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Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Building a world class Site Reliability Engineering team to support modernization & resiliency improvements for GEICO's Digital Experiences, including Customer & Agent facing applications.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Led a modernization effort to adopt serverless cloud computing technology on AWS for Capital One's flagship mobile application infrastructure using Fargate & Lambda. Successfully delivered the migration ahead of schedule, with no downtime for customers, reducing cloud costs by 70%, saving millions of dollars in operational costs annually.- Designed, implemented and successfully delivered on a long term strategic vision to integrate Capital One's Mobile app with in person cash transactions, building innovative features like ATM withdrawals with a mobile app and adding cash to your account at CVS/Walgreens.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Grew and led a world class software engineering team of ATM subject matter experts that successfully replatformed Capital One's ATM fleet to a modernized software platform, doubling the frequency of software releases and improving the cyber security posture.- Successfully led migration to the Cloud (AWS) for the mobile check deposit infrastructure & Teller platforms, including modernization to microservices architecture to support Capital One's 'All In on the public cloud' imperative.

Washington, Dc, Us

* Mentor & manage 7 full stack software development teams in developing new data intensive websites & B2B products, ranging from the world famous Best College Rankings to Best Countries. * Spearheaded a major 18 months+ responsive design initiative to completely redesign all US News sites to be mobile friendly.* Oversee teams implementing a complete overhaul of the Education data collection, database warehouse & rankings program legacy infrastructure to improve efficiency and streamline time to market for new products. * Provide technical architecture guidance to the team and streamline & improve internal development processes.* Improve collaboration between business, product, design & technology teams

Washington, Dc, Us

Manage, mentor and support a growing software development team. Work with project teams to create web applications and implement content management systems for clients. Evangelize open source tools such as Ruby on Rails and content management systems to clients and developers. Support business development team with preparing proposals and presentations to close new business.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Manage, mentor and support a growing software development team. Head up product development teams for inhouse software products designed to support the project implementation team. Project lead and founder of BrowserCMS, the #2 Ruby based CMS.Build web applications and content management system implementation for our clients on multiple platforms and technologies including Rails, Java, PHP, Wordpress, and Drupal. Provide sales engineering support including client presentations and needs analysis/estimates.

Intelligence officer for Field Artillery Brigade HQ holding a Top Secret clearance.

Led a web development team building Java/J2EE Web Portal for a numerical analysis firm. Build and designed Java/Swing applets for data analysis and charting software. Introduced and advocated for agile development methodologies including Extreme Programming and CRC design techniques.Wrote more XML parsing code than any reasonable person aught to.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Oversaw daily operations and managed a team of 15+ soldiers and non-commissioned officers operating in intense and unpredictable environments. Organized and led training exercises to prepare for both combat and peacekeeping operations.