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New York, Ny, Us

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Overseeing the creation of an ultramodern property management platform for a technology startup in the multifamily industry. Responsible for an annual development budget of almost $25 million.The software platform builds and integrates several products to improve the lives and operations of multifamily community owners, investors, management teams, and residents in those communities. Highlights include:- Manage approximately 120 software developers, architects, testers, program managers, scrum masters, business managers, and UI/UX designers distributed across four continents, 14 countries, and 17 time zones. - Products include a multifamily-focused Web Content Management System, A 3D CGI-rendered Virtual Leasing Agent, a full-service property management system (building management, resident management, and accounting), a resident-facing portal, and integrations with dozens of third-party software products and services.- Development languages have been standardized to Java, NodeJS (NestJS), PHP (Laravel), and Python, leveraging VueJS on the front end. Mobile app development activities are in both iOS and Android.- Chair of the Architecture Review Board, responsible for developing and maintaining the micro-service architecture behind the Quext platform. The abovementioned products make up more than fifty fully independent applications and services.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

The Quext ecosystem is 100% cloud-based, primarily residing in AWS and using AWS native services where they make the most sense. My teams manage the architecture, buildout, maintenance, and support of those cloud environments. Highlights include:- Fully separate and independent AWS accounts for each environment (Dev, Test, Staging, Prod, etc.).- Ensured the proper security controls were in place at the AWS layer, the Kubernetes layer, the Docker layer, the application layer, and the code quality layer.- Fully automated CI/CD pipeline using Helm, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes toolsets.- Automated spin-up of Dev, Test, and Staging environments in support of ~25 simultaneous development teams.- Performance monitoring and automated alerting of production issues.- Teams manage access control and maintenance of over 50 GitHub repositories and up to 20 independent databases.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Organized the 18 – 25 distributed project teams that make up the Quext software development ecosystem. Implemented the “Essential” level of the SAFe Scaled Agile Framework across the organization to better manage dependencies, cross-team risks, and cross-team integrations to help ensure we meet our delivery commitments.Highlights include:- Currently managing 3 Program Managers, 8 Scrum Masters, and 6 Business Analysts overseeing various project teams.- Organize and facilitate Quarterly Program Planning Increment sessions with 125-150 people participating to arrive at and plan the delivery commitments for the next quarter. - Personally serve as the Business Owner, Product Owner, and Release Train Engineer during those quarterly Program Planning Increments to ensure the success of the planning exercises.- Leverage JIRA and Confluence as the primary project tracking and project document repository tools.- Implemented a largely automated status reporting capability through Confluence to help communicate progress and risks during the weekly Scrum of Scrum sessions.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Responsible for code quality, defect tracking, and test activities reporting across all applications and projects. Highlights include:- Established minimal standards for functional, regression, smoke, and UAT testing coverage.- Currently standardizing test tracking tools and how defects are represented and reported with JIRA and Confluence.- Pushing toward ever-increasing coverage percentages in automated testing and ensuring the proper integration of automated tests into the deployment pipeline.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Led a small team of 5 UX/UI Designers to produce wireframes and high-fidelity mock-ups of almost every one of the hundreds of pages within the Quext SPA, ensuring compliance with the style sheets, tremendous usability, and UI consistency across all applications.Highlights include:- Chair the Design Steering Committee, which meets weekly to collaborate on new design components, review new SPA wireframes, and decide on ongoing design debates or discussions.- Leverage Storybook to document and store all design details about every design component.- Leverage Figma for high-fidelity designs.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Executive leadership within a Fortune 50 organization, focusing on DataOps, DevOps, and Cloud Strategy, helping to ensure Fannie Mae’s place as America’s most valued mortgage partner.Collaborated with Business and Technology Portfolio leaders to drive the implementation and adoption of Fannie Mae's Hybrid Cloud strategy. Received Board of Director approval on a $100+ million, 4-yeard cloud migration strategy. Activities included:- Establishing and communicating Hybrid Cloud strategy and framework across the enterprise.- Assessing almost 500 applications to determine the right Hybrid Cloud destination for each application.- Working with senior management to build Board presentations to secure the significant investment needed to execute the Hybrid Cloud strategy.- Building application migration roadmap in support of the Hybrid Cloud strategy.- Building a roadmap to build on-premise Private Cloud capabilities, including infrastructure, operating, and financial models.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Built and delivered innovative data solutions to developers and testers through automation, standardization, virtualization, and self-service of test data. Created automated data delivery capabilities highlighted in more than a dozen case studies nationwide. Highlights include:- Reduced the cost of delivering test data from $87.00 to $0.01 per data element in 2016. - Delivered billions of production-quality data files 56% faster than industry best practices.- Improved test data delivery timeframes from weeks to days to support Agile development efforts in 2-week sprints.- Built an automated test data catalog enabling developers to access semi-custom test data in under 10 minutes.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Responsible for all testing phases within Fannie Mae’s national Call-In Elimination program and for building reusable test automation capabilities for Fannie Mae’s 4-year Common Securitization Platform program. Highlights include:- Reduced the cost of testing for Call-In Elimination by more than $2 million and reduced testing duration by more than six months.- Implemented phase optimization, test automation, environment reuse, risk-based testing, agile testing practices (SDET), and using emerging DevOps capabilities such as virtual data delivery (the beginning of DataOps at Fannie Mae). - Created an E2E automated testing framework adopted by several other strategic initiatives within the organization.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Drove the adoption of emerging Enterprise DevOps and Lean/Agile capabilities across the Fannie Mae Securitization portfolio. Additionally, I served as the Business Relationship Manager between Enterprise IT Shared Services and enterprise consumers of those services. Highlights include:- Implementing a Lean/Kanban approach to environment delivery that enabled 180 complex test and development environments to be delivered in about seven months (the first estimate was 18 months).- Reduced the cost of delivering the above environments from the first estimate of over $90 million to under $20 million.- Worked with development and test teams to 100% adoption of agile or lean delivery methodologies.- Worked with development teams to achieve a more than 75% adoption of target state DevOps toolsets (Git, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, etc.).- Matured the engagement model between shared services and its customers to the extent that the Business Relationship role was no longer needed.

Lubbock, Us

Independent IT and management consulting. Delivered an enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program supporting a Fortune 500 Financial Services organization. Highlights include:- Revitalizing stalled program by gaining senior management investment support across the organization- Eliminating dependence on expensive and redundant consultants, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars over six months.- Transitioning the program from a waterfall (milestone-based) method to full agile delivery- Brought the program back on schedule and within the original budget.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Accountable for ensuring that new functionality, application enhancements, defect fixes, and O&M changes can be introduced into production with speed and extreme stability. Directly responsible for resources working locally and remotely in the US, India, and Mexico. Highlights include:- Launching USAA’s DevOps journey.- Helping to increase USAA’s standard deployment capability from monthly to weekly to daily.- Maintaining the yearly Enterprise Release Calendar to include trunk and branch dependencies.- Executive Sponsor USAA DevOps Journey and Chair, DevOps Steering Committee.- Executive Sponsor and Chair, USAA IT Daily Change Advisory Board.- Executive Sponsor ITIL, ITSM, SDLC, Lean-Agile, Change and Release Processes.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Provided 24x7 'Level 3' rapid response services for IT service interruptions to business applications running on WebSphere, Linux, Unix, Windows, and Host platforms.- Supported Bank, Investment Management Company, Property and Casualty Company, and Life Company applications.- Helped reduce average Return to Service times from over 6 hours to under 45 minutes.- Built a mobile-based incident tracking app enabling IT and business stakeholders to track incident status live on their mobile devices.- Created a SharePoint-based incident tracking system enabling live drill-down capabilities into incident response activities.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Managed a greater than $40M annual project investment portfolio. Served as the primary liaison between senior executive business sponsors, senior executive IT sponsors, and various other enterprise stakeholders. Drove the development of multi-year roadmaps in support of business strategy.- Supported Chief Security Officer in creating and securing a 3-year, $25+ million investment for an InfoSec capability roadmap.- Supported Chief Risk Officer in creating and securing a 3-year $15+ million investment for a Risk and Compliance capability roadmap.- Created a consolidated 3-year enterprise roadmap and investment dashboard, enabling quick views into enterprise strategic initiatives and investments.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Led a team of technically advanced professionals in maintaining an enterprise, multi-cell, and multi-farm WebSphere environment. Direct responsibility for web configuration management, tooling, automation, deployment, and direct project support. Highlights include:- Building an internal private cloud capability to automate the delivery of WebSphere-based lower environments.- Working across IT Infrastructure to build a WebSphere Blue/Green deployment model, enabling safer production deployments.- Built an IT Operations Process Automation capability, automating various repetitive IT Ops activities that resulted in productivity gains of more than 50 resources per year.- Created a customer-focused lower environment support model for WebSphere environments that optimized environment usage and code integration schedules, reduced merge conflicts, and helped ensure code quality.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Collaborated with a team of technical managers to stand up and institutionalize a co-located 24x7 incident response operation. Led the effort to create a highly secure secondary command center in Chennai, India, to provide Return to Service operations during off hours, weekends, and holidays.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Ensured USAA’s ability to recover critical business processes following a disaster.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Lent expertise in Procurement operations to negotiate robust service level objectives.

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Management

Spanish Language Studies

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