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Troy, Michigan, Us

Lead the technology team by developing a comprehensive strategy to align all platforms and technical teams under a unified vision. Drive continuous improvement in our process and technology by using proven techniques to identify and eliminate inefficiencies, optimize workflows, and implement new and innovative solutions that increase productivity, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance. Provide expert guidance and thought leadership across all technology domains, with a particular focus on driving innovation and competitive differentiation, as well as modernizing IT capabilities across all Billhighway platforms. Collaborate closely with technical and product leaders across all platforms to ensure the delivery of optimal technological experiences.

• Perform software consulting services for several clients, such as development, analysis and assessment, using a variety of technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, Java, and Microsoft .NET.• Direct all facets of technology operations and strategic planning related to the organization.• Performed software consulting services from architectural assessment to software development for a variety of clients, including The Lewin Group/Danya International, SolutionStreet, Altum, DynAgility, GloNet and STR, LLC.• Create product strategy, design system requirements and architect system design for www.whoweplaying.com, a sports-team management software platform, based on ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, CouchDB.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

• Lead and manage six cross-functional software development teams for Unison’s market-leading flagship product, PRISM. PRISM is the most-used acquisition and grants management product for the federal government.• Establish documented standards, practices and procedures for an agile software development life cycle, and ensure proper governance mechanisms are in place.• Raise the efficiency of the entire product operations group by introducing modern DevOps to implement a repeatable build and deployment process by utilizing new technologies and procedures for CI/CD (TeamCity/Octopus), source control, issue tracking (JIRA), as well as team interoperability and communication using various collaboration technologies (Microsoft Teams).• Improve product quality by implementing modern software development techniques and practices to the product line, and by spearheading the replacement of legacy systems and implementing repeatable, measurable testing procedures, including automating security and accessibility testing (Veracode/Compliance Sheriff).• Lead overall team technical recruiting efforts, including directing the college recruiting program for the product operations group.

• Returned to STR, LLC. to lead the Java software development efforts to deliver a grants management solution for the State of Louisiana under highly aggressive timeframes.• Utilized a variety of technologies, such as Java, Spring, Struts, iBatis, Oracle, Angular, jQuery, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DocuSign.• Deliver upgrades to the project management and development processes, utilizing JIRA, Slack, Jenkins, Subversion and AWS.

Reston, Va, Us

• Lead, manage and mentor the distributed, multi-time zone software product development team.• Establish a repeatable software process for the software engineering team, by instituting a series of policies and procedures for source control (Subversion), continuous integration (TeamCity), issue tracking (JIRA) and development methodologies.• Reengineer, refactor and renovate grants management software products, using a combination of new and legacy technologies to deliver continuous improvement to the product lines.• Architect and design several software solutions for Altum‘s federal service team, enabling a smooth integration and execution of a sizeable federal contract.• Influenced corporate strategy pertaining to all technical matters, as a member of the executive leadership team.• Collaborate with the sales team on product strategy, planning and on pre-sales positioning, product capability demonstrations, and competitive procurement efforts.

* Architect, design and develop a centralized product system to assist with onboarding new communities, as well as maintaining product freshness by aggregating product data from a variety of sources, across 30+ internet communities, supporting 23 million monthly visitors.* Document software architecture, develop usage procedures and train west coast onboarding and support teams in use of product system software.

* Lead the software product development efforts at STR, LLC, by introducing the development and executive leadership team to modern software development ideals. Documented and presented a series of policies and procedures for source control, continuous integration, issue tracking and development methodology, in order to ensure compliance with a standard corporate SDLC.* Establish and architect the technical vision, annual budget and staffing plan for the eGrantsPlus product.* Responsible for all aspects of the technical infrastructure of STR, LLC including hardware and software acquisition, network configuration and technical vendor management.* Install and configure the baseline development environment for the Java-based software product, using Eclipse, Subversion, QuickBuild and JIRA.* Collaborate with marketing on product strategy and planning and on pre-sales positioning, product capability demonstrations, and competitive procurement efforts.

* Architect, design and develop the Surveyor software platform, a multi-footprint application that provides both online and offline support in the process of performing automated audits, self assessments and inspections* Lead development team of the Surveyor software platform. Architect and design all aspects of the software architecture fo rthe Surveyor platform, specifically as it is concerned with security, scalability, performance, maintainability and availability.

New York, Ny, Us

* Architect for the Scoring and Reporting subsystem of the New SAT. Develop architecture and design using Rational Rose to model J2EE components that handle stringent performance and load requirements surrounding the scoring and reporting of the SAT.* Lead, manage and mentor a team of five software developers in the design and development of components related to scoring and reporting for the New SAT using the Rational Unified Process (RUP).* Development of software was primarily using Java/J2EE, Oracle 9i on the BEA WebLogic 8.1 platform, in addition to various third-party open-source software packages such as JUnit, Cactus, and mock-objects.* Support and interface with various teams within the project, including SMEs, Business Analysts, DBAs, QA and Operations support. Interface with various vendors supporting the scoring and reporting of the SAT

New York, Ny, Us

* Technical lead on a web-based grants management system for a major pharmaceutical company. Architect, design and develop an n-tier system implemented using the Microsoft .NET platform, ASP.NET, C# on with an Oracle 9i back-end.* Performed BEA WebLogic troubleshooting and performance tuning for major pharmaceutical association. Architect an alternative reporting solution to enhance the load the server could handle, utilizing Message Driven Beans. Optimized application written in Java on a BEA WebLogic Server 6.1 platform with Oracle 8.1.7 back-end.* Design and develop a portal for Kashrus.com, a kosher food certification company. Utilize Java to construct both a JSP-based and Swing-based GUI using EJB on BEA Weblogic Server 6.0.* Principal architect on team that developed the www.benefitport.com insurance broker web-site. The site allows brokers to compare insurance from different carriers. Built using ASP, VB/C++ COM components, JAVA Servlets and Swing.

Grasonville, Maryland, Us

* Perform systems definition, design and development for a commercial cryptographic security product, using VB and C/C++. * Design and develop specifications for a cross-platform security Application Program Interface.