Understand our customers' business objectives, market opportunities, applications portfolio, and technology priorities. Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create transformation strategies and roadmaps.Develop deep relationships with business and technology stakeholders and drive digital transformation and cloud strategy with them.Lead solution architecture for leading edge and complex solutions to help our customers to business objectives and deliver business values. Present solution to C-level decision makers and able to influence decisions and win trust. Exceptional customer facing skills.Be an expert in the areas of envisioning and design. Drive high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reusability and reliability in solutions.Provide technical leadership in business development of large scale, complex engagements, often by leading a team of subject matter experts from various technology areas. Lead the technical design of the solution, articulate the pros and cons of design alternatives and position recommendations clearly.Be the voice of customer. Share insights and best practices. Connect with Microsoft product engineering teams to improve technologies and resolve technical blockers.Collaborate with other technology professionals to develop end-to-end enterprise solutions on Azure platform.Develop a broad set of technology skills in the areas of cloud architecture, application architecture, and data platform architecture. Develop knowledge of technology trends and competitive insights.Collaborate and share with the technical community. Be an Azure platform evangelist with customers, partners, and developer communities.

Led XTO team as solution architect & senior developer for 5 Dynamics 365 & PowerApps applications supporting Upstream operationsBuilt YAML pipelines & taught team how to use Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in PowerAppsConsulted with internal teams about benefits of & helped teams design/build custom PowerApps for their teams' workflows

Lead software architect & senior developer building reference implementations (fully working Azure-based applications utilizing Azure DevOps for CI/CD/Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Azure AD for authentication/authorization) to educate IT software developers that implement cloud best practices, follow company security guidelines, have low to zero Azure Security Center warnings & demonstrate the power & speed-to-market that Azure, IaC, Azure AD & Azure DevOps YAML pipelines provideExample RIs include containerizing Matlab algorithm code using OpenShift & Azure Container Instance, utilizing Azure App Service as a reverse proxy with modern authentication, hosting Windows Desktop apps in an Azure-based Remote Desktop solution utilizing Desired State Configuration to manage IaaSChampioned the use of Azure cloud technologies to modernize existing application portfolio resulting in rapid uptake of Azure cloud as the preferred cloud platform for IT application developmentConsulted with IT development teams to develop new applications in Azure & migrate existing applications to the cloud, taught & debugged IT teams use of modern authentication (OIDC/OAuth2) with Azure ADGave presentations & hands-on demos of Azure technologies (especially Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines & Azure AD-based modern authentication) to IT software development teamsAdministered Upstream Azure DevOps organization, creating projects, installing extensions, managing licenses, managing permissionsPresented cloud application case studies at Azure User Group meetings to share learnings with industry technologists outside companyWrote cloud development & how-to manuals to share & codify Azure best practices

Designed application and led team as product owner & senior developer to build and deploy Azure AD ID & subscription self-service portal using App Service, Azure SQL, KeyVault, Mangement Groups & App InsightsDesigned application and led team as product owner, architect & senior developer to build and deploy API proxy solution for on-prem API access using API Management, Application Gateway and ExpressRoute, Championed the use of Azure to all IT groups for modernizing & improving speed-to-market for internal applications Consulted with IT teams on how to migrate their on-prem applications to Azure, Helped develop architecture for migration of on-prem applications to an IaaS+ style environment (virtual data center) in Azure

Championed the use of Azure cloud technologies, consulted with Upstream development teams on how to move their applications to Azure, designed & developed PoC for proxying on-prem APIs using Microsoft Azure API Management, Application Gateway and ExpressRoute,

Lead C++ developer for middleware of next generation proprietary reservoir simulator, led Windows data management design and implementation for front-end part of simulator, implemented process for and performed C++ code reviews, gave onsite C++, proprietary Upstream domain and reservoir simulation training at Infosys Mysore, India office, led scrum team of multi-language developers, developed material for & performed software development interviews for both new hires and experienced hires

Led ETL team composed of developers in Houston, Buenos Aires & Kuala Lumpur, traveled to Kuala Lumpur and set up ETL developer team, re-designed waterfall release process to follow agile methodologies across data modeling, ETL developers and user support groups

Lead developer for custom bulk ETL tool built with Oracle DB and C# SOAP web services, lead developer for real time DB synchronization system built with Oracle Streams, developed system to dynamically load C# DLL updates allowing continuous delivery of web service updates, performed Oracle & SQL Server query optimization for developers, gave training in Oracle and SQL Server performance optimization

Created and delivered onsite training on custom C# ETL tool to data managers in Houston, Lagos and Calgary. Taught Oracle SQL and custom subsurface data model. Troubleshot ETL jobs and fed requirements back to central development team.

Developed well planning toolkit for proprietary C# 3D modeling and visualization application

Built custom C# opacity and color map editor plugins for 3D modeling & visualization application

Built ETL job logging with SQL Server Reporting Services and integrated into custom C# ETL tool