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Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Paylocity is a leading SaaS provider in the Human Capital Management space.Led the integrated Year End & ACA team through the 2 most successful year-ends in company history.Strategized, planned, and methodically led the initiative and efforts during a critical period for the company that allowed us to mitigate hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and allowed us to deliver 100% of our tax forms, while our competitors facing the same challenges were unable to do so.Made succession planning, career development, and growth of direct reports a significant priority. Under my mentorship, 6 direct reports have been promotedLed cross-team initiative to increase paperless adoption with mobile, notifications, user access and load testing. Over 1 million users were converted to paperless in a one week period.Collaborated with our platform engineering group to be the first team to convert to docker/kubernetes/containers in production, paving the way for other teams to do so successfully.Created a workgroup of engineers across the category to improve our observability, on-call support, and error monitoring & alerting.Prepared and taught sessions for our associate engineer growth program.

Lititz, Pa, Us

WebstaurantStore is the largest online distributor of restaurant supplies and equipment.Led 15 engineers, 5 QA, and 3 DBA developers across 3 logistics teams responsible for fraud, payments, shipping, and order processing. Improved sprint completion and carryover rates.Active in contributing to code reviews, architecture decisions, and process improvements.

Richmond, Va, Us

Homes.com provides brand advertising, listing exposure, lead generation and marketing solutions for real estate professionals. Homes.com has more than 13 million visitors each month. Improved communication and relationships between engineering teams and other departments, including product, sales, and stakeholders. Reduced sitewide error rates by over 98 percent and decreased initial site load time by half. Increased efficiency and project completion rates of engineering teams. Led multiple distributed teams both in the U.S. and international consisting of engineers, QA, project managers, contractors, and engineering managers. Organized and mentored the engineering manager group, which led to improved processes, higher standards, and more efficient engineering teams.Spearheaded the transition from a Waterfall/Agile environment to full Agile. Directed the conversion of several major applications from monolithic ColdFusion and MSSQL to highly scalable containerized microservices in Node/React and Mongo. Led migration of thousands of queries/procedures across many applications from Oracle to MSSQL.

Bridgeport, West Virginia, Us

Citynet is a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions for consumers, businesses, enterprise organizations and wholesale customers.Lead engineer on the team responsible for a comprehensive portfolio of projects including web applications, mobile apps, college sports, media, gradebook, and e-commerce applications. Built and introduced the first mobile application for company employees that allowed much easier and efficient information gathering and input while on customer jobs.Created RESTful API’s to support new SPA’s and external integrations.Rewrote the work order and workflow system with extensible and reusable components in our MVC architecture which allowed future workflow products to be created much faster and allowed us to reduce months worth of manual work to a few hours.Led architecture, quality, and code reviews with a stability and performance mindset.Directly interfaced with internal and external stakeholders to translate their needs into final products.

Bridgeport, West Virginia, Us

Responsible for developing and maintaining the company’s core internal applications.Developed the company’s circuit and equipment tracking systems. Increased turnaround time of circuit changes by enhancing the workflow system to allow concurrent modifications at the circuit level.Revamped the purchase order system to reduce processing time from five minutes to several seconds.Enhanced the dialogue between the company and employees by developing a communications portal.

Charleston, West Virginia, Us

Huntington, Wv, Us

Dearborn, Mi, Us

Dearborn, Mi, Us