Led cross-functional engineering teams responsible for development and quality control of multiple flagship products: Explore, Junior, and Planner. Spearheaded the successful migration of infrastructure to AWS, optimizing cloud resources and improving system reliability. Orchestrated the technical integration and launch of the unified Pathful platform, consolidating multiple products into a cohesive solution.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Managed multiple development teams implementing Agile methodologies, leading sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives while mentoring team leads in best practices.Established and maintained robust DevOps practices to ensure platform availability and development team productivity, implementing comprehensive monitoring systems for critical KPIs.Collaborated with product managers to translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment between stakeholder needs and development capabilities.Implemented secure development practices and quality control measures across all products, significantly improving code quality and reducing technical debt.Provided technical leadership in stakeholder meetings and design reviews, ensuring deliverable fit and maintaining focus on minimum viable product development.Built and maintained development roadmaps while balancing new feature development with technical debt management and system optimization.

Software development for Strivven Media's suite of collegeand career readiness platforms VirtualJobShadow.com, VJSJunior.com, and LifePath CareerExploration Course.

Led professional services delivery and technical project management across multiple high-regulation industries, overseeing a team of developers to implement complex business solutions. Managed client relationships and technical deliverables while ensuring compliance with industry-specific regulations and requirements.Key Responsibilities and Impact:Directed technical implementations and custom development projects across diverse sectors including food and beverage, cannabis operations (US and Canada), medical supplies, and biomedical manufacturing.Developed comprehensive work orders and technical specifications, translating client requirements into actionable development plans while maintaining project scope and timelines.Managed resource allocation and developer assignments across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring optimal team utilization and timely project completion.Coordinated with stakeholders to define project requirements, establish technical specifications, and ensure delivered solutions aligned with business objectives.Oversaw quality assurance processes and regulatory compliance measures specific to each industry, particularly in highly regulated sectors such as cannabis and biomedical.Led client communications and technical consultations, providing expertise on solution architecture and implementation strategies while maintaining strong client relationships.

Senior software developer working on ERP implementations for the following industries: agriculture, chemical, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and supply chain,

{SAW} Software Mill is a Specialized Application Workshop and software development group formed to assist individuals and companies of all sizes to bring their ideas to life. If you can verbalize it, we can build it from custom applications and interfaces, to an online presence, to whatever you can conceptualize. {SAW} Software Mill was established to fill a gap in the software development industry and to build on a diverse, underutilized, highly capable, technologically aware workforce in Western North Carolina.The management of {SAW} Software Mill, having spent the past 20 years managing software development projects around the globe, utilizing both onshore and offshore resources, believes that the best products are most successfully, and cost effectively developed when then customer, the end user, and the developer are closely aligned, both physically and conceptually. Asheville, situated in the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina, provides both the environment and the necessary resource pool, that when brought together, generates creative and potent outcomes.

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- Assumed position as interim operations manager tasked with eliminating backlog of mortgage applications not processed.- Implemented process redesign which moved the percentage of mortgage applications that had a credit decision within 14 days from 10% to 80%, cut overall turn times by 20 days and improving customer survey results by 13 percentage points.- Opened remote processing site to expand the candidate pool for open positions and provide redundancy for business continuity.- Managed $5.5 million budget and staff of 40 supervisors, underwriters and processors.

- Implemented web-based direct to consumer mortgage application platform. Coordinating with marketing department and operations to promote site and improve search engine optimization. - Oversaw the design of a system framework to manage all in-house developed interfaces to third party processors. This provided consistent implementation of all current and future interfaces; consistent tracking, logging and troubleshooting; and easy insertion of any interface into a workflow.- Oversaw division’s server / storage implementations, support and maintenance.- Vender management.- Managed the successful implementation of new core systems requiring the recoding of any interfaces, intranet projects and services that interacted with the core system. Managed vendors, contract programmers, staff programmers, testing teams and system administrators.- Managed $3 million budget and staff of 8 programmers, support specialist and project managers.

- Developed product and pricing engine eliminating hand pricing of each loan request and distribution of daily rate sheets this reduced the number of pricing errors saving over $10,000 per month.- Developed intranet reporting site providing live reporting of pipelines and eliminating the weekly distribution of reports.- Developed interfaces to third party processors eliminating the re-keying of data between systems.