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Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha, Ne, Us

Servant-Leader for multiple Agile software development teams providing guidance on SCRUM foundations, increasing performance, and self-growth. Responsibilities include: coaching SCRUM values, practice, and guidelines, facilitation of SCRUM Events, resolving teams' impediments, supporting the Product Owners and Product Managers, working with other Scrum Masters to coordinate and resolve complex issues.

Educating business entities on team composition, technological governance, agile adaptation, and change management. Organizations gain essential knowledge on how to hire the right talent, invest in the right equipment and technologies, how changing their operational expectations can improve work environments, and how unmanaged change affects their current state models.Migration of legacy platforms to modern technologies tailored to specific business use cases. Deprecated web platforms were re-written while preserving business logic and coalesced into a cohesive set of functions exposed to various secure web clients increasing availability. Database migration from unsupported platforms also made anew reporting vectors which greatly improve forecasting.Create software solutions using core competencies such as:Cost saving API construction that exposes critical business functionality to new client applications increasing remote work capabilities. These projects help entities to conduct business as usual without changing platforms. This is extremely helpful in response to current world events.Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game engine that centers around community, availability, and scalability. Created with a security first approach, this ecosystem leverages the latest OWASP standards in authentication, authorization, and encryption. The public servers are built with .NET Core and Node.js with functionality delegated by AWS proxy servers. The game clients are written in GML and are platform agnostic allowing users to connect with each other from virtually any device.Automated agricultural implementations for small and subsistence farms. This system was designed for water irrigation platforms, visual monitoring, and grow medium nutrients sampling while taking advantage of web communication protocols. It allows the ability for small scale farms to take advantage of remote locations increasing yields and normalizing crop yield forecasts.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Created, tested, and deployed a level 3 PCI integration with J.P. Morgan Chase’s Orbital Gateway which enabled payment at time of service. This project significantly increased cash-flow and eliminated residential invoicing.Built a Check Lockbox integration with J. P. Morgan Chase’s Virtual payment offerings; Technical roadmap development; Developed project design standards and processes; ScrumMaster for project management

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Oversaw daily IT operations in a high-volume metropolitan healthcare organization centered around nursing for specific client populations. This ensured help desk, business offices, and other client facing staff were fully supported with the proper tools, structure, and SLAs as well as ensuring that the maintenance and disposal of sensitive electronic materials was handled responsibly.Evaluated, documented, and contrasted the legacy software/ infrastructure portfolio that powered the organization’s paper driven operations. This allowed the new IT leadership team to create responsible architectural plans for the corporate changes that were happening within the organization.Created and organized a new DevOps team, allowing for the smooth integration of systems engineers, database architects, and new software developers into a strong cohesive team that focused on solving problems together in a challenging environment.The scaffolding of the Atlassian workflow and collaboration products promoting operational transparency, communication, and consistent deployment outcomes. Deploying these tools took the organization from an unscalable manual system to a first-class operation within months.The recreation of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) as a Proof of Concept written in the MEAN stack utilizing HL7 standards. This project gave great insight as to how bridging to a new EHR could affect the organization and mapped deficiencies in any change management plans.The creation of an in-house software suite that unified disparate systems. This provided a “single pane of glass” platform to access tools and functionality.The re-engineering and growth of the core infrastructure from the datacenter to remote sites. This project was critical in moving the organization in any direction mitigating the high risk it was operating at as well as opening opportunities around cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions.

Created, tested, and deployed customized cloud-based Point of Sale (POS), e-commerce, and business logic software solutions tailored to individual clients’ needs. Providing Software as a Service (SaaS) allowed the accruing of industry specific artifacts while satisfying the customer base’s desire for having out of the box solutions that fit their business.Produced responsive design mobile first UIs for various web platforms catered to clients’ target industries and business types. This allowed a growth in the organization’s customer base by providing a comprehensive offering which linked front to back-end resources that were not previously available.Kept development team on task by projecting reasonable workloads, and delegating tasks to meet individuals’ skills maximizing productivity. This created the opportunity to work with larger teams that had greater coordination on deliverable timelines, expectations, and budgets.Continued education to stay abreast of current and emerging web technologies. Having an understanding on those continuing changes helped to navigate communication to stakeholders how those changes will impact products and services.

Created general use software as well as custom websites for e-commerce customers to help promote their online presence. This provided modern solutions for customers who still were running legacy applications with minimum extensibility.Created, tested, and deployed custom financial compliancy middleware in conjunction with NYFIX through J.P. Morgan Chase. This software was mandated by governing authorities and had specific implementation guidelines that required extensive live testing. Utilizing a good blend of interpersonal skills with technical ability allowed Alpha-Data to procure multiple implementation contracts.Worked independently to serve the organization’s clientele in an on-demand onsite and remote capacity working on legacy software systems. This allowed for more flexible customer service management by allowing a broader skilled labor rotation.Updated, maintained, and launched new custom servers to replace deprecated SCO Unix systems as well as built custom user interfaces to extend the life of legacy deployments. Providing cost saving alternatives to existing clients ensured repeat business and strengthened customer loyalty base.