Sales Experience IT - Leading development of Salesforce and Conga solutions for CPQ and Contract Lifecycle Management along with development of data integrations between Salesforce and the other major systems at NetJets.

As Senior Manager of Application Technology at CAS, I partner with C-level and senior leadership to create growth plans for global scientific information, research, big data management, and analysis solutions. I administer a $10M+ annual budget and lead 40 direct reports overseeing up to 10 geographically distributed technical teams and a workforce of over 100 personnel in multiple concurrent product development life cycles. I spearhead content technology development, prioritize evolving and emerging requirements, and create and drive product roadmaps in Agile continual deployment environment for core and ancillary products. I manage risk and capacity planning, assure platform stability, performance, and brand consistency, and track success metrics to ensure quality across product lines.Key highlights of the value I have brought to CAS includes the following:• Optimized data architecture performance; leveraged MarkLogic connector to Hadoop, combined large datasets into single data hub comprised of hundreds of server-nodes, designed and developed Data Lake architecture.• Maintained operational integrity of content pipelines supplying structured information to multiple products and services.• Provided program-level strategic and tactical leadership for development and operations of four mission critical web applications generating $100M+ in revenue annually.• Saved $1M+ in license costs by researching and implementing open-source software solutions, to include NiFi, Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop.• Reduced annual operating expenses $50K with vended software solution.• Directed recruitment efforts of internship program for 16 engineering students every summer.• Introduced Agile best practices and methodologies into engineering process and facilitated adoption enterprise-wide; coached product owners, managers, and technical leads.

As Director of Software Development at MindLeaders, I devised the strategic vision for the design, development, and deployment of scalable e-learning platforms and courseware. I determined market viability, architectural feasibility, and technology stacks. I attracted top talent, built and led teams of requirements analysts, software developers, quality assurance engineers, architects, and managers. I wrote user stories and use cases, prioritized feature development, and created product roadmaps, and managed product delivery processes, supporting operational, and technical services.• Designed 3-Tier web application architecture modularizing user interfaces, business logic, and data storage for learning management system and customer transactions.• Delivered architecture design guidance that achieved annual uptime above 99.97%.• Implemented Agile engineering best practices, continuous integration and deployment, short iterations, and automated unit testing to deliver relevant, valuable software.