Director of Engineering with over twelve years experience in all aspects of software development. Expert knowledge of web technologies, system architectures, and development methodologies. Especially skilled at leading development teams in architecting, designing, developing and maintaining scalable high volume web applications in an agile environment. Have a comprehensive command of programming techniques, OO design, algorithms, data structures and design patterns. Proven ability to effectively motivate, communicate, and work with persons from all walks of life. Demonstrates talent and passion for good software engineering and the self-drive, self-motivation, flexible, and work ethic necessary to excel.Selected Skills and Accomplishments• Served in high profile engineering leadership roles, bearing responsibly for highly visible, highly trafficked, revenue generating consumer and eCommerce web applications - Fox.com and Oakwood.com.• Implemented agile development practices at Oakwood Worldwide leading to a 17% improvement in projects delivered during my first year.• Skilled at developing enterprise scale service oriented architectures (SOA) and at championing their adoption.• Achieved 40% time and 60% cost reduction in show website development at Fox by implementing a consolidated code base, forming a platform from which all future sites were built.• Lead analysis, implementation and customization of a photo CMS for fox.com resulting in a 25% improvement in photo management productivity• Experience with enterprise service bus architecture and implementation.• Re-architected oakwood.com for availability and as a result saved tens of thousands of leads during dependent system outage over the subsequent year