Primary point of contact and delivery lead for multiple teams of software developers delivering quality solutions in support of multiple maintenance and new development projects.Guide teams in developing an appropriate technical approach for each project.Ensure that all development efforts remain in compliance with governance standards and policies.Collaborating with partner teams to develop best practices and process improvement initiatives.Facilitating lessons learned and conflict resolution sessions.Establishing peer networks.Guiding project teams in defining and organizing their work.Facilitating knowledge transfer and information sharing across the organization

Provide software engineering expertise and technical leadership to a team building and maintaining enterprise-class software applications with Enterprise Java (Spring, Spring-MVC, Spring-JDBC and Hibernate, JavaScript, Ajax, YUI), .NET (C#, MVC3, jQuery), and Oracle technologies. Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring for developers transitioning from .NET to Java technologiesLeading an initiative to develop and incorporate software engineering best practices for the team, and potentially for the larger organization.

Provide software engineering expertise and technical leadership to a cross-functional, multi-vendor team building and maintaining enterprise-class software applications with Enterprise Java (Struts, Spring, Hibernate) and Oracle technologies. Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. Successfully deliver complex projects working both independently and as a development lead on larger teams.Engaged in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC), with significant contributions in the areas of requirements analysis, architecture and design, and leading implementation teams. Led a successful initiative to automate builds and deployments for over a dozen projects using the AnthillPro build server, significantly reducing build and deployment errors and increasing turn-around times. Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring for junior developers.Provide project management expertise for a large scale migration and hosting project for NCI’s cancer.gov website.

Managed a team of configuration management technicians providing SCM and project management expertise in a dynamic, multi-vendor environment building Enterprise Java software for the cancer research community. Provided SCM services for 80 software projects and 200 developers, as well as to the larger caBIG cancer research community. Responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Center's CVS and Subversion repositories. Developed training materials and provided first-line technical support for internal and external users of the Center’s CVS and Subversion repositories, including in-depth support for branching and merging activities.Provided build and deployment services using the AnthillPro build server, reducing error rates and improving turn-around times.Managed several mission critical projects to implement the GForge CDE software; roll out the Subversion version control system and migrate repositories from our older CVS server; and to develop automated build and deployment capabilities. Partnered with Center management and the extended development community to successfully implement change control, architectural review, release management, and technology stack rotation processes. Worked within the larger systems support group to define standard operating procedures and improve our services to the development community.

Key contributor to the company’s effort to develop an Enterprise Java development practice.Successfully led teams delivering projects using Java EE, Struts, JSP, JavaScript, WebSphere, JBoss, DB2, SQL Server, and .NET technologies. Served as technical team lead, lead programmer, and lead designer/architect.Managed multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.Collaborated with project managers, graphic designers, DBAs, business analysts, and web developers to define best practices for the group. Coached and mentored junior developers, and worked closely with them to develop and help them follow through on their professional development goals. Championed regular “Technology Transfer Sessions” within the group to share knowledge and led many sessions myself, both within the group and for the company at large. Partnered with management and other team members to design and implement a software development and project management framework that incorporated best practices from both Agile and traditional approaches.

Served as a technical team lead, lead developer, and designer in a full life-cycle software development project building a 250K LOC real estate portfolio management system using Java, J2EE, WebLogic and Oracle database technologies. Provided training, coaching, and mentoring of junior developers and led technology transfer sessions as a teaching tool. Successfully managed the project's early beta pilot phase, which required working closely with users and internal development and support staff to manage customer expectations and negotiate priorities, all while still contributing to ongoing development efforts.

Provided full life-cycle software development expertise using VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, and Java technologies interfacing with a SQL Server database backend to support a company Intranet with 1,300 users world-wide.Managed multiple projects simultaneously, working directly with stakeholders to define requirements and set expectations.

Successfully delivered software systems using SAS, VB/VBA, Java, and SQL. Successfully led a team of three developers tasked with updating and integrating a number of systems implemented in Access 2.0 and porting them to Java. Served as an Industry Analyst for the Producer Price Index.