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Hired to modernize infrastructure to support deployment to cloud in an Agile workflow. Manage 4 direct reports and provide technical vision for the team.- Performing architectural analysis of legacy applications for cloud migration- Developing infrastructure around unit and integration testing- Working with PMO to create tickets in Jira as part of Agile workflow- Participating in recruitment, interviewing, and training of new team members

Greater Philadelphia Area

Tech Lead & Senior Software Engineer:Promoted to expanded role leading team of seven employees responsible for internal facing operations. Responsible for order management systems, vendor operations, accounting interfacing, and integrating with third-party service providers.- Mentor and train 8 new hires resulting in multiple successful software deployments- 100% retention rate of hired staff with one team member promoted to leadership role- Architect and develop new feature and applications- Implement Agile processes across multiple teams as part of reorganization- Perform high-quality code reviews with supportive feedback to developersSenior Software Engineer:Member of tech team working in Agile/scrum environment. Developed and maintained e-commerce website in multiple languages. Performed and evaluated peer-reviewed work.- Resolved production issues quickly and accurately to ensure continued revenue- Ramped up quickly on new technologies with minimal guidance- Managed interface between DevOps and development including production rollbacks and reverts- Served as main conduit between stakeholders and development- Set up and maintained development-wide on-call system of 20 team members for e-commerce production sites

Director of Integration:Senior manager of customer relations and provided translation between customer needs and company capabilities. Provided direct, timely product support and troubleshooting.- Identified customer ETL needs and developed deployment plan for integration with core product- Designed and implemented specialized solutions specific to customer needs- Collaborated with sales team to provide technical support for potential new customersSenior Software Engineer:Point-person for software integration and installation support. Developer of specialized tools to meet unique customer needs.- Built integration tools supporting main product to meet individual customer needs- Designed and implemented TrueMapper, a reporting tool for data display in native company format- Developed TrueFinder to support cataloging and searching company product data pools- Created .NET-based Excel plug-ins to support complex data mapping needs-100% success rate with installations in highly-security environmentsSoftware Engineer:Member of development team maintaining and adding new features to core company product.- Trained in Agile with Robert (“Uncle Bob”) Martin of Object Mentor- Used test-driven development (TDD) to build applications including robust integration level testing- Applied SOLID and object-oriented programming (OOP) patterns to new development for mainproduct- Developed and implemented acceptance level testing using Fitnesse- Wrote C++ code as part of development of main company product

- Managed team of developers building a rules base application for the management of PCs- Updated a C++ based application that performed OLAP functionality for the legal industry- Built a new centralized application for biomedical publisher and migrated data into new application- Created applications that made use of iris-based biometric information- Developed a data processing pipeline application for catalog publishing in Perl