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United States

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver high quality results with consistency.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Application Leadership: Successfully served as the Senior Project Delivery Consultant for a critical United States Space Force kill chain application. Key leadership and guidance for the development team, overseeing efforts related to cyber application upgrades and production support.• System Engineering: Executed the role of system engineer with precision, spearheading the development of innovative solutions. Maintained meticulous documentation to support project success.• Cyber Defense Expertise: Established as a subject matter expert in cyber defense applications. Provided leadership and guidance, contributing to the strategic planning of future development initiatives.• Mentorship and Coaching: Guided and coached junior team members and peers, facilitating effective communication, expectation setting, and Scrum practice participation. Fostered a collaborative and productive team environment.• Stakeholder Engagement: Managed customer expectations by collaborating closely with Product Owners and Program Leads. Identified possibilities, risks, and opportunities critical to the program's success.• Presentations and Demos: Conducted team demonstrations and presentations for a diverse audience, including operators, senior military officers, and senior civilian officials. Effectively communicated project progress and outcomes.• User Interaction Enhancement: Played a pivotal role in driving out greater detail for current requirements and developing clearly defined future requirements through user interaction discovery.• UX Design and Development: Produced UX wireframes and design mockups with precision and clarity, leveraging AstroUXDS.• Technical Proficiency: Proficiently developed cyber-defense applications and provided production support, utilizing technologies such as both AngularJS and ReactJS on the frontend with Python in the backend.

Colorado Springs, Co/Remote

• Effectively demonstrated a high level of competence leveraging HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript, select JavaScript libraries and related technologies encapsulating front end, middleware and backend. - Front End: React.js, handlebars - Web Application Frameworks: Express.js, Redux - Object modelling/mapping: Sequelize.js, Mongoose.js - Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, IndexedDB - Server: Node.js - GraphQL API: GraphQL, Apollo Server • Efficiently demonstrated a high level of competency on team projects as scrum master and development team lead while effectively delivering as a full stack developer for each team project. • Successfully demonstrated the key technologist skills of being a lifelong, quick learner.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Team Leadership and Practice Development: Led the web application development team, focusing on enhancing the maturity of the web development practice.• Technical Accountability: Managed technical accountability for critical platforms, including the David C. Cook website, David C Cook Bookstore, and Integrity Music Direct E-Commerce platforms. Spearheaded efforts to re-invent these brands, creating engaging and intuitive user experiences while implementing integrated backend solutions to streamline business processes.• Subscription-Based Web Application: Oversaw the development of Disciplr, a subscription-based web application, and managed a team of development specialists, both local and remote, onshore and offshore, ensuring successful project delivery.• Innovation and Technology Advancement: Drove innovation within web application development, identifying opportunities for technology to enhance business capabilities. Evolved the technology landscape to increase overall team productivity.• Technical Strategy: Delivered the technical strategy for Disciplr, making strategic decisions that propelled the team toward achieving attainable goals.• Project Management Oversight: Provided project management oversight for all web technology projects and initiatives at David C Cook, ensuring successful execution and delivery.• Vendor Management: Effectively managed 3rd party technical relationships, ensuring efficient collaboration and deliverables.• Production Support: Led technology production support efforts for all web products, ensuring their continued reliability and performance.

Lone Tree, Co

• Team Leadership and Development: Led and managed cross-functional teams, consisting of 12 employees and contractors, overseeing performance reviews, salary management, development plans, mentoring, and action plans.• Development Practice Leadership: Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, resulting in enhanced team performance and delivery excellence.• Strategic Technical Leadership: Collaborated in shaping the technical strategy for Charles Schwab's document management platform, aligning technology initiatives with organizational goals.• Organizational Management: Designed and implemented an efficient support model for Production Support and Enhancement teams, ensuring scalability and support for anticipated organizational growth.• Collaborative Partnerships: Established effective partnerships with peers within the organization to deliver high-priority initiatives for Charles Schwab, promoting cross-functional collaboration and alignment with business objectives.• Continuous Integration Innovation: Spearheaded the implementation of a forward-thinking continuous integration solution for the Kofax platform, optimizing development processes and enhancing efficiency.• Agile Leadership: Led Agile Scrum teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality engineering solutions on time and within budget, fostering an Agile development culture.• Vendor Relationship Management: Successfully managed vendor relationships, ensuring the delivery of effective and efficient vendor deliverables and product support, contributing to seamless project execution.

Los Angeles, Ca

• Team Leadership & Development: Effectively managed a team of up to 10 associates and contractors, fostering their growth through performance reviews, salary management, development plans, and mentorship. Additionally, initiated corrective actions when necessary to ensure optimal team performance.• Technical Program Ownership and Vendor Management: Spearheaded the establishment of a critical third-party vendor integration capability, enhancing user experiences with advanced data sheets, tools, and calculators on the American Funds Adviser Site. This involved:- Defining and implementing a streamlined, cross-corporate development methodology that catered to the unique needs of both corporate development organizations.- Establishing an inter-corporate, inter-organizational support model for seamless cooperation.• Technical Project Oversight: Assumed responsibility for coaching and elevating a team of Scrum Masters, driving improvements in their respective Scrum teams' efficiency. I guided technical teams in delivering solutions punctually, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. In this capacity, I acted as a technical Scrum Master, consistently removing roadblocks and fostering an environment conducive to technologists' success. My approach was akin to that of a servant leader, empowering teams to self-organize.• Offshore Program Ownership: Oversaw the Offshore Program, comprising 30 developers and managers, operating in a 24/7 follow-the-sun support model. This program played a pivotal role in supporting our organization's customer-facing websites. My responsibilities included resource capacity planning and optimizing operational efficiency to ensure the program seamlessly met the service level agreements (SLAs) of each site.• Cultivated a High-Performing Team: Strategically identified, recruited, and spearheaded a high-caliber development team to robustly support the organization's evolving business needs.

Colorado Springs, Co

• Team Leadership: Managed a dynamic development team of 12 members, including conducting performance reviews, salary management, and development plans. I provided technical mentorship and, when necessary, crafted action plans to ensure the team's productivity and development excellence.• Lead Data Architect: In a pivotal role, I played a key role in shaping Hewlett-Packard's new development organization, specializing in delivering pre-packaged software solutions to external vendors. My leadership primarily focused on architecting an integrated database solution, facilitating the sharing of master data points across all commercially viable applications.• Project Management Expertise: Led and managed worldwide, database-driven web application projects, guiding them through the complete software development lifecycle. This involved ensuring projects were delivered on time, within budget, and with high-quality standards.• Additional Responsibilities: Beyond team leadership and project management, I provided critical oversight in the areas of architecture, workforce development, hardware planning, and sunset strategies. My responsibilities also included effective escalation management to resolve issues promptly.

Colorado Springs, Co

Supported M.C.I.'s internal business functions in a mainframe environment.

Master Of Science, Information Technology Management

While attending full time master's courses at Colorado Technical University, I was also maintaining full time employment and was coaching.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Football, Track & Field, Fellowship of Christian Athletes LeadWhen I began the Computer Science program at CSU.

Coursework Completed, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: FootballI attended the USAFA from June 1989 through December 1990. I made the life decision to attend Colorado.