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Casselberry, Fl, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Supporting top-tier clients on Datastax Enterprise (DSE) and the underlying technologies of Apache Cassandra, Spark and Solr.

Building scalable, resilient, high-volume, messaging services for the travel and transportation industries using state-of-the-art technologies.

New York, Ny, Us

* Led the design, development, and implementation of a greenfield SOA project using JBoss Fuse which increased message delivery rates by a factor of 8.* Led the Channel Management development teams to integrate with a larger Travelclick PCI compliance effort.* Responsible for the migration of the Channel Management data center from Orlando, FL to Atlanta, GA.* Worked with stakeholders to develop the Channel Management product roadmap.

New York, Ny, Us

* Directly managed three onshore teams and two offshore teams for a portfolio of high-volume messaging products (PHP and Perl).* Led the initiative to increase unit test code coverage for the legacy messaging platform from 30% to over 60%.* Managed the technical relationship with a large hotel chain as we developed a high-volume custom messaging interface.

London, Gb

* Responsible for a portfolio of 200+ e-learning websites and landing page domains (Wordpress / custom PHP development).* Led the implementation of version control, continuous integration, disaster recovery, and the creation of separate environments for development, testing, staging, and production.* Reduced the turnaround time for an e-learning website from approximately 90 days to less than 21 days.

Fully-Remote Workplace, Us

* Led the greenfield design and development of the RESTful financial service for Izea's SocialSpark application – including creating the domain language, transaction reconciliation / auditing, and credit card payment interface with Sage (using the Ruby on Rails MVC framework).* Scrum Master - introduced Agile software development methodologies (release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, code reviews, etc...) to deliver higher-quality, less-costly software.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Managed staff of 4 developers for Earthlink's threat prevention website written in PHP.* Responsible for a Java-based service which updated an anti-phishing toolbar provided by Earthlink. The service processed approximately 400,000 updates per day and distributed those updates to approximately 50,000 anti-phishing toolbars.

* Full stack LAMP support for an internet marketing company.* Developed custom PHP Content Management System.

* Responsible for the SDLC for a portfolio of 400+ community websites written in PHP.* Managed a team of four developers.* Implemented bug tracking and version control.

* Provided technical expertise for network design, implementation, optimization and upgrades.* Installed and configured new servers and application upgrades in all environments.* Other duties – SQL server maintenance, systems backup/restore (Veritas), maintenance and monitoring of Cisco routers and PIX, internal phone support (punch-down of extensions, etc.).

Sanford, Fl, Us

* Supported ALL hardware and software needs for 100+ users.* Implemented first-ever network-wide security and virus protection.* Installed and maintained hardware and networks at construction sites.