• Redesigned legacy ETL system supporting over $100 million in revenue and ported it to a modern, streaming, cloud-hosted architecture.• Created new enterprise data model for automotive retail data flows.• Coordinated application designs, interfaces, and tasks of 5 development teams.• Mentored developers and coached high-potential individuals for technical and professional growth.• Maintained legacy ETL platform as final point of escalation for all technical and operational issues.

• Managed transition to agile (Scrum) development methodology.• Led development team as Architect and Product Owner for a 20-application hosted product suite.• Modernized legacy applications by implementing test and build automation, upgrading platforms, and improving security, monitoring and availability.• Directed two sprint teams supporting two high-volume ETL platforms processing data for all North American franchise auto dealers.• Managed a 24/7, onshore/offshore engineering staff responsible for application monitoring and change management.• Resolved production outages and conducted post-mortems as the final layer of technical escalation.

• Initially, served as Technical Lead for the DMI Image Management System, involving real-time and batch transaction processing, image processing, web hosting, client/server applications, web applications, and mobile applications. The system processes over 6 million images per day. Technologies include Java, Oracle PL/SQL, Perl, Bash, Resin, Tomcat, and a DMI-proprietary work scheduling system.• Grew role from Tech Lead over a single product to managing over $2.5 million in employee and contractor expenses, supporting over 80 web applications within 8 product families for a $90 million company.• Responsible for the nightly processing of roughly 1 terabyte of data from over 23,000 auto dealerships for more than 100 enterprise clients.• Designed, individually or collaboratively, major new DMI systems including a vehicle marketing application, an OEM website, and systems for handling dealer provisioning, image retrieval and hosting, text-to-speech and generated audio tracks for vehicle videos, data viewers, rule editors, and various user interfaces.• Mentored and managed developers and junior managers, including hiring and firing, both onshore and offshore. Team size ranged from 10 to 19 engineers.

• Designed and implemented user interface code layer for large data-driven web application across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technology evaluation, automated UI testing and coding.• Mentored and directed a small team of developers in the use of Struts and Tapestry UI frameworks, Enterprise JavaBeans, and a toolset including Weblogic, Oracle, XML/XSL, JDBC, Ant and various J2EE related technologies.

• Managed 10 person team designing and delivering user-, modeler-, and developer-level technical training courses.• Delivered 100% of courses on schedule while continually re-prioritizing based on changing software release plans and customer needs.• Delivered customized “boot camp” CML training to IBM; credited by IBM with 90% reduction in model defects. • Developed popular internal training program around J2EE technologies (Java, Servlets, JSP, EJB, JMS, XML, XSL).• Advised customers on specific problems in modelling incentive compensation systems for the insurance industry and in modelling equipment configuration systems for the computer and heavy equipment industries.• Debugged Trilogy product code.