Led cross-functional teams of ~ 21 software developers, systems analysts, project managers, software engineer contractors, and COOP students from Rochester Institute of Technology. Pursued excellence by driving a culture based on partnership, performance, and trust. Set goals and expectations, tracked progress, conducted performance reviews and participated in salary planning. Championed effort to ensure consistency in goal setting and performance leveling with peer managers.• Oversaw self-driven team that generated Hadoop / Spark / CDAP based publishing platform, supporting daily deliveries of multi-jurisdictional legal content and document relationships related to topic of data privacy to IBM’s Watson. • Led team developing and supporting Oracle-based data warehouse and publishing pathway containing hundreds of millions of facts and relationships derived from legal events, legal professionals, companies, law firms, within proprietary and public record content, resulting in year after year online revenue growth within Thomson Reuters’ On-line Legal Platforms - Westlaw, Westlaw Next and Westlaw Edge.• Championed team that designed Oracle based repository and editorial content management tool containing millions of rows of metadata on legal professionals, judges, and law firms, powering Thomson Reuters Profiler legal research products and Findlaw.com.• Initiated, organized and led volunteer effort to teach Python to children of employees, and Rochester City residents, spanning 2 years, stimulating excitement in STEM and technology for future generations.• Drove knowledge sharing and skill growth within department and peer managers in Big Data and AWS Technologies, resulting in better responsiveness to business needs.• Partnered with international technology teams for staff augmentation and asset ownership transition strategies, lowering overall cost of ownership of several publishing systems.