Legal Intern for the 2024 Fall Semester. I shadow the assistant public defenders and certified legal interns at court hearings, depositions, and jail visits. Program supervisors and mentors assign research projects and motions to write. I use my Spanish skills to assist with intake and other legal matters.

Taking advantage of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law (MHSL, St. Paul, MN, USA) study-abroad program in Greenwich and stayed in London to experience the "general counsel" career with Pearson. I worked with the legal department, focusing on contracts and the GSA schedule.

As a senior software architect and mentor, I provide guidance and consulting to help retailers migrate from legacy systems to modern architectures using Agile and web-based solutions.

Legal clerk under the supervision of federal attorneySupporting legal analysis primarily for US asylum casesSupporting office automation allowing attorneys to process case transcripts in a more efficient manner

Staff Architect providing guidance, training, and initial migrations from legacy WebSphere infrastructure to a modern build (Maven), deployment (Bamboo) and version control (GitFlow via Bitbucket) stack connecting to RDMS platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and Oracle) via stored procedures and ANSI SQL.Provided guidance via pre-recorded lessons on MS Streams, enterprise level (on and offshore) presentations, 1:1 Teams meetings and extensive best practice documentation using Atlassian’s Confluence (CMS).Mentor for junior programmers and application owners for business-critical applications (user management, finance, and reporting) making sure to develop specifications and test plans associated with new features or modifications.Applied Agile methodology using scrum as implemented by Jira workflows to gather requirements, investigate potential solutions, analyze the impact, communicate with stakeholders, and implement enterprise solutions.Lead engineer effort to build, test and prototype Atlassian plugins for CI/CD enterprise. Specifically, creating Bamboo (CI/CD) Atlassian-plugins to invoke external APIs for the build and deployment steps. Demonstrated results to all of engineering, senior management, and architecture teams.

Software Full Stack Developer (Angular/TypeScript/Spring Boot) working with a small high-impact team modernizing key and essential securities and financial applications primarily on Java, WebSphere, and DB2 (ANSI SQL) stack.Advocate and user of Agile, CI/CD (Maven, Jenkins, GitFlow, Jira, and Bitbucket), and test-driven development. Moved enterprise applications from legacy COBOL and WebSphere on the mainframe to cloud-ready stateless Angular applications with DB2 back-ends.Proficient with scripting and automation using the Jenkins platform to automate build, test, and deploy applications on-prem and to the cloud.Mentor junior programmers for Java, Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Test Driven Development, and CI/CD stack.Lead Developer for initial solutions onto AWS deploying serverless solutions using Lambdas, RDS, API Gateway, Node.js, and an Angular frontend.

• Manager leading the tampabay.com “Re-Imagine” project to modernize website – 6 total employees in a larger digital team of 12• Provided end of year reviews, lead hiring process, implemented behavior event interviewing, and played role of scrum master for team using Agile• Responsible for mentoring and coaching on development best practices and working with key vendors• Project Manager for key projects including Pay Meter, and Cloud migration of legacy applications

• Lead architect for Tampa Bay Times new website (www.tampabay.com) based on a Java back end, HTML5 and levering HP’s/Autonomy’s Teamsite content management system• Responsible for software strategy, tooling recommendations, Java software development practices, and mobile architecture• Provide feedback and coaching to all of IT on software development, presentation skills, requirements gathering and systems integration• Introduced continuous integration (Jenkins, Nexus) and automated (Sonar) quality tooling to the enterprise• Key technologies employed Apache, BIRT Reporting, Eclipse IDE, Java SE 1.6, HP’s Idol, JUnit, Linux, Maven, MS SQL MySQL, PHP 5.x, Solar, Spring 3.x, SVN, Tomcat, XML/XLST

Manager• Lead UK architecture team in 2009 (9 member team in UK) supporting UK business with best practices and guidelines for a consistent software stack across the UK and all regions• Lead US offshore production support team in 2006 – 10 total employees (6 US and 4 Offshore). On call 24-7 and provided 3rd level support for outages and some ongoing maintenance• Provided end of year reviews, made salary and bonus recommendations, set daily direction for teams. Essential in hiring several new architects and production support staff• Responsible for allocating resources and providing senior management and business with non-jargon status updatesJava Application Architect• Lead system development based on J2EE Portal; specifically IBM's WebSphere technology stack• Major hands-on contributor to the US bank’s strategic software delivery in 2002 with long overdue web based technology update. Helped move US bank from “green-screens” to an enterprise web based J2EE application employing local and offshore delivery teams• Mentored technical leads and developers on J2EE, internal systems, Java constructs and software performance improvements on Linux platformsSoftware Development Process Lead• Provided process consulting to make sure systems were developed within guidelines and constructed consistently across releases and countries (US, CA, UK, HK)• Conducted audits, lessons learned seminars and code reviews for entire department• Reported quality results (Sonar) to senior management aiding in direction for process, and team improvements

Java User Interface Architect (Consultant at EDS)• Enhanced U.S. military’s Identification Card (“RAPIDS”) system to be a Java N-tier product moving from Rougwave’s C++ libraries to JSE libraries.• Business and congressional software changes propagated through centralized Java Application servers rather than making sweeping and manual desktop client updates• Specifically responsible for the Java Swing front end and JNI interfaces• Team Leader for 5 member sub-contractor team – responsible for core Java mentoring and providing feedback to performance reviews• Heavily involved in all aspects of the project: building common components, application server deployment, legacy and business interface design• Reported directly to EDS project manager and mentored entire team on the Rational Unified Process and general software engineering. Process Mentor and Quality Assurance Expert (Consultant at Freddie Mac) • Moved Application Development teams to an iterative process that was architecture centric and focused on a deterministic delivery plan• Specifically responsible for reviewing artifacts and moderating analysis, design, and Java code reviews for over 150+ developers• Worked with application architects, Freddie Mac management and technical managers providing feedback and reports on the quality of RUP artifacts, unit testing coverage and Java code• For the first time provided the QA group with subject matter expertise in RUP, iterative development, Rational Rose and Java.Java Architect and OO Mentor (Consult at Booz Allen Hamilton – Secret Clearance)• Co-architect for Java Swing applications interoperating with a J2EE BEA Weblogic• Facilitated requirements meetings with State Department and foreign country representatives• Conducted and spearheaded code reviews, design meetings and Rational Rose visual modeling seminars• Integrated TWAIN cameras, scanners and fingerprint readers using JNI

C++ and Client Server Programmer for mostly medical systems in the Washington D.C. area.