DUTIES:- Provide guidance, review and approval of all major system architecture decisions for Brinker's guest-facing e-commerce, loyalty, and CRM solutions.- Review and approve pull requests for multiple repositories and development teams.- Provide technical leadership on projects.- Collaborate with other groups in IT to deliver enterprise solutions.- Recruit, interview, hire and coach a team of software engineers.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Transitioned from 100% reliance on… Show more DUTIES:- Provide guidance, review and approval of all major system architecture decisions for Brinker's guest-facing e-commerce, loyalty, and CRM solutions.- Review and approve pull requests for multiple repositories and development teams.- Provide technical leadership on projects.- Collaborate with other groups in IT to deliver enterprise solutions.- Recruit, interview, hire and coach a team of software engineers.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Transitioned from 100% reliance on consultants for software project delivery to a high-performing in-house team of software engineers that will save $MM in capital costs annually without any loss in productivity.- Successfully led project to migrate aging guest data system out of AWS OpsWorks to a modern DevOps architecture under budget, on-time, and without any significant production issues.- Evangelized Agile/Scrum best practices within the organization inspiring wider adoption and closer adherence to the guiding principles.- Envisioned a better future for the e-commerce tech stack to improve developer productivity, code sharing, lower TCO, and more frequent releases; collaborated with other architects on detailed tech design; evangelized the vision of "why and how" to IT Leadership; oversaw the development and transition to the new tech stack. Show less

Mobile applications full-stack developer and technical leader: We launched the Mary Kay customer-facing mobile app in October 2021, and release a new version every two weeks. We're enjoying very positive ratings (avg. 4.5+) in the Apple and Google app stores! C# .NET Web API, SQL Server, NativeScript, Angular, Ngrx, TypeScript, Nx, Fastlane, Azure DevOps.

Assigned to ProjectONE, which is a multi-year initiative to completely transform Mary Kay Inc's digital service offerings that support our independent beauty consultants and their customers. Lead architect and developer for a data pipeline that synchronizes consultant business data from our on-premise data centers into Salesforce. The solution is built upon the Heroku platform and employs technologies such as Node.js, Heroku Connect, Postgresql, and Redis, as well as various services from AWS.

Lead developer and application architect on the myCustomers mobile project. Built an ASP.NET Web API application service that sits on top of several Mary Kay back-end web services of varying technologies and architectural patterns. The application service provides a single, coherent, and easy-to-use API enabling mobile app developers to access Mary Kay eBusiness systems without having to understand all the nuances of every underlying service. The highly-secure REST API is exposed to the… Show more Lead developer and application architect on the myCustomers mobile project. Built an ASP.NET Web API application service that sits on top of several Mary Kay back-end web services of varying technologies and architectural patterns. The application service provides a single, coherent, and easy-to-use API enabling mobile app developers to access Mary Kay eBusiness systems without having to understand all the nuances of every underlying service. The highly-secure REST API is exposed to the internet through our Layer 7 gateway. Putting the application service and gateway in place meant that for the first time, our beauty consultants in the USA were able to run a native iOS or Android app on their smartphone or tablet computer to help manage their customers, orders, inventory, reminders, and events. Show less

We construct, configure, deploy, and support a global suite of modern web applications that help our independent beauty consultants (3+ million worldwide) to spend more time on taking care of their customers and less time on implementing technical solutions to run their business. Our light-weight, high-performing, responsive web applications are built upon a stack of Microsoft technologies: Windows Server, SQL Server, WCF, Web API, and ASP.NET MVC. Also we employ many open-source technologies… Show more We construct, configure, deploy, and support a global suite of modern web applications that help our independent beauty consultants (3+ million worldwide) to spend more time on taking care of their customers and less time on implementing technical solutions to run their business. Our light-weight, high-performing, responsive web applications are built upon a stack of Microsoft technologies: Windows Server, SQL Server, WCF, Web API, and ASP.NET MVC. Also we employ many open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch, jQuery, Knockout, Backbone, and Bootstrap.Some of my specific responsibilities as team leader have included:> Inspire an overseas team of five developers to consistently work at a high velocity and produce shippable code.> Design user interfaces and interactions for the widest range of users that will provide a great user experience including building wireframes with Balsamiq Mockups.> Provide technical direction and feedback to the team in the form of system diagrams, classes, database design, process flows, service APIs, and code reviews.> Provide a single point of contact between developers and other team members (business analysts, testers, project managers, and any other interested stakeholders) so as to minimize interruptions, miscommunication, and conflicting instructions.> Organize and prioritize product backlog items continuously, taking into account release dates, business value, estimated effort, technical dependencies, velocity and capacity of team members, and other unforeseen circumstances as they arise.> Collaborate with business analysts in the creation of product backlog items in order to gain a thorough understanding of the items, help point out any technical challenges, suggest better alternatives when appropriate, and ensure acceptance criteria is clear enough for a developer to begin work on them. Show less

Build program management information systems in support of large-scale, complex, multi-billion dollar construction programs. Employ a myriad of technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC with C#, Workflow Foundation, in conjunction with JQuery and Telerik Kendo UI plus Reporting.

The Senior Consultant, Fraud and Forensic Recovery works with a team to help clients uncover, collect, organize and analyze essential electronic information to support or refute allegations in corporate or public sector investigations and dispute and litigation matters. The Senior Consultant uses relational database technology to provide insight into complex business problems and investigative issues for clients. This includes performing proactive reviews of large transactional data sets for… Show more The Senior Consultant, Fraud and Forensic Recovery works with a team to help clients uncover, collect, organize and analyze essential electronic information to support or refute allegations in corporate or public sector investigations and dispute and litigation matters. The Senior Consultant uses relational database technology to provide insight into complex business problems and investigative issues for clients. This includes performing proactive reviews of large transactional data sets for internal control issues, compliance, and potential fraud. The Senior Consultant manages large volumes of data and turns it into meaningful insight for internal and external clients. SQL Server, ETL, Excel/VBA Show less

Parsons ended the contract with Perot Systems and in-sourced all the formerly Perot Systems employees in the IT department. Initially had the same job duties and responsibilities as previously with Perot Systems (see previous). Later had the opportunity to modernize a program management information system dashboard for the Abu Dhabi International Airport construction program that provided insight into the health of the overall program and also the ability to drill into specific projects and… Show more Parsons ended the contract with Perot Systems and in-sourced all the formerly Perot Systems employees in the IT department. Initially had the same job duties and responsibilities as previously with Perot Systems (see previous). Later had the opportunity to modernize a program management information system dashboard for the Abu Dhabi International Airport construction program that provided insight into the health of the overall program and also the ability to drill into specific projects and find the root cause of cost over-runs, schedule delays, etc. SQL Server, ASP.NET Web Forms w/ VB.NET, and DevExpress controls. Show less

On the Parsons Corporation account, primary developer responsible for maintaining and enhancing the company's Online Expense Reimbursements system that supports 11,000+ employees. Also primarily supported various Project Controls tools that helped construction project managers budget expenditures, control costs, calculate earned value, etc. SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, ASP.NET Web Forms w/ VB.NET.

Junior web developer learning the basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript, ASP.NET Web Forms programming w/ C#. Worked on their flagship product Fellowship One and was responsible for triaging bugs and performing bug fixes. Was able to employ my background with writing SQL queries to greatly speed up the performance of several pages in the app.

Joined a reserve infantry unit in Amarillo and immediately had the opportunity to volunteer for duty in Iraq. Was mobilized and served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, Dam Security Unit, in Al Anbar Province from October 2005 until May 2006. My unit was responsible for patrolling the waters above and below the Haditha dam, ferrying Army Rangers, Special Forces, and Marine infantry units over the water ways to conduct raids, search and seizure, setup observation posts, etc. After completing… Show more Joined a reserve infantry unit in Amarillo and immediately had the opportunity to volunteer for duty in Iraq. Was mobilized and served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, Dam Security Unit, in Al Anbar Province from October 2005 until May 2006. My unit was responsible for patrolling the waters above and below the Haditha dam, ferrying Army Rangers, Special Forces, and Marine infantry units over the water ways to conduct raids, search and seizure, setup observation posts, etc. After completing my tour, I returned to civilian life. Show less

One of the the first employees hired by Fellowship Technologies after it was founded in December 2003. Myself and one other report developer were responsible for converting several static reports (ASP web pages) available in the flagship product, FellowshipOne, into dynamically generated SSRS reports that could provide many more parameters and result sets to the user. Due to the popularity of those first set of SSRS reports, we began to receive literally hundreds of requests for new report… Show more One of the the first employees hired by Fellowship Technologies after it was founded in December 2003. Myself and one other report developer were responsible for converting several static reports (ASP web pages) available in the flagship product, FellowshipOne, into dynamically generated SSRS reports that could provide many more parameters and result sets to the user. Due to the popularity of those first set of SSRS reports, we began to receive literally hundreds of requests for new report designs. The success of our reports led to the establishment of the Report Central department and the addition of many more report developers. What started out as just a few reports, grew into a comprehensive library of 100's of reports and a major-selling point of the product. SQL, SSRS, SSIS, C#, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT. Show less