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Manasquan, Nj, Us

Manasquan, Nj, Us

As the Director of Software Development, I own and champion the Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) and manage $2.25M budget annually. In this role, I provide strategic direction and leadership to an interdisciplinary team of 29 professionals including engineers, developers, analysts, and administrators. In addition, I motivate and manage both onshore and offshore team members. Furthermore, I partner with executive leadership team to build interdepartmental synergies and collaboration, and set the company’s vision and strategy for future software development products and roadmaps.====================SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS====================• Reduced product delivery and rollout time by 80%, decreased software production cost by 60%, and successfully delivered 2000% Return On Investment (ROI) in 6-months.• Turned around underperforming company and successfully positioned company for sale (company was acquired for $150M) by transforming the company’s Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) and associated processes.• Grew profit from $500K to $2M in one year by transforming the company’s Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) and significantly improving employee engagement by strengthening communication and collaboration.• Strategically grew team by recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, and developing a high performing team of industry professionals and retained top tier talent by developing and implementing recognition programs.• Dramatically decreased data errors and increased data integrity by authoring and disseminating a whitepaper to all members of the executive leadership team to establish Quality Assurance and Data Validation functions.

Farmingdale, Nj, Us

As the Director of Information Technology, I oversaw all aspects of operations for two Information Technology Departments located in New Jersey and Ohio. In this role, I managed $3.4M budget annually. In addition, I delivered leadership and strategic direction to a high-performance team of 35 professionals including engineers, developers, analysts, database administrators, call center supervisors, and desktop technicians. I also inspired and led a 7-person call center. Furthermore, I established the Information Technology Department for new Ohio office and ran both departments at a 4% profit.====================SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS====================• Reduced Production Department operating costs by $40K per annum and Call Center operating costs $20K per annum by developing and implementing streamlined processes to improve performance and productivity.• Subsequent to Hurricane Sandy hitting land and cutting crucial power to the company’s temperature controlled pharmaceutical storage, procured generators to restore emergency power to storage, saving $500K in product.• Ransomware terrorized one of the company’s offices and threatened to publish personal data unless a ransom was paid. Executed company’s disaster prevention and recovery protocol to reduce risk, ultimately only 3 computers were infected.• Significantly reduced software development operating costs 60% by retraining the entire software development team to build code once using Visual Studio to maximum reusability of code.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering