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Atlanta, GA, US

Alpharetta, GA, US

• Functioned as the go-to technical resource for evaluation of a B2B exchange.
• Provided guidance and consultation to portfolio company on matters related to technology, scale, and other product development areas.
• Served as interim director of development and chief architect.

Software architecture, development, and consulting services related to rebuilding the current functionality on the new SaaS platform. Focused on the workflow engine, month end automation and job scheduler. Analysis of current solution for both Business Requirements and existing Technical Architecture. Design plan for reproducing this functionality within.

• Created, built, and managed architecture team consisting of 6 talented architects. Championed adoption of new technologies, drove implementation, and solved problems. Applied consultative approach toward leadership by.
• Served as key contributor toward building new Software as a Service (SaaS) technology company by hiring 35 engineers, including Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Senior Engineers of Data Warehousing, Software.
• Launched Videa Beta Platform only 8 months after hiring first Software Developer by wearing many hats and filling any gaps.
• Enabled Videa beta system to achieve over $1 million in billing revenue from 3 agencies by integrating and selling local TV ad time from 4 stations from Q4 2014 to Q1 2015.
• Defined technology stack by applying hard won experience for establishing modern, effective, and attractive working environment for developers.
• Implemented Scrum process and road-mapping software used by 15 product owners, identifying need for real information about platform status, forming partnership with Product Team executives, and resolving planning gap.

• Delivered software engineering engagements. Worked with major client in energy and weather risk management industry. Oversaw suite of applications and reported to client CTO.
• Served as key contributor to iVision’s 100 percent customer-retention rate during employment by engineering thoughtful solutions for promoting long-term partnerships.
• Contributed toward several project extensions and new business development activities by acting like an owner to develop opportunities, deliver results, and create value for customers.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Recruited based on reputation as Independent consultant for Northrop Grumman to CDC. Architect for integration team using Microsoft BizTalk Server.
• Shipped phase of Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS), coordinating vaccine delivery and confirming electronic purchase orders, amounting to tens of millions of dollars per day.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Owned platform architecture and led software development team. Reinvigorated technology platform for successful multi-tenant SaaS web application. Ensured good architectural design and code quality. Provided guidance.
• Enhanced and exploited main competitive advantage, being fully and radically customizable and flexible Multi-Tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, offering custom assessments with Consultants and bringing both.
• Produced decisive solution under pressure to correct faulty formula, adversely effecting clients' annual performance reviews with better design code and verification.o Saving key client and preventing many other.
• Took over TalentQuest Development Manager’s role in addition to assigned duties, due to unplanned departure, implementing fundamental devops practices, such as automated builds, deployments, exception reporting, and.

• Viewed as technology leader for early-stage financial technology start up. Responsible for daily management of onshore and offshore development projects.
• Resolved 90-day-long mission critical challenge with corrupted market data provided to Algorithmic Trading Management by market data provider, convincing vendor of issue by using MS Excel for verification.
• Delivered NASDAQ compliance reporting system that reported daily with 100% accuracy for ATM, meeting requirements for NASDAQ, IRS, SEC compliance, and client management reports.
• Designed, back tested, and verified complex Algorithmic Trading System, enabling proprietary Algorithms to handle up to 25 million shares at a time, while limiting market impact (slippage) for institutional investors.o.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Served as face of Microsoft software development to enterprises and partners. Delivered enterprise-level software development projects for key clients. Earned customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by solving complex.
• Delivered robotic process automation solution to 12,000 call center workstations, reducing call handling times and training costs by utilizing Microsoft Customer Care Framework (CCF) and legacy application adapters.
• Designed and developed Single Sign-On Solution for browser-based clients, involving several ISAPI Filters providing authentication for global distributed web farms, Lotus Domino Servers, and Microsoft SharePoint Portal.
• Led migration effort for key client, Wachovia Bank, upgrading from ColdFusion to ASP.NET, cementing relationship for numerous future sales.
• Distinguished first author on 65-page article, “Designing Application-Managed Authorization” published by Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group.

Completed 3 semester Computer Science coop program. Delivered quality code within company standards in time allotted. Memorable highlight of my Clemson University experience.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Mba, Business