As CTO for Kinectify, I lead the technology strategy, architecture, and delivery of the next evolution in Anti Money Laundering technology. We have assembled a team of industry experts and top-tier developers to produce a software solution that is intuitive, powerful, and secure.

Technology Leadership: - Responsible for leading and growing the Engineering and DevOps team at Rubbl. - Established technology and delivery best practices, ensuring scalable architectures and technologies are delivered - Collaborated with peers to continuously improve the development and delivery processes at Rubbl - Provided counsel and guidance on technology and infrastructure - Partnered with Chief Architect to establish the strategic vision for Rubbl TechnologyTechnology Mentorship: - Established an engineering culture that values innovation, performance, security, and quality - Responsible for training and mentorship of Engineers at Rubbl. Tactical and Strategic Planning: - Regularly evaluate team composition to improve efficiency and effectiveness, hold team accountable for commitments and constantly facilitate higher velocity and quality - Lead Software Engineering Department annual operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources - Responsible for administering Rubbl's Cloud environment, meeting cloud spending goals, and selecting appropriate cloud services -Advised the executive management team current and emerging technologies and their impact on the businessAccomplishments: - Delivered horizontally and vertically scalable serverless cloud infrastructure - Secured funding of 15% of annual cloud spend by researching and leveraging partnership programs - Seamlessly embedded near-shore (Monterrey Mx) and off-shore (India) resources into our engineering team - Developed robust quality assurance program that resulted in consistent and stable delivery to our production environment with no dedicated quality team members - Designed and delivered automated CI/CD pipeline completing more than 2000 deployments over 2 years - Implemented coding best practices with gateways and triggers resulting in a failed build rate of <10%

As a Staff Software Engineer Manager at Mitek, I am responsible for the scrum team delivering Mitek's flagship software to the largest financial institutions in the world. I have maintained my role as the technical lead on the team, but have additional leadership responsibilities at Mitek as well. These include collaboration with leaders across the organization to align product development across Mitek, professional leadership and mentorship for team members, leadership of Mitek's internship program, and more. I view my management role as a servant leader and facilitator, making it easier for team members to deliver high-quality software. In addition to my technical duties outlined in my previous role, my management responsibilities include:- Daily management and professional mentorship of my scrum team- Leadership of Mitek's internship program including 5 graduate and undergraduate interns placed across Mitek's engineering organization- Professional growth of team members and career guidance- Performance evaluation and resourcing

As Lead Software Engineer for Payments, I lead a development team of 6 software engineers and quality engineers responsible for delivering Mitek's flagship, multi-million dollar software to the largest banks and financial institutions in America. I am responsible for the technical vision and direction of the team, the implementation of development, quality, and security standards, and the delivery process. My team is compromised of both onshore and near-shore resources and I manage the relationship with our contracting partners as well. Responsibilities include:- Technical expertise, vision, and leadership for the team- Growth of Scrum development practices- Design and architecture for an application used by millions of people per year- Introduction of new technologies and patterns- Introduction and leadership for new delivery methodologies including containerization- Design and architecture of greenfield projects in support of Mitek's flagship software- Both cloud and on-premise software design- Work closely with both support and customer success to ensure our software continues to meet our enterprise customer's needs- Responsible for the on-time delivery of enterprise financial services software

As the lead software engineer for the Identity Business Unit, I was responsible for designing and implementing Mitek's new SaaS Identity Platform. I led a team of 5-8 software engineers building a highly-available, horizontally scalable, service oriented application leverage several platform as a service technologies from AWS. Technologies included:- AWS RDS, EC2, Cloudtrail, RabbitMQ, ASP.NET 4.6.x with WebAPI, Topshelf Windows Services, MongoDB, OAuth v2 with custom token providersDuties included:- Cloud-first SaaS architecture following SOA design patterns- Led geographically distributed team of up to 8 software developers and testers- Advanced the team's Scrum/Agile practices- Implemented a daily code review process and other quality standards- Worked with cloudops team members to deliver an automated CI/CD delivery pipeline

MCWebPros is a cloud-first Software Engineering and Web Development consulting company. We specialize in assisting small to medium sized companies implement off-premise, scalable, professionally architected and developed solutions.As the Owner and Chief Developer, I am responsible for customer acquisition, requirements gathering and analysis, system architecture, implementation, testing, and more. I work closely with our customers to design and implement information systems that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and allow the customer to focus their business on their core competencies.

The Solution Architect team was created to unify architecture, development, and quality practices at Bridgepoint Education. This is accomplished through the use of a standard development process/pipeline including Solution Architecture review and design on all development work. In addition the team is responsible for developing and enforcing standards to be used on all development and quality efforts. Finally, the team assists development and quality teams to ensure consistent practices are followed and to provide mentorship for team members to grow.The Solution Architect role includes: • Solution Design and Review - Solution Architects assist the Business Analysts in determining the requirements for a solution, its impact, and risk. They generate system specifications for the development team to use, and also provide initial estimates. • Assist in Development of Solutions - The Solution Architect may create proofs of concept, mock up part of the application, or otherwise write code to assist the development team. • Mentor and Train Developers and QA - The Solution Architecture team runs the Technical Architecture Center of Excellence, guiding software development standards and practices. They assist development leads in improving their systems application maturity, and assist QA engineers in developing automated testing solutions. • Develop and Enforce Standards and Patterns - The Solution Architects are responsible for ensuring the application that is delivered meets the design and requirements specifications they created. They lead the COE, defining standards and development practices for the organization, and mentor developers and QA engineers to ensure they understand and use the defined patterns and standards.

As the Lead Software Developer for Employee-Facing systems, I lead a team of 3 developers responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and migrating all of Bridgepoint's employee-facing custom software solutions, a portfolio of more than 60 applications. By implementing Scrum, my team has been able to increase output and work visibility to our customers. In addition, as a voting member of the Technical Architecture Center of Excellence for Bridgepoint, I am responsible for helping standardize and direct the software development processes at Bridgepoint. This includes voting on vendor/3rd-party software to implement, defining patterns and development standards, and creating custom templates integrating Bridgepoint standards and features like a custom IoC Container, extensions to the Enterprise Logging Library, and Custom Authentication and Role providers in ASP.NET MVC4/5. I look forward to continuing to grow with Bridgepoint, helping to mature their employee-facing systems, and assisting my developers in growing and advancing their careers.

As a senior developer with Bridgepoint, I was responsible for managing the complete application lifecycle of applications assigned to me. This included solution architecture, requirements elicitation, unit/functional/integration testing, break/fix and bug resolution, and more. In addition, I assisted junior developers with solution architecture and design, and I spearheaded the migration of legacy applications from the LAMP stack to a SOA platform based on WCF.

I develop the company's proprietary intranet application. Some tools I have brought to the application include a Customer Relationship Management module with reporting, web services (REST and SOAP), and JQuery (including additional libraries like date.js, fullcalendar, and more).