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St. Louis, MO, US

• Created applications to assist small businesses and research new technologies. Owned all aspects of systems from start to finish. Created a new mobile browser game enabling everyone to create and solve trivia puzzles.
• Developed the front-end components using Microsoft Blazor Web Assembly enabling a responsive experience for gamers.
• Created and integrated business functionality using Microsoft Azure functions and CosmosDB.
• Established automated tests using well designed code, Moq, and several testing frameworks.
• Using Azure DevOps, created end to end pipelines to automatically test and deploy changes.
• Fully owned all hosting aspects of the game in Microsoft Azure (cloud computing).

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Collaborated with senior executives and managers to secure funding and prioritize work efforts to transform the supervisory and oversight user experience. Led efforts to balance business features and the architectural.
• Managed efforts to design the next generation user experience resulting in personas, wire frames, and prototypes used to influence the product vision.
• Worked with senior managers to construct and continually enhance agile teams within the program.
• Created the product vision inspiring work within the agile release train.
• Created agile release train program increment objectives used to ensure appropriate focus.
• Planned and led numerous synchronization meetings, integrated system demos, inspect and adapt, and program increment planning sessions serving as a Release Train Engineer and Product Manager.

Purchase, NY, US

• Collaborated with executive, product and technology partners to secure funding for initiatives within the Loyalty line of business. Negotiated vendor service level agreements. Led and participated in several RFP.
• Saved millions by conducting due diligences to guide management on key decisions.
• Developed a plan to consolidate three programs, two of which were acquired, to streamline and standardize customer offerings and reduce expenses.
• Led creation of product roadmap, reducing infrastructure expenses and increasing product sales.
• Cut average job time from 11 hours to 1.5 hours by revamping the Offers system.
• Increased product health grades, doubling unit and functional test coverage within systems.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Led numerous projects used to increase security and lower operation costs through server virtualization efforts. Developed systems with high quality and improved operational maturity.
• Improved system governance by integrating more mature management tools for source code, automated builds, object mocking and automated testing using Team Foundation Server.
• Created applications, enabling the retirement of 50 cumbersome and costly legacy systems.
• Generated faster time to market and improved quality for releases by refactoring applications, implementing 95%+ automated unit test coverage.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Managed staff of five to secure SAS-70 and PCI-DSS compliance for financial institutions rewards systems. Created manual process automation strategies. Created IT budgets and training approaches.
• Established overall application development budget, accurate with 2% of original estimates.
• Passed PCI-DSS and SAS-70 audits by leading teams through separation of duties to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, which preserved the client base and created a selling point in proposals.
• Standardized development practices by creating and maintaining a software development lifecycle and a change tracking tool for alignment with related SAS-70 controls.
• Improved operating efficiencies by automating processes to comply with security standards.
• Expanded usage of batch performance recommendations to multiple client programs based on best practice created in previous job.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Designed, developed, tested and documented products, resulting in common architecture and supporting changing client needs.
• Designed and developed flexible business rule and access tiers for a new system, enabling code logic to be repurposed elsewhere in the system, reducing costs.
• Designed a database model for a new product, ensuring compatibility between old and new components, enabling more rapid adoption by customers.
• Assessed and chose off-the-shelf solution and customized as necessary to implement user and role storage, reducing development costs.
• Designed and implemented localization strategy for new and existing products, providing multilingual capability, which increased customer sales.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Supported business development teams in new sales opportunities, including creating estimates. Performed architecture reviews of client projects, focusing on security and performance. Translated client requirements.
• Cut processing time from 15-35 hours to 7 hours by designing index optimizations.
• Acted as solution provider for Tier 3 issues while training teams on understanding concepts.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Design, develop and test reusable products. Train and mentor team of 5 on.NET vs. legacy Microsoft stack. Technical and team leadership on a variety of projects. Performed technical reviews enforcing code quality..
• Designed and developed C# applications used to generate millions in revenue while maximizing code reuse.
• Improved customer access to loyalty information by building ASP.NET websites accessible by customer service representatives and consumers.
• Increased operational efficiency for the company by building administrative tools that could be used across the entire client base, reducing costs and manual errors.

• Designed, developed, and supported the e-commerce website, API, and CRM tools used by call center agents. Enhancements enabled owners to sell technology in a subsequent acquisition.
• Designed and led efforts to modernize the legacy active server pages architecture by migrating to.NET.
• Single handedly created the first web services for Scantech, enabling effective, more secure integration of customer website and customer service applications.
• Developed migration strategy to integrate legacy systems using an incremental approach reducing risk and customer impacts while delivering improvements.
• Designed and implemented optimal database structure for both online processing and reporting/analytics.
• Created distinct, de-normalized reporting environment to drastically improve performance of reports.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Responsible for the design and development of e-commerce systems used to enable online sales and order processing for the theme parks owned and operated by Anheuser-Busch.
• Overhauled architecture of order fulfillment system to drastically improve performance while preserving an easy to use user interface. These efforts increased operational throughput by nearly 100%, drastically reducing.
• Created enhancements to fulfillment systems and websites to support the EZ Pay initiative, giving Busch Entertainment a competitive edge over Disney World for a targeted market.

US

• Development of United Way Contribution System
• Redesigned database from a difficult existing design into a fully normalized database in Sybase 11.9.2
• Converted data from existing format into the fully normalized database
• Developed various classes in Visual Basic 6 to represent different objects in the project
• Developed data module classes in Visual Basic 6 to manage all database functionality for the aforementioned list and member classes
• Developed various client layer forms for the project in Visual Basic 6Maintained and Created Additional Functionality in IP Address Management Software

• Construction and Maintenance of Automated Forecasting Model Application
• Used Microsoft Access to Connect to a Microsoft SQL Server (7.0)
• Used Visual Basic for Applications to Enhance the Application
• Used Microsoft Access Reporting Tool to Create Automated Reports
• Used Microsoft Excel Object Library to integrate the forecasting model with dynamic Excel spreadsheetsDevelopment and Maintenance of an Income Database Application
• Automatically Downloaded Data to Increase Speed of Reporting and Data Access

Bachelor Of Science, Business Admin, Finance, Economics

Master Of Science, Computer And Information Systems