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Richmond, Virginia, Us

* Actively working with state of the art AI to build cognitive architectures leveraging the reasoning capabilities of LLMs.* Design and delivery of strategic technical solutions in solutions architect, tech lead, team lead, and individual contributor roles for clients in a wide variety of industries including Retail, Business Services, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Entertainment, Energy & Utilities, Hospitality & Travel, and Healthcare, with solutions ranging from mobile games and AR to DevSecOps and enterprise cloud-native applications.* National SME program lead, providing knowledge-based career growth guidance and support, mentorship programs, and execution frameworks for intentionally aligning our experts' passions to high-impact opportunities that support the growth of our people and our business.* Business development support for new and top tier accounts throughout the opportunity pipeline including relationships and networking, client conversations, ideation and pitches, statements of work, proposals, contracts, staffing, and delivery.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Concept design and development of "Word Tycoon", a unique iOS word game released July 2015, written in Swift.• Utilized AWS Services (Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda) to speed time-to-market and set low operational costs to scale with customer acquisition.• Created AI simulators to quickly evaluate potential effects of gameplay changes on outcome of games.• Leveraged TestFlight services for beta cycles to get rapid feedback.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Own architectural strategy, work with stakeholders to align it with business objectives, and ensure architectural consistency of all technology assets. Participate in the development process through R&D, prototyping, and development with coordination across multiple SCRUM teams.• Developed in-the-field survey and sales collection apps for iPads and iPhones, and business intelligence tools for efficient data analysis with a user base of thousands of simultaneous users with resilient server syncing and real time processing of the operational data collected.• Designed an ESB architectural model with ETL data processing to provide cross-system functionality supported by legacy solutions that integrated with data from dozens of sources.• Architected transition of entire application stack to Azure IaaS and PaaS offerings and utilized Chef to automate infrastructure configurations for environment consistency.

High Point, Nc, Us

Maintain strategic plans to become predominant online framing company through pictureframes.com and 3rd party partnerships.• Designed web services platform that provided fast and easy end-to-end third party order processing integration.• Designed and implemented an e-commerce CMS for rapid launches of custom internal and external art and picture framing web sites.• Created a marketing and site optimization plan for pictureframes.com that resulted in a directly measurable increase of over $1M annually through improved UX, a doubling of site traffic, an increase in site conversion, and an increase of average order values.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

• Directed the design and development of a highly customizable CMS that allowed for extremely rapid deployment of fully custom web sites, maximizing profitability through a SaaS business model.• Ensured that all major development projects were executed on time and under budget.• Outlined and implemented a requirements discovery process for client work to ensure project scopes were well defined, leading to successful project delivery and high customer satisfaction rates.• Helped to grow company from 3 employees to 11 full-time employees in one year.

• Maintained direct sales and recurring subscription e-commerce sites. Implement various EDI document support using X12 standards for legacy systems integration.• Prevented annual loss of $150K revenue through the discovery and debugging of recurring subscription handling.• Automated bulk management of products, content, and orders for existing E-commerce systems.