* Served as direct manager for up to 26 engineers- 10 of which lead the technical direction of 16 cross functional scrum teams. Identified IT initiatives to improve the software development process, overall technology usage, planned their execution in parallel to ongoing work efforts supporting the business, and provided oversight ensuring successful completion.* Devised strategic technology goals for IT to facilitate and improve efficient operations, aligning them with business goals, reducing overall application total cost of ownership, and time to change implementation, as well as increasing testing efficiency and quality of produced code. Created and conducted execution roadmaps to achieve both business and IT goals. Budget management included vendor contract negotiation, personnel costs, training, software and hardware purchasing, as well as discretionary team funds.* Review and contribute to the development of requirements, technical documentation, and deployment practices. Guide the software development team to define technical solutions and alternatives to meet business unit needs, while making forward progress on the roadmap toward technology goals. Coordinate the efforts of up to 16 different cross functional teams, across 4 different portfolios, and provide guidance on the identification and correction of trends in production support problems. Provide reports on the team’s progress to the Executive team, and as necessary serve as a hands-on technical contributor.

* Designed and developed: an electronic data exchange between external LIS and MRS systems, a universal common bi-directional interface for multiple medical devices for all device interfaces, and a SOA object framework for application usage.* Managed and mentored engineers, reconciled regulatory compliance with architectural direction, coordinated project development, and planned training, testing, and production support. Communicated with executives and business stakeholders on technical direction, and cost benefit analysis. Lead requirements translation into statements of work and technical specifications, reconciling business needs with multi phased (scrum) approaches to software release.

• Principal interface between customers and technical team. Negotiated requirements, explained technical approaches, billables, timelines, and project planning to both customer executives/stakeholders and technical staff.• Lead multiple teams of engineers across multiple clients. Managed engineers, coordinated project management, development, and testing. Conducted sales and marketing activities. Architected customer solutions incorporating business needs into design and communicated these solutions to customers.

• Lead multiple teams of engineers directing technical decisions and managing staff. Managed multiple projects for multiple clients maintaining customer satisfaction and successful project completion. Conducted sales calls, customer business process analysis, prepared statements of work, and managed billables• Gathered requirements, translated requirements into technical specifications, communicated project status, and conducted demos with executives and business stakeholders.

• Lead teams of 3-7 in various projects, determining overall software architecture including: security, capacity, database design and coding, core software development, server and network configurations, testing, and customer training including coordinating engineering efforts between functional areas.• Initiated internal projects and process improvement to aid efficiency of development, security, and architectural planning efforts. Heavy client interaction expected to analyze business processes, determine requirements, statements of work, technical specifications, and client guidance in technical decisions. Lead design efforts on cross platform connectivity projects implementing SOA based architecture.

• Lead Engineer on 3-6 man teams that designed and implemented 4 web portals, 2 e-commerce sites, and additional enterprise applications. Duties included: project documentation, coordination of architecture, development, QA, security, network, and CM efforts.• Mentored others, and participated in, architecture, software design and development, testing and capacity plans, security implementation, and data replication methodology. Client interaction included determining requirements, communicating technical approach including technical guidance, and setting expectations.

• Lead Engineer and Project Manager on 2 projects, a financial services portal using XML data feeds, and a database redesign with star patterned replication across database nodes. Duties included: Project Planning, cost and revenue reporting, client management, coordination of all engineering, QA, and CM efforts, supervision of design and development, and active participation in prototyping.• Assisted the sales force by attending sales meetings as the technical resource, developing rough task lists, functional requirements, and timeline completion estimates.

• Lead Engineer on 5-25 man teams that designed and implemented multiple web based applications. Duties included: documenting functional requirements, software and hardware design and coding, QA and capacity test plans, customer training, transition plans, deployment plans, coordinated engineering efforts, QA testing, mentoring peers and participated in development of stored procedures, COM components, XML data feeds (web services), and ASP/JavaScript pages.• Created engineering effort estimates from rough functional specs, supervised code and design reviews, participated in the writing of published works (Commerce Server 2000, Wireless Application Development), and taught local user groups (Site Server/Commerce Server SIG, and ASP SIG).

• Lead engineer on a three-man team that designed and built a three tier scalable solution for securely delivering media content to remote users on the Internet. Duties included: web application design and implementation, coordinating engineering efforts, media search application design, desktop application design and implementation, code reviews, and internal network security and maintenance.