Provide hands-on leadership for large scale, technology oriented, software implementation projects, including working with all levels of executive leadership within business and technology organizations. Manage stateside and offshore staff in defining goals and objectives. Provide and enable open communications, evaluate staff performance, and assist with compensation reviews and recommendations. Work in environments using high-scalable technologies, including Hibernate, Java, Jira, JBoss, Jenkins, Junit, Liquibase, MongoDB, Oracle Database, Selenium, Spring Framework, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Microservices, and Java Messaging Service using ActiveMQ.• Optimized development practices and procedures, improving code quality and achieving continuous delivery of new features in Agile development environment. • Maintained responsibility for development, quality assurance, delivery, and support of service-based technology, providing highly advanced curriculum and learning platforms, and serving over 200K students and staff in virtual learning environments. • Raised visibility of production support team within company by implementing Kanban process using onsite and offshore resources, enabling 30% reduction in resolution time for critical issues.• Provided hands-on leadership to integrate Microsoft’s O365 with K12’s LMS platforms, replacing proprietary email application for more than 220K users across all of business lines serving local and international students and staff.• Introduced agile development practices to Product Development department, increasing Sprint velocity by 40%.• Fostered culture of innovation by leading product and technology solutioning sessions.

Provided hands-on leadership and consulting support for development and maintenance of System Interface Agreements (SIAs) for system interfaces to 13 external interfaces between MCTIMS and other Marine Corps systems, including, MCTIFS (pay and promotion), ODSE (personnel), and World-Wide Travel. Managed staff of 20 direct reports across all phases of SDLC.• Worked closely with TECOM and MARCORSYSCOM, developing requirements, and driving growth through organic and new business development opportunities. • Managed development, $50M budget, and all multi-year contract and Information Assurance deliverables, developing, fielding, and maintaining Marine Corps Training Information Management System (MCTIMS) program for over 150K marines. • Provided hands-on leadership of development and delivery of 6 new modules in 9-months, enabling enhanced security, standardization, and better management of curriculum and testing, and unit training management.• Worked with Project Officer (PO), optimizing process for conducting Government Acceptance Testing (GAT), and reducing time to perform GATs by 25%, with 100% success rate.• Received commendation from PO / COTR for leadership of team in delivering all SOW deliverables to Marine Corps for current Option Year, and success in adopting agile iterative development.• Increased overall team efficiency and effectiveness by 20% by incorporating coding standards, development best practices, and department metrics.• Contributed to proposal development efforts with business development team, genertating $10M in new opportunities.

Provided hands-on management of SOA / SaaS architecture, development, and deployment in next generation of company Health Information Management suite of ICD9 / ICD10 government and private sector products. Provided hands-on leadership of prototyping and technology transition. Managed $1.5M offshore resource budget, and large teams. Completed re-architecture / re-engineering of existing products to new technology platforms for both government and private sectors. Introduced agile interactive development using SCRUM methodology into traditional (waterfall) environment for US and offshore-distributed teams. Evaluated and selected emerging technologies for suitability and compatibility with existing infrastructure. • Instituted metrics to measure team performance at end of each sprint, resulting in 20% reduction in number of defects, and 40% increase in number of completed user stories. • Introduced Agile Scrum SDLC methodology into waterfall environment, reducing time to deliver new features to production by 35%. • Led effort to implement GoogleTM-type search functionality for ICD-9 / ICD10 codes in new Computer Assisted Coding module, increasing by 20% volume of medial data entry from coders, and reducing coding errors by 15%. • Spearheaded adoption of .Net / Silverlight, web services, Drools and other open source technologies, replacing Java / JSP based application.• Provided hands-on leadership of the implementation of enhancements to EDM module, enabling Los Angeles County Hospitals migration to paperless medical records savings of over $20M.• Implemented changes in processes and roles, introducing agile Scrum methodology into environments that were traditionally waterfall.• Increased team efficiency and effectiveness by 25 / 30% by incorporating coding standards, developing best practices and department metrics.• Received Appreciation Award for taking product from prototype to beta ready with new agile process in 7 months.

Provided hands-on leadership in the use of latest development tools, techniques, and methodologies (AJAX, Web 2.0, J2EE, SCRUM, Oracle, SQL). Maintained latest versions of e-learning platform, and supported high-numbers of concurrent users and terabytes of data. Received Recognition Award for implementing Agile with Scrum methodology.• Developed process and strategies, and generated product maintenance roadmaps, enabling efficient and innovative development, implementation, and support. • Introduced Agile interactive development using SCRUM methodology into traditional (waterfall) environment, achieving 25% increase in implementation of new product features.• Implemented repeatable process to triage software defects, determining contents of maintenance releases, and increasing defect resolution by 50%. • Developed and implemented training procedures for Tier 1 Support, reducing number of escalations to Engineering Services / Tier 2 Support by 20%. • Achieved 30% reduction in defect rework by implementing coding best practices.

Used project management methodologies to plan, schedule and monitor resources, deadlines and budgets for migration of consumer facing applications to web based technology and portals. Managed the daily activities of internal, international and vendor development and Quality Assurance resources. Managed and reported on budget and other project related costs. Tracked project risks and developed risk contingency plans. Key Achievements- Managed the transition of AOL client software, which serviced 10M users, from proprietary platform to J2EE, EJB, BEA Web Logic, Oracle environment and integration of numerous data feeds.- Managed the development of web-based tools to publish and manage content for multinational and multi-segment support and user portals.- Assisted the business and technical organizations to disburse the product requirements into manageable product releases that did not impact business benefits.- Implemented and maintained project plans in TeamPlay to facilitate management, tracking and reporting of resource utilization, capitalization and budgets.- Supervised the daily activities of the team and provided leadership in problem solving and issues/risks management.- Managed and monitored creation and storage of all artifacts for SOX compliance.