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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.• Greatly contributing to the overall growth and success of FlexOffers.

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. Increased team from 6 to a total of 17 including 3 managers.• 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 Selenium based testing. Created a continuous delivery system with TFS build controllers and agents.• 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 services, along with IIS hosted on UCS. Hands-on in the creation of custom C# integration to IIS with MS-Build and MS-Deploy. Automated with TFS across all platforms to 50+ virtual machines.• 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 Java/Junit integrated testing.• Implemented mobile based testing for Bankrate website and mobile apps including solutions for emulation, integrated testing, and automation. • Performing all Director level functions including managing a budget of up to $3 million, reporting, audits, staffing, HR challenges, team building, working with, and training the team.

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 as well, including SharePoint Portal and internal reporting systems. • 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. Worked with design team resources, QA resources, tech services and dba team to coordinate tasks across teams. Created presentations and trainings for new software systems/enhancements. Very high success rate on delivering on time and with low rate of bugs found in QA or production.• 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. Worked with SVP on process improvements, resource allocation, estimating and budgeting. Worked closely with product/project management on corporate initiatives. • 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 bases to TFS including re-referencing, refactoring of all in-use C# and VB solutions, recompiled and verified code against production. Managed TFS including configuration, builds and policies. Utilized TFS Build Servers to automate the deployment of custom .NET and LAMP code. Created branching strategy optimized for Bankrate’s SDLC. Responsible for the implementation of a Hyper-V staging environment for testing and issue analysis.

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 team and liaison to other teams as well.• 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 websites including tuning of high traffic sites like newsmax.com with load spiking to 70,000 concurrent visitors.• 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 numerous web-parts necessary for the implementation. • 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 development portal with project management and other tools and development team resources, calendars, RCA area, etc. • 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 performance tracking. • 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 multitude of technologies. Responsible for billing system - processing 6000+ daily transactions along with ordering interfaces and hosting platform. • 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. Traveled to Utah for management of Utah staff.• 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 managers to implement required customizations for partner business along with the launch of several large partners.• 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, SSO. Architected and implemented SDLC process including release process for internal as well as partner business software.

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. Organized a diverse set of resources including developers, systems administrators, business analysts, MBGs, chip managers, support staff and others to head a group of 20+. Was successful on several large initiatives that provided functionality and services to TSO and Freescale-wide.• 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 allocation, timeline project, assign resources, scheduling, task management and ongoing support management. • 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, software engineers, electrical engineers, business analysts and product managers. Complete technical and business analysis of the tools including implementation strategy and planning.

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 allocation, design, development, debugging, testing and support. Responsible for a team of web developers, system administrators, vendors, customers and outside resources from the Numetrics team, total of 15+ in team. • 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 allocation, timeline and required man hours. Organized a diverse set of resources including onshore/offshore developers, systems administrators, business analysts, travel administrators, travel managers and senior management. • 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.