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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Manage 2 teams of 10+ Software and Quality Engineers responsible for enterprise integrations and backend operations; modernized systems and processes, empowering teams and enabling them to deliver projects in a.
• Collaborated with Product Management to launch a new enterprise feature allowing customers to export data at scale; expected revenue is estimated at ~$56M annually.
• Established trackable quality metrics aligned with the customer experience and processes to collect and report on them allowing the organization to improve overall quality for the platform area.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Oversee 7 development managers and 14 development teams working primarily on content ingestion, enrichment and analysis across all Cision products - totaling over $10 million in budget and covering over $400 million in.
• Oversaw efforts to consolidate 14 different integration systems into 1 that met the needs of all Cision products saving ~$3M in vendor fees and increasing the reliability and scalability of systems.
• Transitioned an $80M product to a stable, long-term support structure by integrating it more tightly into wider company support network.
• Performed due diligence to support the successful acquisition of a government relations product and led the development team in the process of separating it from the product portfolio.
• Influenced senior leaders to disengage efforts to upgrade a major component of MyGorkana with no clear value to the company, saving millions of dollars and reducing risk given the age of the product.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Hired additional headcount to support 8 products generating $400M in annual revenue; currently managing 4 development managers responsible for 50+ development and quality assurance engineers
• Integrated teams from acquired companies into a unified product development organization with standardized processes, tools, and communication methods across all phases of the SDLC
• Collaborated with customer support to develop/implement new, unified processes to empower front line support staff significantly minimizing disruptions to development teams and improving customer satisfaction

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Manage 36 developers in 5 countries supporting the company’s flagship product generating $250M in revenue annually
• Oversee the SDLC for 7 Agile teams including continuous integration/continuous deployment, unit testing, full automated test suites and production releases every 2 weeks with no down time
• Work with the CTO & VP of Software Engineering to develop product roadmaps and advocate for the alignment of resources to support goals and timelines
• Re-organized teams to support organizational growth aligning individuals with products and teams that matched their skill set and work style; recruited, hired, and trained new developers to fill new roles
• Advocated and gained approval for the creation of 2 new positions, creating a defined career path within the organization leading to the retention of high performers in a competitive market

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Acted as technical lead and Scrum Master, working with product management to plan and execute day-to-day activities of the team
• Led a team of developers and QA engineers in the redevelopment of Cision’s main platform using C#, SQL Server, AngularJS and WebAPI; launched the application 12 months ahead of schedule
• Improved email delivery from 50% - 90% and speed from several hours to minutes; oversaw fault tolerant design, guided developers through implementation, and coached product managers through the migration
• Streamlined the customer provisioning process allowing for feature customizations with no code changes; eliminated system failures and reduced risk

Burlington, NC, US

• Oversaw the adoption of Scrum processes; improved project planning and increased awareness of priorities and schedules
• Led a team of 4.NET developers in the analysis, design, development, and support of a redesigned policy management system that reduced timelines from 4 days to 8 hours; migrated data from the previous system with no.
• Re-built the company website using AngularJS and WebAPI 2.0 to allow customer payments through the web; online payments now account for 80% of revenue

Burlington, North Carolina, US

• Work on a team of 4 developers to redesign and develop a specimen management system that is used by over 2000 users enterprise wide.
• Redesign the system to use the object oriented features of Visual Basic 6 and to normalize the Sybase database.
• Designed and developed supporting applications in C++, Java and C#.
• Work closely with database administrators to keep reference data updated on 15 databases spread over the entire U.S.

• Work as a consultant for a variety of different clients, primarily as a lead developer and database administrator.
• Analyze, design and develop e-commerce websites for both start-up companies and established large businesses.
• Lead developer and database administrator on e-commerce websites for Gooey Industries, Concrete Brokers and Maritz Marketing using Active Server Pages, IIS and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Lead developer on business intelligence projects for Digital Atoms, GSI Architects and Lexmark using Visual Basic 6, COM, DCOM, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Microsoft Access.

Cleveland, Ohio, US