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Claymont, DE, US

Claymont, DE, US

Bethesda, Maryland, US

• Lead a diverse group of Developers, Product, QA, and DevOps team members creating a global leadership strategy execution solution.
• Conceptualize and synthesize ideas from stakeholders into product features driving increased customer usage and overall revenue.
• Technical expert for sales. Handle all technology due diligence and data protection discussions with CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, and customer security teams.
• Partner with Data Science on bringing AI features into the solution, efforts resulted in multiple patents and whitepapers published in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Fast Company.
• Lead a strong, productive engineering culture through effective listening, setting clear priorities, encouraging respectful debate, resulting in low turnover and high employee morale.
• Scaling, analyzing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure to handle load and reduce costs.

• Strategic technical leader for a leading SaaS electronic medical records company with revenues over $50M.
• Led a team of 80+ tech professionals (engineers, product, DBAs, QA, and tech support) to deliver best-in-class EMR solution, increasing revenue nearly 50% and securing a $30M investment from Goldman Sachs.
• Upgraded the entire technology stack focusing on scalability and future growth. Introduced Agile methodologies and established a prioritization process that led to quicker releases and fewer bugs.
• Managed the rapid growth of the tech department, from 18 to 80+ technology professionals in 2 years.
• Evaluated company resource needs and established product management and SQL development teams.
• Vetted multiple offshore companies and selected key offshore partner. Decision resulted in overall cost savings and a highly performing offshore team.

New York, NY, US

• Managed all aspects of the firm’s flagship SaaS application developed in.NET with a SQL Server database generating over $50M in annual revenue.
• Spearheaded design, build, and delivery of the next generation of our flagship product, a SaaS application delivering proprietary data and CRM functionality.
• Partnered with C-Level executive team to accomplish company vision. Skilled in explaining technical issues to non-technical people.
• Led a diverse group of 30+ developers in Maryland, New York, and Kiev, Ukraine. Managed all aspects of hiring, firing, reviewing, and mentoring employees.
• Met with high-profile client base, which included the top 50 brokerage firms in the United States and abroad, to understand changes needed as the web application evolved. Designed and implemented changes; conducted.
• Worked with product managers defining and refining evolving platform specifications based on aggressive timelines.

• Managed development of a high-quality, SaaS application developed in ColdFusion 5 with a SQL Server database. Efforts resulted in revenue growth of $500K to $19M over 5 years and a $38M company acquisition in 2004.
• Supervised team of 6 developers. Delegated projects, responsible for project timeline and deliverables. Managed and motivated team using personal communication skills and in-depth understanding of the architectures.
• Designed and developed complex CRM business objects for sharing accounts, contacts and actions.
• Liaison to senior management in gathering specifications; designed and developed application to those specifications; tested and deployed code to the production environment.
• Met with high-profile client base, which included the top 50 brokerage firms in the United States and abroad, to understand changes needed as the web application evolved. Designed and implemented changes; conducted.
• Created and managed development team by outlining job specifications, conducting interviews for potential employees, writing and presenting performance reviews.

• Designed and developed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) web site. Published information to the site from an MS Access database via ColdFusion.
• Designed and developed an administrative function for the FOIA web site that allows users with no knowledge of HTML, ColdFusion, or JavaScript to update and maintain the site.
• Conducted presentations to senior level clients highlighting web site and database functionality.
• Designed and developed an Overseas Year 2000 MS Access database to track hardware and software inventory.
• Conducted requirements analysis for the development of a Year 2000 repository to house a government agency’s application information. Designed and developed the Year 2000 repository using MS Access.
• Served as Test Lead for Year 2000 Validation Team. Duties included: coordinating test environment setup, application test scheduling, developing test cases and test execution.

• Served as Test Lead and Test Analyst in the Quality Assurance department for a large telecommunications company.
• Assignments included testing a UNIX based compensation system with an Oracle Database.
• Prepared all test documents such as Master Test Plans, Test Case Specifications, and Test Summary Reports.
• Other responsibilities included setting up test data, executing test cases, automating test cases with WinRunner and recording metrics for upper management use.