Serve as the technical expert and senior advisor to the Director providing architectural and strategic guidance on IT applications and systems.Advise technical specialists that plans, develops, schedules DMID applications and systems including independent analyses and alternative studies, COTS products and other technology tools studies.Present information, data, and recommendations that are representative of thorough analysis of the issues and reflect a comprehensive representation of the options available along with key recommendations to management and senior leadership.Serve as coach and facilitator to build consensus and integrate work processes and products.Provide authoritative guidance on required quality assurance processes, procedures, and clearances and compliance with the information technology architecture governing the software development life cycle.

Technology advisor for an organization dedicated to helping LGBT youth facing homelessness and substance abuse. Provide strategic guidance on technology use to support its mission improving organizational effectiveness including porting its Website to a new provider using Microsoft Azure with containers and CDN technology.

Demonstrated expertise in teaching IT/computer science and business courses, ranging from vocational-technical programs to PhD students, at multiple institutions of higher learning.Exemplified a commitment to excellence through personal and professional growth, keeping current on the latest advancements in IT, computer science, and business.Effectively communicated complex concepts and theories to students from varied backgrounds using clear and concise language to ensure comprehension and facilitate active participation.Fostered a positive and collaborative learning environment, encouraging student participation and discussion to deepen understanding and critical thinking skills.Received consistently positive feedback from students and colleagues for exceptional teaching abilities and dedication to student success.Sample of course titles taught: business information systems & systems analysis & design (to both undergraduates of all majors and MBA students); IT project risk management to MBA students; mobile application development; introductory programming; Web programming; PL/SQL programming, operating systems; data structures; scientific computing, software quality assurance/testing, software requirements engineering, and other advanced CS topics to CS master's students, operating systems; foundations for doctoral study in business; doctoral business comprehensive examiner; ethics to undergraduates of all majors; and strategic management of information systems to PhD students.

Skilled software engineer: successfully led the design, development, and completion of several contract projects.Modified a complex decision-making process to emit an explanation of how it resolved in plain English, improving stakeholder transparency and accountability.Implemented caching to speed up response times for long-running and often-repeated queries for an improved user experience.Fixed persistent parsing bugs previously deemed unsolvable.Resolved a longstanding dataset timeout issue by "streaming" the dataset instead of loading it into memory en masse for improved system performance and stability.

Backend team leader (program manager), spearheading the development of a strategic decision support tool for healthcare and affiliated industry leaders. Key player in evaluating and refining the initial product prototype, ensuring that it aligned with the company vision. Designed and implemented robust backend and infrastructure code that seamlessly integrated expanded analysis and visualization tools, leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to support the company vision.Ensured the highest levels of software quality and efficiency. Applied industry best practices to manage all project components and code through automated testing and CI/CD pipelines in Azure services and Azure DevOps, streamlining the development and deployment processes and mitigating risk of errors or downtime.

(acting August 2015 – August 2016; served simultaneously in previous role before official title change)Technology Academic Department Chair. Led a new department offering twelve new innovative high-tech graduate degrees in computer science, cybersecurity, data science, and other related fields by:Recruiting and assembling multiple geographically-dispersed teams (the largest was 22 members) of industry leaders, subject matter experts, and scholars, to outline and implement each new curriculum.Executing a successful program launch, overseeing recruiting, assigning professors, and evaluating professors.Managing student-related matters, ensuring students received a high-quality education and the necessary support.

• Led the school’s successful ACBSP programmatic self-study & reaccreditation process with input from all faculty members & administrators culminating in a very rare flawless accreditation report containing no notes or opportunities for improvement. •Designed & implemented a new comprehensive assessment plan for each program to provide more evidence of students’ achievement of our programs’ outcomes. We used this evidence in a complete redesign of all degree plans and later received reaffirmation of our programmatic accreditation with a very rare flawless final report.• Played major roles in several fundamental changes to institution’s governance structure as part of accreditation requirement to increase faculty involvement in governance: (1) inaugural appointee as school’s representative to Academic Affairs Committee, institution’s new governing entity for all matters related to academics & student success; (2) member of volunteer faculty committee that founded Faculty Senate & Faculty Assembly governance bodies; (3) author of Faculty Senate Charter & Bylaws governing documents; (4) elected by peers as school’s founding representative to Faculty Senate; (5) served two years as inaugural member of Assessment Committee, institution’s new governing entity for all matters related to assessment, accreditation, & improving student outcomes; (6) elected to & served one-year term as chair of Assessment Committee.

• Led the full-lifecycle development of the U.S. Army’s human capital management information system for officers in the ranks of Colonel & above, serving an end-user population of 10,000 senior Army officers with a budget of $4,000,000 & using an agile development model.• Served cross-functional role including (1) systems analysis working directly with customers defining & validating requirements; (2) program management; (3) database design, development, & optimization; (4) information assurance & privacy protection including ensuring compliance with security legislation & passage of congressionally-mandated security audit; & (5) back- & front-end system design & implementation.

Charged with achieving the publisher’s vision of using technology to better engage with readers; however, in 2006, much of the code and tools either did not exist yet, were too new and unstable, or simply unusable. I achieved the publisher’s vision—even without modern solutions that require just a few lines of code and for a especially difficult for a small business like this one—include (1) shifting from manual to online ordering & purchasing of products & services, (2) implementing social networking tools for subscribers long before platforms like Facebook could serve such purposes, (3) creating a customer relationship management database, & (4) enabling dynamic management of Web content many years before tools for this purpose became commonplace & easily deployable by the average Web user.

Led team of developers to create the Midshipmen Medical Information System (MedicalMIDS) for the Naval Academy’s medical department. Led project to integrate MedicalMIDS with the Navy Medicine Online (NMO) web portal.