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Colorado Springs, CO, US

Washington DC, US

Supporting the open banking community with API-related courses

LaunchAny is a consulting firm that specializes in digital transformation through APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.We bring business and IT needs together into a cohesive solution that delivers value to both your business and your customers.We have worked in a variety of business domains and product categories, including:- Commercial.

Consult to the API Office for a Fortune 20 health insurance and health services provider. Engagement includes:- Establish a formalized API program, including governance, API style guide, and review processes that are heavily automated and scaled across the organization- Train staff on API design processes using the ADDR design process.

Establish and grow a formalized API governance program for a national commercial insurance carrier. The engagement included:- Developing and delivering API training content for cross-functional roles that included: API fundamentals, consuming REST-based APIs, designing REST-based APIs, documenting APIs using the OpenAPI Specification- Coaching teams on API.

Consulted to the API Center of Excellence (now Platform Services Center of Excellence) to offer training and expert advice in maturing and scaling the API program of a Fortune 500 North American Bank. The engagement included:- Developing and delivering API fundamentals and API design training materials across North American and Canadian software.

Delivered remote and on-site API design coaching and training materials for various banks in Europe and the United States. The engagement included:- Customization and delivery of workshop materials (live and recorded) for preparing product owners, developer, architects, and business analysts with a repeatable, scalable process for designing and delivering.

San Jose, CA, US

Consult to the Cisco DevNet team to help them unify multiple product teams in standard API authorization and design approaches. The engagement consisted of:- Facilitating workshops across multiple product teams to reach agreement on API standards and practices- Deliver resources and training content to accelerate teams' API design and delivery efforts.

San Jose, CA, US

Developed content and training materials for the Cisco DevNet Certifications, to be completed and delivered by third-party trainers. Focused on topics such as consuming APIs, designing APIs, cloud native architecture, software architecture, and asynchronous APIs (e.g., WebHooks). The content is consumed by thousands of network engineers and developers each.

Austin, Texas, US

Responsible for interim CTO duties at evoSure, including: product strategy, product management, software architecture, cloud architecture, internal and external data storage/integration strategy, and development of API and data storage. Applied lean software principles with my expertise in scalable enterprise software development to ensure a product-market.

Advise early-stage startups on product management, software development, and cloud computing strategies. Help identify methods of applying lean startup and agile development practices to take an idea to market quickly. Provide product and business strategy to help gain market traction.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Provided architecture and leadership of a 6 developer team for a variety of internal projects. The primary project included the architecture and development of an internal initiative to map desktop and laptop service tags to existing hardware for a new self-service support website. This required deep integration with a number of internal web services and.

SOA architect and development lead for businesses ranging from early-stage startups to Global 1000. Mentored developers and advised clients on technology decisions and implementation techniques to decrease time-to-market and increase revenue opportunities. Established best practices regarding agile methodologies, large-scale data processing/big data, and.

Austin, TX, US

Architected an auto-scale, distributed processing system to process and report against databases up to 10 TB in size. This system was built using Java, Spring, JMS using ActiveMQ, Mule, and Oracle. Previous attempts yielded months to process the data, while this solution fully completed in production against a 10 TB database in 72 hours.Also provided.

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Member of the Architecture Group that assists in the vision, design, and development of the BetweenMarkets, Inc. product solution suite. Standards included ebXML, RosettaNet, and EDI. Technologies included Java, JBoss, Weblogic Application Server, MySQL, and Oracle 11i integration.

Provided architectural and development leadership for a variety of consulting engagements, including startups and Global 500 corporations. Mentored developers and advised clients on technology decisions and implementation techniques to decrease time-to-market and increase revenue opportunities.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Consulted to a variety of Fortune 500 companies and startups, providing software and database design and development using Java-based technologies. Projects included a custom HR requisition system, manufacturing reliability system, and voice-enabled desktop applications.