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Vienna, Va, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

As part of the Next Evolution of Work (NEW) transition, TD has doubled down on efforts to create enterprise-wide platforms to use the scale of the Bank to improve efficiency, move away from building one-off solutions towards a model where something is built once, used frequently across TD and evolved and improved on an ongoing basis. Leveraging agile ways of working for specific projects and pilots over the last few years, the broader enterprise transformation began in earnest in early 2021 when TD began introducing NEW processes, team designs and collaboration methods across the organization to help colleagues achieve better outcomes and meet customer needs.As part of this transition, the Software Engineering Practice was created to:- Provide a world class developer experience that automates away toil to build, deploy, and operate products end-to-end- Adopt best in class engineering practices to drive product quality, developer velocity, and engineering collaboration- Create an environment and culture that attracts, develops, and retains top quality engineering talentAs the Software and Quality Engineering Practices Owner, I’m focused on creating an environment and culture that attracts, develops, and retains top engineering talent to meet the ever-growing demands for software engineering talent throughout TD.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Control Plane is the first sky computing solution harnessing the combined power of all the clouds, giving developers unprecedented power and flexibility. Founded in 2019, the Control Plane Platform was born out of the need to deliver unbreakable, auto-scaled, low-latency microservices. It is a virtual cloud made up of the three major cloud providers, harnessing all their power at a small fraction of the cost because workloads run serverless and cluster-less. The platform’s 10x simplification and reduced time-to-market give developers all the knobs and levers needed to accomplish their production goals quickly and securely.Control Plane was in stealth mode until its product launch in February of 2022. Since then, the company has experienced exponential growth.

Chicago, Il, Us

Flamingo's One-App Resident Journey is the future of resident engagement software.

Fairfax, Virginia , Us

IT216 - Systems Analysis & DesignCourse Outline:This course will cover the principals of information systems including analysis and design. Students will learn techniques in data requirements collection and analysis along with methods for modeling data needs. Modeling of data will occur at the conceptual, logical, and physical levels along with an ability to compare and contrast the different approaches given their merits and limitations. Students will understand the importance and constraints imposed by the domain of the information system along with business rules that guide the design. Functional dependencies and domain normalization will also be discussed as part of the requirements analysis. Object-oriented information system modeling will be surveyed. User-centered design techniques will be explored. Real-world scenarios will be discussed.

Seattle, Wa, Us

My team within Amazonian Experience & Technology, Joining Experience Tech for Servicing (JETS), provided global technology capabilities and services focused on primarily enabling and catalyzing the Joining Amazon (JA) journey as well as other journeys through extensible products and services. We built and managed domain-driven technology solutions centered around work authorization, immigration, screening services, new joiner support, and mandatory documentation. We built a brand new composite product leveraging native AWS services, microservices, microfrontends, event-driven architecture, machine learning (ML), and the latest tech.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

At AvalonBay, we had embarked on a digital initiative to enhance the way we served our customers. We transformed the way customers experience AvalonBay with an approach rooted in design thinking and enabled by agile methodology.• Responsible for all Digital software engineering, products, and platforms• Established agile and DevOps practices within the company• Migrated core customer facing apps to AWS • Developed new cloud native, microservices oriented software products

Mclean, Va, Us

Brought amazing associate experiences to life through modern, resilient, adaptable, and secure technology.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Responsible for all enterprise learning technology, learning design and development, and related operations and infrastructure - People Manager for several teams (Technology, Design, Development)- Led the technology workstream of the Growing My Career Experience- Led the development and rollout of a new learning portal across the company- Led an RFP effort for a new LMS- Developed a new product to automatically scan, evaluate, and improve learning content shared within our various learning ecosystem products

Mclean, Va, Us

Helped create and establish Tech College, a world class tech learning organization that offers innovative learning opportunities and experiences that attract, develop, and retain our associates and drive our business strategy forward. Established and led the Data discipline within Tech College, which was focused on:- Growing our pool of data practitioners (data engineers, scientists, and architects)- Supporting the skill growth of existing data practitioners - Reinforcing the cohesion of the Capital One data community - Equipping non-practitioners with the data understanding and fluency they need - Preparing associates to enable future innovation and machine learning through: real-time, event-driven streaming data (Kafka, Spark, etc.); cloud-based data lake storage and warehousing (S3, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.); abstracted data access with state-of-the-art analysis, modeling, visualization, and business intelligence tools (Tableau, Birst, Elastic Stack, Metadata management, lineage management, tokenization, access control, etc.) - Developing real-time, event-driven infrastructure for Tech College dataArticles about Tech College:- https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/the-secret-to-digital-success-talent/ - https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/10/03/capital-one-wants-to-train-all-employees-in-technology/- https://medium.com/capitalonetech/from-the-cios-view-building-a-nimble-learning-organization-f0f2d64506a

Mclean, Va, Us

In this role, I was responsible for driving a DevOps culture and best engineering practices throughout our Enterprise Data Services organization. - Managed EDS scrum masters and drove engineering practices (45 teams, 21 scrum masters)- Dean of Data & Data Services for Software Engineering College- Drove CI/CD adoption- Transformed production support to fit DevOps paradigm (teams proactively managing their own production support)

New York, Ny, Us

My primary objective in this role was to enable the workplace of the future through seamless integration of human resources, talent, personas, and other information with contextual awareness to enhance the human experience. I also did much work towards enabling the entire innovation continuum from incremental to disruptive, which also involved breaking down silos and getting folks to work together more effectively.- Responsible for the HR data services, reporting, and analytics products- Responsible for the HR data warehouse- People leader for an amazing scrum team- Innovation community leader- Lead enterprise crowdsourcing and hackathons- Help turn ideas into tangible products

New York, Ny, Us

I joined American Express in this role within the U.S. Loyalty Team.• Opened the first Innovation Lab at AEDR in Phoenix• Started Innovation Fridays• Created a global collaboration and crowdsourcing platform• I was the first new hire as part of Delivery Transformation, which is the company’s transformation from outsourcing a majority of software development to a model where collaborative teams deliver software in collocated, agile scrum teams• I was an integral member of a nationwide recruitment and candidate assessment effort to hire software engineers for our team• I led the onboarding, training, and integration of 2 agile scrum teams comprised wholly of external new hires• I led the transition of the Business Event Qualifier (BEQ) product’s delivery model, which is the system that handles bonusing of American Express US Consumer and Open credit cards, from a blended waterfall development team to a team comprised of 2 collocated scrum teams, an offshore scrum team, and a blended waterfall development team• I developed processes, practices, and organization necessary to support agile software development for the US Loyalty Team• I led efforts to establish an initial product backlog and release plan for the Loyalty Program Manager (LPM) product• I facilitated the adoption of LISA for service virtualization and regression testing for USLT• I developed JAX-WS web services that are consumed by our customer service and consumer card management portals• I developed a portion of an internal web portal that is responsible for setting up promotions for US Consumer and Open credit cards

I was a key contributor to development and integration of many aspects of the MUOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System) ground system's network management system (NMS) from all aspects (planning, development, integration, systems engineering, testing, and maintenance). I was most closely responsible for the key management system (KMS), Over the Air File Transfer (OTA-FT), Over the Air Provisioning (OTAP), Spectrum Management, Situational Awareness (SA), terminal provisioning, and group provisioning functionalities. All of these functional areas were wide reaching, distributed, and intimately tied to the user entry (UE) segment of the MUOS system, which required continual cross-collaboration and teamwork.I was heavily involved in the integration and testing of the MUOS waveform (WF1.x, WF3.x), integration of the AIM programmable cryptographic module for key management on the UE, and integration of the HMS Manpack Terminal with the MUOS ground system.I developed a Java software program to read, decode, and parse NSA AES key material from a Simple Key Loader (SKL) into a human readable plaintext format that corresponds with encrypted contents in support of MUOS site integration and acceptance testing of the worldwide ground system. I developed a Java application to capture screenshot artifacts that saved weeks of time over traditional screenshot artifact collection and analysis. I made an artifact server using MySQL, PHP, Perl, Unix, and Java to facilitate log and screenshot collection and distribution from MOUS for lab/site maintenance/support. I wrote a Java application for collecting, tracking, and reporting of AES key information assigned to provisioned MUOS subscribers. I created a suite of applications to automate an NMS operator for testing.I developed an application using C++ and Java to synchronize files and directories across a network using both one-way and two-way synchronization that operated similarly to r-sync.

Tempe, Az, Us

STM591 - Engineering Design for TeachersCourse Outline:Participants will become familiar with the engineering design process and will design engineering solutions to problems associated with environmental sustainability, engaging in optimization of the outcomes of designed solutions. Engineering design will be used as the underlying model for integrated STEM curricula. STM 591 will introduce participants to engineering concepts, engineering design, and give them the opportunity to explore what engineers do at work, the role of design in engineering, and the use of engineering design principles in STEM education. Participants will become aware of the engineering habits of mind which represent thinking skills, attitudes, and values that are essential to the practice of engineering.

I started this company in high school and operated it throughout my college years before accepting a position at General Dynamics C4 Systems. I began this company as an IT services firm performing computer repair and network setup for my friends and neighbors. I quickly branched into a plethora of other offerings such as small-business IT contracting, website development, custom software development, broadband wireless networking, CCTV surveillance system installation, and manufacture and sale of my self-designed CCTV surveillance units for municipalities and construction.

Fairfax, Va, Us

- Led a trade-study to determine a crucial decision for a multi-billion dollar government project- Led a task team to develop an internal website for a multi-billion dollar government project

Bse, Computer Systems Engineering

Mse, Industrial Engineering

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General