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Costa Mesa, CA, US

Oakland, California, US

• Manager for 11 Developers and 10 Contingent resources in a Safe Agile development process
• Directed technical Agile team efforts including using JIRA and improved ceremony artifacts creation, grooming and team member participation
• Managed 3.5-million-dollar budget of contingent resources
• Managed teams of developers with diverse technologies including Facets, Salesforce.NET, and Java
• Successfully improved budget forecasting, internal audit process and fostered improved internal resource communication and motivation

Nuneaton, GB

• Managed all aspects of Technical Development and Operations for this OEM Wheel and tire data provider. Responsibilities included Agile project management, architecture, coding, and implementation of:
• Implemented Agile Kanban development process improving development delivers and enabling large customers like Amazon and eBay
• Successfully developed and deployed SQL Server architecture, coding, and implementation on Azure cloud
• Developed C#.NET implementation of industry leading web services
• Developed and supported PHP, WordPress, MySQL, Bootstrap, website development and migration
• Successfully implemented an IT Asset management system for the company instituting security standards for desktop and server implementations

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Managed 10 Project Managers and Business Systems Analysts who were responsible for researching, documenting and supporting software development projects for the company’s business to business portal. Directed, coached.
• Promoted change within the staff for a blended role and changed from a Waterfall to Agile Methodology.
• Led the conversion of PTT to PTT+, enabling the migration of nearly a million customers to 4G service.
• Led the implementation of single sign-on for all external enterprise portals, including upgrading security to two factor sign-on.
• Was presented the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2011 for successful implementation of the iPhone launch for Verizon business and enterprise customers.
• Took the lead in training new managers in company policies and procedures.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Managed 10 Project Managers and Business Systems Analysts who were responsible for researching, documenting, and supporting software development projects for the company’s business to business portal. Responsibilities.
• Successfully implement migration CRM system to Clarity implementing enterprise project reporting and resource management
• Successfully migrated 3 development teams to Agile practices including Scrum, Kanban and hybrids process and Migrated CRM processes to Jira
• Moved Irvine data center to the new northern CA data center with a new Oracle blade server system
• Responsible for evaluating software security projects implementing CPI and CPNI changes and working with the Legal, Architecture and Security Audit departments to guarantee the highest level of certified security for.
• Implemented Enterprise-wide Access manager LDAP for all external enterprise portals, including upgrading security to two factor sign-on.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Coded and established frameworks and architecture for the Business to Business portal at Verizon Wireless. Hired, trained, and coached developers to deliver standards compliant code to production.
• Instrumental in implementing the Spring and Spring MVC technologies into the existing Apache Struts and Struts tiles implementation.
• Coded 90% of the new fully automated eCommerce platform.

San Francisco, California, US

• Coded and established the web development program for this DMO provider. Integrated Legacy systems with web services for real time communication with the Enterprise portal.
• Implemented document management tool for creation, auditing, printing and translating of DMO plan documents.
• Represented the DMO group on the Delta Dental Architecture board for the development of Delta's first Enterprise Membership identification system.

Dallas, TX, US

Designed, developed, tested and deployed the middleware for AT&T Wireless’s new 3G-network serving hundreds of thousands of customers a day. This was implemented using the Vitria middleware tools and all of its related Java and CORBA products. Responsible for standards, training and technology implementation of a team of eight Developers as well as.

Information Systems, Business Information Systems

Certificate, Web Development

High School