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Hamburg, Ny, Us

Hamburg, Ny, Us

Danbury, Ct, Us

As a member of the executive leadership team, I set the strategic direction and managed the delivery of essential technical services across infrastructure, data, engineering and operations.Led a team of directors, managing multiple on and offshore technology partners.Oversaw the technology budget.Delivered a strategic three-year plan to modernize the technology portfolio, reducing the application footprint from 60+ applications to foundational APIs and a set of core digital experiences.Streamlined team structure, increasing production engineering pods from four to eight and introducing new product and support intake practices through direct dialogue with go-to-market partners.Developed and implemented a talent development program, including recruiting, assessing, and growing junior talent, and created the "Year of Learning" for all Anywhere/Cartus technology employees.Drove the delivery of new infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, deploying two new web applications and new RESTful APIs delivered via the enterprise gateway.Directed a project to consolidate six major brand sites to a single, technical platform; evaluating business needs, vendor capabilities, introducing infrastructure and upskilling internal talent to support the initiative.Mentored four call center support representatives, teaching them Angular, Mongo, and API development, placing them as junior engineers with existing teams.

Madison, New Jersey, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Worked with a Fortune 100 company, directing an offshore development team reviewing code, introducing new development techniques and modernizing software delivery through agile techniques including devops and automated testing.Managed product backlog and coordinated daily stand-upsMentored development team by introducing coding practices, system design and modern delivery practicesMet with global business partners to understand application needs and elicit development prioritiesTechnical stack: .Net Core, ASP.Net MVC, Dapper, Web APIs, SQL Server

Orchard Park, New York, Us

Facilitated daily and weekly agile development meetings to resolve engineering questions and determine feature prioritization, scheduling and releasesWorked with marketing, sales, client support, operations, and engineering to promote features, documentation and establish direction of the productOrganized and refined software development lifecycle with the head of engineering to marry technology with product and company expectationsHeld direct discussions with clients to address needs, explain current features, and review proposed product enhancementsReviewed and aggregated metrics on software utilization, costs, and contractual feesTechnical Stack: C#/.Net Core, Azure (Web/SQL), Angular/Vue.js front-end, Web API Restful services, AWS elastic

Buffalo, New York, Us

Led the development and support of the platform that supported more than four million API calls per day delivering JSON results to various channels and consumers across the enterpriseIntroduced new product capabilities through RESTful services such as Person to Person Payments (Zelle) and Business Credit Card using .Net Web API frameworkPartnered with other technology teams to evaluate patterns and establish practices for API deliveryManaged local and remote staff, working on concurrent projects and delivery timelinesTechnical Stack: C#/.Net Framework, Web API, ASP.Net MVC, JQuery, Dapper, Layer 7/Broadcom API gateway

Buffalo, New York, Us

Upgraded the online banking production environment with no scheduled downtime, supporting more than 500,000 logins/dayWorked to architect and implement the delivery of native mobile applications, including working with systems engineering to establish new web and distributed caching infrastructureLed Digital Technology services team to develop and launch the first publicly exposed REST APIsAbstracted a point solution authentication provider to support multiple channels for both profile and access managementSupported the adoption of agile development practices, included be part of the first team within the bank tosuccessfully deliver using agile practicesTechnical stack: .Net Framework, ASP.Net MVC, JQuery, Dapper, Web Services, SQL Server

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Worked with Sales and Marketing to review technical aspects of sales proposals and define technical solutions, including the integration of third party vendorsDesigned and developed a knowledge base application using the ASP.Net MVC framework (C#) to manage frequently asked questions and responsesDelivered presentations to both internal and external audiences regarding systems and product offeringsWorked with the Product Management team and outside vendors to assess and determine fit of emerging products

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Designed and developed a complex financial management system that managed over $600M in assets for 120,000 individuals and delivered a new line of business to Meritain using Microsoft technologiesWorked with the business to validate use cases and storyboards for translation into working softwareAssessed emerging software requirements and managed release milestones as a lead communication channel between the development team and the internal software consumerCollaborated with Development Team to review and assess vendor solutions and emerging technologies for fit into the long term direction of the productTechnical Stack: ASP.Net, Linq to SQL, C#/.Net Framework, SQL Server

El Segundo, California, Us

Worked as the technical lead, communicating directly with the business, to assess emerging needs. Lead a core development team modifying code and introducing new technologies to support modernization of aging technology.

Reston, Va, Us

Oversaw the direction of the ActiveCampus suite of products, for the Datatel/LiquidMatrix companies.

Reston, Va, Us

Traveled to client institutions to assess needs, and determine technical fit of software with Enterprise systems.

Ny, Us

Worked with partner school districts to bring web content and publishing to their constituents.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Working within the Center for Applied Technologies in Education, I lead a team of developers, overseeing the creation of several large web based platforms, including the first K-12 learning portal for New York State; NYLearns.org.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Worked with internal business partners to update web properties, as well as build real-time sales reporting tools.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Us

Worked with professors and other school professionals to deliver online curriculum management software.