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Responsible for building DevSecOps practices to establish and maintain compliance with security and privacy regulations using a “Shift Left” philosophy. As a subject matter expert for the platform, I was responsible for increasing customer engagement through advocacy and customer onboarding. Trustpage is a SaaS-based, Information Security management platform that assists software vendors with building trust and increasing sales by allowing vendors to communicate their security posture with customers and respond to security questionnaires.• Established company’s security program to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company assets and customer data by establishing policies that covered process, people, and products.• Led organization through SOC 2 certification process using compliance automation software and working with auditors to provide evidence of properly designed controls.• Participated in Go-To-Market strategy meetings to ensure alignment of security and privacy to customer outcomes• Built DevSecOps pipeline to test releases for application security vulnerabilities before deployment to production environments.• Developed backend web services for customer billing and domain provisioning.• Guided customers on product usage and best practices by leading onboarding sessions and creatingtraining videos• Educated the SaaS vendor community on topics of application and organizational security through blogarticles and webinars.

Responsible for managing multiple development teams to ensure the alignment of technology and business goals for delivery of the SmartAuction platform. SmartAuction is a B2B digital marketplace for dealers and consignors to buy and sell vehicles.• Managed three agile development teams through the architecture, design, and delivery of new productcapabilities.• Led the architecture, design, and development of a next-gen auction transaction service using anevent-driven, microservices architecture that resulted in a 10x performance improvement over the legacysystem—laying the foundation for new platform capabilities.• Worked with cross-functional teams to drive decision-making and ensure those decisions aligned withtechnical and business goals.• Presented critical decisions, project status/risks, and progress towards program goals and objectives toC-level executives.• Created probability-based project estimation model using historical team data to deliver faster, moreaccurate project estimates• Created a plan and process for managing technical debt to improve platform stability and reduce drag onfuture project work.• Conducted regular 1:1s with (engineering managers and engineers) to identify individual and teamchallenges, discuss career development, and improve upon performance goals.

Responsible for the architecture, development, and operation of a SaaS-based, relationship marketing platform that allows companies to manage their referral marketing campaigns and ambassadors to get the word out about their products and services through multiple social channels.• Restructured the Engineering team so that the team can deliver technical investments in our platform while also delivering value to customers with product enhancements• Create Technical Roadmap for Core team that will improve performance and stability for new enterprise-level customers• Execute a strategic plan for improving automation, testing, operational efficiency, and monitoring to reduce drag on the team's productivity• Manage a team of engineers, architects, and engineering manager that works across multiple countries and time zones• Redesigned Agile practices to increase the rate of software delivery while also improving quality• Promote a culture of learning by encouraging lunch and learns and open forums to educate engineers• Contribute to the creation of an award-winning company culture through leadership and mentorship

Coached Ford Motor Company’s development team through the transformation of their development practices to deliver high business value.• Leveraged Agile practices such as Extreme Programming (XP)• Partnered with developers to institute practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, sprint retros, and refactoring skills to ship code faster• Guided product owners through the creating and prioritization of user storiesIntegrated several single source of truth data services to feed new dealer ordering system

Manage operational and development activities for Saas-based digital coupon distribution platform that delivers coupons to multiple channels--web, mobile, email, and social media--for consumption through Print@Home and Coupon-to-Card products. • Design and developed microservices architecture for backend processing of coupon transactions.• Designed data modeling strategy for transitioning data from RDBM to NoSQL.• Implement Docker container deployment model for cloud-hosted applications.• Coordinate activities and deliverables with cross-functional teams to ensure product features are developed according to product roadmap and client implementation timelines. • Provide strategic direction for the implementation of product features based on feedback from internal and external teams.• Build and establish relationships with customers and partners. • Collaborate with European team to align solutions with global strategy.• Lead requirement gathering, design and code reviews, acceptance testing, and change management.• Monitor quality of project deliverables and communicate necessary information to all stakeholders.• Manage a team of local and remote software developers and ensure compliance to established standards.• Manage production support process by assigning issues to appropriate resources and ensuring root causes are identified.• Provide technical leadership on application design and promote clean coding practices.• Review and revise development practices to improve processes and quality.• Authorize the release of code to production environments.• Interview and recruit software development talent.

Led the architecture and development of applications for multiple clients. • Provided technical sales support by meeting with clients to define project scope, timelines, and cost to develop Statements of Work.• Conducted performance reviews for team members under my supervision and managed career development.• Interviewed and recommended hiring of candidates.• Supervised client staff to ensure delivery of work on time and within budget. • Created architecture roadmap and rollout plan to assist client with transitioning from client-server to web platform for retail client. • Facilitated training sessions with clients to introduce new technology to clients’ development staff.• Developed web based reporting portal to replace MS Access reports for large CPG client.• Created automated testing solution to reduce testing cycles and quicker identification of bugs.• Developed internationalized version of client’s desktop application to be compatible with European clients• Designed and developed credit card processing application for client’s Accounting department to shorten invoice timeline.• Wrote training documentation for client’s new software product.

Guided clients with solving their business problems using technology solutions. Recommended architecture changes and collaborated with business stakeholders to prioritize requirements for release planning. • Provided guidance to clients on improving efficiency in their enterprises by identifying areas of overlap and designing architecture improvements.• Supervised requirements gathering process and documented business and system requirements for next-gen dealership portal for automotive client.• Analyzed interface requirements for a new core reservation system with legacy applications for travel industry client.• Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks, improved accuracy, and designed an integration blueprint for reporting dashboard for educational testing client.• Supervised and mentored junior-level resources.• Instructed first and second year Analysts on Application Analysis and Design.

Designed and developed next generation auto finance and lead management application to create new product functionality.• Established project plan and assigned the appropriate resources.• Provided project status reports to executive-level management.• Supervised and mentored junior team members.• Designed and developed a service-based auto financing product to replace the existing single user, desktop-based application• Developed customer portal to reduce Customer Service requests by allowing dealerships to self-administer software licenses.• Designed and developed HTTP-based software update server to remotely update application files and executable.

Developed asset and inventory management system for for ISP.• Migrated inventory management system from ASP/SQL Server to PHP/Oracle.• Designed and created personalized portal page for users to access application modules.• Provided on-call support for network centers.

Designed and developed marketing focused, data driven web sites for large automotive client• Provided estimates for development tasks and resource needs.• Oversaw work of small development team.• Resolved bugs identified by QA staff.• Communicate with multiple teams to verify requirements and ensure timely delivery of project assets.

Web Developer/Instructor• Administered training on web technologies to Professional Services employees• Created tracking system for employees in computer certification programs• Developed department’s intranet site