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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

As a key part of the executive leadership team, my core focus is strengthening the technical capabilities of the company and our employees. Ensuring that we're always prepared for emerging technology and changes to industries.I work with our teams across each of our 5 US offices to create strong internal and external technical communities, govern technical standards, and make sure our clients receive the best service possible.As we continue to expand into new markets, I work to establish the regional leadership and consulting teams. That involves attracting, interviewing and hiring top professionals, career management and growth, and helping them with the growth of their own teams.My key responsibilities:- Continuously evaluating new technology and techniques to decide how our offerings, technical training, and hiring may need to change to support it.- Creating prototypes and technical solutions as reference architectures.- Helping organizations evaluate technical solutions and make enterprise wide decisions.- Developing technical training and programs to keep our engineers sharp and engaged.- Working with our Marketing team to leverage thought leadership to continue to increase our credibility and brand.- Creating technical communities, organizing workshops, and participating in industry events.- Growing and managing technical leadership and teams.- Establishing the company as an innovative place for professionals to learn and grow.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

I quickly became an integral part of the Seattle leadership team charged with building and growing the Solutions Consulting practice. I have built and managed teams, created strategic goals and vision, aligned stakeholders and executive leadership, and have participated in every facet of software development including business planning, project management, UI/UX, development, test automation, build and deployment pipelines, and architecture.Working with clients such as 3M, Disney, Eddie Bauer, Expedia, Holland America, Liberty Mutual, Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Starbucks – I’ve had the unique opportunity to create and deliver technical solutions to solve a variety of business challenges, while gaining broad exposure to regional, national, and global impacts of technology modernization.Leading the Application Development practice, I have spearheaded partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Box.- $70MM+ company.- 30%+ YoY revenue growth.- Maturing a consulting practice focused on custom software solutions across multiple industries.- Growing a $10MM+ software development organization focused on project delivery for our clients.- Building a distributed software development organization and service offering across 4 offices in the US and Costa Rica.- Career management and mentoring, growing a 60+ person team.- Client and engagement management ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.- Technical sales leveraging my software development experience.- Engaged in Solutions Architecture to ensure successful project kick-offs and long-term success.- Budgeting and estimation of software projects to set teams up for success with accurate details.- Program and project management of numerous projects simultaneously for multiple clients using agile methodologies.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

- $60MM+ company.- Growing a 30+ person / $6MM+ software development organization.- 50%+ YoY revenue growth.- Solutions Architecture for enterprise software and systems. Scoping, cost estimation, technical design, and architecture.- Led multiple teams engaged on multiple client technology projects.- Fostered relationships, managed client expectations, and managed contracts.- Oversaw recruiting for technical resources for the practice. Created processes, implemented automated technical recruiting tools, and set interview guidelines.- Supported sales teams by creating materials on technical leadership and execution.- Created proposals for solutions - PowerPoint decks, sales collateral, architectural diagrams, solutions comparisons, and software proof-of-concepts.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

- Worked alongside practice leaders to establish organizational goals and standards.- Led 3 separate projects across 3 different clients and locations, overseeing 20+ software engineers.- Managed technical screening and interviews for candidates pursuing software engineering positions.- Conducted internal "brown bag" meetings presenting various topics associated with software development and growing organizations.- Performed code reviews, design reviews, and architectural reviews.- Performed agile project management, task tracking, and defect tracking.- Developed high-availability, highly-scalable web applications.- Implemented a new CI/CD build process for a Fortune 100 company.- Created an end-to-end Test Automation platform for full-stack web applications, everything from their UI to their back-end services.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

My time at Clearwire was during a pivotal transition for the telecom industry. As the first 4G network in the United States, we were trailblazing advances with a technology that was undefined – from network interactions to cell tower signal mapping to device connectivity to customer self-service. Off-the-shelf, Enterprise-grade, eCommerce systems had not hit the mainstream. As a Software Engineer, everything we built was custom, I learned by trial and optimizations.In 2013, Clearwire was acquired by Sprint. As the acquisition finalized, I was proud to be among a few selected engineers asked to remain and steward the transfer of ownership of knowledge and products to the new Sprint team.Partnerships developed: Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Cable, Sprint, Amdocs- Managed a team of 26 developers in 4 locations – Seattle, Baltimore, Richmond, and Madrid, Spain.- Full-stack and UX/UI developers.- Worked with internal stakeholders to define business requirements.- Handled capacity and resource planning.- Managed numerous large-scale projects involving our custom eCommerce platform, product catalog, and back-end billing system.- Worked very closely with business analysts and Quality Assurance to develop project timelines and test plans.- Helped define and create our automation testing suite.- Helped define and implement a highly-efficient work intake process.- Handled defect prioritization, management, and tracking.- Experience with career planning, performance improvement plans, employee coaching and vendor management.- Created a fun environment where employees feel comfortable, innovative, and collaborative. Created various reward and peer recognition programs.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Evangelized and migrated all applications to use Zend Framework and MVC architecture.- Created an application to restrict customer usage of our 4G wireless network who were behind in their payments, abusing their service, or notifications were necessary.- Established coding and design guidelines across the development teams.- Created application designs and documentation, as well as mentored others in application design and architecture.- Integrated a cutting edge MVC CMS. Developed new features on top of the CMS to support a large diverse user base. Created a system to efficiently handle real-time content changes through a highly effective workflow.- Developed an extremely robust shopping cart platform.- Developed an engaging and helpful online customer care portal.

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- Developed an eCommerce portal for buying and sharing mobile media and apps including peer to peer and group chat.- Mobile content platform was developed using WAP.- Web applications were initially developed in PHP, I led the initiative to migrate them to Ruby / Rails.- Platforms supported both individual purchases as well as subscription service models.- The portals leveraged an internally developed product catalog.- Created an interactive television chat system, including real-time chat moderation. The system enabled SMS text messages to interact with television programming and the other viewers.

- Created a significant disruption in the real estate industry. Took home buying to the modern era.- Developed a completely automated sales lead generation tool for real estate agents and loan originators, including interactive location based searching, IVR, and customer self-service portal.- Leveraged third party services including Google Maps and MLS real estate data services.- Used SMS text messaging to distribute sales leads.

White Plains, Ny, Us

- Part of a large team who managed a very large data center which collocated infrastructure for many Fortune 500 companies.- 5,500+ servers.- Created automated deployment scripts for server imaging and configuration (web, application, and database).- Developed custom software applications to manage network configurations and asset management.- Created a custom web application to allow employees to track their time digitally instead of analog.

- Custom software development for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.- Developed internal tools and software applications.- Managed the network and network devices.- Managed security, LDAP, and Active Directory.- Developed web applications for various clients in many different industries.