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Chicago, IL, US

Greater Chicago Area

• Provided technical leadership, driving complex, large-scale initiatives from conception to successful execution for a software project with more than 300 developers.
• Implemented various Java 8 features like Functional Interfaces, Stream API, Time API, Transaction Management, Exception Handling, Collection API and Lambda Expressions.
• Led a 12 person development team in a new online process that enabled consumer accounts to be transferred into business accounts.
• Implemented a custom development proxy using Node JS to enable local development of 6 Angular applications, integrating with Netflix Eureka and Kibana to enable fast environment switching and hierarchical Kibana call.
• Designed and implemented Netflix Eureka Utility to create a mock environment copy which enabled live local debugging of a micro service dependency without the need to host the entire call stack of micro services.
• Led Development Team to bring Jasmine / Karma Unit Testing into the angular Jenkins pipeline, with extensive e2e tests used to safeguard the complex checkout process.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Designed and developed Angular UI, React,.NET Data Services, SQL Server, NetSuite Web Services integrated application for managing large food donations and their distribution to food banks.
• Responsible for upgrading TFS 2008 to TFS 2018 and implemented automated CI/CD TFS Builds
• Showcased strong communication skills, effectively describing and documenting complex technology concepts to business owners and colleagues for better understanding.
• Implemented.Net Security features of Authentication and Authorization with Federated SSO using SAML, JWT and Azure Authentication.
• Created SVG Data Driven documents using D3 to allow users to graph and map selected data points within the repository for trend analysis, organizational unit comparison and heat mapping of values
• Significantly refactored SSRS reporting queries for both performance and drill down ability

• Development Technical Lead on a $200M+ 5-year digital transformation program, to redesign and modernize HCSC’s claims and customer service platform that processes ~230M claims annually.
• Technical Lead for 5 agile scrum teams (70 members) in-house and vendor partner team, spread across 7 offshore and onshore locations to design, develop and deliver the solution.
• Designed and developed Angular UI, React, Spring Boot RESTful APIs, DB2 integrated application components for managing insurance claims and customer service.
• Designed and developed an Angular UI, Reactive RxJS, Spring Boot RESTful APIs, DB2 integrated application components for managing insurance claims and customer service.
• Mentored developers and business stakeholders to build common functionality into common components and agile stories to achieve maximum code re-usability AND application end user experience consistency.
• Worked with integration of cloud applications hosted in Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure with mainframe, legacy and Salesforce applications leveraging IBM MQ, Mulesoft ESB and API gateway.