Served in a high-profile leadership position to produce consistent standardized software products on behalf of this integrated payments provider that was acquired in 2017 by JPMorgan Chase in a deal valued at $400 Million.Highlighted Responsibilities & Accomplishments:- Engineered career development ecosystem for software engineers, an effort that improved retention and provided internal growth opportunities.-- Defined IC career ladder and promotions for apprentice to distinguished software engineer.-- Mentored and sponsored promotions for staff engineers, senior staff engineers, principal engineers, engineering managers, senior engineering managers, and directors of engineering.-- Developed engineering programs for apprenticeship, rotational development, and internal and external mentorship.- Established and served as owner of technical practices that transformed a single application architecture into a containerized microservice continuous delivery system accommodating 20,000x annual transaction volume.- Built and maintained hiring, interviewing, and training practices that enabled a 2x growth rate for 4 consecutive years and 30x total organizational growth in 6 years.- Designed financial reconciliation system which satisfied reporting requirements necessary to execute acquisition by a regulated bank and is positioned to accommodate 100x annual transaction volume.- Led integration of software engineering and cultural practices with JPMorgan Chase to redesign career development, talent management, employee experience, compensation architecture and recruiting for tens of thousands of software engineers.

Founded company to remunerate media content creators by leveraging online consumer activity. Defined business objectives and translated business objectives into technology vision. Drove development roadmap and created architectural infrastructure. Implemented initial product that validated and demonstrated core technologies.Highlighted Responsibilities & Accomplishments:- Designed and implemented core cross-platform technologies in C++, PHP and MySQL.- Secured funding and presented technologies to investors and business partners.- Invented and awarded patent for distributed network technology.- Developed PHP interface for AWS.

Managed off-shore development team to build core software product. Provided software development and training to clients including PepsiCo, WellPoint Health Systems, CalPERS, FedEx, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, and Southwest Airlines.Highlighted Responsibilities & Accomplishments:- Authored technical documentation and coursework for software development and test methodologies.- Reengineered test center at CalPERS increasing productivity by 5x.- Created platform at PepsiCo to test proprietary handheld inventory tracking hardware using TestQuest, TestDirector, WinRunner, and QTP/QC.- Migrated WinRunner TSL Testing Framework IP to C libraries reducing maintenance while increasing performance and portability.

Automated analysis of nucleotide sequences resulting in a 100x productivity gain.

Advised CID on computer security and cryptography. Maintained computer systems, security, and software.