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United States

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Experienced manager, leading a site reliability engineering team globally, collaborating with multiple team leaders covering ~90 SREs globally. Development and management of the M&A program for technology across multiple transactions, and numerous product sunsets. Responsible for SRE engagement of hospitality line of products, amounting to ~$2M/yr hosting spend.Team Management* distributed team management, multi-national and cross-continental* team and individual career development, engagement, and mentoring* recruitment activities, review cycles, performance management, and on- and off-boardingProject Management* business-value driven decision-making* agile process implementation * human-focused, pragmatic process developmentSite Reliability Engineering* strategic planning and implementation, project weighting, negotiation, and staffing* disaster recovery and high-availability planning * incident management at the process and command level* partnership building with product development teams* technology budget management collaboration * vendor engagement and contract negotiationMergers & Acquisitions* development and implementation of the Technology M&A program * pre-LOI through diligence, and post-acquisition integration* risk and budget collaboration cross-functionally and cross-departmentally* product sunset management and facilitation

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed a small software development team, implementing processes and procedures to drive Nexus' agile transformation. * led a 5-person development team, providing technical and career mentorship* implemented a full SDLC transformation away from waterfall to a sprint-based agile process* partnered with product management on our SDLC, providing mentoring on agile approach, prioritization, and iterative feature development* product feature solution design focusing on improved customer experience and risk reduction* contractor collaboration with our mobile-app implementation* release management ownership, focused on discrete atomic feature releases* troubleshot highly complex workflows for tier-1 customers * Jira administration and implementation

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Grew this function at Cvent, as the 2nd employee on the agile transformation team. Led other team members in an ever-changing landscape at varying levels of team agility.* responsible for guiding development projects from the conceptual stages through the entire SDLC* ensured our development process, architecture, and standards were followed* identified and mitigated roadblocks, flagging risks* helped assure quality of feature delivery, mentor project staff, and report on project status* acted as Scrum Master, and mentored technical project managers and teams in processes* defined and implemented processes and implemented tools to collect data fulfilling division metrics and reporting

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Began with Politico during the historic 2008 presidential election primary cycle. Initially brought on as a Senior Web Developer, promoted to Team Lead Application Architect, and ultimately Director, Web Development. During this time had the opportunity to help our parent, Albritton Communications, launch numerous ventures, assure Politico.com publishing, and lead the US political news cycle.* lead team of 9 developers * defined technical approach for, and implementation of software tools supporting publication and management of 3 web sites and associated products (politico.com, politicopro.com, wjla.com)* collaborated on analysis and selection of newsroom system vendor, including system testing, and integration* launched a new micro-news venture (tbd.com) from soup to nuts* developed and maintained Politico's successful paywall product politicopro.com * worked the election cycle, culminating in the 2012 presidential election

Falls Church, Va, Us

Designed and developed solutions for new features, maintained existing code-base of Nexus’ enterprise-level accounts payable workflow management product Payables Nexus.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Maintained and developed business production applications, including conference registration application, PCI-compliance assistance, and integration with Avectra membership system.

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Designed, developed, and maintained web-based applications supporting in-house, contract, and commercial customers

Designed, estimated, developed, and maintained web-based, client-server, and stand-alone applications for clients spanning military, non-profit, and commercial sectors.

Computer Science

Computer Science

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