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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

Mentored Agile development concepts to engineering and product teams, facilitating improved Agile adoption and ensuring a consistent Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) throughout the organization. Authored a Shu-Ha-Ri approach to software engineering coding standards, practices, and procedures. Collaborated with external partner organizations to define a singular product lifecycle process, streamlining the work intake process and reducing friction with engineering teams. Increased feature delivery date confidence by adopting Agile quarterly planning processes, including decomposing initiatives into features, epics, and stories, performing sizing and estimation, assigning stories to sprints, and identifying dependencies and risks. Fostered a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and creativity, encouraging innovation among team members. Prioritized continuing education initiatives, enabling engineers to stay abreast of industry trends, refine individual coding skills, and embrace modern system architecture practices.• Overhauled application front-end architecture by migrating legacy code to a micro-frontend/microservice architecture.• Instituted Agile quarterly planning sessions, resulting in timely delivery of appropriate products in line with organizational objectives.• Offered guidance to less experienced teams while affording flexibility to senior teams, thereby improving quality assurance and expediting delivery of business value.• Pioneered establishment of metrics, key performance indicators, and automated monitoring for system reliability, effectively anticipating customer outages and decreasing support costs.• Built a DevOps culture within teams, improving code quality and instilling a stronger sense of ownership.• Drove adoption of cloud technologies (AWS), containerization (Kubernetes/Openshift), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), leading to optimized application performance and deployment times.

Houston, Texas, United States

Led and managed a team of developers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support for successful project delivery and team cohesion. Developed strategic plans for application development projects, including resource allocation, timelines, and milestones, to meet business objectives and deliver high-quality software products on time and within budget. Stayed abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in application development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team to drive ongoing improvement and excellence.• Utilized in-depth knowledge of software development methodologies, programming languages, and technologies to troubleshoot complex technical issues, drive innovation, and identify opportunities for process improvement.• Acted as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, including clients, senior management, and cross-functional teams, to gather requirements, provide project updates, and ensure alignment between technical solutions and business goals.• Implemented best practices for quality assurance and risk mitigation throughout the development lifecycle, conducting code reviews, testing procedures, and performance evaluations to maintain product integrity and minimize project risks.• Streamlined expenditure by discontinuing open purchase orders with inactive vendors, resulting in a $5M reduction in annual budget.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration - It Management

Aeronautical Engineering

Computer Science