning, prioritization, delivery of team objectives, business strategic roadmap development, budget, staffing, and performance management. • Manage 50+ engineers divided into 7 development teams in multiple lines of business comprised of various mixes of local and remote staff and onshore, nearshore and offshore contractors by providing mentorship, technical leadership, budget management, and managerial oversight and reporting.• Delivery and project management for a client migration effort to reduce legacy technical debt realizing an organizational expense savings of 1.5M a month.

Individual contributor and technical lead for multiple teams providing technical guidance and mentoring. Contributed to planning, prioritization, implementation, troubleshooting, review, and delivery of team objectives.• Technical Leader for an enterprise-wide Article 7 effort to implement Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in build pipelines. Provided direct technical direction to teams implementing and evidencing SAST features. Conducted office hours meetings and team consultations to onboard teams and address workstream questions.• Drove ART wide effort to reduce technical debt and risk through the adoption of JFROG XRAY (Open Source Binary Vulnerability Scanning) in ~40 projects and managed and coordinated 13 production releases.• Solved incompatibility issues with JBoss and the Hazelcast client and JSONB libraries and assisted peers across the organization by creating knowledge transfer WIKIs and by being an active contributor assisting peers in numerous internal slack channels.

Led the separation and migration of monolithic WebSphere SOAP services to containerized RESTful microservices handling ~500 million daily transactions. utilizing JBOSS, SpringBoot, Docker, OpenShift, GitLab, Gradle, Kafka, Cassandra, and CouchDB.

Team Lead responsible for analysis, design, planning, implementation, test, and deployment of web and cloud-based projects. Efficiently handled diverse workload and seamlessly transitioned between multiple projects and technologies to meet company needs.• Led building of a data lake ingestion and reporting solution for product telemetry received from endpoint software using Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Redshift and EC2 with testing and designed and built automated deployment orchestration using Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible and CloudFormation.• Led modernization of an endpoint security agent UI utilizing CEF, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Bacon, Handlebars, Lodash/Underscore, jQuery, Karma, and Jasmine. • Developed multiple server-side UI applications for centralized management of endpoints in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) utilizing Java, HTML, Spring, JavaScript, JSP, CSS, AJAX, JUnit, Mokito, PowerMock and JaCoCo.• Designed and implemented a new product implementing XCCDF and OVAL specifications for enterprise customers that verified and applied policies to ensure security standard compliance.• Created and reported code coverage metrics and developed and monitored continuous test/integration systems utilizing TeamCity driving improvements in code and product quality.• Designed, developed and maintained features in back-end windows and web services and front-end client-server applications of a C#/C++ security vulnerability remediation product.• Author tables, views, stored procedures, functions and triggers on SQL Server databases using TSQL and SQLXML and implement and manage upgrade scripts to allow live updates of production environments.• Provided third level support for deployed applications, creating hot fixes and patches as required, resulting increased application efficiency and stability.

Microsoft Certified Database Administrator/Microsoft Certified Solution Developer responsible for in-house SQL Server 2000/7.0 database administration and consulting services to client database administrators, developed coding standards, and performed compliance code reviews. Managed and tech lead a 7-member team that provided telephone customer support, remote implementation assistance, analyzing client needs and designed, developed, tested, and delivered all-inclusive subsystems. • Drove high-level performance and productivity through mentoring and development of QA and development staff.• Oversaw and contributed to technical documentation for specification, installation, configuration and use of hardware and applications.• Lead DBA that developed tables, views, stored procedures, functions and triggers on SQL Server 2000/7.0 databases.• Lead Developer for a Visual Basic 6.0 General Ledger/Accounts Payable application and follow-on conversion to Visual Basic.NET. • Implemented and managed the company's source control system. • Led migration of a comprehensive law firm management software package from MS Access 97 to a MS Access 2000 client utilizing ADO and SQL Server and subsequent conversion to Visual Basic.NET.• Identified, designed, developed, implemented, tested, and deployed defect fixes and product enhancements for a comprehensive Pascal based law firm management software package. • Provided maintenance support on Informix 4GL based Legal Conflict of Interest tracking application.

Additional experience at EXE Technologies as a Systems Engineer and NOLA Computer Services (Contractor) @ Entergy

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