Responsible for leading, defining, and setting standards across IT in Software Design and Engineering: - Architecture styles & patterns and design patterns for implementation of solutions - Strategy for software development languages, tools, and technologies for building mobile, cloud, and traditional applications. - Practices for design and engineering for on-prem and cloud deployments - Driving learning curricula for skills needed in meeting strategic objectivesLead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and secure in-house solutions that are deployed using standard languages & platforms.Drive the improvement of Software Engineering practices across IT to increase quality and solution health. - lead solution health initiatives across all portfolios for continuous improvement - issue recommendations for solutions based on standards and best practices - develop products to help IT teams measure their overall health and effectivenessFoster a design & engineering culture and make software development a first class experience across the org. - Drive an open, transparent, and collaborative development model through the use of open source/innersource - Harvest re-usable assets to be leveraged across teamsCreate products to increase organizational agility and accelerate internal developers (accelerators).

Responsible for Platform Solutions which covers functions across:1) Application Architecture2) Enterprise Automation3) Platform Design4) Development Engineering5) Application Platforms & Integration6) Cloud Foundation and Migration- Lead the overall strategy for application/solution design, database design, and implementation of new application architecture patterns.- Responsible for the platform design of solutions for on-prem or cloud/hosted implementations.- Platform solution owner for overall automation platforms (Ansible, Chef, RPA, vRA, etc)- Owner of our Application Lifecycle (ALM) strategy, CI/CD pipeline, SDLC custodian, and responsible for the secure lifecycle (SDL).- Responsible for development tools and management of .NET, Java, and other language standards.- Lead cloud foundation setup for a hybrid multi-cloud strategy (AWS & Azure)- Lead workload migrations into AWS using a container strategy deploying onto Red Hat OpenShift.

- Responsible for Security and Development Engineering functions across the overall IT portfolio.- Define strategy and roadmaps for improving overall security posture.- Product ownership and engineering of Identity and Access Management, Data Security & Privacy, Security Monitoring, and Application Security capabilities and supporting tools.- Product ownership and engineering of Application Lifecycle Management products (SCM, SDLC integrations, internal development software stack).- Manage performance and development of managers and associates.- Drive adoption of security and development standards enterprise wide.

- Overall responsibility for managing, defining and establishing middleware technology and standards.- Responsible for a team that provides standards-based middleware services that are consumable by internal application teams.- Conduct research, lead proof-of-concept testing, design & implement frameworks and services across the middleware domain.- Manage performance and development of associates.- Manage technology standards and adoption enterprise wide- Responsible for the technology delivery of an Identity and Access Management program to implement various Oracle security products (OIM, OIF, OAM, OES) across the enterprise- Responsible for the delivery of Common Services for the re-architecture of our back-office systems- Responsible for managing Application Technology Partner (ATP) resources across AFD/AFS

-Responsible for managing a team of software engineers specializing in Technical Architecture.- Responsible for developing shared components and services across the retail side of the company.- Responsible for managing a suite of products that promote service-oriented-architecture.- Responsible for managing associates across our Scottsdale and Irvine locations and general management activities.

- Programmer specializing in web development using Java technologies. - Additionally responsible for Lotus Notes development and the application of such technology over the Investment Research area.- Was part of a team that developed various Investment Decision Support products using the latest web technologies at the time (Java, Javascript, XML, DHTML).- Experience with Adobe Acrobat APIs to build printing & reporting features.

In my short, nearly 2 year tenure at the LA Urban League, I and another trainer were responsible for defining and delivering the curriculum around Cobol, Powerbuilder and Visual Basic at the Inglewood location.