Mark Allen Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida Area

Maitland, Florida

Instrumental in shaping engineering development processes, team growth and culture as group ranged in size from 12 to 50 developers. Owned technical direction of core platform and accounting package (sync) integrations.• Coordinated development efforts across application, platform and quality engineering teams for 50+ feature capabilities, ranging from multi-week to multi-month implementations. Maintained relentless focus on delivery with quality.• Responsible for delivery schedule across all development teams and initiatives.• Solution architected and quarterbacked many large-scale initiatives. Some notables:> AP Inbox: Is an automated e-mail ingestion framework that extracts invoice attachments and makes them available on the platform for either user or third-party indexing. Worked across product, development, QE, business, legal, security and compliance teams to establish functional and technical design. Worked with technical team to leverage Amazon SES pipeline for e-mail automation. Drove the team to on-time delivery. > Sync 2: Established both a user-interactive and automated framework for processing payments from web-based accounting packages (QuickBooks Online, Xero, NetSuite). Worked across product, development, QE and dev ops teams to establish technical design. • Spearheaded continuous delivery initiatives throughout development, dev ops, infrastructure, security and quality engineering groups that resulted in 99.95% uptime in 2017. Worked through these teams to achieve no downtime deployments, every two day releases, decoupling of application and API/platform deployments and effective management of breaking changes. • Facilitated hiring of over 30 developers. Trained dev leads on effective interview and hiring processes to scale this process.• Stayed active in aspects of hands-on development through code reviews, Splunk analytics, bug diagnostics and technical design sessions.

Maitland, Florida

Led as enterprise architect in greenfield development of proprietary payment engine. The payment engine supports multiple channels of payment to over six major bank institutions and has processed over $8 billion in B2B payments.• Established enterprise patterns for asynchronous, scale-out processing using NServiceBus. Successfully evangelized these patterns for use in web application business layer.• Implemented foundational payment engine architectures (error handling, message routing, pub/sub auditing, command messaging, unit of work, IoC, automated testing) and first full bank integration with largest bank in the country. Work included interpreting multiple digital payment formats (e.g. ACH) and rendering images (GDI+) for check processing. Validated scale-out implementation by facilitating load testing over various deployment models.• Enabled easy addition of new bank integrations by developing bank strategy extensibility framework, providing a testable harness for managing bank variability. • Built contextualized telemetry and operational dashboards in Splunk to enable payment ops to rapidly identify and diagnose issues through near real-time alerts.• Partnered extensively with payment operations to ensure successful operationalization of the payment platform, security/fraud/anti-money laundering to develop comprehensive anti-fraud controls and infrastructure to enable effective deployment in a high-availability configuration.• Assembled payment engine development team and guided team to a cross-functional working model amongst development, design, QA and payment operation roles.• Used C#, .NET Framework 4.5 (LINQ), NServiceBus, MSMQ, WCF, ADO.NET, SQL Server, Dapper, automated testing (MSTest), Design Patterns.

Maitland, Florida

Led the redesign and implementation of flagship document recording system to successful deployments at counties in 6 states across the country.• Responsible for the technical direction of team of 7 developers.• Provided technical oversight over entire redesign of product suite, including WinForm, WPF and Silverlight clients, ASP.NET MVC applications, WCF services and database design.• Developed core framework subsystems across full stack of application. Examples of design and architectural patterns used: unit of work; claims-based authentication/authorization; service layer; scheduler; command pattern (view action/state management); model-view-presenter; MVVM; Silverlight client and portal service; strategy pattern (fee engine); search with paging/sorting; customizable workflow.• Owned all aspects of TFS configuration and automated build management. Configured automated builds to run nightly, version all software components and deploy these components into QA and release environments.• Evolved deployment of all WinForms, WPF applications by utilizing Microsoft ClickOnce and developing tooling that overcame some of the key ClickOnce limitations.• Drove automated testing strategy using MSTest, Rhino Mocks and Behavioral Driven Design.• Served as the coordinator of all Agile Scrum processes. Instrumental in refining all team development, QA and release processes.• Worked integrally with stakeholders to refine requirements.• Gave presentations on aspects of system architecture.• Used C#, .NET Framework 3.5/4.0 (LINQ), WCF, ADO.NET, SQL Server, NHibernate, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, automated testing (MSTest), Design Patterns, Domain and Behavioral Driven Design, Scrum methodology.• Software development manager, technical lead (1 year) – Managed the development and delivery of applications that support the flagship document recording system.

Chandler, Arizona

• Technical lead (2.5 years) - Technical lead on user interface (UI) projects. Trained developers from United States, Asia and South America on Microsoft technologies.• .NET UI developer (1.5 years) - Designed, developed .NET UI framework components in C# for reuse by factory developers. Defined .NET UI development process and standards for department.• Web application front-end, middle tier designer, developer, tester (2 years) - Designed, developed web application for real-time factory reporting. Implemented in HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Visual Basic, ADO, COM+. Volume tested using LoadRunner. Managed deployment under IIS.• Project manager (1 year) - Managed 7 person team through analysis, design, implementation, testing and support of critical factory application. • UI requirements-gatherer, designer, developer, tester (2.5 years) - Collaborated with customers to create use cases. Designed UI applications. Implemented UI applications using Visual Basic, XML, XSL and XPath. Wrote test cases, organized and executed test spirals.• System requirements-gatherer (1 year) – Drove use case development and reviews with factory customers for next generation recipe management system using Rational RequisitePro.• Factory application owner, support (4+ years) - Orchestrated customer groups and developed SharePoint sites to streamline customer communication. Owned application roadmaps, requirements, design, coding and testing.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Marine Biology (Dual Degree)

Masters Of Science (Not Completed), Computer Science

• Lab instructor (1 year) – Taught Java in Introduction to Computer Science course. Used Java extensively in course projects.

Masters Of Science, Marine Biology

• GIS Analyst (3 years) – Utilized ESRI ArcView GIS extensively to perform spatial statistical analyses of ecological data. Developed.