I lead our Foundational Platforms group which encompasses the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Authentication and Authorization teams as well as the GraphQL Platform team.

Led 30+ SDMs, SDEs, SQEs, and support engineers to deliver multiple product lines used by Walmart Stores, Google, Kroger, and other large retailers. Reported to the CEO of Volt who also owned Premium Retail Services. He asked me to join Volt Systems to lead engineering instead of joining Acosta. We were acquired by Walmart a year after I joined.● Responsible for company technology strategy and product roadmaps.● Built a product management organization based on design thinking principles and introduced formalized processes for new product ideation, commercial analysis, market analysis, and partnership evaluation and negotiation.● Ideated, built, marketed, and delivered an interactive omnichannel engagement platform which is in production at Walmart and Google powering 20,000+ customer engagements per month● Enhanced and supported vendor management and identity products used by 475,000 users at Walmart and major CPG companies.● Sourced and managed multiple contractor relationships for software development and marketing.● Implemented engineering practices and standards to increase development velocity, improve quality of code, be more responsive to customers needs, and create a culture of engineering excellence.● Modernized legacy products by designing and implementing a new event driven architecture utilizing microservices running on kubernetes with Azure SQL and CosmosDB data stores.

Integrated data and analytics platforms from Premier Concepts into PRS. Expanded engineering and product teams to enable the company to provide analytics across additional retailers. ● Created and implemented company technology strategy and software product roadmaps.● Responsible for flagship supply chain, forecasting, and replenishment software products which consumed and evaluated over 1B data points each day to create next best actions.● Built and led multiple software, infrastructure, devops, and support teams.● Represented technology organization through multiple due diligence rounds and legal proceedings.● Architected and delivered solutions built on Microsoft Azure utilizing C# and a variety of PaaS offerings.

Built a product engineering organization within an existing retail merchandising company. Created additional revenue streams and product lines while recognizing a significant increase in labor efficiency through the use of mobile and web applications. Established software engineering organization within the company. We were acquired by Premium Retail Services.● Created and implemented company technology strategy and software product plans.● Founded a software engineering organization to deliver new software products.● Collaborated with other leaders to create a data warehousing and analytics platform that consumed and evaluated over 1 billion points of data each day to create actionable insights and the next best action at retail stores.● Led the creation of supply chain and replenishment optimization software used by 300+ consumer packaged goods companies at the world’s largest retailers.● Developed and supported a distributed workforce management platform used by 1000’s of users.● Built and led multiple software, infrastructure, DevOps, and support teams.● Represented technology organization through multiple due diligence rounds and legal proceedings.● Architected and delivered solutions built on Microsoft Azure utilizing C# and a variety of PaaS offerings.

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Snowflake, HTML, jQuery, Cordova ● Led a feature team to deliver new functionality and resolve defects on the flagship product.● Established formal testing and feature request processes● Created patterns and standards for software development teams to drive efficiency and code quality.● Implemented CI/CD processes which increased deployment confidence and safety.● Improved architecture and performance by separating analytical and transactional data into distinct domains and stores.

● Participated in software design and architecture reviews.● Enhanced quality assurance process by building automated testing software.● Created documentation and development standards.

● Founded and led development team building software using C#, SQL, and Adobe Flex.● Created GIS-based real estate mass appraisal and tax collection software for county governments.● Implemented three real estate appraisal techniques allowed by the state of Missouri.● Built data migration and conversion tools to reduce implementation complexity while ensuring 100% accuracy.● Served as technical support, implementation coordinator, and account executive for 27 counties.● Primary contact for Missouri State Tax Commission to ensure adherence to all rules and regulations.● Represented the company in all technical sales conversations, trade shows, and regulatory sessions.● Built, presented, and supported all training materials and customer onboarding efforts.

● Participated in full software development life cycle including design, implementation, testing, and defect resolution utilizing C++.● Served as engineering representative on-site at hospitals during implementation cycles.● Created tools to assist in testing by reducing required effort.● Built technical documentation and implementation plans.