Promoted to Development Manager and raised the Development Team to 7 developers in a fast paced environment.Utilized Azure DevOps for managing the development team workload using a Kanban process.Responsible for gathering business requirements from the various departments, as well as the COO and CEO, and translating them into functional specifications for the development team.Led the development team in the initiative to build a web-based, mobile-friendly front-end using ReactJS/REST API and Open Edge API over an existing third-party application responsible for the day-to-day operations of over 250 agents dispatching over 2,700 owner/operators on an average of 615,000 loads per year for 5 different trucking companies (2 intermodal, 2 truckload and 1 over-dimensional).Promote an environment encouraging the development team to grow and try new things to solve business problems through technology.Responsible for recruiting and hiring new development talent across .NET, JavaScript and Open Edge.

Led a development team of 4 developers.Transitioned the development process from a waterfall method to an agile process utilizing Kanban.Transitioned the team from VB.NET 4.8 Framework to C# .NET 8.0.Introduced the team to SOLID principals and design patterns to help them solve technical problems using industry best practices.Accomplished numerous projects integrating ELog, insurance, training and broker carrier providers with in-house systems utilizing Azure Service Bus, Functions and Application Insights.Maintained and developed custom software for all day-to-day operations of the companies.Database administrator for SQL Server utilizing Always-On Availability Groups.

Develop and maintain current applications used by insurance brokers and employers for filling out medical history and enrolling into insurance which utilizes ASP.NET MVC, Web API, ASP.NET WebForms, NHibernate, jQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS and LESS using a Scrum process.Rebuilt the front end the employee uses to enter their medical history and enroll into their employer’s insurance.Developed architecture plans for where the company needs to go with changes in the market and technology which will reduce complexity, decouple portions of the applications, increase performance and make it easier to maintain.Work directly with the IT Director to get our application infrastructure into Azure.Developed a new notification service using .NET Core 2.0 to handle sending Email notifications to users to replace the existing one. This helped reduce complexity and decoupled the code from the existing application, resulting in reducing the number of servers needed along with an increase in performance over %600.Created and maintained the company’s private NuGet repository containing code that is used throughout all the applications.Mentor junior developers in troubleshooting and development.Researching and prototyping front end frameworks for the next generation of applications.

Architected an ASP.NET/MVC/Web Api application called Insight to be a central repository for all logging from First American applications.Developed an ASP.NET Web API application to support the Lender Vendor Integration System (LVIS) application.Involved in the IT Maturity Journey committee responsible for defining requirements for all applications going forward.Agile advocate in the Cleveland location to help with the company wide transition to adopt agile methodologies.Lead initiative to increase unit and integration testing for applications developed in the Cleveland office.

Lead the One Data Model initiative involving all product managers, development team leads and senior management to provide a solution to move the suite into a unified, single data model.Responsible for aligning all the team leads objectives to be consistent with the product suite.Interviewed and assessed the technical level of potential candidates and provided recommendations for hiring.

Strengthened the Framework team's presence within the company to collaborate with Client Services and other teams to routinely find solutions to the problems they were facing.Worked closely with customers by attending User Group meetings and providing webinars to help develop the ProgressBook suite security platform.Architected single sign-on solution which allowed all applications of the ProgressBook suite to authenticate securely once, which was implemented in version 13.Developed web-based installer to be used across all the products utilizing ASP.NET MVC and SingleR to give the customer a consistent, intuitive way to install/upgrade the ProgressBook suite at the client's site.

Developed Web-based application to help clients create custom documents using a simple form.Developed/maintained Web-based asset-management system responsible for organizing and maintaining images (jpg, tiff, gif, eps), documents (pdf, doc, qxd, indd), etc. Developed/maintained Web-based order-entry system. Kept order-entry system decoupled from warehouse management back end. Added ability to plug-in customized order-entry Web forms for specific clients.Developed framework to handle exceptions, object validation, etc., in a consistent manner.

Migrated legacy ASP based applications to .NET to help reduce maintenance costs.Developed windows based application to place orders “offline” and submit queued orders utilizing Web Services to enable customers to continue doing their business without being tied to an internet connection.Rescued the synchronization between old legacy databases with SQL Server, reduced coupling between the two systems and drastically reduced downtime.Maintain online ordering applications for large clients including Pepsi, Kohler, Exxon Mobile and Brown and Williamson

Designed and developed Web Portal Applications for major newspapers, including USA Today, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raleigh News Observer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and many more, to display and search Classified Ads, ROP/Display Ads, Special Sections, and Inserts. Developed company Extranet with built-in security and Web interfaces to maintain access. Included are two core Web-based Applications to process newspapers’ broadsheets and ROP/Display ads through a graphic interface without the need for browser plug-ins. Currently more than 1000 broadsheets and more than 4000 ROP/Display ads are processed each week.