Engineering Manager for Latin America region.* Leading multiple teams that are passionate about the customer experience.* Build, manage and support high performing teams making sure the right technical people are in the right roles and foster career growth.* Contributing to the planning, prioritization and alignment of projects in collaboration with global leadership.* Fostering technical decision making with the team and other engineering leads and with proper context, making final decisions where and when necessary.* Define recruiting needs and how the region hire based on cultural and engineering values as well as budget management. Identifying rock stars.* Subject matter expert in the current software supporting user experience and payment journeys.* Strengthening engineering management as a discipline across all of engineering.

* Leadership role dealing with professional developers from many nations/languages/timezones.* Involved with the selection, training and overall support of said professionals in many different environments and scenarios.* Lead in many different site redesign efforts, in both a technical and management role. Responsible for making tight launch deadlines with a minimum of post launch issues.* Building important components in new and existing sites, including payment provider APIs and various user features that interfaced with Oracle database schemas.* Providing critical debugging and breakfix solutions for existing live sites. This covers the full range of technology for a multi-national corporation website structure and frequently involves coordinating other development resources to get things done.* Change Control approver requiring code review oversight, risk assessment versus business value during high volume periods, risk assessment on global regions for shared level changes and interfacing with business units when required.* Technical lead for the Latin America region (Mexico, Brazil, Chile) for all brands. Leading the development team with the goal of maintaining the fastest growing revenue stream by region within the client company.

Contracted to provide the Kansas City Regional Terrorism Early Warning Group with a Critical Infrastructure / Key Resources database system known as APRS (Asset Protection Response System). The system is used by Law Enforcement, Emergency Management and Private Sector agencies in the nine county bi-state Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) region. Full project lifecycle included close coordination and communication between development team, client and law enforcement entities involved with the project, system and database configuration, data entry screens, user management, data view screens, documentation and milestone reviews.

Month to month contract modifying eCommerce application and developing anti bio-terrorism application in Perl for tracking inventory lot numbers and batch usage for the Research & Development team at Interstate Brands Inc.

Developing feature enhancements for internal Security Request application built in ASP and Perl utilizing JavaScript and Ajax. Designed updated interface using ASP includes templates wrapped around Perl logic relying heavily on structured CCS and dynamic JavaScript functionality. Application interfaced with a DB2 database and Active Directory and was installed in a Windows server environment.

Duties included developing Perl, JavaScript and XML based functionality hooking into Interwoven TeamSite software, a Web Content Management software solution for the Adidas website. Modified workflow and templating functions within TeamSite and developed logic to query third party software using SOAP and XML. Developed PHP based image upload and validation functions within WordPress blogging software.

Tasked with designing, developing and implementing business software using Perl, interfacing with MySQL in a Windows server environment and developing custom handlers, including installing ActiveState Perl and open-source modules. Experienced in interfacing with Active Directory and building dynamically generated websites and documents, integrating Ajax functionality into online applications and implementing CVS procedures into the development cycle.

Perl development and support duties working with existing applications, including migrating existing code bases to newer environments, maintenance and feature additions. Interfacing with and modifications of Oracle schemas and PL/SQL scripts.

Duties included designing, creating, modifying, maintaining and/or supporting scores of critical Perl driven applications interfacing primarily with Oracle databases in a Sun Unix environment.Direct experience in enterprise level development, as well as working with business units collecting requirements, anticipating business needs, communicating development team needs, meeting deadlines, training and transfer of knowledge.

Duties included providing creative solutions for web based technical production and acting as lead software developer on several projects.* Web based Perl driven application enabling online construction of a website using design template selection and data input routines for Lucent Technologies customers through an Oracle database structure.* Online Document Library built with Perl utilizing UNIX directory structure and file querying.* Intranet site providing reporting and server maintenance functions built around Perl & HTML.* Several third party websites built in HTML requiring flow design and graphic manipulation.