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Gilbert, Az, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

In my role as the Director of Client Solutions , I collaborate with both new and existing power and utility customers, focusing on architecture, planning, and presenting practical solutions aligned with industry best practices. I specialize in leveraging existing technologies for strategic planning, cost justifications, and identifying potential cost savings. Through clear insights, my objective is to contribute significantly to project success and ensure a positive return on investment (ROI).

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Collaborating with clients to understand and model their short and long term strategic goals providing clarity to architect, design and implement cloud solutions that align with their goals yet open to pivoting change without compromising the integrity of the long term strategy.

Delivered multiple systems ranging from, simple brochure websites to e-commerce and complete business management systems. This includes design, develop, document, deploy and support released products. Guided sub-contractors as needed for additional software support needs. Provided a work from anywhere SaaS “platform agnostic” Solar Energy business management system.Job Management - Client and contact management – ad Hoc reporting – customer defined template reporting – employee and user management – employee time sheets – service ticketing – document repository – Integration with QB and Computer Ease. Reduced CapEx by >50% by moving valuation business from hard books to an online subscription based system that valuated items ranging from antiques, musical instruments, tools and other odd and unique types of items. This system serviced the pawn industry.Expanded online e-commerce sales to general population by reduced client’s transaction discount rate and fees for credit card processing.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

Responsible for delivery of all hardware edge and internal development systems. Led a diverse 9 person team comprised of hardware and software engineers. Reduced new product system CapEx by 25%. >50% reduction in time to verify product assessment through developed and implemented automated vendor validation software. Implemented Kanban within Engineering team aimed at creating clarification of current projects and ability to quickly realign with evolving product roadmaps.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

Responsible for assessment of 3rd party solution provider’s technologies through RFI, RFP, interviews and physical demonstration. Owned definition of conceptualization, functional architecture, design, development, integration, and implementation of new products or services. Successfully vetted 5 different vendors producing a wide variety of technical offerings all which were successfully deployed as part of the company’s overall portfolio. Mentor hardware and software engineers on innovation, new software and hardware technologies.Guided product owners to define a clear vision on the expected product output or functionality. Developed and released, low cost speed and ALPR enforcement systems which works in low light with and without a flash.Reduced service expenditures by >35% when implemented by integrated a 3rd party radar into our legacy red light systems. Led small team of electrical and hardware engineers keeping within defined budgets. Define vendor contractual negotiating exhibits defining technical obligations with defined KPI's.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

Responsible for successful delivery of high-quality fully integrated products and/or services. Developed an illegal bus lane usage data and imaging processing software suite, enabled edge data aggregation, rule execution and loading of true violation events into a live back office system. This provided a complete working system which facilitated a contract award for system expansion with new hardware. 40% support and overhead reduction achieved from developed IoT detection software which traversed all company owned edge devices and obtain statistical information required for compliance and support. 30% reduction in support, downtime and system integration for scheduled jobs from researching presenting and implementing a 3rd party enterprise job scheduler across multiple product divisions.

Mesa, Arizona, Us

As the companies only principal software engineer designed and lead engineers with building a large enterprise SaaS system containing workflows, DMV, ALPR, court interfaces, reporting, identity management, distributed file management services, billing and payment integration. Reduced software release support costs by 30K annually by leading a small group of software developers with implementation of continuous integration and release automation, utilizing Cruise Control, SVN, Nunit and Nant Designed and coded distributed service platforms for file management, reporting, identity management, DMV and ALPR services. Provided the ability for the company to market 2F authentication service by developing out a first generation secondary authentication identity management role based system. Delivered 1st end-to-end SaaS workflow, file and reporting management systems for violation processing along with integration of 3rd party services.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Started with building C++ COM components for Classic ASP applications written in Visual Basic. Migrated development to new .NET framework planforms.Built out middleware systems which provided a database and software agnostic platform for data persistence and retrieval.