Lead in the design, development, and implementation of the software solutions, guiding a team of talented developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet our clients' needs. Creat the strategic direction and technology roadmap for software engineering with focus on keeping up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure the product offerings remain innovative and competitive.

Lead cross-functional teams consisting of project management, software engineering, testing, release and configuration management groups for all Microsoft, IBM, and AWS based technologies. Building excellent development teams through clear expectations and objectives management, coaching, career development, and targeted recruiting. Manage an organization of 5 managers, 40 individual contributors, and up to 40+ contractors in project management, software engineering, and quality assurance.• Guided team through transition from Microsoft based on-prem technology to AWS/cloud solution leveraging CI/CD using Gradle, Docker, Flux, and Kubernetes• Mentored .NET developers for transition to Java and React development along with new build tools • Created .NET tools to integrate existing on-prem legacy .NET/iSeries platform with new Java/Postgres/AWS platform via AWS SNS/SQS• Lead the architecture and design of integration between legacy and new platform based on strong knowledge of the technologies involved. Created roadmap for the migration off legacy iSeries platform.• Build excellent development teams through clear expectations and objectives management, coaching, career development, and targeted recruiting• Acted as product owner of all legacy platforms and was key SME for new platform as it was being built

Lead a team of 12 .NET developers and 6 DWH Developers• Lead change in architecture of flagship SaaS products from ASP.NET/C# web form to MVC 4+/Angular/React technologies• Created enterprise service bus architecture to reduce time to market and resources necessary to support the same functionality across disparate flood processing platforms acquired due to acquisition• Lead a global staff of over eighty software developers in-house and third-party vendors.• Reduced technical debt and unnecessary complexity to reduce time to market for all new product development• Improved nightly DWH processing time from 26-28 hours down to 6 hours by changing to set based processing, proper index, multi-threaded ETL processes, and database partitioning• Improved build time and quality, release, and configuration management for .NET and DWH. Rolled out proper source control for DWH team, no code repositories previously• Establish software development best practices and standards, rolled out code reviews, unit testing, and SOLID principle• Rolled out Agile and Kanban methodologies to reduce time to market and improve overall quality

Oversee Information Technology, including Software Development, IT Operations and Networking, IT Security, Data Processing/Warehouse, and Sustainment Services. Lead software and system architecture, development processes and standards.• Architected and developed a distributed computing framework for data processing. This system was able to leverage existing hardware and process data faster and previously not possible due to time constraints. The distributed system allows for address standardization, merging and de-duplication of entire data warehouse on a monthly update schedule. Previous processing methods took 21-28 days to merge and de-duplicate 1.2 billion and currently performs merge and de-duplicate of 6+ billion in 4 hours on existing hardware.• Created a configurable deployment tool in C# that would integrate with load-balancers, removing servers from rotation, copy out necessary code, install COM objects, execute and scripts, run integration tests, and then put server back into rotation until code was deployed to nearly a hundred servers.• Continually improved skill-set of entire team through coaching and mentoring and hired better developers and engineers. As a result, was able to get more done with less people and less budget. Reduced necessary hardware footprint required to run all applications from over 450 servers down to about 120.

Lead a group of 5 network and hardware engineers, providing oversight and technical guidance for modernization of aging infrastructure. Continued to lead software engineering group of 6 full stack developers, 4 backend and 2 legacy app dev.• Lead the transition for all new products to be in C#. Created roadmap to transition current main site to ASP.NET and C# based technology.• Developed a new site with small team of developers for new line of business. Created framework for quicker development and integration between front-end and back-end developers using JSON as the format. The data-validations previously done on front-end and back-end was moved to just the back-end and relied upon asynchronous communication to validate and display the data.• Built out new internal data center as well as managing multiple colocation facility migrations and consolidation as well as successfully migrating the entire internal data center into new facility with only 4 hours of planned down-time.

Managed a team of 5 front-end developers, 6 back-end developers, and 4 legacy stack(FoxPro) developers while still being one of the most productive developers• Created a code deployment tool to help deploy Classic ASP and all supporting files to over 200+ web servers from previous process of manually logging into each server and pulling down code manually from SourceSafe.• Was lone developer for a new product that created a single interface that would run several other existing products simultaneously and making one of the largest customers far more efficient by being able to do one search and have all results in easy-to-use display and increasing revenue for company greatly. This was done outside of normal working hours so it would not impact other deliverables.

As the senior/lead developer on a team of 12 developers. Lead Internet developers as well as back-end SQL/MySQL developers.• Developed a shared code platform for rapid product development that would only require adding a settings file, XSD/XML mapping for HTML output and overloaded functions for product specific features reducing developer time significantly.• Implemented several performance improvements on the backend tier of the people search platform by adding covering indexes on the table and PHP code optimization. This was the company’s flagship product for its largest public search customer that averaged over 100k searches/sec.• Converted transactional accounting system on MySQL database from MyISAM to InnoDB tables to improve performance and availability.• Ported over several legacy C++ and FoxPro CD-ROM based applications to web based technology using Classic ASP and Server-Side JavaScript

Oversaw Information Technology and Customer Service operations for $100M information Services Company, including software development, QA, infrastructure, security, project management, helpdesk, and customer service.• Architected and developed on-line application process by integrating several disparate systems and automation of manual processes.• Recognized for successfully forming software development process and project management with business needs driving requirements.• Lead technology departments for major bank conversion and platform migration from small bank to HSBC leveraging Global Payment systems using Vital processing for front-end processing and Global Payments as the backend processor. • Developed and implemented IT organization’s vision as a revenue stream by creating consulting services for software development, e-commerce integrations, process and security assessments, and hosting services.• Created shared code library and framework for rapid system development.