Expert Software Engineer responsible for leading the development, customization, and integration efforts of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain modules at J.B. Hunt Transport Services. Role focuses on implementing ERP best practices, leveraging Microsoft Power Platform and other development frameworks (.NET, Java) to deliver seamless, efficient solutions.RESPONSIBILITIES:» Provide architectural guidance, ensuring that customizations are lightweight, optimized, and aligned with best practices for X++ development to minimize footprint while maximizing performance and maintainability.» Perform code reviews of pull requests from partner resources, ensuring code adheres to best practices in being maintainable, performative, and optimized to make efficient use of cloud resources.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» Primary resource in establishing use cases and best practices to automate and integrate data using Power Automate flows to reduce customizations.» Provided guidance and expertise in building back-end flows to provide data and enable transactions as part of a Yard Management Systems mobile solution, application is built using Power Apps and Power Automate to integrate with Dynamics 365. Includes the building of custom connectors using C#, as well as leveraging Azure Storage Blob accounts for caching and minimizing remote procedure calls (RPC) into Dynamics 365 for performance considerations.» Led the design and development of an innovative compliance management application aimed at ensuring that contract resources are fully compliant with all required background checks and certifications before taking on delivery loads. The application was built using Power Apps for the front-end, delivering an intuitive and user-friendly interface with Power Automate being leveraged to efficiently extract and offload necessary compliance data from Dynamics 365 into Azure Storage Blob, enabling timely QR scans without throttling potential from Dynamics 365.

Solutions Architect responsible for managing internal and partner development teams in the design, development, testing, and support of business applications (primarily Dynamics 365 F&O) across CECO’s nine global business platforms. As Solutions Architect, led daily standups for both development and data warehousing initiatives, while also ensuring the establishment of standard operating patterns and procedures all while maintaining a clear vision of future technological innovations in a cloud-native (Azure) environment to ensure that solutions are designed with scalability and flexibility in mind.RESPONSIBILITIES:» Strategically assists internal and external customers with assessments, solution designs, and implementation of D365 F&O ERP functions and associated bi-directional system integrations.» Oversees and provides guidance on data insights and analytics by managing data warehouse personnel in the management of data pipelines and data visualizations using Power BI, Azure Data Lake, BYOD, and Azure Synapse Analytics.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» Designed and provided technical guidance on the development of several foundational design patterns that provide for the implementation of custom business solutions free from invasive customizations within the D365 F&O code base. » Provided advanced analytics powered by data science to highlight item usage and associated supply chain metrics such as: quasi real-time vendor lead times, automated ABC classifications, and advanced demand forecasting using economic indicators that enable data-driven decisions throughout the supply chain.» Designer and lead developer on a single-page application to capture start and end times of labor activities associated with manufacturing projects.

Senior Manager of Systems Development tasked with managing internal and partner development teams to build enterprise software solutions (Dynamics 365, Azure, .NET) for various Utz Quality Foods business units, responsibilities included leading the teams in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from design to deployment, as well as ensuring the delivery of high-quality business solutions while maintaining compliance with Sarbanes Oxley controls for providing transparency and integrity of IT operations.RESPONSIBILITIES:» Ensures data, architecture, user interfaces and experiences are designed to meet the overall needs of the enterprise while maintaining a safe and small customization footprint that allows seamless vendor upgrades.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» As per Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements, implemented a notification alert system on all integrations that are of material concern (revenue) in order to meet stated compliance on resolving transaction failures within specific service level agreements.» Designed and managed the development of a highly scalable import facility for retrieving accounts receivable transactions that are low in value but high in volume from third party SaaS application into D365 for the creation of customer payment journals. Implemented as a highly configurable batch job, job is able to dynamically scale according to transaction volume utilizing multi threads that reduces the likelihood of throttling while significantly improving timeliness of data for review by accounts receivable team(s).

Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing software solutions utilizing .NET Core running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a host of associated cloud-native microservices (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB).RESPONSIBILITIES:» Collaborates with Product Owner, UX Designers, Software Engineers, DevOps, and stakeholders to design, build, and ship features in 1-2 week intervals using agile SDLC methodologies.» Mentor and guide peers with best practices in cloud-native and multi-tenant SaaS architectural patterns.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» As part of the Cortex product team developed data management functions allowing for the import/export of data from time series databases TimescaleDB and Amazon Aurora (MySQL).» Acting as delivery lead for the Plant Connector product team, key contributor in the development of API endpoints providing data ingestion options for more complex customer environments. Customer API makes uses of Web API and Amazon DynamoDB in processing transactions, while leveraging Amazon serverless Lambda functions for back-end event processing.» Technical lead on the design, development, and support of IoT devices to obtain disposition of handles that correspond to air flow vents on fired heaters. IoT device transmits angle of disposition to track proper air flow in combustion for fuel efficiency and temperature control. Developed the API endpoint for devices to transmit associated data and prepare for ingestion into larger scale machine learning algorithms on fired heater efficiency.

ERP Development Manager tasked with the design, development, management, and implementation of applications, projects, and integrations that provide significant value to the organization's ERP implementation and adoption.RESPONSIBILITIES:» Develops and manages multiple technology initiatives through all phases of development, support, and maintenance operations with a balanced total cost of ownership and timely delivery.» Serves as liaison between customers and internal operations teams, while providing key leadership in the development and mentorship of development team.» Maintains a “hands-on” approach to development to understand complexities involved allowing for accumulated skills and experience to architect solid solution.» Reviews the designs and estimates (FDD, Functional Design Document and TDD Technical Design Document) of requested enhancements and implements requested changes that align with strategic business initiatives and positions team for success. » Develops relationships with key business owners and project managers for continuous improvement and support of core business applications.» Researches and actively looks for opportunities to leverage concepts and patterns in data science to augment the user experience in critical and strategic enterprise applications.

I.T. Engineer tasked with the development of infrastructure both hardware and software to grow organization from startup to mature first-class organization. RESPONSIBILITIES:» Design and develop public website and presence to be interactive with future customers as well as support existing franchisees through private secured portals.» Review, Estimate, Design and Implement requested changes in assigned applications and business areas on time and within budget. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» Implemented web-based CRM (SplendidCRM) centralizing data for real-time lead visibility, replacing use of shared spreadsheets.» Developed CRM integrated workflow to provide visibility of the onboarding process of new franchisees to track and reduce bottlenecks.» Developed and maintained public facing website used to develop new leads while integrating with the aforementioned CRM application. Website developed using ASP.NET web forms, utilizing ADO.NET and SQL Server as backend database.» Integrated franchisee point-of-sale (POS) and product catalog setups to interface with corporate provided franchisee website as well as account for royalty calculations.» Developed and maintained internal e-Commerce web application in order to provide for the procurement of products and supplies to franchisees.

Software Engineer at Connectship (subsidiary of United Parcel Service) responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of their patented multi-carrier shipping technology. RESPONSIBILITIES:» Application development using Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) technology, developed carrier components using Microsoft Java and later migrating code to .NET C#.» Client application developer responsible for designing and developing user interfaces in clients built upon aforementioned COM objects.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:» Introduced DHTML techniques to a standard (ASP) browser-based shipping application. » Key resource in the development of the XML processor, a custom middleware engine used to accept RPC requests from platforms not on the Microsoft stack via pre-defined XML transaction templates.» Key resource in the development of the Connectship Warehouse administration tool, a browser based (ASP.NET) application used to centrally administer configuration of the product. Primary designer of the device manager used to assign handheld scanners, scales, and label printers to profiles.» Carrier component: Developed the Purolator carrier component according to carrier requirements.» Carrier component: Provided for the automated update of carrier rates via the extraction of data from corporate United Parcel Service database, automation provided significant man-hour time savings.

Programmer in the International Distribution and Specialty group with responsibilities in providing fixes and enhancements on the IBM mainframe through COBOL and EZTRIEVE programming languages. Y2K preparations led to a role in converting a non-compliant DBase application to a Microsoft Windows application written in Visual Basic.