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Lehi, UT, US

Provo, UT, US

• Modernizing legacy systems and processes using Azure, Azure DevOps,.NET, and AI/ML.
• Managing cross-functional teams of software architects, engineers, and QA to deliver IoT solutions.
• Leading DevOps adoption to achieve a 40% increase in reliability and a 50% boost in organizational performance.

Highland, Utah, US

• Integrated AR, AI, and ML features into IValidCard, ranked in Apple's App Store's top 50 paid financial applications.
• Optimized product strategy, performance metrics, marketing, product support, and budgeting, ensuring 100% profitability.
• Migrated IGarden to a SaaS subscription model powered by AWS Amplify, AppSync, Cognito, Pinpoint, GraphQL, and DynamoDB serverless technologies to grow ARR by 300%.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Achieved an 85% NPS while managing managers, architects, software engineers, and quality assurance (QA) teams.
• Standardized C#,.NET Core, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, and Docker technologies, lowering development costs by 20%.
• Led a message-driven microservice backend effort using Kafka, Couchbase, and DynamoDB, boosting scalability by 125%.
• Chaired weekly architecture review board L10 meetings to establish REST API and AWS microservices architecture standards.
• Scaled engineering by 700% in 14 months, improving software development life cycle (SDLC) efficiency using the EOS framework.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Spearheaded a single-sign-on (SSO) security solution with AWS Cognito, supporting SAML, OAuth2, and OIDC integration.
• Managed 3 managers, 2 mobile, 2 full-stack, and 1 architecture team, tracking KPIs and aligning resources with product OKRs.
• Developed a data-driven career advancement and succession strategy for engineering, streamlining the hiring process by 30%.
• Devised mobile-first strategy, collaborating closely with the new product management team while coaching and mentoring engineering managers.
• Coordinated adoption of SonarQube SAST tool across frontend and backend CI/CD pipelines, decreasing security vulnerabilities and improving code quality by 35%.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Streamlined code reviews, quality, and reliability through mentoring and feedback, resulting in a 45% decrease in defects.
• Pivoted mobile technology from Ionic to Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose, raising application performance by 40%.
• Established coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD, tooling, and EOS engineering processes, cutting release times by 70%.
• Led product strategy and roadmap through customer engagement and helped build new product leadership after the previous team's dissolution.
• Hired and grew Android and iOS agile development teams by 1100% while establishing a mobile-first product strategy, resulting in a 4.8/5 rating on Apple's App Store.

Highland, Utah, US

• Completed a SaaS cloud migration from GCP to AWS, trimming operational costs by 15%.
• Built nanosoft1.com using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and jQuery, showcasing mobile apps and boosting revenue by 20%.
• Migrated iOS apps from Objective-C to Swift and SwiftUI and Android apps from Java to Kotlin, JetPack Compose, SQLite, and Room, cutting maintenance costs by 40%.

Lehi, UT, US

• Developed a DevSecOps mindset across the organization, resulting in a 60% improvement in DORA metrics.
• Guided weekly Architecture Review Boards, resolving technical challenges and cutting critical issue resolution time by 28%.
• Architected a cloud-native microservices architecture with Java, Spring Boot, and MySQL, achieving 60% greater maintainability.
• Directed an enterprise cloud migration effort as the product owner and chief architect from AWS to a private cloud, slashing operational costs by 25%.
• Managed 5 cloud and QA engineers to build PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and IaC cloud infrastructure with Docker, Linux, Jenkins, Python, and SaltStack, resulting in a 50% increase in deployment efficiency.

Lehi, UT, US

• Spearheaded NIST Cybersecurity industry standards, CVE, and OWASP reporting, mitigating top security issues.
• Architected a Big Data Analytics system with Java, Spark, Hadoop, and ElasticSearch, processing 2 TB+ data daily.
• Expedited a company-wide quality initiative, boosting unit test coverage from 6% to 80% and slashing defects by 70%.

• Collaborated with the design team to create a video streaming app in Objective-C, boosting UI/UX customer experience by 20%.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Designed and implemented an AWS event-driven backend service to synchronize database records with the world’s largest genealogical systems.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Produced a B2B mobile security SaaS using J2EE and REST to integrate with top MDM vendors while creating mobile security agents for Android and iOS, lowering customer security threats by 35%.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Authored a RESTful API platform using Java, Spring, Tomcat, XML, JSON, SQL, and Oracle to integrate third-party partners used by 1.28 billion global customers.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Trained agile R&D teams in Java, J2EE, C/C++, SQL, web services, database design, data modeling, distributed systems design, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), vendor management and.

Lehi, UT, US

• Implemented automated unit tests, enhancing code quality and quality control measures.
• Enhanced property estimating SaaS in J2EE, Oracle, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, streamlining the estimation process, increasing accuracy, and reducing estimation time by 15%.

Gained experience at small technology startups specializing in banking, e-commerce, and credit card payment gateways across various technologies, including J2EE, Java,.NET, C#, WinForms, Microsoft SQL Server, OpenSSL, Crypto++, C++, STL, SOAP, WSDL, IIS, and SQL stored procedures.

Provo, UT, US

• Promoted open-source software by highlighting its cost-to-benefit advantage in achieving business objectives.
• Ported the Apache Web Server to NetWare, played a pivotal role in developing its first multi-threaded version, and made valuable contributions to the Apache Software Foundation's open-source software ecosystem.

Weybridge, Surrey, GB

• Engineered Windows GroupWise office software using C, C++, and Win32 APIs, demonstrating expertise in software development for the Windows platform.
• Developed InForms electronic forms software for Solaris, UNIX, X-Windows, Motif, and Microsoft Windows, using Assembler, C, Objective-C, and C++, showcasing proficiency across multiple programming languages and.