Serve as a liaison between the Engineering and Product teams for new product features.Work with the Product team to define feature requirements prior to the stories being delivered to Engineering for Architecture.Ensure that product stories contain the appropriate level of detail to be architected and developed and that all questions about the requirements have been addressed in the Product story (acceptance criteria, use cases, UI mockups, notification impact, reporting, operational tools and configuration, migration, etc.)Work with the Tech Leads to vet new Product features and may propose alternative solutions back to the Product team as needed.Participate in architecture and design sessions with the Engineering teams as needed to propose potential solutions and to ensure that decided upon solutions will meet requirements.

Designed and developed solutions in Amazon's AWS GovCloud to meet Product requirements for Enhanced Vine platform.Designed and developed data models via JSON Schema and utilization of Liquibase scripts for the Enhanced Vine platform.Designed and developed service based interfaces in Java to abstract data storage technologies from top application layers.

• Responsible for the full life cycle of products including Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, Risk Assessment, Cost Estimation, Design and Development, Quality Assurance, Customer Acceptance, and Monitoring / Engineering Support.• Create and manage an annual operating budget for the application development team.• Participate in annual executive off-site strategic planning for Appriss.• Ensure that revenue goals communicated to the Board of Directors are met by delivering projects on time and within budget.• Manage direct reports consisting of Software Engineers, Database Analysts, Quality Assurance Analysts, Business Analysts, Implementation Analysts, and Project Managers.• Evaluate and document concept of operations, technical overviews, and resource estimations for potential products and services.• Define and refine internal processes for development and deployment.• Work with existing and potential customers to define and architect additional technology solutions.• Work with new customers to ensure smooth business-to-business systems integrations.• Serve as a high level technical liaison between customers and business analysts.• Make decisions about technology direction and adoption within the company.• Write technical responses to Government and Commercially issued Requests For Proposals (RFP) to land new contracts.• Define system requirements for product enhancement requests via working with product managers.• Motivate, train, mentor, and reward individuals and teams consisting of Software Engineers, Database Analysts, Quality Assurance Analysts and Engineers, and Project Managers.• Ensure all employees adhere to code of conduct.• Perform annual performance reviews for direct reports.

• Architected and led the development effort from concept to production of a 20 million dollar victim notification project for the United States Department of Justice on time and under budget.• Led the software development effort for a notification service that alerts domestic violence victims if their perpetrator has attempted to purchase a gun known as the Kentucky Brady Bill Notification Service.• Developed a GUI Java based victim information tool utilized by Customer Service Representatives for the VNS project.• Designed and developed a database import process for booking history data warehousing project known as JusticeXchange using Java, PL/SQL, and Oracle’s SQL*Loader.

• Designed and developed a prototype WEB based automated victim notification application to be used by the FBI, USAO, and FBOP for a proposal to the Federal Department of Justice using PL/SQL and Oracle’s WEBDB.• Designed and developed inbound and outbound automated victim notification telephony applications for various jails and department of correction facilities throughout the United States and Canada using an in-house scripting language.• Developed database data processing programs that interfaced with customer booking systems and imported customer data into BTrieve Databases using C and shell scripts.

• Designed algorithms and implemented using C within an embedded control module that bridged a datalink gap between SAE and European rail car communication standards• Designed, developed, and tested various agricultural engine control algorithms using C.• Analyzed field problems as part of the Current Product Support team for two different diesel engine control modules. Proposed, implemented, tested, and released solutions for the problems• Developed, enhanced, and supported various automotive diesel engine control algorithms in C and the Intel 80196 assembly languages• Developed PC and UNIX tools to improve process turnaround time for the software development team