Designed, developed and managed PlayAlongPiano.com which connects piano students to over 90K freely licensed songs to practice in their browser using a piano keyboard with interactive feedback and progress tracking.Developed and hosted entirely in the Microsoft Azure Cloud using scalable, cost effective, and high performance tools including SQL, Search, Redis caching, CDN, Cloud storage (blobs hot/cold, tables, queues), WebJobs, and fully automated deployments.

Engaged in multiple rounds of significant revision of the flagship CSP project and supported decision makers by providing context, historical requirements, and insight into stakeholders.Quickly adapted to PANW's internal development methodology and leveraged the existing tools, code base and practices.Took the initiative to add to team practices with TFS automated builds, unit testing, code coverage and ORM (Entity Framework).Engaged users across multiple departments to understand their business processes and balanced conflicting needs to successfully launch a new Personnel Administration Site.Quickly learned the new CSP framework to support a critical development effort and contributed a new header/footer template, build scripts and new administration pages in my first week.

Developed and managed high performance database driven ASP.NET web applications through the software development life cycle.Identified inefficiencies in a core business process and implemented automation solutions that reduced duplicate effort and mistakes and created substantial cost savings.Rebuilt and managed a team of six local and offshore developers from the ground up and coached junior developers in modern standards and practices.Took the initiative to improve team performance by researching and implementing development best practices and tools such as source control, automated builds and unit testing.Created a Microsoft Business Intelligence infrastructure for high performance reporting and analytics.Maintained and refactored over 60 legacy Microsoft web applications.

Re-architected a legacy commercial sales system while preserving continuity for users.Met with stakeholders, gathering and documenting requirements.Coordinated with developers, assigned goals and monitored progress.Managed the testing, training, deployment and support activities for the primary CRM system.

Redeveloped a custom CRM system for National City’s commercial sales officers.Worked with web systems through their complete product lifecycle from requirements gathering to design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance.

Managed a team of four developers building web applications for medium and large businesses in the areas of medicine, law enforcement, sales, finance and international shipping.Met with clients to analyze needs, defined development goals and oversaw projects through completion.

Managed the communications department including seven employees, and was responsible for more than doubling their warranty attachment rate through coaching and setting objectives.Excelled in commissioned sales and quickly distinguished myself as able to both exceed sales goals, as well as meet alternative management objectives.

Developed software systems to streamline business processes for a wide range of industries.