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North Canton, OH, US

Strategic Leadership: Established the Application Engineering team, aligning 8 in-house Software Engineers with external vendor teams to drive REST API development, web application and SPA development. Vendor Management: Supervised relationships with multiple vendors, steering multiple teams consisting of 3 to 6 onshore, nearshore, and offshore developers.

North Canton, OH, US

• Established the QA Practice and QA Team within the KAG Information Solutions department.
• Managed and set direction for a team of 5 including Lead QA Analyst, QA Analysts, and QA Automation Engineer.
• Hired and mentored my successor and successfully transitioned successor into this role as I took on Technical Solution Lead duties on a major transformative initiative and started the Application Engineering team.
• Facilitated daily standups, backlog grooming, and sprint planning ceremonies.
• Identified the need for, authored the position for, and selected a UX Designer for a major customer self-service platform re-write.
• Technical Solution Lead on the Penless Cab project which replaced the driver-workflow hardware and software across approximately 3000 drivers and tractors in the Fuels division.

North Canton, OH, US

• Founding member of nascent Enterprise Architecture Board, and member of Enterprise Environment Strategy working group and Agile Scrum adoption working group.
• Introduced BDD Behavior Driven Development and Gherkin concepts to delivery teams in both an automated and non-automated context.
• Authored test strategies for multiple major transformative IT and business projects.
• Authored position descriptions for Quality Assurance Analysts and QA Automation Engineers.
• Interfaced with QA managed service providers.

Beachwood, OH, US

• Lead Kentico Architect
• Aligned ALM tooling to Software Development Life Cycle by customizing the Process Template and Work Item Templates used in TFS so that the tooling supports the flow of work from conception to delivery
• Coached the development team on Agile Scrum practices and techniques to effectively rescue an project-in-danger
• Taught the development team how to leverage mobile-first responsive UI frameworks such as Bootstrap and took the lead on implementing whole-site branding, styling, master page/layout creation
• Evaluated, selected, and implemented VueJS as a means to deliver the desired functional behavior in a complex client-onboarding application
• Introduced client-side dependency management solution and front-end build process

North Canton, Ohio, US

• As part of a Research & Development-oriented team, authored a Power BI Embedded-driven web application POC to facilitate customer-facing discussions and demonstrations as an alternative to an existing Splunk.
• .NET Core 1.0 application with MVC Razor views and Entity Framework 6.4.1. Targeted.NET Framework 4.5.2 for the purposes of reusing on-premise Active Directory membership providers.
• Utilized code-first migrations with multiple data contexts; primary data to drive visualizations resides in Azure SQL Database. Sensor and log data, other machine and software-specific data funnel into a silo via.
• Introduced and championed the idea of a Team Wiki (Atlassian Confluence) to facilitate intra-team communication and expedite onboarding of new team members.

Head Coach for a USA Volleyball Junior Olympic 11s Regional team at Academy Volleyball Cleveland.In my first year as a coach at one of the top clubs in Ohio, my team beat out two other same-club teams (coached by Varsity coaches with more experience) to finish first in our level at our club. Several players from this Regional team went on to make the next.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Veritix was a sports and live entertainment SaaS platform company that processed over $1 billion in commerce transactions annually. Acquired by AXS in July 2015 to become the second-largest ticketing company in North.
• Worked directly with Director of Development on improving organizational structure and team dynamics, including software development, product management, and quality assurance groups.
• Analyzed and understood team dynamics under the lens of Bruce Tuckman’s Group Formation Theory and worked with Director to foster team growth and increase team performance.
• Introduced core SCRUM values including Respect, Commitment, Focus, Courage, and Openness and encouraged team members and the organization at-large to incorporate and practice these values in all tasks and ceremonies.
• Immediately effected positive change to Agile SCRUM sprint ceremonies, in particular the Sprint Retrospective.
• Led automated web service testing initiatives from multiple fronts including: Automated Load Testing with JMeter / BlazeMeter tests, Automated Performance Testing / Dashboard with RunScope tests, and Automated.

Brecksville, Ohio, US

• Principal of privately owned company servicing local, regional, and international clients.
• Managed multi-million dollar software development project portfolio instituting Agile Scrum principles, practices, and ceremonies.
• Liaised with clients on behalf of development team. Consulted with clients regularly to assess needs, define scope, prioritize backlog, and communicate status.
• Wrote user-stories and facilitate pointing sessions to establish estimates.
• Facilitated daily team standup meetings to discuss achievements, goals, and impediments.
• Led end-of-iteration software demonstrations and retrospective ceremonies.

• Performed multiple roles on a 3-year, $64M venture to create a multi-tenant, multi-lingual SaaS platform marketed to Fortune 500 companies for the facilitation of employee health and wellness programs.
• As development team lead, introduced process improvements within the existing iteration cadence to effect positive development team culture, improve quality, and speed handover to and coordination with BA/QA team.
• As a cross-team Kentico subject matter expert, provided Kentico leadership and mentoring to developers on a project-wide basis across several teams, and set forth best-practice design and implementation approaches.
• Developed live and pre-recorded on-boarding materials and held on-boarding sessions for multiple team member roles including BA/QAs, Developers, UI Developers, Database Administrators, and Scrum Masters.
• Acted as Interim Scrum Master, leading Scrum and attending cross-team Scrum of Scrums.
• Led implementation of web-farms for both development and production purposes; multi-tenant application supported 1M total users, thousands concurrently.

Cleveland, OH, US

• JumpStart is a venture development non-profit organization working to create economic transformation in Northeast Ohio and across the US by securing and providing resources to entrepreneurs leading high potential.
• Created IdeaCrossing.org, a social network and matching site that connects entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, and business mentors and fosters capital assistance, business guidance, service offerings, and.
• Utilized ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server, Lucene.net, nHibernate, nUnit, thrift, Google Closure framework and soy templating, JSON, RabbitMQ.
• Created the underlying messaging system that supports user-to-user messages, system alerts, discussion threads, comments on articles and other site items.
• Optimized data and logic-heavy UI components by exposing light-weight JSON data objects via a thrift API and consumed using the Google Closure framework and soy templates.
• Created namespace identifier objects and schema to allow any “thing” to be related to any other “thing” in a lightweight way from UI down through to database level. This allowed comments, documents, ratings, or any.

Herndon, VA, US

• Installed, configured, customized, thoroughly documented, and delivered training on a basement-to-top-floor Team Foundation Server 2010 environment.
• Installed and configured Domain Server, SQL Server 2008, Analysis Services, SharePoint 2010, and Team Foundation Server 2010.
• Created reference Team Projects and corresponding Team Sites (SharePoint).
• Customized Work Items and Team Project templates to fully support organization’s CMMI Level 3 certification and project reporting needs while still fulfilling their clients’ Agile Development methodologies.
• Thoroughly documented all installation and configuration steps including customizations so the process could be completed inside a secured government facility with no outside connectivity. Received confirmation from.

Akron, OH, US

• Architected and developed Emergency Access to Documents system for nuclear (FENOC) group with multi-stage file synchronization across multiple physical locations. System is active and successful in three nuclear power.
• Leveraged the Microsoft Sync Framework SDK to synchronize hundreds of thousands of file changes between a central server, a site server, and a configurable list of on-site PCs.
• Utilized Lucene.net to index document classes, identifiers, and names and created a web-based UI to facilitate a scored fuzzy search on a per-site basis.
• Developed a back-office web utility (MESA) for the retail sales group for the purpose of cleansing data, utilizing VB.Net, Entity Framework (3.5), Oracle and Infragistics controls.
• For MESA, created an xml-based model-driven configurable code generator that supported seamless re-generation at any point during development. This allowed complete consistency across all screens, business objects.

Beachwood, OH, US

• Developed customer-facing e-Commerce application using ASP.NET, C#, WCF, XHTML/CSS, SQL 2008, TFS 2008. Utilized ASP.NET AJAX as well as some jQuery.
• Designed and developed WCF Payment Service and integrated with CyberSource Hosted Order Page and Simple Order API.
• Designed and developed WCF Sales Tax Service and integrated with Vertex web service.
• Developed WCF Product Recommendation service and Order Processor service.
• Designed and developed WCF Subject Scoring service responsible for scoring the likelihood of a match between two subjects (people) based on vendor identifiers, name data, demographic data, etc.
• Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) builds, build notifications, and ReSharper. Introduced team to Code Metrics and Unit Test Coverage concepts.

US

• Utilized C#, WCF, SOA design patterns, and Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2008.
• Distributed Tech Lead over a team of 5 developers responsible for designing and delivering a unified domain service written in WCF for the Loss Mitigation Automation project dealing with HELOCs / HELoans.
• Overarching responsibility for interfacing and integrating with 7 other teams, 1 consumer application written in Lombardi Business Process Management, and 12 provider systems including: Enterprise Service Bus.
• Created and maintained a project plan including resource assignment, chaining of dependent tasks and external dependencies, work breakdown structures.
• Delivered detailed estimates, high-level designs, detailed technical designs, use cases, sequence diagrams, XSDs, and a unit and integration test approach plan.
• Practiced model-driven design and leveraged the Policy Injection Application Block and the Unity Framework, and the Lightweight Test Automation Framework for ASP.NET.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Development lead over 9 developers working on a multi-site, multimillion dollar production Dealer Management System. Coordinated and effectively communicated with QA Team Lead, Project Manager, and Software Development.
• Led a team of four developers to improve workflow and user experience around creating and cashing out quotes, taking payments, cashing out deals, deposits, and work orders, and printing receipts. Assembled course and.
• Designed and developed mechanism to support new Point of Sale payment device hardware (VeriFoneMX800) including credit, debit, and gift cards and signature capture. Utilized a factory pattern and refactored existing.
• Led five developers in improving application responsiveness, modal screen behavior in a multi-module software suite, and reducing extraneous use of threading in the UI.
• Eliminated and replaced a deficient $100,000/year 3rd party financial component upon which all vehicle sales, financing, insurance, package options and payment protection functionality was dependent. Determined.

US

• Developed, maintained, and supported C# console applications that process Department of Defense Pharmacy Data Transaction System records in a Pervasive Btrieve database for the Pharmacy Benefits Management system and.
• Upgraded and enhanced a C# WinForms application that ensures claims submitted for a person with Other Health Insurance (OHI) is rejected. Authored Oracle packages and stored procedures.
• Authored and implemented applications that automate demographic data synchronization between disparate sources including Btrieve and Oracle databases.
• Refactored and documented code, added validations, and enhanced logging capabilities to aid in system maintenance and problem resolution. Created a more flexible operating environment by removing hard dependencies by.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Coordinated and led development efforts as.NET Technical Architect and Lead Developer in the Rapid Applications Development team and matured the staging, testing, and production server environments.
• Designed, developed, implemented, and supported web-based enterprise applications using C#, ASP.NET, Crystal Reports, and both Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Introduced, implemented, and enforced the use of Visual SourceSafe and the use of staging servers; authored development team Code Promotion Policy; introduced and facilitated peer code reviews; recommended programming.
• Supervised and mentored a team of four college interns; supervised a Lotus Notes/Domino Web Access developer consultant.
• Drafted position descriptions, managed contractor vendor relations for a Domino Web Access project; Interviewed and selected candidates for contractor positions.

New Delhi, IN

• Sharepoint Portal Developer, Lubrizol Corporation (2002) Designed and developed intranet portal applications and dashboards to aggregate information from heterogeneous systems and created processes to route and publish.
• Developed a Customer Relationship Management portal using SharePoint Portal Server, custom Web Parts, and the Web Storage System (WSS).
• Pulled content from the WSS via WebDAV queries and utilized XML Web Services (ServerXMLHttp) to aggregate content enterprise-wide from servers running ASP, and SAP webMethods.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating workflows and scripts using Interwoven TeamSite and OpenDeploy. Used Perl to manage templates and generate XML to be published to several SharePoint portals. Web Application.
• Designed and developed VB COM component for business logic and data access against an Oracle back-end.
• Improved code quality and introduced patterns and best practices to create a more stable, robust, and easily maintainable system. E-Commerce Application Developer, WholesaleSuppliesPlus.com (2000-2001) Performed needs.

London, GB

• Designed, developed, and implemented web-based applications targeting knowledge and learning resource management and course management.
• Programmed logic to handle hierarchical and taxonomical classifications of and associations between info objects, lessons, courses, and modules.
• Utilized Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion Markup Language, HTML, DHTML, SQL, VB components, JavaScript, VBScript, and Cascading Style Sheets to provide a comprehensive, highly functional web interface to an Oracle.