Leading teams in transitioning traditional retail Payment Systems to modern architectures and solutions allowing for those organizations to use their own payment solutions gaining a financial incentive, better uptime, and fault tolerance.

Experienced in building secure, highly available, fault tolerant event streaming CDC pipelines in AWS supporting eCommerce applications. Able to develop across multiple languages picking the right tool for the right job. Skilled in IaC for building out cloud infrastructure. History of working in CICD deployments with high test coverage and quick feedback loops.

Managed Single Sign-On initiative as a foundational solution for unifying customer facing sites, business analytics and standing up a cloud based SOA middle tier. The project was a ground up approach in determining the right architecture, reviewing RFPs, influencing the vendor decision, developing the roadmap and leading multiple teams and business leaders in executing the SSO goals.Supervised co-located and remote cross-functional team members coaching and mentoring junior developers. Supported planning team capacity and monthly budget.Led technical development of eCommerce program collaborating with Enterprise Architects in designing enterprise integrations and order workflow meeting business requirements, security and performance NFRs and introducing monitoring solutions. Guided enterprise SOA solution distributing online service orders to physical stores. Led PCI audits for the ecommerce team. Coordinated with operations in determining infrastructure architecture and planning for growth as business requirements are delivered. Experienced in resolving both infrastructure and application related performance issues.Spearheaded process and technology implementations influenced by a lean development methodology and a DevOps philosophy. Introduced git, jira and confluence to team and later adopted through out the company. Modeled CI build process. Switched to a TDD approach improving test coverage on new development. Trained Production Support on automated regression testing reducing testing cycle time. Piloted a Blue – Green Deployment improving processes with reduced downtime.Oversaw crisis management teams using strong analytical skills resolving mission critical application issues on tier 1 applications.Established eCommerce disaster recovery initiative running quarterly tests across IT verticals reducing test time.

• Architect and Development experience for both IBM and JSR-168 API applications under all combinations of Portal, Struts, JSF frameworks, and AJAX frameworks• Strategic Portal application assessment and documentation and developer skill set review• Expertise in the implementation of MVC applications focusing on the J2EE (EJBs, JMS, Security, Web Services) framework for distributed systems critical to the success of strategic, scalable, n-tier Internet applications• In-depth knowledge of RDMS model design and tuning experience in Oracle and MySQL databases• Administration experience with WebSphere 6.X, Portal 6.X/5.1.X, Apache 2, Resin 2, and Tomcat 4• Experience developing use cases and unit tests using the regression testing framework JUnit and various XP (extreme programming) guidelines in supporting quality build releases

• Developed Struts based content management system for professional photographers. Portal allows for non-technical users to manage online photographic gallery, written articles, and shopping carts, as well as other requested features. Project implements MVC architecture through DTOs, DAOs, and Value Objects• Ant scripts used for complete build, unit testing, and deployment of project files• Designed and implemented medically based Ontology. The medical ontology was rigorously designed for complete knowledge discovery. Knowledge Agents were implemented for content enrichment.• Implemented and instructed use of Semagix. Reviewed developmental practices and recommended improvements