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Apex, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Managed Pipeline and DevOps Enablement team for the Azure DevOps Server platform supporting the Truist merger, creating the 6th largest US bank.
• Managed a team of 4+ DevOps engineers supporting enterprise teams executing 2,500+ CI builds and 4,000+ CD releases per month
• Functioned as member of multi-team, multi-platform DevOps Enablement department
• Established and coached new platform team operating under an Agile methodology
• Piloted platform specific implementation for Release Management supporting merger operations and reducing operational risk

Charlotte, NC, US

• Managed the Microsoft Center of Excellence department focusing on the enablement of development teams using the Microsoft stack throughout the enterprise.
• Managed a team of 10+ supporting 500+ developers across the enterprise and 5-10 internal or infrastructure applications
• Championed the introduction of DevOps principles within the Microsoft developer community using Azure DevOps Server
• Drove right-sizing procedures for developer tools licensing that resulted in over 1mm in cost savings and avoidance
• Designed and developed critical workflow automation to manage readiness analysis and deployment status for 30k+ Windows 7 upgrades

Charlotte, NC, US

• Team Lead for the development of Commercial Lending origination and underwriting solutions.
• Team Lead managing 3+ developers
• Designed and developed ASP.NET and SharePoint based Commercial Lending solutions to drive efficiency and reduce regulatory risk for the 15th largest US bank
• Functioned across all aspects of the product development lifecycle including business requirements, coding, source code management, build & deployment automation, production monitoring, and support

US

Software consulting for LAMP,.NET, and iPhone game development.

US

Architect and Principal Developer for a web based video-broadcast and conversational marketing platform using.NET and SQL Server.

Tampa, Florida, US

Developed Electronic Medical Record software using.NET Smart Client technologies.

Waltham, MA, US

Project team member to develop and maintain speech recognition, patterning, and data mining software. Technologies include SQL Server & C#.

San Diego, California, US

Developed high volume transactional software supporting online advertising platforms using.NET, messaging queuing, and SQL Server.

Architect and Lead Systems and Development efforts to support and improve CAMA (Computer Aided Mass Appraisal) system(s) developed in Delphi; convert legacy GIS to ESRI based technology; support and expand web site functionality; and to modernize and expand Microsoft based server (AD/Exchange/SQL/etc.) capacities and reliability.

Developed CAMA (Computer Aided Mass Appraisal) platform using VB6, DCOM, and SQL Server.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Designed, developed and supported Information Warehouse (IW) OS/390 (MVS TSO) batch and online systems using C, C++, and PL/1 languages accessing DB2 databases using imbedded SQL for internal IBM systems.

Developed templating engine using C++ to enable legacy Tandem NonStop Pathway applications to quickly generate web-based UIs.

Designed, wrote, and maintained VSE/CICS PL/1 VSAM online and batch applications; CICS to VMS SNA APPC LU6.2 communication routines; maintained LAN/WAN networking (PC/DEC/IBM interconnections, etc.).