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Florida, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Leveraging my diverse background in emerging technologies and closely following technology trends, I joined Stratascale to lead the Emerging Technology Advisory team. This team focused on AI, DevSecOps, Modern Applications, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Architecture.Built and led a multidisciplinary “Early Stage” technology team focused on identifying, evaluating, and recommending innovative technologies in DevSecOps, Automation, and modern application architecture. After evaluating responsible for injecting Venture Capital portfolios across our customer base, sales, engineering, marketing, office of the CTO, and executive leadership. I scan the horizon for emerging management tools, skills, techniques, and technologies; ensure their timely introduction for competitive advantage working to tie innovative industries and technologies to business objectives and IT Strategy.Growth Architect: Spearheaded market strategies & initiatives, aligning with client needs for rapid growth. Managed partnerships and due diligence and built business cases for AI-powered solutions.Responsible AI Champion: Discussed AI applications' transparency, explainability, and security. Developed compliant frameworks with clients, ensuring ethical deployments.Strategic Advisor: Empowered executives on strategic initiatives and improved business operations by leveraging AI's potential.

Provided technical and team leadership to support PAAS and IaaS programs and improvements. Managed a multi-million dollar budget and 13 total FTEs, communicating progress and ongoing status updates directly to the CIO. Formed and matured relationships with strategic partners, including Microsoft, for managed services and cloud hosting while simultaneously reducing costs and increasing the performance of core systems and applications. • Reduced capital expenses by $300k by leading a cloud migration project that consolidated disparate functionality and introduced a modern architecture that can scale with limited capital investment. • Led the Enterprise Architecture Review Board to oversee the alignment of enterprise applications and solutions with the organization's strategic goals, standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines. Spearheaded process enhancements, fostering cross-functional collaboration to audit and optimize testing efforts and environments, eliminating operations redundancy and reducing expenditures.• Started BI initiative to consolidate and present key performance metrics that aligned business and technical leaders and generated strategic insights that resulted in $500k worth of cost savings.

New York, Ny, Us

Executed a multi-million-dollar capital and operating budget to modernize infrastructure, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives through roadmaps enabling IaC, cloud technologies, and resource shifts between on-prem and cloud based on business value. Instituted project methodologies to drive cost-optimized initiatives, overseeing projects and assignments in the technology group. Drove a cultural shift to optimize team operations, modernize environments, set objectives, and conduct performance reviews. Led DevOps strategy across diverse consumer and B2B portfolios, building consensus and leading change across departments. Improved morale, communication, and technical acumen as a director of 3 teams with 45 reports. Managed recruiting, hiring, onboarding, staffing, and professional development for engineering teams.Increased system-wide availability to 99.99% by implementing DevOps transformation, connecting Infrastructure and Delivery teams and their deployment processes.Managed a $1.5M executive-sponsored DevOps cloud technology project to plan and budget, mitigating risks before they occurred.Led organizational change management from Waterfall to Agile practices, improving pre and post-deployment processes across the enterprise, and coached engineering leaders during the transition.Expanded test automation, saving over $2M annually by introducing an automated build and testing system.Reduced production issues by 75% within six months, freeing development resources for new application development.Increased throughput and improved overall code quality by managing teams and introducing strategic process improvements.Managed software integration testing and configuration management for 300 applications, driving continuous releases.Led the strategic formulation of branching and merging strategies, increasing deployment speed and decreasing defects.

Architected, developed, and implemented over ten production systems with a real-estate focus and led a team of 5 programmers, a Report writer, a QA Tester, and 2 Project Managers. Assign and coordinate development and coding tasks for projects, often working on the most complex or risk-laden modules to ensure the project's success.• Fulfilled multiple roles, including architect, developer, security, operations, project management, business analyst, and quality assurance. • Research and recommend application and platform architecture, including server hardware/virtualization recommendations, OS Software, application development standards, frameworks, patterns, and techniques. • Utilized WCF 4.0 Restful services for API Integration.• Built multiple internal tools to manage servers. ETL from various vendors using XML, XLS, and Access db.• Perform security and configuration audits on all servers.Primary Technology utilized: ASP .NET, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL Server, Team Foundation Server.

Created a variety of internal and external applications written in C# with a SQL Server 2005 database. Conformed to HIPPA regulations regarding the entire software development life cycle. Led a team of 6 programmers.• Interfaced with mainframe application (MailRx) using web applications.• Created multiple applications, including console applications, web applications, and win forms (https://usspecialtycare.com/). • Created internal components for Microsoft’s SSIS.Primary Technology utilized: ASP.NET, JavaScript, SQL Server, Source Code Repositories.

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Successfully led the development and deployment of the enterprise Quoting and Enrollment engine, allowing for 1.5 million people to enroll in the first five months of launch. Work with internal and external stakeholders, senior management, and vendors to analyze issues, document requirements, and develop solutions to realize business objectives.• Engineered quoting and multi-step enrollment application, allowing on-demand decisions for short-term health insurance policies, reducing policy rejections by 450%.• Reviewed and approved all technical designs to ensure that business objectives were addressed while adhering to defined architectural principles and solution design standards.

Houston, Texas, Us

I led a cross-functional development team in designing and maintaining enterprise-wide solutions, including an order-tracking system that significantly enhanced business efficiency. I ensured that the team adhered to project plans and delivered high-quality software within time constraints, while maintaining compliance with RESPA and SOX regulations. By applying Agile methodologies, I gathered requirements from business units and end-users, delivering new features in three-week sprints. My focus on performance optimization resulted in a 200% increase in efficiency through targeted benchmark testing. Additionally, I played a key role in preparing comprehensive project documentation, including functional specifications, end-user manuals, and conducting third-party application analysis for ROI and risk assessment.

London, Gb

Rapid Application Development for mortgage loan services includes default, loss mitigation, servicing, and acquisitions of loans. Developed and integrated web applications with a Mainframe backend (MortgageServ) and conformed to SOX compliance.

Palm Harbor, Florida, Us

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