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Formed my own company to provide consulting/contracting services for enterprise clients.Feel free to contact me if you need help with:* Modernization of your technology estate* Systems/Software architectural support and refresh* Lowering risk and increasing success with cloud and AI* Product engineering leadership* Technical organization leadership* Technical enhancement within your leadership team (senior and C-level)* Or anything else - let's talk

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Recruited and hired into IBM Consulting as a technical executive, bringing direct technical expertise to bear on internal and client-facing projects and engagements. Led engineering efforts on consulting assets. Reorganized large engineering-focused work-streams for key client to improve efficiency and visibility. Led turn-around of engagement for another highly-technical client and driving additional deal wins. Provided technical/architectural leadership for large transformation engagement with key client.

Henderson, Nv, Us

Having successfully navigated the IT department through a year of changes, I focused my role on leading the product and platform engineering teams in delivering the next-generation industrial-strength world-class payments platform and product lines. In this role I built the teams and lead the design and development of our core technologies, from container strategy up through platform architecture, DevOps, and product development and delivery.

Henderson, Nv, Us

Paysign, Inc. is a nationally esteemed and innovative card payment solutions provider and integrated payment processor with 20 years of experience.Specializing in creating solutions for healthcare providers, major pharmaceutical companies, source plasma centers, retailers, and emerging markets like hospitality companies, Paysign is a trusted, full-service, prepaid card program partner.In this role, I owned all of the technology responsibilities, including development, operations, service desk, compliance and security, and infrastructure. During this time I ushered the IT department through a period of change which involved better structuring our IT compliance, improving infrastructure, controlling cloud costs, building a data warehouse and BI capabilities, and up-skilling the development team. I also was instrumental in curating our product roadmap and innovation.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leading software development and architecture of Cisco's cloud infrastructure and platform services. Contributing to global infrastructure software best practices and guidelines. Building people, teams, and software. Working in Kubernetes / Openshift, I led the design and delivery of several cloud automation solutions using Go.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Contract position in Software/Systems Resiliency Engineering and Design.Consulting with internal application teams to help design more resilient systems. Focus on large-scale system design, microservice design and operations, testing, and more.Docker, Kubernetes - coding in Go and Python.

Dallas, Tx, Us

A.I. is a software consulting firm which prides itself on delivering innovative consulting and solutions to its many clients. With core competencies in Microsoft technologies, A.I. brought me in to create a practice around Java and other open source technologies. In this role, I performed as a Principal Consultant and Architect for key clients. I also recruit, build, and lead engagement teams, craft solutions for clients, and contribute directly to their successful delivery.Notable achievements at keystone client:• Defined and led the delivery of a modern microservices architecture and technology stack based on Akka and Play Framework. • Led the design and delivery of a small-footprint computing device which utilizes components built in C and Go, connecting seamlessly with the cloud hosted microservices-based system.• Performed deep assessments of existing world-scale enterprise software products built by the organization used to drive billions in revenue yearly, and provided a modernization roadmap. Assisted with efforts to re-align the business around the best technologies in this area.• Created Proof-of-Concept in porting those software products to alternative database platforms, and demonstrated path to transform core to a REST based API architecture (core code is all in C).• Set up initial DevOps efforts and processes, and evaluated migration to AWS for certain products.• Assist with modernizing development tools and processes, and provide project/business consulting and leadership.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Worked on a near real-time complex big data analytics system in C++, Go, Scala, Python, and Groovy.

Sideline consulting with start-up companies to help solve their technical and project management issues by providing contract programming, project management, infrastructure assistance, and technical direction as needed. Adviser to entrepreneurs/start-ups to help with technical strategy and direction.I recently performed as acting CTO of a pre-launch startup company in the card payments, transactions, and virtual currency space. In this role, I provided strategic and tactical advice, met with partners and other advisors, and created initial proof-of-concept software. This company is currently self-funded with a strong advisory board, and has been accepted into a major accelerator program.Built beta application using Typesafe Play Framework, Java/Scala, Twitter Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Javascript. Includes integration with traditional financial institutions and virtual currency exchanges. Contributing to open source integration libraries.

Winterville, Nc, Us

Hired into Net.Orange to lead the evolution of a healthcare informatics platform. NDO was acquired by Nanthealth in early 2014, and I continued to lead research and development of new platform architecture. Separated from the company due to restructuring mass layoffs.While here, my role included requirements grooming, software design, large-scale software architecture and development.

Joined early stage company to build and lead development teams, building next-generation banking and payments platforms. Built initial team, development tools, methodologies, data center infrastructure, and architecture - leading to first production customer.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Ganart Technologies has developed ground-breaking technologies and services for financial transaction processing at a global level. * Co-founded company, started offices simultaneously in India and locally. Spent 6 of first 9 months on-site in India. Recruited/hired initial personnel.* Built an OLTP platform and product services, including ATM, domestic/international money transfer, and bill payments. System is highly-available and horizontally-scalable.* Created core components of highly configurable terminal client platform, including hardware interfaces.* Built offline processing systems which support the online platform and product services. Created initial web-based portal for system control and reporting.* Successfully built and put into production a complete end-to-end financial ATM network, including certifying as a direct processor to the PULSE debit network.* Ported terminal platform from custom hardware machine to CEN/XFS compliant platform, which included creating Java interfaces to the C-based XFS system.* Created architectural vision for all systems, and oversaw all design and code.* Set up complete software development processes and environments, including build tools, version control, wikis and bug tracking systems.* Created distributed load/soak/performance test tools.* Contributed to datacenter infrastructure design, development, and production support (PCI-compliant private cloud infrastructure built on RedHat virtualization technology).* Created and maintained development systems’ infrastructure.* Created and maintained relationships with recruiting firms; oversaw recruiting, interviewing, and hiring process.* Shareholder and member of senior management team, contributing to company strategic direction, business development, and providing leadership to staff.

E2 Systems was a startup investigating retail banking kiosks. The company did not make it off the ground.I was responsible for building and leading the teams which provide all software development. I oversaw the architecture of all systems, develop and manage project plans, manage outsource/offshore resources, vendor selection... in addition to writing code.

Southlake, Texas, Us

Rejoined Sabre as a Lead Performance Engineer. Sabre has one of the largest and fastest transaction processing systems in the world, and to keep that edge we built a performance lab to help target bottlenecks in all of our applications and systems to make Sabre the fastest solution possible. I was responsible for building test harnesses and test suites, running performance tests and analyzing the results, and building a web-based performance dashboard.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Enterprise Architecture, Application Integration, and EDI.

Various contracts focusing on systems integration, web services, EAI, service-oriented architectures (SOA), and Java/J2EE systems architecture, design, and development.Successfully designed and built new features into an imaging and archival system.Used Websphere Application Developer (WSAD) doing both core Java as well as J2EE, in support of an enterprise-wide application framework. Developed key enhancements to the portal server software used by thousands in their everyday work. Improved the portal's performance and stability and refactored parts of the system for better stability, maintainability, and extensibility.Completed engagement which entailed building an application using Vitria BusinessWare 4.1.1, integrating a legacy mainframe system using MQ Series, several database tables, and a web application, to provide a DSL Qualification service exposed via a Web Services interface. The project successfully went into production seven weeks after starting.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Performed as the Chief Architect and developer for the Process Router. The Process Router is middleware/integration software which can accept, transform, and route XML and non-XML data, based on dynamic business rules. Over 330 Java classes making use of many technologies (XML, XSLT, DOM, Servlets, JTA, Java Mail, JAF, CORBA, RMI, JDBC, EDI X12), it is a highly multi-threaded server, designed for performance and stable throughput under load. Ddefined and implemented the Platform Architecture under which all our products (Java and C++, many OS's) work together. This architecture was a Services Oriented Architecture, based on a messaging bus. The Platform included a common Console application (in Swing) to monitor and control Services. Our UCCNet Item Sync application was successfully put into production on this platform. Also worked on a solution suite for the EAN.UCC Global Data Synchronization Network, using J2EE and C/C++ components across various platforms.

Menlo Park, California, Us

As a post-sale consultant, I worked with several customers in implementing their enterprise application integration solutions using BusinessWare. While on one engagement in this role, I was selected by the client to help form and participate in an Enterprise Architecture Task Force, where I helped define and prototype an enterprise-wide messaging infrastructure and Services Oriented Architecture for linking many of their back-end applications and services with their front-end web applications.Spending over a year as a pre-sale consultant, my primary duties included building Proof Of Concept solutions for potential customers, demonstrating the product using the POC, and answering questions about the product. These responsibilities gave me exposure to many different systems where I had to learn and integrate them quickly under sometimes extreme pressure. Many of these involved defining and modeling actual customer business process and integrating with customer systems.

Hired to build and lead team to develop next-generation products, including a complete end-to-end system which would be CORBA based, utilize cross-platform techniques, C++, and Java. My responsibility was to do the research and lead the development to deliver this product. I collected requirements and published a requirements document for the product, acquired pre-release hardware platforms from manufactures and evaluated their capabilities, and successfully delivered a Product Architecture which defined the systems, services, and infrastructure required to deliver on the requirements. I also delivered a development plan which included projected timelines, resources, risks and mitigations, and all top-level use cases. I hired two employees who I directed in building prototypes and initial cross-platform class libraries.

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us

Responsible for the design and implementation of several all-new in-house systems. One system was responsible for collecting marketing program data from a new Oracle based order entry system, and managing the delivery of that data to the 11,000+ store systems. Another system was responsible for managing all data communications between all stores systems and several in-house and external systems.I designed an architecture that would allow Operations personnel to define, modify, and monitor business processes and data flows between several systems. Integration was to be handled using custom connections to the various systems to be integrated, linked together over CORBA to a central server which managed the business processes and data flows. I worked with several departments in gathering both technical and business requirements.

Southlake, Texas, Us

Member of an elite team developing middleware and infrastructure for the next generation of SABRE products. Responsible for designing and implementing core system components of distributed systems software in both Win32 and UNIX environments. This project provided in-depth experience in systems programming for multiple platforms, network programming, performance tuning, and large-scale distributed systems design.

Performed on a team of programmers developing a CAD system using OS/2 Presentation Manager. Took over another project that used a DB2 database to track information on networked workstations, also using OS/2.

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Designed and constructed entire MS-Windows 3.1 MDI application that used image-processing techniques to extract font samples from scanned images. The data was saved in multiple formats, and used by an Optical Character Recognition engine. Software was written in C++.

Richardson, Tx, Us

Performed on a team that was responsible for an MS-Windows application used to design screens for a custom Touch Panel display, using object-oriented design methodologies, CASE tools, and C++.Completed over 100 custom system programs for distributed remote control systems. In one case, constructed a complex, distributed system to handle butler calls in 500-room, 33-story hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Wrote entire system software, including custom communication protocols, diagnostics, and interfaces to existing reservation systems. Also assisted with on-site installation.Authored two technical programming books, one tutorial and one reference, on a custom development language.

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