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Chapel Hill, NC, US

A global education technology company serving millions of learners. We provide affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. We support you and your goals – whether reskilling, upskilling, pursuing a degree, certificate, license or learning English as a second language.

Founded this non-profit organization for the benefit of youth rugby in the state of South Carolina and students at Clemson University. Have led a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors to achieve over $250,000 in contributions in growing awareness and needs for safe coaching and athletic wellness for one of the fastest growing sports in the United States.

Overland Park, KS, US

Managed a team of full-stack software engineers tasked with developing APIs, integration capabilities, and delivery of core technologies for the company's flag ship EHR product. Responsible to creating, maintaining and delivering a 24 month roadmap to implement a new cloud hosted multi-tenant solution utilizing micro-services.Collaborate with sales.

• Responsible for managing a team that develops, implements, and manages technical services for global data integration. Services deliver 20 million electronic documents per month between SAP, multiple manufacturing.
• Implemented an enterprise API management solution to govern, develop, consume, and publish APIs.
• Designed and implemented personalized development plans for team members to increase their design, coding, and critical thinking skills. Successfully promoted several individuals.
• Designed and implement team code reviews to increase knowledge sharing, best practices, and reduce potential errors being deployed to production.
• Participate in the development of master technology road map and strategy.
• Reduced operations tasks to 15% of workload through automation and process improvement. Developed custom tools to reduce manpower required for repetitive monthly tasks by 70%, freeing team members to focus on reducing.

Managed a global team of webMethods solution architects and developers responsible for designing, building, testing, and delivering integrations for global trading partners and internal applications.

Liaison to the Foodservice division helping deliver IT services and solutions. The role required an in depth understanding of business and manufacturing processes. Projects were managed and implemented using the six-stage project delivery process.