Responsible for the design and mapping of the business requirements to system and technical requirements. Provide advice to customers regarding industry best practices and process methodologies. Work as a functional liaison between Project Teams and key customer senior executives. Develop and guide teams in the development of functional specifications for modifications, interfaces, reports and screens that meet the customers' business objectives and are of sound design.

Responsible for conducting analysis sessions with clients and project teams to understand the functional and technical needs of the client. Identify functional requirements and create documentation for client approval as well as technical solutions to meet those requirements. Provide technical support to the client and the project team which includes: quality assurance, design review, environment setup, software installation, configuration, operational consulting, troubleshooting, system testing, and programming.

Responsible for the technical implementation of a project which include the design and implementation of interfaces to customer enterprise applications, documentation and implementation of customer approved solutions. Other responsibilities include providing expertise in assisting team members in technical engineering aspects of customer implementation as well as mentoring and providing technical guidance for customers and RedPrairie engineers.

Responsible for a team of 10 Engineers in RedPrairie's Consulting Services Division. Coordinated and integrated the activities of my teams, coached team members, managed project schedules, and made timely decisions/compromises as required by projects. Responsible for personnel decisions regarding employment and compensation. I delivered timely, valuable, actionable reviews in compliance with department and HR policy. Translate customer operational considerations and constraints into functional requirements. Convert functional requirements into technical requirements and then using the technical requirements to create high quality design documents. Design focus was on satisfaction of business requirements, low level of rework, application of unstated features, simplicity of solution, leverage of other applications, ease of use, achievable within budgeted resources and schedule.

Implement product modifications for the Warehouse Management product per customer needs. Suggest approaches/solutions to customer processes that are not met by the standard product. Travel to customer location(s) to ensure go-lives are successful and to work with the customer's employees until they are comfortable using the system.

Senior Software Engineer - working directly with clients to assist in implimenting RedPrairie's Warehouse Management System.

Worked as a JAVA resource for multiple clients. Designed and developed code using JAVA, Spring, jQuery, jUnit, Servlets, XML, Tomcat, WebSphere, Eclipse, DB2 and Oracle.

Hired as lead developer for implementation of RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management System (WMS). Worked with subject matter experts, analysts, developers and RedPrairie’s implementation team to determine system requirements, identify data elements and define system mappings. Created all inbound messaging to RedPrairie’s WMS utilizing IBM’s WebSphere MQ Manager. Mentored programmers, provided training and participated in quality assurance testing. Supported production throughout the conversion to the WMS, including reporting, automation and problem solving. Primary point of contact for all RedPrairie system questions.Technology: Java, J2EE, XML, JMS, Spring, Eclipse, Jasper Reports, CVS, DB2.

Worked as lead developer, trainer and project manager for Dairyland’s Louisville Java Group. My initial roll was Project Manager for the Physician Practice Documentation application. Prior to developing that application, I had to train legacy VDF developers in Java and teach them the principles of Object Oriented Development. I was also the primary developer and technical lead.

I worked for various companies as a Project Manager, Senior Analyst, Trainer and Software Engineer.

Primary developer of internet sales management program used by sales force all over the world. Maintained legacy Cobol code.