Senior VP and Director of Engineering for Accident and Health Services at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. Responsible for technical roadmap and planning for new A&H underwriting system, including architecture. Engineering group built from ground up, delivering MVP in 9 months with modernized CI/CD processes. Accountable for budgeting, hiring, cloud cost management, UI, services, and infrastructure implementation.

· Product Owner and Principal Engineer on Event Servicing Platform, an event streaming platform to support the entire H&R Block Enterprise· Architected and designed platform from green-field through to production· Acted as engineering lead to team of 8-10 distributed across four US time zones and India· Leveraged Confluent Cloud Kafka and Azure Kubernetes Service to provide a PaaS platform to simplify event driven applications· Infrastructure code written in golang, including a custom Kubernetes operator for management and deployment of new consumer and producers into the environment· Utilized Istio as integrated service mesh· Used Google protobuf and gRPC for the majority of Microservice API and Event interactions· C#, Java and golang libraries for event serialization and deserialization constructed via code generation· Led Event Storming sessions to help teams onboard their events onto the platform, both in person and remotely, with up to 30-40 attendees utilizing Miro and Microsoft Teams· Developed and presented early proof of concepts utilizing Kafka Streams in both Java and Kotlin, based on the Micronaut framework

· Constructed Graphical Monitoring Interface for Manufacturing System· Interface primarily written in Angular· Managed multiple small websites

· Responsible for Solutions Architecture for the Centralized Processing Center.· Provided hardware and software architecture documentation through planning and design phases.· Involved in selection of Smart Enterprise Suite component to support enterprise level initiatives.· Created application architecture for CPC web application using FileNet and TIBCO BusinessWorks Workflow.· Provided project planning support and resource evaluation.· Introduced various development frameworks to shorten development lifecycle.· Collaborated with product vendor and integration vendor to insure completion of project on time.

· Constructed workflow engine for managing loans through loan origination system.· Responsible for toolkit selection and architectural direction for multi-tier loan origination application.· Established architectural framework for ongoing web development projects.· Coordinated team activities through the development process.· Established agile development processes.· Provided low-cost architectural solutions to common problems using open source toolkits.· Provided training on development methodologies and toolsets.· Managed team of four.

· Designed and developed web-based loan origination and servicing system.· Led architectural forums and coordinated delivery tier implementation.· Recommended architectural changes and direction.· Promoted to delivery tier team lead within six weeks of start.

· Responsible for evaluating and proposing architectural solutions for new PCS network applications including replacement of the 3G wireless portal, HTTP intermediation, and JAIN SLEE applications.· Prepared RFP for wireless portal vendor selection.· Responsible for planning and implementation of several key 3G wireless network applications.· Constructed security schemes and provided oversight for implementation.· Created several web-based demos to be presented to corporate officers of Sprint and external companies.· Administered Solaris 8, RedHat Linux 7.x, and Oracle 8i and 9i in demo lab.· Setup development environment including configuration management and system backups.

· Designed and implemented a Java thread-based database load monitor.· Monitor responsible for dynamically evaluating performance and tuning of Oracle database load.· Recommended various ways to clean up design of database load process.· Helped establish new client relationships.

· Designed and managed implementation of two J2EE based systems.· Managed work distribution and workload for team of four.· Responsible for time and cost budgeting.· Performed risk analysis and tracked employee performance.· Gathered and documented system requirements.· Established and implemented configuration management policies.· Provided user training and development team mentoring.· Used UML and entity relationship diagramming with Rational Rose and ER/Win.· Configured and maintained Weblogic 5.1 and 6.0 on both Windows NT and RedHat Linux.· Installed, configured and administered RedHat Linux systems.· Developed systems using EJB 1.1, Java Servlets, and JSPs.· Used CSS, JavaScript, and DHTML to implement user interface.

· Evaluated architecture for stability and ease of maintenance.· Provided recommendations on architectural changes.· Documented all proprietary code for system.· Created UML diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams to help with code maintenance.· Repaired minor bugs in code.· Telecommuted from DCR office for length of project.

· Wrote project proposals and performed technical interviews.· Evaluated business deals and recommended new partnerships.· Established partnership with Vitria through business contacts.· Established new client relationships with Sprint through business contacts.

· Acted as System Architect.· Performed maintenance on TAT-14 undersea cable administration interface.· Designed and implemented TAT-14 database and created PL/SQL packages for data maintenance.· Telecommuted from DCR office for length of project.· Performed some onsite Oracle DBA maintenance and crisis intervention.

· Acted as development and production Oracle database administrator, data analyst, system administrator, senior Java developer, and technical team lead for development of MAYA-1 and TAT-14 submarine cable system administration web interfaces.· Managed work distribution and workload for team of six.· Responsible for recommending technologies, hardware, and software purchases.· Implemented configuration management policies and system using CVS.· Designed system using Rational Rose, UML, and ER/Win.· Developed system using Java 1.2, Java Servlets, JavaScript, HTML, JSPs, JDBC, JavaBeans, XML, Objectspace Voyager ORB, and Oracle 8i.

· Designed and created web applications using multiple web technologies.· Implemented label printer driver for enabling remote printing through Java applet.· Wrote Visual Basic and Visual C++ applications to support thick client database manipulation.· Wrote SQL to support both thin and thick client applications.· Built and supported three applications in a one-year period. page 3

· Designed, implemented, and integrated a Windows NT 4.0, Linux, and Solaris network for a geographical information systems lab.· Administered lab hardware and software.· Designed and created web-based information tools for government soils project using Java, JSP, JDBC, Perl and CGI.· Implemented file sharing between NT, Solaris, and Linux using Samba and NFS.· Created and maintained backup scripts for all systems.· Responsible for upkeep and maintenance of Sun Solaris UNIX workstations.· Converted Solaris based ESRI ARC/Info scripts to NT and maintained scripts on both systems.

· Evaluated personnel, created schedules, wrote staff policies, suggested equipment purchases, and staff man- agement.· Gained valuable diversity training and crisis management experience.· Provided technical support by email, telephone, and personal assistance for the university computing envi- ronment, supporting 30,000 faculty and students.· Maintained the CNS Consulting web site.· Created and maintained documentation and FAQs for common applications and technical support issues.