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Miami, FL, US

• Responsible for delivery of software development and IT initiatives. Greatly expanded the software development team and the IT organization as a whole.
• Added offshore development team with 22+ developers. Development team consists of C#.Net developers, LAMP developers, architects, DBA, and team lead.
• Creating engineering team consisting of director, systems administrators, network engineers, vmware engineers, and tech support.
• Created the design team with director, and designer. Utilized design to drive UX develpopment process greatly enhancing look and feel/reducing rework from the development team.
• Helped the company to move to project PODs/Agile teams focused on different platforms/systems.
• Responsible for new product development efforts with projects including website development for new platforms, and product feeds system with more products catalogued and available than any affiliate network worldwide.

Miami, FL, US

• Directing an awesome team of software developers, ui designers, database developers, and network engineers.
• Executing exciting, leading edge development projects utilizing the latest technologies.
• Helping to expand the team, implement new systems, and managing the company's SDLC.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Directed teams consisting of managers, release engineers, software engineers, quality engineers, quality analysts, and outsourced resources located in India.
• Reorganizing the QA team to include software engineering and release management roles. Hired software engineering staff and changed IT roadmap to include major projects for test automation and continuous integration..
• Directed ALM for all IT teams. Moved Bankrate IT to TFS for the management of software development projects including ticketing, source control, documentation, and reporting.
• Moved Bankrate IT to Continuous Integration utilizing TFS. Implemented Hyper-V and UCS virtualized server environments for development, test, and production. Created a test automation platform with MTM for coded UI and.
• Worked with Software Architecture on a new implementation of Bankrate.com website. Based on Microsoft MVC 4 Framework, this continuous integration implementation included self-tested C# data models, WCF and REST based.
• Implemented continuous delivery system for Bankrate’s Big Data platform. Integrated HortonWorks Hadoop, MongoDB and Linux environments with a Windows based custom MVC front-end. Implemented Maven builds along with.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Software Development Manager for Bankrate.com. Managing team of software engineers with 4 C#.NET staff developers in addition to outsourced resources located in India.
• Managing code bases for all Bankrate.com websites including numerous high-traffic/high-load websites with an extensive SOA, primarily C#.NET. Managed all corporate software initiatives for internal development projects.
• Managing an extremely high work load with responsibility to project work along with system support. Ran daily SCRUM meetings along with status meetings to product/project management and meetings with the business..
• Implemented SDLC including new ticketing, QA, support/escalation and release processes. Directly reporting to SVP of Software Services and participate in senior staff meetings and senior management steering committee..
• Implemented TFS as code repository and work item tracking system for the development team. Defined the migration and deployment strategy to move to TFS from the legacy source control. Performed migration of all code.

Boca Raton, FL, US

• Software Development Manager for Newsmax software systems. Managed Newsmax systems including web sites, transactional systems, marketing systems, and accounting systems. Led a team of up to 7 developers, dba, and QA.
• Managed development for major marketing initiatives including main along with numerous partner and marketing websites. Managed the implementation of all new functionality and bug fixes. Managed the operation of the.
• Responsible for the implementation of the Kentico CMS system. Managed the requirements gathering and project documentation phases along with migration and deployment. Managed the production of C# custom code for.
• Managed the implementation of TFS for version control and ticketing. Designed release process with the integrated suite of TFS tools for code management, branching, check in and code deployment. Implementation of TFS.
• Worked closely with CIO for all aspects of development team planning. Held weekly meetings, staff reviews, responsible for interviewing/hiring, contract negotiations, task delegation to developers, review of code and.
• Architected/implemented SDLC process including QA testing and release process.

• Software Development Manager for OPB Systems (Ordering, Provisioning & Billing). Managed team of software developers and systems administrators with up to 15 direct reports. Managed a very large SAP code base with a.
• Interfaced closely with senior management, sales, marketing, and finance teams to establish corporate roadmap. Held weekly development meetings, 1 on 1 meetings with staff, staff reviews, contract negotiations, etc..
• Worked closely with marketing and sales departments to implement new features. Worked closely with finance team on PCI compliance to the ordering system along with many accounting fixes. Worked closely with channel.
• Worked extensively on quality improvements, refactoring the system, added extensive reporting, and solved many major business critical problems.
• Product integrations included: SaaS implementation for Windows Platform (SharePoint, Exchange, etc.), GS certificates, Trend Micro, PC Backup, etc. Product development for SugarCRM integration, universal shopping cart.

Austin, Texas, US

• Development manager/system architect for TSO systems. Held team meetings and presented solution to management including project requirements. Worked with PMO on resource allocation, timeline and required man hours..
• Development manager/system architect for ProjectKEY,.NET based in house tool for chip PMs. ProjectKEY was widely used to achieve Six Sigma targets for MBGs. Architect solution, present to management, work on resource.
• Worked at Austin site 30% of time to evaluate and implement new PDM solution for Freescale. Multi-million dollar purchase, with a great deal of business impact for Freescale. Worked with team of vendor specialists.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Managed the Roadmaps System, Data Collection System, and automated weekly reporting for Motorola’s Wireless Integration Technology group. Worked closely with PMO for these projects facilitating scheduling, resource.
• Development manager and system architect for the Travel Requests System. Worked extensively with CFO for Motorola and CIO for Motorola including potential cost savings to the company, project requirements, resource.
• Made very large presentations to audiences of 100+ at a time for roll-out of the system.
• Have letter from CIO outlining $100 million in travel budget savings as a result of the system in the first year. The Travel Request System is a system for the approval/tracking of travel.