* Instituted and provide technical leadership to the CI/CD pipeline for our organization, utilizing Gitlab that automatically deploy to Kubernetes clusters through Helm charts after passing a series of tests.* Mentored and grew several engineers as we transitioned from a re-organization to a developer-centric paradigm, including those who were new to the basics of software development.* Led a team of developers in a project that converts 27 different lines of business from a legacy platform onto a “NextGen” platform, utilizing the .NET stack.* Provided leadership to a team that was building its skillset as Site Reliability Engineers, focusing on lean methodologies such as Kanban and measurements such as cycle time, lead time, SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and toil.* Managed a team of developers, administrators and business analysts that designed and developed solutions using the Pega business workflow platform. This platform served as the workflow for both pre-adjudicated claims as well as post-adjudicated encounters for Medicare and Medicaid lines of business.

* Responsible for 19 resources across three teams whom contribute to the development and deployment of all software for Ashley Homestores. This includes an Experience team comprised of Salesforce Sales Cloud solutions, an Integrations team who are responsible for the API architecture, and a team who produces software updates for our current legacy proprietary software suite.* Provided technical leadership for all teams, including instruction of best practices and code reviews in an environment with the Microsoft .NET stack, including .NET Framework 4.5 and .NET Core 2.2.* Established culture of learning and collaboration by training developers on the usage of the git source code manager, team wiki for rapid information exchange, and upgraded the team’s development platform from TFS 2013 to Visual Studio Team Services.* Reduced Homestores technical operations expenditures by 24%, while increasing productivity and value to the business.* Migrated all teams onto an agile methodology using the Kanban model, allowing for clearer visibility into the team’s current workload, including measurements of team output and bottlenecks through up-to-the-minute metrics such as cumulative flow diagrams, cycle times and lead times.* Converted the team onto a continuous release model where we provide production-level value to the business as soon as it is ready. Before this conversion releases were very large and only occurred every four to five months, and after the conversion releases are two to four times per week.

* Oversaw management and technical leadership of 3 out of the 4 alignment teams in the Engineering Department, including product and professional services development consisting of 19 software and quality assurance engineers both local and in South America. Technical leadership includes code reviews, and assisting engineers with solving complex issues.* Managed a team of 8 direct reports who were spread across 3 different alignment teams. Responsible for administrative and talent management, including various conflict resolutions.* Performed various development duties as needed to support the team in a Java/Linux/MySQL/Cassandra environment, using Java 8, and Spring Framework 3.2* Managed and assisted development on a subscriber repository for our largest client which processed 1 million records per hour. This product was fully scalable on AWS using Java, Cassandra, and the ELK stack.* Implemented the Kanban agile methodology for one of the alignment teams, increasing efficiency and overall throughput.* Led implementation of the DotCMS content management system as a replacement for the company’s legacy platform, with a production throughput of almost 25 million page hits per day. Leadership duties included technical oversight from custom development needs through production implementation in a clustered environment* Designed and developed a method for the Engineering department to use Docker and Amazon AWS to rapidly build full temporary non-production environments, promoting end-to-end testing at the developer level and increasing confidence as the codebase promotes to more privileged environments.

Developed a Business Continuity Dashboard that graphs network attacks, trouble tickets and network traffic over a user-defined timespan. The dashboard was written as a Liferay portlet using GWT, Sencha ExtGWT, and interfaced with a number of services using SOAP and RESTful web services.Created a mock web services tool for internal development use that allows the developer to create many mock scenarios for their application. This allows the developer to test their application using many edge-case scenarios that would not be possible when integrating with the main development environment. This application is platform independent and was written in Node.JS.

Lead developer and architect for one of the largest accounts at the company. Responsible for the overall architecture of the system, with visibility and mentoring of campaigns that affect a sizable portion of the environment. Also responsible for conducting code reviews and approve all back-end code in the production roll process. Duties also include technical recommendations to the client for potential third-party offerings and how they may be integrated into our system. This system is a Java environment which heavily uses the Spring framework, OpenText/RedDot content management server, and Oracle 11g and CouchDB databases.Inherited and maintained a legacy web site for a client who is a leader in all-natural hygiene products, until a redesign and migration effort was in place to sunset the code base. Duties included both front-end (HTML, CSS) as well as back-end maintenance. The environment used the .NET stack (ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET) with a SQL Server 2005 database and proprietary content management system.Assisted in design and development of a site redesign with an entirely new back-end using Java, Vignette, Velocity and Spring technologies. Duties included database schema design and development of controller logic. Also assisted web producers by writing front-end AJAX routines using jQuery.Performed numerous site updates for a prominent provider of toothpaste products, including content management changes, feature enhancements and troubleshooting. This site is a Java-based system using Spring, Velocity, and the Vignette content management system.

Designed, developed and maintained a portal for managing internal environments within the entire organization using GWT, Spring, C# and Servlet technologies. GWT 1.4 was originally used as the front end with C# web services inputting and translating JSON as the back end. It was later refactored to GWT 1.5 to make use of its richer end-to-end features, with the back end running Java Servlet technologies. This allowed for a more unified reuse of the model classes and a cleaner packaging as model, view and controller were encapsulated into one WAR file. The front end was also refactored using widgets from the SmartGWT library (a GWT API for the SmartClient AJAX library) allowing for transparent injections of abstract data structures directly into the library's widgets. Application architecture documentation made use of UML through MS Visio.Designed and developed a series of custom business interfaces which process up to one million records per day using Java, Hibernate and the Spring framework. This project contains no GUI, and used a combination of Hibernate and Spring's JDBCTemplate for data and transaction management using an Oracle database.Developed a custom meter reading adapter for a client to process incoming meter information in the MEPMD02 record format, sending meter data into an Oracle database. This was developed using Java and the Spring framework.Generated a custom reporting application for a customer to take information in our data repository and output to a comma-delimited file, using Java and Spring technologies.Created and managed a series of virtual internal development environments (both Redhat Linux Enterprise and Windows Server 2003) for our division, utilizing VMWare ESX and version snapshots.Acted as release engineer representative for our services division, ensuring that developers adhere to software life-cycle standards such as proper bug submission and documentation policies.

Designed and developed a patient education and entertainment station called myStation which utilized the very latest in Windows Media Center technologies (.NET 3.0, MCML, and XAML), integrating an Xbox 360 with Windows Vista and a Websphere environment using a Java-based web service oriented architecture and Hibernate technologies. The front end rendered HTML, MCML and Web-Based XAML (XBAP) through HTTP to remote Media Center client machines, and Apache Axis to control web services in both WebSphere and Resin containers. Data was stored and retrieved on a SQL Server 2005 database. See the "Websites" section above for links to demonstration videos of this product.Designed and developed an participant directory application for the American Royal BBQ Competition that allowed people to find booth locations of team by team name or team participants. This application made use of Java using the GWT library and the Google Maps API to for custom map controls.Assisted the project manager with client level correspondence regarding scope requirements and integration of beta level installations.Assisted in design and development of a video conference application in Visual C++ 6.0 using proprietary Axis libraries and H.323 technologies.

Led design, development and administration of the company's monitoring application, which monitors the status of almost 60,000 endpoints ranging from servers to remote proprietary field equipment utilizing J2EE principles with the JBoss J2EE container, an OpenJMS message queue and EJB. Design responsibilities included Oracle8i database schema, Perl/JSP front end, and remote endpoint communication via SNMP traps. EJB development consisted of a number of Entity Beans and corresponding Session Beans using the Session Facade design pattern. Data processing was distributed over RMI. Authentication was performed utilizing the company's single sign-on LDAP server, using the Java Naming API.Designed a web-based password collection application using JSP and Servlet technologies that securely contained the administrative and group accounts of all machines at the National Operations Center for over 70 users.Assisted in developing an applet-based outage mapping application, which graphically displays the real-time power outage and system failure of field equipment backed by Mapserver, an open source geographic information system. This system utilized the PostGIS spatial extentions for PostgreSQL as the database.Assisted in implementing a Metadot portal framework in the company's Network Operations Center. Wrote a plug-in for the portal, which shows a graphical map display of failed field equipment using Perl.Developed numerous small applications interfacing with ARS, LDAP and proprietary protocols using Java's JDBC and Perl's DBD/DBI libraries.Wrote several technical documents including functional specifications and user-level operations instructions.Implemented and administrated the company's CVS code repository.Mentored and assisted co-workers in their software projects ranging from Java to shell scripting and from design to implementation.