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Bowie, Md

New York, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Consulting agency providing strategic DevSecOps guidance and implementation to cloud native migrations and security initiatives for Fortune 500 clients. Responsible for consultant engineer operations (managed staff of 65), including sales and client-facing duties. Objectives measured in Mentorship, Policy Development, and Delivery Quality. Acquired by Copado March 2021.• Realigned Security and DevOps orgs (300 employees & contractors) for $80B healthcare provider to improve security, accelerate releases, and eliminate outage-inducing production bugs.• $2M client savings for e-discovery SaaS leader, developed artifact management proxy and migration plan.• Doubled engineering team size in 6-month period to meet business demand in “blitzscaling” growth period.• Decreased non-regrettable departures by 12% by developing behavioral screening engineer interview process.• Designed Career Advancement Program, parallel managerial and contributor tracks.• Supported over 200 technologies in client-facing projects, including AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes/Docker, Terraform, Vault, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, React, TypeScript, Splunk, ELK stack, Apigee, Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt, InSpec, Open Policy Agent, STIX/TAXII, SAST/DAST, IDS/IPS.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

A leading consulting firm for managed healthcare with 200 employees and more than $30 million in annual revenue. Oversaw all engineering operations including management of existing product development and strategies for new products with three direct reports and budgetary responsibility for $1 million.• $5 million in untapped markets targeted by developing a unique, market-differentiating, unified platform.• 6,250% increase in ad response rate realized by filling an important tech role, optimizing the hiring process for technical positions, rewriting the job description and improving ad placement.• Created long-term value by providing a superior customer experience during a consulting engagement.• 88% reduction in IT costs proposed based on an expert analysis of vendor utilization.• 12% decrease in hours required for proposed product re-engineering efforts achieved by executing a dynamic product positioning strategy.

A custom application development company focusing on customer satisfaction throughout the development lifecycle. Owned and operated business with one partner. Handled all business functions and project proposals, new client development and provided hands-on application programming.• 2,000 submissions and 150,000 page views received from an application completed to the client’s satisfaction after experiencing and recovering from a major data loss during the build.• Drove revenue growth by assessing market conditions and product opportunities, creating viable business solutions and prototyping four different blue ocean product ideas.• $500,000 grossed in the first 12 months by differentiating the firm as a powerful customer experience provider.

Provides open source ecommerce packages solutions, boasting 300,000 live installations, with 40k downloads per month. Contributed code related to order fulfillment features and financial accounting reports. Maintained servers. • 100,000 downloads recorded on custom add-on modules for financial reporting and order fulfillment.• Reached PA-DSS compliance by coordinating ~1000 code review sessions as required by the regulation, succeeding as the first open source ecommerce platform with PA-DSS certification.• 60+% reduction in monthly server costs realized by preparing hosting analysis, conducting a subsequent vendor search and migrating the system.

A platform-agnostic remote data backup service oriented toward a non-technical audience. Focused on application development, investor relations and sales / marketing approaches.• $100 million cloud backup for consumer and mobile markets pursued by anticipating market expansion and creating a SaaS backup application from the ground up.• Transitioned to the next development level by presenting the product concept to VC firms, angel investors, B2B clients and partnerships to generate an initial capital infusion and establish distribution channels.• Verified the quality and accuracy of financial transactions by working with payment gateways to setup online credit card processing including automated recurring billing and PCI compliance.• Protected IP exposure and downside capital risk by using resources to ensure adequate legal protection for incorporation, trademarks, patents, etc.

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy