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Decatur, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Leading software teams in delivering value to stakeholders.

Kennesaw, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Promoted to Technical Lead (2006), Development Manager (2011), Senior Development Manager (2016), Director (2023)* Consistently recognized for superior delivery of critical software solutions exceeding client needs and business objectives.* Renowned for delivering world-class software solutions, from integrating industry-leading systems to ground-up creation of award-winning software.* Leads and manages several agile development teams, offers guidance, mentorship, coaching, and aids in goal setting. Efficient in resolving interpersonal issues.* Oversees and coordinates with near- and off-shore team members.* Responsible for mentoring and training interns, focusing on engaging and retaining diverse talent.* Works closely with the product development leadership team to improve processes, align expectations, and increase business value. Ensures that product development processes remain efficient and sustainable.* Aligns agile development teams with the organization’s ITSM goals and principles to deliver business value.* Maintains strong collaborative relationships with customers, users, stakeholders, internal partners, vendors, and the broader industry.* Handles supervisory duties such as timesheet approvals, leave management, and performance reviews.* Supplies technical direction, keeps the technical vision, prioritizes work, ensures team productivity, and removes impediments. Responsible for product delivery and setting the tone for the software team.* Functions as a principal developer and technical strategist, integrating with many software components and libraries to deliver large integrated enterprise systems.* Contributes to and leads architecture and development of diverse software service components and microservices ecosystem.

Mountain View, California, United States

On contract with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to enhance the consumer care support site.* Developed ATG Dynamo, HP-UX, Oracle, and Java solutions focusing on large data sets processing across multiple disconnected systems and APIs. Generated documentation, technical design, interface design, requirements analysis on own initiative.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Designed and implemented enterprise Java components, specializing in middleware and prototypical design.* Rewrote and reworked existing code and data models into maintainable, robust, object-oriented units that could be expanded without unknown side-effects. Specifically, worked on procurement-related business objects, including middleware and database tiers for BEA WebLogic Application Server and Oracle. * Implemented prototypical and experimental designs for illustration to rest of product team.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Built an effective Quality Assurance organization for helloNetwork and built a highly automated and responsive build process.* Promoted to Manager of both Quality Assurance and Quality Compliance Labs. Responsible for creating development and QA processes including code-review and coding standards, documentation review and standards, white-box testing, regression testing, version control implementation (using CVS), and final release candidate approval; included move to CMM Level 3.* Duties expanded to encompass Build Management as Chief Build Engineer. Developed and supported client-facing software builds (product releases) from source code and marketing materials. Enhanced existing processes including build automation, creation of build / deployment scripts, media creation and media delivery control, administration, and source control of build projects, branding and media layout, and internationalization of builds and any contained customer-facing components.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Developed ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic, Solaris, Oracle, and Java e-commerce solutions.* Worked on an EJB-based Java framework for common business objects, for example, Product, Order, Shipping Group, and Discount. Responsibilities included Java / EJB coding and deployment, database design, stored procedures, and documentation following a central design specification.* Designed, implemented, and deployed solutions for client e-commerce projects over five project /software development cycles. This included an implementation for BEA's sales force to highlight features of WebLogic Personalization and Commerce Servers. Generated mid-level design for entire implementation effort, including suggested development processes.* Generated design and architecture for projects and proposals. Performed debugging, unit testing, and software maintenance as needed on own code as part of development cycles, and the same on others' code as needed.* Interviewed and generated interview questions for new employees. Mentored other engineers and performed code reviews.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

As lead architect, built multi-threaded Java clients, servers, protocol, and infrastructure for real-time online currency trade.* Created complete and unique design for software suite including installer for applications using InstallShield for delivery on Web and on CD.* Wrote multi-threaded, real-time client and server. The clients and central server had many features, including real-time chat, Swing GUI applications, logging, data export and import, preferences, reporting, and internationalization. This implementation included complete functional documentation as well as proof of concept, test frameworks, demo applications, product support, and functional design specifications.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Designed, implemented, developed, and deployed a database-driven, browser-based Java real estate application suite.* Wrote applets that communicated with a central data store to dynamically load information and store results of user input. Various legal forms and documentation were generated from the stored data, which could be reviewed and edited on-demand.* Led design of product, including all testing and quality assurance.

Bs, Psychology

Bs, Computer Science