Software Development and IT manager with 20 years of experience. A strong leader, who excels at building cohesive teams that deliver complex software and IT solutions to meet critical business needs; on time and on budget. Talented business process engineer uses agile principles to increase efficiency, quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability. Expert communicator creates clarity and transparency to drastically increase trust, understanding, and team morale.IT and DevOps* Automates software builds, packaging and deployments for development, testing, UAT, and production environments* Provides governance, support and maintenance of high availability, hybrid environments consisting of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and self hosted solutions* Utilizes ITIL and other industry standards/best practices to organize and manage IT services* Assesses and mitigates security risks in credit card payment environments according to PCI DSS standards* Collaborates with stakeholders to approve and adhere to departmental budgets and cash flow plans* Manages vendors to ensure services received are commensurate with the expected valueSoftware Delivery* Leads teams in the development and delivery of custom and enterprise software products across a wide variety of vertical markets including the public and private sectors* Architects large-scale, highly configurable software products for high availability needs* Identifies and implements standards and processes that enable the team to focus on high value decisions* Utilizes agile principles to achieve extremely high predictability in delivering quality software on budget and on time while meeting or exceeding stakeholder expectationsManagement* Motivates staff to set and achieve quarterly and yearly professional goals* Uses key performance indicators to monitor critical aspects of team function such as productivity, predictability and quality* Focuses on employee development, resulting in increased value to the organization
Listed skills include Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Databases, Unix, and 46 others.