As Director of Systems Design Engineering, I lead the Azure cloud-native transformation of our core banking-as-a-service platform, architecting event-driven microservices and a Lakehouse architecture to build a highly scalable, reliable, and secure system. I spearhead the design and technical direction for major projects with Fortune 500 customers, ensuring solutions meet client needs while aligning with organizational goals. By providing architectural guidance and strategic vision, I collaborate across multiple teams—including Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Infosec, and Development—to align technology initiatives with business objectives. Additionally, I optimize cloud expenditures through FinOps practices, advise the executive team on technology choices, and lead talent acquisition and development, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within our engineering teams.

Offering Software Development / leadership expertise with 29-year background designing, architecting, developing Software Solutions. Recent experience include Azure PaaS based solution using .NET Core / C# in the areas of REST API, Microservices, Messaging, and Big Data. Comprehensive knowledge of software development lifecycles. Excellent analytical and collaboration skills with remarkable project management abilities.Clients: Office of CTO at Microsoft, WaferWire Cloud Technologies, Microsoft Healthcare

Provide technical leadership to clients to solve their business problems using an Azure Cloud Architecture based solution. This involves providing enterprise level azure cloud based architectural blueprints for Big Data / Analytic solutions and/or modern Cloud applications, interacting with executives at these organizations & guidance for the development teams. Have saved in excess of $800k annual recurring operating costs for my most recent client by proposing alternate design / technology choices.Recent clients include Wolters Kluwer, Microsoft.

Consulting for Microsoft teamsMicrosoft Commerce Team - Fraud Operations ReviewData Visualization for Windows Azure Data Centers at MicrosoftCapacity Planning for Windows Azure Data Center at MicrosoftMicrosoft Engineering Excellence team.Starbucks API team for mobile apps.

I was on a personal sabbatical for family medical reasons.

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Excelled within entrepreneurial / contract-based engagements providing broad-based application development / architecture leadership.

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