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Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Leadership & Coaching: Managed and mentored a dynamic team, instilling agile development methodologies and establishing best development practices.Architectural Oversight: Spearheaded the architectural direction for a major organizational initiative, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure scalability and robustness.Incident Management: Acted as an Incident Commander, orchestrating responses across teams to critical stability challenges and ensuring diligent follow-ups.Talent Development: Played an instrumental role in the New College Graduate program, focusing on training, mentoring, and recruitment. Delivered trainings on career progression and test-driven development.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Talent Development: Led initiatives under the new college graduate program, notably teaching courses on test-driven development and code quality.Collaborative Leadership: Worked hand-in-hand with the PTL (manager) and Product Owner, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions for our customers.Quality Assurance: Spearheaded the establishment and upkeep of rigorous quality standards within the development team.Architectural Leadership: Directed the architectural strategy for multiple mission-critical projects.Mentorship: Dedicatedly coached junior developers on code quality, effective delivery, and career progression.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Architectural Excellence: Led the architectural and technical direction for the 'Year End Dashboard', transitioning it from concept to deployment in under two months using a microservices framework. Its innovative functionality was highly acclaimed by customers.UI Optimization: Enhanced several user interfaces, substantially boosting the speed and reliability of year-end processes, leading to heightened customer satisfaction.Strategic Development: Played a pivotal role in architecting and developing the company's ACA filing software, encompassing both client-side applications and interfacing with IRS components.Mentorship & Training: Consistently coached developers on diverse software patterns and best practices.Leadership: Assumed the role of acting dev lead from July, collaborating with the dev lead community and contributing to the strategic technical direction of the enterprise.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Microservices Development: Engineered microservices acting as a facade to external data providers, including TransUnion.Agile Leadership: Directed an Agile software development team, autonomously overseeing all technical aspects from requirements analysis, design, and implementation to QA support and deployment.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

DevOps Integration: Played a pivotal role in introducing DevOps across the group's development operations, emphasizing continuous integration and deployment. The overhaul reduced risk points, boosting both product quality and productivity.Mentorship & Training: Educated developers on Test Driven Development, GoF patterns, and techniques to elevate code quality. Led the 'Standards Class', covering TDD patterns and coding standards, making it a requisite for all team members.Innovative Practices:• Championed the integration of pair programming, with successful teams observing notable enhancements in quality and efficiency. Notably, a team with no senior members emerged as the department's most productive unit.• Orchestrated a dedicated team of junior developers, focusing on essential in-house tools, now excelling in TDD, continuous integration, and agile Scrum methodologies.• Introduced Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and message-based systems, enabling superior scalability, uptime, and service-oriented operations.Security & Compliance: Identified and rectified security vulnerabilities in a public-facing Silverlight application, ensuring robust application security.Recruitment Support: Actively contributed to the hiring process, evaluating and interviewing potential candidates.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Product Leadership: Took ownership of the File Exchange Service, driving its technical direction. Achievements include updating its WCF-based architecture, refining the codebase, and introducing new features, leading to enhanced stability and performance.Innovation in Tools: Pioneered the integration of a .NET project into the company’s Continuous Integration build system.Application Development: Designed and developed an application that transitioned from an existing Oracle Forms system, streamlining the end-of-year tax return process.Collaborative Spaces: Advocated for and assisted in creating an open workspace—dubbed the 'war room'—which improved team collaboration and has been continuously used by diverse teams.Team Building: Launched a weekly knowledge-sharing meeting, enhancing team cohesion by working collectively on varied short-term projects (katas).Mentorship & Training: Guided junior developers in mastering the .NET Framework, ensuring the accurate application of design patterns, and promoting Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles.

Zurich, Ch

Web Migration: Successfully transitioned a Classic ASP intranet site to an ASP.NET web application, utilizing Oracle as the primary data store.Application Development: Crafted multiple ASP.NET and client-server applications, leveraging web services and WCF for efficient data transport.Collaboration: Spearheaded programming resources and liaised with engineering teams to execute SolidWorks projects in VB Script, catering to a Fortune 500 manufacturing entity.Legacy Upgradation: Modernized legacy FORTRAN applications by transitioning them to VB.NET.Multimedia Integration: Designed and embedded Adobe Flash® animations to enhance existing ASP.NET web applications, enriching user experience on client websites.

Process Automation: Developed an ASP.NET web application that automated sections of the order receipt/entry workflow. This initiative led to cost savings of over $32,000 between May and Dec 2006 by eliminating manual key entry at a crucial stage.Integration Excellence: Engineered a component that seamlessly integrated the backend SQL database with Microsoft Store Operations, resulting in a reduction of two to five minutes in per-order processing time.Shipping Solution: Designed integration components for applications to communicate with FedEx and UPS shipping software, effectively removing the need for manual key entry of shipping data, enhancing efficiency.