I lead the creation and development of TripPlanning.biz, a software product for flight departments built on the Force.com platform as an OEM ISV Salesforce partner.Key Responsibilities:- Leadership and Strategy: - Define the technical vision and strategic direction, ensuring alignment with business goals. - Mentor and manage a team of remote and local engineers and testers.- Architecture and Development: - Design and oversee scalable, high-performance solutions on the Salesforce.com platform. - Ensure robustness and maintainability through strategic system architecture.- Product Development: - Gather and analyze requirements from flight departments to inform product development. - Lead coding, unit testing, and continuous integration processes to deliver high-quality software.- Technology and Innovation: - Scout and integrate new technologies to enhance product features and performance. - Evaluate and implement emerging trends to keep our product competitive.- Quality Assurance and Support: - Implement rigorous testing protocols to ensure software reliability and stability. - Oversee bug fixes and provide top-tier technical support.- Sales and Customer Engagement: - Collaborate with the sales team as a product and technical expert to drive business growth. - Engage with customers to understand their needs, providing tailored solutions and technical support.Achievements:- Successfully launched and scaled TripPlanning.biz software, achieving high customer satisfaction and industry recognition.- Implemented a robust system architecture that supports the complex needs of flight departments.- Established and maintained a highly effective remote team, ensuring productivity and cohesion across different time zones.

As a Salesforce.com consultant, I work with businesses to help implement and enhance their Salesforce.com product to suit their business needs. I specialize in custom development work, making possible anything that Salesforce cannot do out-of-the-box, including writing Visualforce pages, custom triggers, and implementing complex integrations with other systems using the Apex language. I have extensive experience writing applications on the Salesforce platform as an ISV for selling on the AppExchange; I know all of the nuances involved in developing and maintaining managed packages.

Integrated a highly customized instance of Salesforce to align with internal systems and workflows. As the sole Salesforce resource, collaborated directly with end users, stakeholders, IT staff, and business analysts to identify needs and problem areas, then designed, implemented, tested, and deployed solutions.Key Achievements:- Integrated with existing databases, email services, and scheduling systems.- Designed and built public REST services, custom objects, fields, Visualforce pages, controllers, components, triggers, automated unit tests, reports, and dashboards.- Utilized agile methodologies to release new features iteratively, maintaining business engagement and achieving consistent production releases every 3 weeks.- Supported the production environment and mentored internal resources in learning and utilizing the Salesforce platform.

Taking on small Salesforce.com projects through Upwork.com for a bit of extra income in the evenings and on the weekends.

At a small start-up with a dynamic environment, I wore many hats, with a primary focus on software development for our Salesforce.com platform as an ISV partner for our SaaS cloud application. My role spanned gathering requirements, coding solutions, deploying them, and providing 'level 3' support to end customers.Responsibilities included:- Mentoring and training new developers, and prioritizing and assigning tasks based on team members' skill levels and product knowledge.- Collaborating with business analysts and customer support teams to identify and fix bugs, enhance the application, and quickly deliver new features.- Designing and developing custom user interfaces using Visualforce and jQuery.- Creating system architecture and backend processes, including batch jobs and database triggers.- Developing solutions to upgrade existing customers with new releases.- Designing, developing, and deploying non-cloud-based applications in C# to enable advanced tasks such as data import and export for customers.

Responsible for working within technical teams through all phases of the project lifecycle and producing required deliverables personally or through project staff. Responsible for defining, designing and estimating technical work, completing technical work plans and overseeing quality of technical deliverables. Emphasis in .NET technologies, especially ASP.NET 1.1/2.0/3.5 and SQL Server 2000/2005.

Information Technology consulting at all levels, including software development, designing project specification, user interviewing to gather specifications, system diagnostics, network diagnostic and maintenance. Emphasis on database driven software development using Microsoft software.

As a Research Assistant in the Physics Department, I contributed to a research project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Key responsibilities included:- Precision Instrumentation: Calibrated and maintained scientific instruments to ensure accurate and reliable data collection.- Technical Innovation: Developed a magnetic field mapper, improving the precision of experimental measurements.- Safety Compliance: Adhered to rigorous safety standards, including daily radiation checks and hazardous materials training, ensuring a safe working environment.- Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Worked with a diverse team of physicists and engineers, showcasing strong teamwork and communication skills.- Hands-on Technical