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Newport Beach, California, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

AutoAlert is a business innovation partner for dealerships who are looking to stay relevant in the evolving automotive sales business. Unlike other equity mining tools, CRMs, and even DMS platforms, AutoAlert is transforming the traditional sales model to create more meaningful connections so that dealerships are built for the future. As Senior Development Lead, I worked closely with 4 developers, Chief Architect, Vice President of Information Technology, and Product Manager to develop and maintain our next generation application in Angular 1.6 and the Microsoft Technology stack. • Instrumental in the development of new dynamic and interactive reports for application using Kendo UI framework (grid, charts, filters, etc...)• Proactively monitoring application performance using tools like Fiddler, WireShark, SQL Profiler, etc..., with an emphasis on identifying and tuning SQL queries & stored procedures, as well as leveraging Redis distributed cache.» Technologies «C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core 1.0, Angular 1.6, LINQ, Kendo UI, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, T4 Templates, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap» Infrastructure «Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2016, IIS 8, SVN, Redis Cache, AWS» Design Patterns «Factory, Template, Singleton» Libraries «AutoMapper, FluentValidation, Newtonsoft, Serilog, StackExchange.Redis

PB&J Labs is a technology company and incubator, which was awarded Dallas 100's No. 8 fastest-growing company for 2016. Also, Inc. 500 candidate for fastest-growing company in 2017. PB&J builds and invests in products and platforms that make commerce easier for manufacturers and online retailers. Our first product launch was Ecomidate, an online platform that streamlines sales, marketing and IT processes for manufacturers and retailers while increasing engagement and generating incremental revenues.As CTO, I worked closely with the CEO in strategizing new lines of business by creating prototypes and proof of concepts for new incubated companies. Responsible for overseeing and implementing all technology and infrastructure decisions using the Microsoft Technology stack and platform. Played key role in growing company from $600k to $7.5 million per year in 3 years and achieving Dallas 100’s No. 8 company for 2016. Other responsibilities included proactively evaluating new technologies, methodologies and tools, security, DNS, web hosting and software upgrades.

Ecomidate's platform pairs manufacturers and brands with leading high-traffic eCommerce websites to provide access to over 100 million online shoppers. The Ecomidate platform helps simplify and manage sales in one central location and provides a single point of contact for sales, marketing, merchandising, accounting and IT. As Senior Software Architect, I worked closely with the CEO and VP of Business Development to develop a distributed fulfillment hub platform using the Microsoft Technology stack. The distributed fulfillment hub integrated with manufacturers and online retailers like Groupon, Amazon, eBay, Staples, Newegg, Woot, LivingSocial, Touch of Modern and others. • Developed internal ASP.NET MVC Order Management and Operations web portal• Developed external ASP.NET MVC Order Management web portal for manufacturers and retailers• Developed back-end integration with QuickBooks Enterprise into fulfillment hub to streamline corporate accounting functions• Developed JSON Web API to expose Admin portal functionality to clients. Swagger for documenting API.• Proactively evaluated new technologies, methodologies and tools• Used SQL Profiler to identify and tune inefficient index usage and long running stored procedures» Technologies «C#, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, ASP.NET Identity, Web API, Razor, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Full-Text, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap, PhantomJs, CasperJs, SlimerJs, Liquid» Infrastructure «Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2016, IIS 8, Wing FTP Server, MongoDB, SQLite, Git» Design Patterns « Factory, Strategy, Template, Singleton» Libraries «Autofac, AutoMapper, CsvHelper, QBSDK, FluentValidation, NUnit, RestSharp, NSwag, SharpRepository, NewtonSoft, MongoDB

VAULT’s platform is an eCommerce marketplace where designer brands control every aspect of their storefront, offering customers the benefit to have a first look at hot new inventory and private invitations to exclusive events. As CTO and Senior Software Architect, I worked with the CEO, SVP of Sales & Operations and account managers to develop an enterprise eCommerce marketplace platform using the Microsoft Technology stack on Azure. The distributed multi-tenant platform provided a web storefront and back-end tools for managing products, flash events, inventory, orders, payment processing, fraud, tax, coupons and reverse logistics.• Designed and developed core infrastructure for eCommerce platform using CQRS and Event Sourcing• Developed payment processing integration framework• Developed payment fraud integration framework• Hired and mentored team of 4-Senior Software developers, 1-Senior QA Analyst and 3 offshore resources• Conducted code and peer reviews• Mentored developers on CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD and other design patterns• Proactively evaluated new technologies, methodologies and tools• Used SQL Profiler to identify and tune inefficient index usage and long running stored procedures • Used load testing tools for identifying and tuning web site performance• Used SOLR search server with master slave replication for full-text search» Technologies «C#, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework, Windows Services, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Full-Text, SignalR, JSON, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap, Knockout, Backbone, CSS, HTML» Infrastructure «Azure, Azure Web & Worker Roles, Azure SQL Server, Azure Queues, Azure Service Bus, Azure Distributed Cache, Azure Blob Storage, Azure CDN, IIS 8, SOLR Search Server, Git, TeamCity» Design Patterns «CQRS, Event Sourcing, Factory, Strategy, Template, Memento, Singleton» Libraries «Ninject, AutoMapper, FluentValidation, NUnit, Log4net, NewtonSoft, CsvHelper, ImageResizer, SolrNet, SignalR

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Digital River (globalTech) provided an eCommerce as a service for companies like Microsoft, Sony, Logitech, Western Digital, HP, Sharp, Toshiba and others. The distributed multi-tenant platform provided order management, reverse logistics, payment processing, taxation, fraud, customer service, coupons, analytics, etc... and capable of processing 200,000+ orders a day spread across 3 datacenters (California, Minnesota and Ireland).As Senior Software Architect, I provided architectural oversight of the design and development of the eCommerce SOA platform using Microsoft Technology stack. Instrumental in the design, development and launch of Microsoft’s Office 2010 eCommerce web site in over 240 countries, 50 languages, and 32 currencies. • Developed fulfillment integration framework • Developed payment processing integration framework• Developed real-time inventory integration framework • Developed proxy infrastructure with Microsoft Passport integration for www.microsoftstore.com• Conducted design and code reviews• Provided technical oversight of in house developers• Provided technical oversight of offshore developers in India• Used SQL Profiler to identify and tune inefficient index usage and long running stored procedures. Platform had 300+ tables and 2500+ stored procedures • Comprehensive understanding of application & HTTP caching and load balancing for high performing web sites• Used load testing tools for identifying and tuning web site performance» Technologies «C#, ASP.NET, Windows Services, .NET Remoting, XML/XSLT/XPath, JSON, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Full-Text, Microsoft Passport, Visual Basic 6.0, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, HTML» Infrastructure «Windows 2008 R2, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Service Broker, Memcached, Akamai, CVS, CruiseContrl.NET» Design Patterns «Factory, Strategy, Template, Pipeline, Singleton» Libraries «Quartz.Net, Log4net, NUnit, Saxon, ImageLibrary, Enyim, Idunno, SharpZipLib, Tamir, Blowfish

Plaid Brothers Software provided an enterprise Portfolio Management platform for financial institutions like BT Alex Brown, CIBC Oppenheimer, ABN Amro, Morgan Keegan, PrimeVest, Advest and others. The platform provided web-based tools for brokers to manage their client’s portfolio as well allowing clients to view their own portfolio on line.As Development Manager & Architect, I provided architectural oversight in the design and development of the financial transaction processing engine for both US tax lot accounting and Canadian average cost accounting systems. Also, collaboratively developed and maintained back-office application that allowed for investment firms to control all aspects of the transaction processing engine.• Developed and maintained back-office application • Used various tools to optimize SQL queries and stored procedures • Mentored and collaborated with team members on new technologies• Conducted design and code reviews• Proactively evaluated new technologies, methodologies and tools» Technologies «Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, MTS, ActiveX, XML, T-SQL, Stored Procedures» Infrastructure «Windows, IIS 6, SQL Server, Sybase, SourceSafe

Developed the industry's first Windows based pharmacy prescription management application using Visual Basic 6 and MS Access. Also responsible for the maintenance of DOS based Retail Pharmacy application serving over 300 pharmacies.• Visual Basic 6, MS Access, Turbo Pascal, DOS

Responsible for the development and maintenance of a DOS based Retail Pharmacy application serving over 300 pharmacies throughout northern and southern California. Other responsibilities included:• Distribution of software and drug price updates to retail pharmacies. • Support of internal customer service with remote technical support via remote PC software.• Kept application in compliance with Pharmacy Industry requirements such as OBRA 90, NCPDP Online adjudication 3.2 variable format, Medical online ajudication compliance, etc...• Turbo Pascal, C/C++, Novell 3.11, DOS

Arlington, Va, Us

• Developed and maintained a Computer Aided Engineering application for TSO IBM 3090 mainframe. The application was an integrated database and 2-D graphical engineering tool used by more than 400 engineers.• Provided computing support for T-45A fatigue and fracture engineers. Developed and maintained scientific applications for main gear, nose gear and full scale fatigue test modeling.• Managed an object oriented programming team for a research and development project. Developed an application in Smalltalk/V to simulate and analyze aircraft noise levels around airports.• Provided computing support for design and structural analysis engineers. Documented and maintained a computer graphics structural analysis application.• FORTRAN, JCL, TSO, SmallTalk/V

Developed custom applications in GWBasic, Turbo Pascal, and Lotus 1-2-3 for financial applications, which included precious metals futures and rare gold coins.

Bs, Computer Science

General Education

Diploma, General