As Chief of DevOps and head of the development team, I drive the modernization and efficiency of our technology infrastructure and software development processes. My role centers around deploying advanced DevOps practices, enhancing code quality, and ensuring robust, scalable solutions.

In my tenure as VP of Engineering, I orchestrated the strategic scaling and refinement of our engineering department, enhancing key areas such as infrastructure, DevOps, and data management to support and elevate our technology services.• Unified and directed a diverse team structure, growing to manage 7 directors and 100 team members across various engineering disciplines.• Led a major revitalization of our self-hosted faxing platform, which involved a complete architectural overhaul, enabling full backward compatibility, more than doubling our capacity to over 500,000 faxes per month, and substantially improving performance and reliability.• Served as a member of the executive leadership team, providing insight and direction on technological strategy and innovation.• Oversaw numerous successful implementations on our proprietary technology platform and a Salesforce-hosted hub management solution.• Drove the standardization of over 200 release pipelines within Azure DevOps while introducing feature toggles, significantly increasing our ability to manage releases and maintain high standards of quality assurance.• Implemented salt to standardize the provisioning of our infrastructure across multiple clouds and colocated VMware hosts.

As Director of Software Development, I oversaw the significant expansion of our development operations and integrated quality assurance into our development lifecycle.• Grew the development team from four to eight product teams to enhance product focus and accelerate delivery.• Integrated a 10-person QA team and their management into the development process to streamline efficiencies and improve product quality.• Developed a clear development hierarchy, establishing staff management roles that have successfully cultivated leaders within the organization and beyond.• Implemented a centralized logging and observability framework using the Elastic Stack, bolstering our monitoring capabilities.• Lead technical role in the successful acquisition and integration of two software companies, aligning them with our strategic goals.• Initiated and directed the migration to Auth0, upgrading our authentication system to provide robust SSO support for our clients.

Shortly after joining the organization, I took on the role of technical lead, where I played a key part in developing a unified ePrescription and case management platform. This role had me collaborating with product leadership to build a system that could adapt to the varying needs of our clients and improve user experience.• Led a team of approximately 15 developers across PHP and .NET frameworks, focusing on cohesive product development.• Refined client implementation workflow, addressing bottlenecks in the development process and reducing deployment times from 2 weeks to 2 days.• Continued to support Agile methodologies, utilizing Jira and Azure DevOps for process automation and project tracking.• Directed the transition from legacy PHP applications to a more streamlined .NET platform, a move that had been in the pipeline for several years.• Integrated SSO capabilities to ensure a frictionless transition between the legacy system and new platform features where full updates were pending.• Set up OAuth 2.0 for enhanced authorization and collaborated with the infrastructure team to implement OpenAM for secure identity management.• Upgraded various management interfaces to improve performance and introduced a modern, responsive design for a better user experience.

Worked directly with company President and key clients to improve existing product offerings and develop new solutions across the complete oil logistics lifecycle from pipeline to delivery and consumption.• Modernized legacy consignment solution to handle a 10x increase in store count and transactions.• Delivered management application for coordinating movement across one of the nation's largest oil pipeline networks.• Led effort within development organization to overhaul source control, deployment, and change tracking procedures.