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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

IntelliTrans is a company devoted to excellence, and a leader in global multimodal solutions for optimizing supply chain operations for bulk & break-bulk industries. Evolving and expanding our offering to tackle the supply chain's biggest opportunities, our talented teams are committed to making a positive impact by solving critical challenges for our clients, launching new products and features, and introducing innovative new concepts.

Oldsmar, Fl, Us

An operations management software company that provides enterprise inventory/asset management and supply chain optimization software to some of the largest telecommunications and hospitality companies in the world, and which is trusted with managing billions of dollars in capital asset value, hundreds of millions of transactions per month, and maintenance and inventory operations at over 200,000 properties in over 90 countries around the world.• Shepherding technology roadmap, development, quality assurance, infrastructure/IT and agile project management.• Released new Retail Inventory product to over 600 stores, running via browser, API, mobile and handheld scanners.• Stabilized production platform, improved system performance, and increased redundancy for high-availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR).• Introduced multi-year technology roadmap to address strategic innovation and technical debt.• Jumpstarted a phased approach to realize the benefits of cloud technologies, containerization and microservices.• Implemented industry best-practices for productivity, visibility and team proficiency.• Assessing and recommending growth M&A opportunities to expand platform functionality and market share.

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Launched Greenway initiative for future Cloud Analytics• Overhauled regulatory reporting delivery to ensure government compliance and improved release timelines• Rationalized product offerings, defined technology roadmap, and enacted organization optimization• Jump-started and led development for a unified, scalable cloud-native platform for EHR & Practice Management from three competing flagship products• Achieved highest levels of compliance in years for regulatory reporting• Performed technical due diligence for potential acquisition of analytics product companies• Bridged the gaps between all stakeholders, including Product Management and Engineering• Implemented a start-up mindset and DevOps culture, with full-stack teams and team ownership• Implemented Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and better estimation & forecasting techniques• Ramped up staffing and managed 20+ SAFe Agile Scrum & Kanban teams• Shepherded a distributed workforce, including distributed onshore, remote, and offshore team members• Led development of common services and systems engineering efforts• Vendor management of staffing, consulting, services, software and hardware• Risk assessments, organization optimization, and modeling/forecasting• Focused on Angular, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Typescript, Mobile, Microsoft, .Net Core, C#, HTML5, Docker, Kong API Manager• Directed establishment and operation support of AWS infrastructure, including CI/CD pipeline• Sustained the company's value products, plus the growing MediaDent product

Motivating and guiding excellent teams to achieve the critical balance between creativity and delivery. • Directed the development of the Digital Operations Portal and other mission-critical projects. • DevOps Pod Leader and Enterprise Architect, building AWS solutions for Location, Menu & Ordering. • Rapid ramp-up and delivery of first release of the RESTful catering API. • Continual releases of multiple APIs by using a blue-green deployment approach. • Pursued lean MVP requirements via visual mockups, wiki and JIRA. • Building browser-based, mobile and backend systems running at MDC and in the cloud. • Leading and mentoring Agile DevOps teams, including AWS infrastructure and hosting operations. • As data architect, implemented a temporal database layer in PostgresSQL. • Led 2nd team to design and develop UI, API, DB and ETL for a NoSQL DynamoDB projectIntegrating cutting-edge cloud technology, including the Amazon suite of AWS services, such as NoSQL DynamoDB, Postgres RDS, Elastic Beanstalk (EB), EC2 Container Service (Docker), Lambda, SQS (Queues), S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.Leveraging RESTful microservices, Java 8, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Kong API Manager,Keycloak, JWT security, AngularJS, Bootstrap, and Python.

Toronto, On, Ca

Producing commercial-grade technology solutions for America's top 30 banking corporations. • Delivered first public release of FIRE, the Financial Institution Reporting Engine. • Specifically focused on financial stress-testing and analytics software for CCAR and DFAST. • Led distributed agile team in rapid development based on dynamic requirements. • Provided vendor oversight and selection, and transitioned key roles in-house. • Mastered and demonstrated BigData web service endpoint best practices to development team. • Coordinated penetration testing and perimeter security migration using DataPower for edge authentication. • Deployed to secure NoSQL / BigData platform for both semi- and un-structured data. • Built metadata tool on Java Spring and Apache POI for direct I/O with proprietary data dictionaries. • Migrated environments to a hybrid cloud using a secure AWS peninsula plus a private cloud. • Designed configurations for multi-tier, distributed, scalable deployments. • Prototyped with Hadoop for next generation edition • Mentored team members on best practices for Java, Python, QA and configuration.Leveraging leading-edge approaches and technologies like semantic ontologies, RDF triples, and SPARQL. Integrating a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) with jQuery, Tomcat, Java Spring, TIBCO BE/BW/BPM/EMS, MarkLogic, and Oracle.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

M&A integration, leading a global software development organization, for this Vista Equity Partners portfolio company. • Vigilantly optimizing competing business priorities, release schedules, team staffing, and $15M budget allocation. • Delivered new releases for 7 separate strategic .Net and Java product families, while meeting or exceeding targets. • Managed across multiple product lines and functional areas to meet changing demands and to ensure operational efficiency. • Producing 120% of committed marketable features, including a major release of a $40M ERP product. • Transformed enterprise processes using industry best practices, including Agile development and KanbanPeople • Built and improved a 300-member global R&D team, while consolidating development centers • Hiring and training of high-performance entry levels (HPELs) to learn from in-house SMEs • Increased Operational Efficiency via boot camps, process training, certification tests, and objective setting. • Mandated and delivered coaching and mentoring, plus performance improvements plans (PIP) as needed.Support (all 12 strategic product lines) • Achieved a 60% reduction in pending escalations from Customer Support. • Improved customer satisfaction by resolving 130% of defect inflow, reducing backlog by 35%, and reducing QA lag by 30%. • Conducted post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis to identify source of issues and prevent recurrence • These ERP, SCM, and CRM applications enabled more than 9,000 customers, in more than 100 countries.Technology Guidance • SaaS gap analysis on 7 product families, and developed a SaaS-transformation roadmap. • Volumetric analysis, infrastructure deployment, and performance testing for scalability and high availability • Vision for SnAPT ArcDash datamart, ETL, and dashboards for reliable KPI Governance • Internal private cloud for Tier 3 support teams to duplicate and troubleshoot customer environments

M&A integration after purchase of Advanous, a provider of margin optimization in the wholesale distribution domain.

Master Of Science In Engineering, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor'S, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Double Major)

Study Abroad Program, Historical Economics