Trained retailers (e.g. Foot Locker, Ulta Cosmetics, Staples) and consulting firms (e.g. Lillii RNB, Apontech) on Oracle's XStore Point of Sale frameworks and software development best practices.Lead training technical resources in successful software development and implementation processes. Provide both classroom and hands-on training to technical and business resources involved in software delivery. Mentor junior staff for both project and career growth and make staff development recommendations. Travel domestically and internationally to facilitate onsite training courses. Actively pursue and facilitate training and education activities that improve technical product knowledge, managing client expectations, and presentation/facilitation skills. Enforce project standards and best practice disciplines inside and outside the development domain. Manage all aspects of process and development of training course materials.

Provided technical direction for the development, design and systems integration for client engagement from definition phase through implementation. Applied significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients. Best practice, mentoring, estimates, implement, design, grow/expand team footprint offshore and onshore. Onsite training locations: US, Portugal, Argentina, Nepal and India.Clients: Ulta, Foot Locker, Interstate Batteries, Lucky Brand, Hot Topic, Belk, Vera Bradley, Northern Tool and Equipment, Sally Beauty, Luxxotica, James Avery, Kate Spade.

Responsible for Micros Retail Applications Development training, practice and execution focused on Store Systems. Mentor for tech leads on multiple client implementations. Participate as tech lead, architect and client-facing liaison for various implementations. Provide estimates and best practices recommendations for upcoming projects. Manage onshore (Austin) and off-shore team (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Responsible for defining the methodology for technical execution. Overseeing the execution of the methodology and ensuring that it’s consistently being applied and practiced. Set direction and mentor tech leads for various services projects.

Responsible for leading and contributing to the design, development, and implementation of solutions for Starmount’s retail clients. Currently focused on the Service Workorder and Point Of Sale applications for full-service automotive aftermarket chain Pepboys. Both applications are implemented using IBM eServer xSeries servers running IBM WebSphere and DB2, as well as 360Commerce Point of Sale and Backoffice applications running in Linux.

Responsible for designing, creating, modifying, maintaining, testing, releasing and supporting Convio's large-scale 24 x 7 x 365 non-profit software suite. As part of the Convio5 software development team worked on customizable online donation forms, flexible sustainer and installment programs, and designated giving. Implemented a flexible report writer for Convio administrators. The Convio online software suite is used by over 600 non-profit organizations including American Red Cross, American Diabetes Association, ASPCA, Autism Society of America, Carnegie Museums, Children's Cancer Research Fund and Easter Seals.

Lead and trained developers to implement 360Commerce’s Point Of Sale and Backoffice solutions for PepBoys. Collaborated with IBM to integrate and customize the technology for Pep Boys. The technology includes IBM Point of Sale systems and in-store IBM eServer xSeries servers running IBM WebSphere and DB2, as well as 360Commerce Point of Sale and Backoffice applications running in Linux.

Implemented customized solutions of the 360Commerce line of products (Point of Sale, Backoffice, Unleashed) for tier 1 clients such as The Gap, Home Depot, KB*Toys, Sears, The Great Indoors, and Stein Mart. Developed EYS Unleashed™, a mobile point-of-sale application that allows store associates to scan merchandise, process credit cards, suspend orders for completion at the register and print receipts using a handheld remote device. Responsible for analysis, design, and implementation of features using Java, JRun & Jakarta-Tomcat. Customized Unleashed for Home Depot (Linebuster).Developed Meijer Kiosk, the first application based on Cornerstone’s Retail Foundation Platform using Java under Window NT/95. Responsible for analysis, design, and implementation of features for Release 2.0 of Sears Roebuck’s Kiosk and Point of Sale Systems using C++ under OS/2. Ported Meijer Kiosk to CRF’s Version 2.0.

Developed a multiplatform graphical user interface for GlobalSoft's OmniWorks family of configuration management products using Visual C++ and RogueWave Zapp's Class Library under Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, AIX, and many other UNIX platforms. Ported the GUI to Java.

Responsible for the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) capabilities to launch the Bravo LX , Flex (Pro Encore!) and the Encore! Goldline (Pen-like) pagers.Developed repair, inspection, and fabrication applications for the Encore Pager Model factory using XWindows, Motif, HP Architect, C, and C++, under HP-UX platforms.

Developed Common Channel Signaling 7 (CCS7) and Equal Access Multifrequency (EAMF) cut-through access services for the Federal Telecommunications Systems 2000 (FTS2000) InterLATA carriers using C under the UNIX operating system.