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As President, responsible for all executive and accounting duties related to management of a software consulting firm. Market the company to potential clients. Write project proposals, bids, and RFP responses. Recruit, hire, and manage teams of consultants. Initiate, plan, and manage multiple projects at a time. Negotiate customer and vendor contracts, author and approve legal documents.As Principal Consultant, responsible for working as technical PM, lead architect, and developer on many client contracts. Includes all contracts on this profile from 2005 to the present.

Purchase, New York, Us

Beyond The Bottle Sodastream IoT Platform projectWorked as Cloud Architect on a large distributed team based mainly in India and Poland. Primary responsbilities were implementing over-the-air OS and application updates using Mender, integrating the Host OS deployment process with Azure IOTC and the web portal, and developing a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps to push releases to Mender. Also implemented SAML single sign-on using Okta, and certificate-based mTLS authentication on the Iot Edge devices.Gathered business and technical requirements and translated those to architectural diagrams, features, and user stories. Investigated and tested new technologies and created reference implementations for developers to use. Performed code reviews and mentoring. Acted as liaison between the Device Team and Platform Team, coordinating work efforts, resolving impediments, and fostering inter-team communication.Technologies: Microsoft Azure IoTC, Mender.io, Okta, Yocto and Ubuntu Linux, TPM, Certificates, mTLS, C#, React, Postman, Mender API, mender-convert, Docker, QEMU, LucidChart, Azure DevOps, YAML

Olympia, Washington, Us

Paid Family Medical Leave & Long-Term Care (WA Cares) project.WA Cares is a state-run long term care insurance program that provides benefits to retirees. The program includes both employer and beneficiary portals, with functionality to collect taxes from employees and pay benefits to claimants. It has both case tracking and financial components, as well as a batch processing system and interfaces to other agencies and banks.Worked as a hands-on solution architect responsible for translating business requirements to technical designs, mentoring and pair programming with developers, and peer reviewing code. Also worked as a developer on multiple sprint teams to deliver mission critical features.Key accomplishments included building the wage filling features as part of the program's initial release, and then delivering additional usability enhancements and legislative mandates via maintenance releases.Technologies: Microsoft Azure, C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Azure, nServiceBus, .NET Core, xUnit, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Postman, Orchard CMS, Git, Azure DevOps

Irvine, California, Us

M8 is an agricultural IoT startup which makes custom hardware and software for managing farms. The M8 product suite includes a customizable Waterguard device on the ground which hooks into the farm's irrigation system, plus a cloud-based AI and dashboard, and a mobile app for use in the field.Joined the startup early on while the product was still in the concept stage. Worked as Scrum Lead and Senior Software Developer. Established Scrum methodology and agile processes such as automated testing, continuous integration builds and deployments, and mentored the team in Lean Startup thinking. Helped the company to focus on delivering the customers’ most wanted features as quickly as possible while maintaining a high standard of code quality.Developed the dashboard website in Svelte, and helped develop the middle tier in MongoDb. Developed the mobile app using Flutter and FlutterFlow. Integrated with Particle IoT. Achieved successful product launch, installed and supported the system for the first three customers, delivered multiple incremental product updates for customer-requested features.Technologies: Svelte, Flutter, FlutterFlow, Confluence, Jira, Vercel, GitHub, MongoDb, Realm, Particle, Javascript, Android Studio, Twilio, FireBase, TestFlight, Google Play, Auth0

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Diversion Analytics Refresh projectScrum Lead and hands-on architect for a cloud re-platforming project. The goals of the project were to migrate a legacy application from on-premise FoxPro and SQL Server to a multitenant cloud solution running on AWS, Kafka, and DataBricks, and to develop a completely new web front end in Angular. The product is an analytics platform which uses proprietary AI algorithms to detect diversion activity in hospitals. Diversion is when a criminal diverts a drug from its intended purpose (the patient) to an illegal purpose such as personal use or black market sale. Analyzed and documented the old application code and assisted with converting the heuristic algorithms to Scala. Developed web services and pages in Angular. Formulated the multitenancy, security, and encryption strategies for handling sensitive customer and user data in a cloud system. Implemented database tables and procs in PostgreSql.Served as ScrumMaster for the team, mentored the client Product Owner and the Scrum Team members. Set up the Product Backlog, dashboard, and reports using Jira. Facilitated the standup, planning, demo, and retrospective meetings. Helped to remove roadblocks and ensure that the highest value functionality was always being developed first.Technologies: AWS, Kafka, DataBricks, Scala, Angular, Typescript, Javascript, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, FoxPro, Node, Jira

Olympia, Washington, Us

Paid Family Medical Leave project.Worked as an architect with IT Core during project ramp-up to design key areas of the system, mentor developers, and help set patterns for ongoing development. Led a large Scrum team in the role of Delivery Architect, which was a combination of hands-on development, technical project management, and team mentoring. Our team was responsible for critical application features related to financial transactions such as employer wage filings and tax payments, and benefits disbursals to claimants.Successfully delivered the Premiums functionality on time to meet the legislative deadline. The system collected over $150M in taxes over the first couple of months, in order to pay back the loan from the legislature. Next we delivered the Benefits module which is currently processing over 30K benefits claims per month and making payments to employees via direct deposit and prepaid cards.Worked as part of the leadership team on a 100+ person project to help implement agile business and development practices. Mentored developers in test-driven development, continuous integration, multithreading, performance, and service oriented architecture. Acted as developer advocate to management in Scrum of Scrums and other meetings.Technologies: Azure, NServiceBus, SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Dapper, VSTS, Git, Orchard CMS, Node.Js, Bootstrap 4, Gulp, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics AX, DevOps, CI/CD, AppInsights, .NET Core

Redmond, Wa, Us

Helped develop a phone app using Xamarin for Project Canine, used to record aptitude tests on service dogs. Leveraged Azure Functions and the Belgrade SqlClient to quickly stand up a webapi with SQL Azure on the back end.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Developed a custom Google form and spreadsheet for La Leche League of WA to assist in their outreach efforts. Fun example of using the simplest tech available + solid process to accomplish business goals. Multiple dev-test-implementation release cycles in a single weekend.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Helped develop a new website for Boots to Shoes ( http://bootstoshoes.org/ ) using WordPress and Windows Azure. Worked with a mix of BTS staff and volunteers, some of whom had never met before. Finished the whole thing in a weekend. Used Trello to manage the project.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Weekend project to roll out the new website for Rotary First Harvest ( http://firstharvest.org/ ). Worked with a large group of ASP.NET developers on a custom CMS system; used Git for source control and Azure for hosting.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Developed a WordPress website for Something Real, a non-profit foundation that hosts break dance events at high schools and donates 100% of the proceeds to Invisible Children.

Performed custom software development and technology architecture assessments for Wintellect's clients, nationwide.

Full lifecycle software development on various projects for WA State government agencies.

Full lifecycle software development consulting.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Lead software developer on numerous internal company projects. Developed coding standards and mentored other programmers.

Software consultant at Merck.

Paris, Fr

Developed a shipping/receiving database, custom VBA programs, and a VB application for managing MSDS information.

Certified Scrummaster, Scrum

Education record

Angular

Orchard Cms

Angular

Orchard Cms

Professional Developer Conference, .Net 4.0, Silverlight, Wpf

No Degree, Python, Gears, Appengine, Android

Csm, Scrum Project Management

Professional Developer Conference, Wf, Wcf, Vista, .Net

Professional Developer Conference, .Net 3.0, Sql 2005, Biztalk

Professional Certification, A Practitioner'S Guide To The Rational Unified Process

Professional Developer Conference, Vb / Com Programming

Professional Certification, Advanced Visual Basic Programming

No Degree, Sound Engineering, Computer Science

Aa, Music Theory And Composition