• Managed two remote software engineering teams using a mixture of Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies• Built a notification platform from the ground up using a hybrid cloud approach to replace the legacy notification engine• Led the efforts to re-engineer the legacy monolithic system into a distributed, micro service architecture that can more easily scale• Introduced and implemented more modern technologies and concepts, such as continuous delivery and auto scale environments• Led the efforts to make smaller, more frequent releases of our payroll product, shifting from a quarterly release to a monthly release cadence• Streamlined the business processes related to release management• Created a status page in Azure to alert customers of issues and downtime with our product suite• Led the team maintaining and enhancing the customer portal

• Built and led globally distributed teams of software engineers and quality engineers to build web applications as well as enhancing and supporting the internal support systems responsible for ~80% of the revenue of the company (one of the largest and most critical software systems at Rackspace with over 1.5 million lines of code)• Expanded the team from 4 to 12 direct reports and directed the daily work of other engineers who were matrixed into the team• Directed the work of 4 development teams and 50+ engineers while in the role of a project manager for a critical PCI compliance project while continuing to directly manage my team• Simultaneously led teams supporting legacy systems and teams focused on new product development• Implemented Agile and Scrum components into the team’s SDLC• Developed the team’s change management and incident management processes in alignment with industry best practices• Led the development of the long term strategy for replacing critical legacy systems• Partnered with Product Management, Quality Engineering, and Program Management to deliver critical functionality• Delivered several high profile, business critical projects on time and under budget• Wore many hats in this role, including Project Manager, Architect, and Scrum Master• Actively sought to deprecate legacy software components in accordance with our overall architectural plans

• Team lead for an agile business and data services API development team• Integrated VMWare into our existing cloud product offerings• Designed and built APIs to manage cloud storage devices• Mentored junior developers and became a developer advocate in our department

• Designed and developed enterprise level software in the Java stack• Contributed to all phases of the software development lifecycle on a multi-year 50 million dollar project to replace the existing pharmacy software at VA hospitals• Worked on a large distributed team of over 50 engineers