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Durham, North Carolina, Us

Florham Park, New Jersey, Us

• Owner of the development/engineering organization for an Azure Kubernetes based platform as a service• Manage a fully remote engineering organization with 75+ staff multi-geo located with Manager, Architect, Lead, PO and individual contributor direct reports.• Team building, hiring, performance evaluation, resource planning, mentoring and budget management. • Owner of all Azure infrastructure utilizing infrastructure as code for a micro-services based architecture with on demand scripted environment/service deployment/reduction• Establish and drive adoption of development, QA and release processes and standards including implementation of functional, stress, load, performance, and resiliency testing• Requirements intake, planning and implementation plan scheduling• Drive all Compliance and Security efforts including owning all preparation and audit efforts for HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, SOC, NIST and HiTRUST

Durham, Nc, Us

- Manager for 2 development teams and a manual QA team including local and remote staff as well as overseas contract staff. Direct reports included front end and back end engineers, QA automation engineers and manual QA.- Oversaw development and delivery of new products for the Professional Sports market- Responsible for hiring, mentoring, performance management, work assignment, resource allocation, leading agile events, identifying issues and driving resolution.- Drove improvements and adoption of best practices. This included overhauling the support triage process, managing improvements to test automation and tooling.- Served as a point of contact and liaison with other areas of the business such as Customer Support, Sales and Marketing to ensure development teams are meeting customer needs

Cary, North Carolina, Us

• Project management and ownership of all products released by Red Storm upon launch• Ensured reliability and stability of production systems and oversee all issue management.• Liaison and manage all disciplines involved with Live Production including customer service, community management, network and operations services, marketing, legal, business development, PR, event support and production. • Managed the DevOps team responsible for build systems, source control and all support systems (Jenkins, Jira, Perforce, Confluence)• Producer and liaison for outsourced projectsShipped Projects and Projects in Development:DevOPS Manager for Tom Clancy's The Division 2Live Producer, Producer and Online Architect for Star Trek: Bridge CrewDevOPs Manager for Unannounced Title

Cary, North Carolina, Us

As Online Architect I provided architectural guidance for online systems servicing triple-A PC and console titles. This included technical leadership for new projects and the application of evolving technologies such as cloud infrastructure, third party networking solutions and virtual reality systems. This also included interfacing with a wide variety of Ubisoft systems, departments and infrastructure as well as first party systems like Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, Steam and Oculus APIs.In my role as Live Producer, I oversaw all Red Storm led productions once they went to market. The primary focus of this role was to serve as the linchpin spanning multiple disciplines to ensure the overall player experience. This included working with Operations staff to ensure infrastructure capacity, monitoring and stability met or exceeded needs; overseeing customer service and community management to proactively detect and address issues; managing prompt and clear communication to all stakeholders; and working with Production Teams to incorporate features, pipelines and appropriate tooling to facilitate Live Production needs.As a senior technical leader I provided guidance for the hiring and development of engineering talent. This includes ownership of Red Storm's participation in the Ubisoft Graduate program.Shipped Projects:Lead Architect for Online Services for Far Cry 4.Producer for Rainbow 6 SiegeOnline Architect and Live Producer for Werewolves WithinOnline Architect and Live Producer for Star Trek: Bridge CrewProducer for Starlink: Battle for Atlas

Reykjavik, Na, Is

- Founded, hired and managed CCP's US based Web Team- Technical Director for all Web Development Efforts at CCP- Provided technical leadership and direction for web projects in Atlanta, Reykjavik and Shanghai- Oversaw web projects for EVE Online, DUST 514 and in-development MMO projects- architect and stakeholder for www.evegate.com, CCP's real time portal for gaming and communication features for EVE. Utilized a WCF based web service interfacing with Python backend services and a large scale, high performance mission critical MS SQL database- Owned E-Commerce, customer communication and marketing web presences which included data security and identity management, handling payment methods, fraud prevention, shipping and business optimization and PCI compliance

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Contract position at IHG (Intercontinental Hotels Group - the world's largest hotel company). Senior development work on advanced, high scale web applications on a $2 billion revenue (per annum) website. Technical lead on numerous mission critical projects including the Go Discover application which combined hotel reservations with trip planning services. Senior developer for the Core team building the new generation application framework which replaced IHG's core distribution framework. Development and core architecture work utilizing Java (J2EE, Struts, Spring), RESTful services, JMS message buses, Hibernate ORM, JUnit and Ant

Java contract position at Shaw Industries. Designed and implemented a claims application to replace existing legacy processes.

Lead developer and architect for all java based solutions. Lead and architect for development of the company's web services (RESTful) architecture, managing an offshore team of 8 to implement it. Lead and architect for a mobile retail service application (swing laptop app) with database synchronization with corporate enterprise data store. This was implemented by 4 on site staff and an additional offshore team of 8-10 which I managed.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca