Game Creation Engineering at EA develops essential tools for over 6000 game creators, who are our customers, enabling them to effectively build and innovate games.Strategic Tech Leadership: Guided Game Creation's product expansion, orchestrating the integration of GAP and managing a span of 30 reports, including managers, across seven key products. Oversaw teams of up to 35 during peak times, ensuring consistent quality and on-time delivery.High-Stakes Contract Management: Expertly managed multiple high-value contracts, with some exceeding $2M, overseeing a significant overall portfolio. Achieved essential VP/CIO approvals, showcasing adept financial and strategic capabilities.Revolutionary Product Integration: Led the development of the GAP central ingestion and reporting, directing an 18-member Microsoft team to achieve this integration with Azure tools such as ADF, ADX, ADLS, PowerBI, in under four months, revolutionizing reporting.Dynamic Recruitment & Diversity Leadership: Revolutionized recruitment by leveraging automated recruiting and coding tests through LinkedIn and CodinGame, managing 1940+ applications, a 2600% increase from before. This strategic approach significantly enhanced our talent acquisition efficiency and diversity.Holistic Talent Development & Leadership: Nurtured a diverse team, including Senior Software Engineers, encouraging career growth through Azure certifications. Guided team members, including managers, into leadership roles, fostering innovation and collaboration.Masterful Project Execution: Orchestrated the Standards Plan, enhancing the product lifecycle from inception to release. Utilized Jira and agile methods, achieving 100% user story test coverage and reducing post-release defects.

DHS CISA, Led the development of a next-gen product using Quart.NET, ASP.NET Core 8, and Blazor; leveraged AI for efficient code generation, enabling single-handed development and a 75% reduction in scheduler creation turnaround time. Integrated a custom Quartz.NET scheduler for efficient ingestion of data from DHS CVE JSON feeds and Elasticsearch, significantly reducing development costs and staffing needs.Streamlined development workflows by converting CI/CD processes to Azure DevOps build pipelines.Enhanced team collaboration and code management by migrating version control from SVN to Git.Led the sensitive migration of a critical federal-wide reporting system to Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL PaaS without downtime. Originally developed for on-prem deployment, I adapted the codebase for the cloud, ensuring continuous federal operations. This strategic move enhanced scalability, security, and efficiency, while adhering to FISMA standards, showcasing my commitment to operational integrity and excellence.

Interfaced and gathered requirements from DHS CISA and DOJ JMD clients and converted them into development tasks. Developed and fostered client relationships by usability feedback meetings to ensure client satisfaction and that project goals were continually met.Performed hands on software coding, software design and framework architecture development while leading development teams through the entire software development lifecycle by managing task schedules, assignments, overseeing task completion, testing and deployment. Lead software architect of CyberScope and major contributor to the architecture and design of CSAM.Performed technical and program management duties to manage, update and maintain a custom-built software application within a Federal Government Agency data center. Duties included writing ICCB change requests, reviewing vulnerability scans, STIG implementation, ATO, C&A/A&A , software installation / troubleshooting, data center migrations between federal agencies and working with government heads and contractors (ISSOs, CISOs etc…) to report and sign off on system changes.Recommended and implemented a fully automated company wide application lifecycle management (ALM) system consisting of Jira (project / bug management), Confluence (wiki), Crowd (Active Directory Single Sign On), TeamCity (automated builds) and Subversion (Source Control) to facilitate Agile development concepts. Pushed company utilization of the ALM solution and convinced management to adopt Agile practices.Installed, administered, programmed scripts (Powershell & BASH) for a Hyper-V multi-server environment consisting of Windows servers in a domain using Exchange, IIS 7.5, Reverse Proxy, and Centos for Linux applications.

Leading multiple teams and managers on different products and technical areas. Building new products spanning Title, Close, Scheduling, and Lender Integrations for services, web, and mobile.Azure DevOps, Microservices, .NET Core, Angular, Xamarin, Terraform, Azure Service Bus, Kubernetes, Cosmos, SQL Server, Automated Testing

DOC Bureau of Industry and Security Application O&M and DME prime contract's primary point of contact to the customer for all matters, including planning, updates, reviews, issue resolution, and executing all contractual requirements.Program management, budgeting recruiting, and leadership of a fully remote multi-year option program of 22+ technical personnel, including subcontractors with an annual budget of $5.5M, and 4+ task areas that include enterprise architecture, new development, operations, maintenance, on-premise data center, Azure GCC, O365 GCC, and FISMA accreditation for business-critical systems and infrastructure. Re-organized personnel into smaller teams based on task areas (Enterprise Architecture, Software Development, Operations and Maintenance, Security and FISMA, and Cloud Engineering). The Re-organization included reporting structure creation, daily and weekly meetings to ensure team and cross-team collaboration (scrums, scrum of scrums), the tracking of risks and issues, and the creation of a centralized MS Project schedule to manage and track all teams, projects, and tasks.Led the successful transition, kick-off, and execution of the base year resulting in the exercise of the first option year.Grew contract from $4M to $5.5M over one year by contract mods and recruiting.Responsible for correcting inherited budget overburn by re-organizing teams, downsizing, and hiring new employees.Managed and communicated program roadmaps to corporate C-Level and Government stakeholders and customers.Transitioned from Waterfall to Agile by using Azure DevOps Boards and leading the development of Power Platform SaaS low code Portal, Dataverse, and Canvas prototypes.Supported and contributed to RFI, RFP, and other proposal work for numerous new and renewal contract opportunities.

DOD NSIN (Formally MD5), the National Security Innovation Network is a crowd sourcing & social media web application that brings together defense, academic and entrepreneurial innovators to solve national security problems. The NSIN Defense Innovation Portal is a cloud native responsive web application built from Angular, .NET Core, Docker, Elasticsearch, SQL 2017 Docker, Linux, and AWS.Rearchitected company-wide agile project management procedures and framework to use best practices such as sub-tasks, technical backlogs, and user story decomposition.Planned and executed DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines using TeamCity, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Protractor, Docker, and AWS in dev and production public-facing environments. Pipelines allowed the rapid delivery of automation-tested cloud-native web applications.Created a unit test plan to convince and motivate developers to move from 0 to over 1300+ unit tests which increased code coverage from 0 to 70+ percent. Used TeamCity to analyze and manage unit tests. Moved team from using a single branch to the Gitflow develop, release, hotfix, and master production approach. Orchestrated and executed a pathway from Angular 1 to 7. Researched best approaches for automation testing and pushed the use of the Protractor Cucumber Framework.Championed cost-cutting measures to save on AWS. Savings include the use of spot instances and on-demand usage (on/off as needed). Researched, selected, and designed a website search engine using .NET Core and Elasticsearch.Leveraged machine learning with ML.NET to allow users to find other users with similar interests and metadata.Interfaced with internal and external stakeholders and clients. Lead and manage the technical direction of projects and programs. The leadership of direct and matrixed reports, including developers, automation engineers, DevOps/system engineers, and test lead/manager.

FBI's CODIS blends forensic science and computer technology into a tool for linking violent crimes and helping identify missing and unidentified individuals. CODIS is an extremely large system containing more than 150 project files, 1.9 million lines of code, 6950+ SpecFlow/unit tests, 550+ AWS cloud instances and multiple technical teams totaling over 75 people. Responsible for providing expertise in all aspects of software and system development, implementation, requirements management, quality assurance, planning, support, and operation and must be adept at all aspects of life-cycle management (LCM) for the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). The Technical Lead represents ECS Federal as a point-of-contact for the Government Contracting Officer (CO) to help resolve issues and perform other functions that may arise relating to this IDIQ requirement. Analyze new and complex project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving technology, methodology, tools, and solution components. Prepare long and short-range plans for application selection, systems development, systems maintenance, and production activities and for necessary support resources. Lead and oversee multiple scrum teams on large complex projects and manage teams of direct reports.Perform hands on architecture and software development utilizing multiple software technologies and methodologies. Software architectures include WPF client to ASP.NET Web API Server, WinForms client to WCF Server, WPF and WinForms client to FlexNet Connect Server, CI and SpecFlow/Unit Tests with TeamCity and automated deployments using InstallShield and Octopus. Extract, analyze and present TFS warehouse/cube code churn, bug, user story and test case data.TeamCity, Octopus, Gherkin, SpecFlow, NUnit, BDD, TDD, PowerShell, TFS, MTM, .NET 4.6.2, C#, VB.NET, WCF, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Services, DevExpress, AWS Cloud, Fortify, SQL Server 2016, FlexNet Connect, InstallShield, SoapUI.

DOS and USAID. Developed software to collect and analyze foreign assistance budgetary data from end users located throughout the world. Worked in an Agile team environment as a full stack developer with a focus on user interface development utilizing ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Kendo UI, JQuery, JSON and lodash.C#, WinForms, Web Services, WCF, SQL, SQL Server 2012, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WEB API, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Wijmo, Kendo UI, lodash, TFS, Agile, TDD, Red Gate SQL Source Control.

Developed various software and websites to multiple business clients in a software consultant and freelance role. Notable project included file management software, credit card enabled registration websites, SEO optimization (URL, Sitemaps), OAuth logins from 3rdParty Websites (Facebook, Twitter, Windows live), website design / navigation, scrolling news feed banner, CMS, desktop based inventory management and secure user sign up and role management.In addition to traditional web and desktop applications, I also created multiple client applications allowing windows service to web service and e-mail to web service communications, file tranfers and authentication. Projects utilized .NET 3.5 - 4.0, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, WCF, Windows Services, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, ASP, OAuth, Windows Live API, FaceBook API, Twitter API, OCR, image manipulation, Web Services, Zoho, SQL, Multithreading, Aspose, Telerik, Infragistics, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery and HTML. Developed Palm Web-OS mobile phone application that uploaded data and authenticated to a web service. Consulted on numerous server maintenance, installations and troubleshooting issues for SQL Server 2000-2012 and Windows Server 2000-2012. On multiple occasions I was tasked to setup and fix the client’s existing web or software systems that were installed incorrectly and without documentation by prior consultants.Responsibilities also included interfacing with customers directly to gather requirements, create estimates, track and bill hours, write RFP responses, address issues and engineer solutions for new and existing systems.

Led, developed, analyzed, planned and maintained software (C#, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL 2005) for a high traffic (handled 10,000 users at a 95% success) multi tier clustered hotel reservation system. Responsibilities included interviewing candidates, mentoring and leading junior developers, understanding business processes and rules, UML requirements and design. Developed object oriented patterns (Factory, Adaptor, Singleton, Command, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility), Web Services and HttpHandlers. Created efficient SQL stored procedures, queries and transactions while minimizing trips between client and server. Developed Web UI controls utilizing AJAX, ComponentArt, Master Pages and custom / composite methodologies. Directly involved in the complete SDLC of two major software projects from start to finish (requirements, design, implementation, testing, release and maintenance).

Developed e-mail analysis and search software in a team environment. Primary responsibility included GUI functionalities for existing and new software components. Developed working prototypes for utilizing legacy COM objects through ASP.NET.

Recommended, developed, managed and marketed new online business-to-business ventures such as online webinars, online web event registration and online training. Projects included a secure online credit payments system, online training system, online event registration system, and an online proposal system. Projects utilized Coldfusion, JavaScript, Database Normalization, VBScript, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, HTML, and SQL. Responsibilities also included the installation, setup, administration and maintenance of the following servers and devices: VPN, DNS, routers, email and web (IIS running Coldfusion, ASP and ASP.NET).