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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

* Led Hyatt’s Digital Transformation initiative from an engineering standpoint. * Re-organized existing single-function teams into cross-functional pods.* Mentored engineers on how to approach problems from an Outcome-oriented perspective* Worked closely with Product partners to help develop product strategy. Engaged in design-thinking strategy sessions as an engineering leader to ensure strategies were technically feasible from an execution and maintenance standpoint. * Helped transition the organization from a project-oriented approach to a product-oriented mindset.* Planned and executed a massive re-structuring of resources when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the hospitality industry particularly hard.* Expanded pre-existing remote-work habits to maintain Hyatt’s caring culture while teams were physically separated.* Worked closely with teams to keep morale high while working in a “keeping-the-lights-on” staffing model. Minimized technologist turnover.* Helped teams find political support for transition from Java to Kotlin in Spring back-end code.* Acted as main stakeholder for the entire Digital group during an unexpected PCI audit scope expansion. Then, designed architecture and pushed implementation needed to eliminate the need for future PCI audits. * Managed the engineering engagement to address various emerging technology issues including China’s Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL) and the recent Log4Shell vulnerability.* Led the way to design and implement an active-active disaster recovery approach for the digital applications. Coordinated with engineers to create best-practices and approaches for the technologies used.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* Created Development/Deployment automation using Jenkins Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform* Modernized Spring Applications to self-hosting spring-boot microservices* Migrated Nexus and Jenkins servers to Docker to aid in stability and repeatability.* Evangelized solid devops practices revolving around automation in build, testing and deployment

Chicago, Il, Us

* Managed multiple teams including Hyatt's Mobile App team involving iOS, Android and Back-end. * Served as development team lead for redesign of $4M/day booking flow from inception to full implementation. * Mentored junior team members. * Adhered to and advocated scrum approach to a relatively waterfall organization. * Worked directly with other groups to automate build and deploy processes, greatly increasing velocity. * Led PCI compliance gap analysis and implemented prototype solutions. * Introduced automated processes around database changes. * Led training and group discussions of group-at-large around new processes and technologies. * Wrote and reviewed RFCs for organization to introduce new enterprise-wide standards.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Technical Engineering Lead on multi-million dollar project offering ever-expanding custom functionality to a Fortune 100 financial client. Lead team from initial design stages to mature support and enhancement stages.- Lead small, agile teams to design, prototype and build new product offerings and enhance existing products and tools- Participate in functional design walk-through to understand the scope and impact of upcoming enhancements. - Collaborate with Product Management to identify, prioritize and document detailed product requirements- Lead the developers during technical design and development cycles to solve highly complex or critical problems. Research and present solution alternatives along with recommendations. - Create robust automated unit/functional test suites and deployment scripts- Work with internal QA team on system, performance and acceptance testing

Zurich, Canton Of Zürich, Ch

- Support, maintenance and new development on Tribune Interactive's Content management system.- Troubleshooting problems on various newspaper and entertainment website properties. Working with content producers to resolve trouble tickets in a timely manner.- Developing and maintaining data migration scripts. Responding quickly to unforeseen changes and integrating newly acquired business domain knowledge.- Team-lead on second-stage product release. Worked in this role to ensure unit design documentation was complete and appropriate. Worked with business to ensure that requirements were met. Mentored teammates on feature development. - Worked to bring Continuous Integration into development process using CruiseControl. Included POC integration with current build process and gathering user feedback from senior team-members.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- UI design and implementation on several systems, including General Ledger and Document Management- Working in an agile development environment to meet tight deadlines with high-quality stable code

- Participated in full database redesign including rewritten transforms and modified object model.- Designed and implemented Java servlet testing framework.- Created GUI to manipulate back end data using the Velocity framework.

- Created an extensible framework that helped compile disparate data sources into a usable database. - Used Visual Studio C# to Develop and support in-house custom tool that increased efficiency of manual data consolidation.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Re-engineered GUI to work through the Struts infrastructure, an advanced MVC JSP-based framework- Worked with team to design, develop and support a scalable enterprise transforming distributed application for the client- Researched and implemented internationalization design strategy to allow the client to rollout localized versions of the application in an abbreviated time frame - Reverse-engineered large code base to create frequently accessed UML design documents

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Facilitated transition of layout process to improved and more flexible technology - Processed multi-million dollar billing data using Tandem mainframe

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