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Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

• Architect and sole developer for a coast-to-coast logistics startup that provides services for package shipment, tracking, exception management, service rating, and customer invoicing.
• Delivered concept-to-working service in less than 8 weeks
• Designed and implemented a micro-services, serverless architecture using Node.js, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS Postgres and AWS CloudFormation
• Constructed a custom CI/CD pipeline to automate rapid integration and testing for multiple micro-services across development, pre-production and production environments

Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

Experience-based freelance or contract-to-hire expertise, helping emerging companies build or apply information technology to solve complex business problems.

Orange County, California Area

• Full accountability for all aspects of technology related to global business information systems. Led the successful development and implementation of a broad range of IT services in support of company's continuing.
• Led a team of 35 IT professionals responsible for enterprise applications, systems and network infrastructure, end-user support, and information security for a $360M publicly traded corporation.
• Responsible for all aspects of IT management; enterprise business compliance & reporting, manufacturing execution support, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems; including, enterprise software development.
• Managed due diligence and integration of IT operations in support of three acquisitions.
• Provided IT architecture, development and testing to support adoption of outsourced managed services.
• Managed global IT infrastructure for enterprise office locations, managed hosting sites, and cloud-based IaaS.

Orange County, California Area

• Overall responsibilitity for the company’s global transaction processing platforms; including architecture, software development, production systems management, data integrity, and information security.
• Reponsible for delivery and maintenance of critical IT systems – both dedicated and cloud-based -- operating in over 36 countries with 99.99% availability.
• Developed platform and process enhancements that increased operational efficiency and profitability, raising transaction volumes over 15% per year.
• Created and implemented a comprehensive set of development, testing, and process methodologies to improve system quality and performance and to reduce time-to-market.
• Led integrations of the company’s systems with customer IT systems to meet contracted B2B requirements.
• Allocated and managed projects across internal and out-sourced IT development resources.

Orange County, California Area

• Managed customer engineering services and support for an SoC device start-up
• Established relationships with customer system architects to support knowledge transfer and device adoption

Greater Chicago Area

• Technology Development & Management
• Architect for VoIP signaling and control software

Orange County, California Area

• Technology development and delivery of a real-time, high-availability, prepaid billing platform for wireless networks
• Developed the system architecture for the wireless industry’s first commercial wireless prepaid billing platform OEM'd to Ericsson for sale to global carriers
• Managed internal and external software development for wireless network systems interfaces (e.g., ANSI-41, GSM, ISUP, etc.)

Greater Denver Area

• Organized and managed a $27M work program for platform and services technology development & commercialization in support of multiple business units
• Jointly developed program objectives with BU executives and acquired funding for internal and external R&D projects

Greater Chicago Area

• R&D management; Technology assessment
• Managed technical implementation of Advanced Intelligent Network systems and services

Northern New Jersey Area

• Communications R&D; Technology Management
• Bellcore Award of Excellence for "innovative technical leadership and contributions critical to the development of Broadband ISDN"

Greater Chicago Area

• Embedded systems hardware and software development
• Co-holder of key industry patents on ISDN technology
• Member of the team that created the first fault-tolerant microcomputer

Ms, Electrical Engineering (With Honors)

Bs, Electrical Engineering - Summa Cum Laude

The university was formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla or UMR.