Daniel Hugo Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Enhance, maintain, and develop new system components for the non-standard auto insurance product. Participate in proof of concept activities to evaluate technologies and approaches for the iSeries platform. Design and create technical specifications for internal applications, interfaces, including database design and development.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Management of a global team of software engineers with a focus on improving the quality and performance of the family of Travelocity websites, web services, and internal tools. Lead both an offshore and local team of developers and testers and worked closely with peers, release management, analytics, and operations.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Management of software development team comprised of various disciplines responsible for maintenance and enhancement of the Hotels.com websites, shared web services, internal tools, supplier/affiliate interfaces, and.
• Coordinated regularly with business representatives to manage priorities, resource allocation, and communication to resolve the most critical system issues and deliver timely and reliable improvements.
• Participated in design, development, and implementation of enterprise wide initiatives as a member of the leadership team.
• Closely coordinated with development, test, operations, and release management teams to ensure successful biweekly system releases.

• Provided technical direction for complex eCommerce system supporting customer-facing web applications, partner integration, call centers, back office systems.
• Ensured development team followed industry best practices, coding standards, company SDLC, regulatory compliance.
• Produced solution assessments, development estimates, technical designs, architectural diagrams.
• Developed numerous proof-of-concept applications, mentored developers, and evaluated/interviewed job candidates.

• Worked closely with business and technology teams to rapidly develop and deploy new projects, system maintenance, and enhancements for fast-growing online travel company.
• Transition from start-up environment to formal SDLC practices provided experience in requirements gathering, technical designs and estimates, development, project management, QA testing, and release management.
• Served as managing architect for iSeries (AS/400) platform, led development team (COBOL/RPG) for large/critical projects, supervised contract resources.

[same position as above - Expedia Inc. is the parent company]

• Enhanced and maintained iSeries (AS/400) platform using ILE COBOL, CL, SQL, Query Manager, DB2/400 for non-profit retirement plan and insurance services provider.