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Monett, Missouri, Us

People & Technology leader overseeing the development of the Treasury Management application. Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations and DevOps to ensure effective delivery of projects to satisfy customer needs..• Daily management of objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, risk and performance management of all engineers• Proven track record working collaboratively to deliver results on time• Created a culture of creativity, collaboration, innovation, and accountability to elevate the quality and caliber of the engineering organization which increased engineering performance by over 20% and drove down bugs by over 50% • Drove automated solutions that enable higher engineering efficiency• Strong track record in recruiting, onboarding, training and coaching high performing engineers• Established engineering Key Performance Indexes (KPI) to ensure and maintain high team performance• Performed 1:1; determined performance goals for team members; evaluated performance on a regular basis; provided coaching and facilitated professional development• Responsible for owning the technical roadmap which included service re-factoring from .net Framework to .NetCore and migration from on-premises to Google Cloud• Initiated multiple process changes including recruiting processes and SDLC processes

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Technical leader within Consumer AML to work hand in hand with senior management, line of business, development, QA and production support teams to provide architectural direction in the re-engineering of the current application solution as well as provide architectural guidance and leadership in support of the existing solution.• Hired in a leadership capacity as senior architect driving solutions, application design and system integration in collaboration with line of business and senior leadership• Identify priorities, provide direction and use influence to drive timelines, establish best practices and rearchitect file loading and application deployment policies• Driving and overseeing the re-engineering and development of the current application from VB.NET to .NET Core 3 ensuring alignment with business requirements without disrupting the business• Leading to drive Agile process improvement initiative and enhancement of cross team communication for up to 90 team members• Mentor developers, provide code reviews and promote performance enhancements, stability and reliability of the application

Monett, Missouri, Us

Empowered to manage the Development, QA and DevOps teams for the Financial Crimes, Enhanced Risk Mitigation System (ERMS) providing BSA/AML and Fraud solutions to Jack Henry’s Customers. Provide cradle-to-grave oversight of software project management, leading the research, design, development, documentation, testing and rollout of enterprise applications.• Responsible for team members weekly 1:1 meeting, performance management and reviews, resource allocation and realignment as required• Managed departmental budget and forecast aligned to high visibility projects• Hired new .NET development team members to accelerate development and application interfacing efforts• Led the design and implementation of a C# ETL suite of scalable Microservices deployed into a hosted Cloud Foundry environment increasing performance by 400% over existing method• Led the design and implementation of the CI/CD process using Jenkins and Octopus providing consistent delivery• Drove all phases of enterprise integration and process improvement projects to successful completion, including application availability initiatives and the implementation of single site fail-over and multi-site disaster recovery options• Implemented monitoring and alerting tooling giving advanced warnings of potential issues• Ensured the release of premium-quality applications providing intuitive and secure experiences for users• Mentored development teams in Agile SDLC and SAFe best practices

Monett, Missouri, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Technical leader of 25 onshore and offshore developers on multiple complex projects for the Consumer Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Department.• Technical lead responsible for creating and presenting both high-level and low-level development designs for project efforts aligned with line of business’s business requirements• Oversee onshore and offshore team’s development efforts to ensure final development is in line with expectations• Provided influential leadership style enhancing team collaboration and promote team unity• Managed the translation of business requirements to development requirements and assigned development tasks to team members for each project• Utilized MS Project to manage timelines, budgets and resources for each project• Identified, consolidated and refactored core application code base reducing the amount of code by over 35% and improved performance• Perform code review and testing• Identified several inefficient processes and implemented new solutions• Updated outdated technical documentation

Rapidly advanced through several promotions, culminating to a director-level role overseeing the firm’s software development activities with 40 team members aligned. Led the architecture, development and deployment of server side, high frequency automated & semi-automated trading systems, web & desktop applications utilizing C#, MS SQL, API’s, Socket Messaging, FIX and a variety of 3rd party API’s.• Managed teams of onshore and offshore Software Engineers, Quantitative Analysts and application architects • Liaison between Executive leadership, stakeholders and technical teams• Responsible for $10M budget, resource allocation, planning, process management, vendor resource management and research• Proven record of recruiting, developing and retaining great talent producing world class analytics and trading software• Delivered architectural guidelines and providing new and innovative solutions to meet the company’s overall objectives• Evaluated new and existing technologies against business needs to make strategic recommendations to Executive Management• Implemented new automated and semi-automated trading strategies across worldwide corporate trading floors• Developed custom trading algorithms in C# that were integrated into a 3rd party application• Developed primarily in the .NET technology stack

Managed a small team of Software Engineers in Denver, CO to develop a custom trading platform utilizing C# and other .NET technologies to trade US Equities intraday.• Recruit, Train, Motivate and Mentor new “GreyBox” traders • Architected and developed custom automated trading application for intraday trading strategies utilizing primarily C#, MS SQL and several 3rd Party API’s• Developed “BlackBox” (fully automated) and “GreyBox” (semi-automated), US Equity intraday trading strategies