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Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

I support the talented Virtuosos in our Product Development/Engineering, Data Platform, Cloud Engineering, Security, Compliance, Program Management and Tech Support teams.

Providing a wide variety of technical consulting, software architecture design and development. Projects include:* Custom content management system implementation based on Umbraco for non-profit organizations.* Microsoft Content Management Server implementation for MSN Direct marketing website.* Custom .Net mapping control for GIS system used to measure and display radio frequency metrics for public safety communications.* Built a suite of 15 watch faces for MSN Direct watches utilizing the .Net Micro framework.* Custom .Net software licensing library utilizing digital signatures and WCF services to provide license activation, roaming, and machine validation.

Woodinville, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Leading engineering teams chartered with reducing engineering redundancy, increasing service resiliency and improving engineer productivity across Nordstrom’s 200+ engineering teams. Directing DevOps engineering teams through agile development cycles with $12M+ budget ownership.* Leader in organization-wide engineering community, contributing to engineering standards, design reviews, talent reviews, community development and engineering strategy.* Define and execute the Enterprise Authentication strategy, bringing 150+ applications behind Nordstrom SSO, including successful Workday launch to over 75,000 employees. Implemented enterprise MFA for employee authentication. Reduced number of employee identity stores from 9 to 1.* Architecting and building Nordstrom’s traffic management system, providing a platform for secure, authenticated, and observable service to service interactions that supports our BCDR strategy.* Led development of Consumer Authentication services, increasing Nordstrom’s consumer facing security posture. Delivered MFA solution, defined strategy and architecture for next-generation authentication service.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Built and led Product Management team for Engineering Core organization, leading the organization through two successful annual strategy and planning cycles. Engineering Core is chartered with Infrastructure Engineering, Engineering Platform, Workforce Enablement and Technology Support Services.* Built Product Management team from ground up, defining organization strategy, recruiting and retaining talent, implementing processes and KPIs.* Worked with organizational peers to define and deliver product roadmaps supporting portfolio of 30+ internal products across 20 engineering teams.* Led several large-scale vendor evaluations, including enterprise authentication/identity and GSuite/O365.

Woodinville, Wa, Us

Playing a key role in the development of products for a startup at the intersection of the Internet of Things and Big Data that makes smart connected products for comfort system optimization, with responsibility for the product management, software development and ongoing operations of the infrastructure that is heavily cloud focused.* Transforming a prototype product to provide precision control and optimize chilled water systems into an operational, customer-centric product that is scalable and easily deployed to any customer.* Leveraging data collected in the cloud from HVAC systems and performing detailed analysis and machine learning.* Leading teams of software, electrical and mechanical engineers and product managers developing highly available, large scale systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS).* Making major contributions to growing the business as a member of the company-wide leadership team by developing a high-performance culture, attracting talent and collaborating with sales and marketing to successfully launch products.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

As Chief Architect, I helped define and build InfoSpace's next platform, products and processes. I architected and led the successful move of InfoSpace's search platform to AWS, migrating our entire search product to AWS in four months. Launched the InfoSpace tech blog (http://tech.infospace.com) and am leading several efforts to evangelize InfoSpace as a technology leader. I also built InfoSpace Labs, an internal team for innovation and quick experimentation of new products, features and processes. I co-presented at AWS re:Invent 2013 on High Availability with ELB and Route 53.

New York, New York, Us

Lead architect for the publishing platform. My work at msnbc over six years was of increasing responsibility and leadership, culminating in a complete rearchitecture of msnbc’s content management system. Our content management system is high scale, highly available publishing software that enables delivery of 2.5+B page views/month to over 120M unique users. Strong experience architecting object-oriented software systems that integrate with differing platforms.

New York, New York, Us

Led the Publishing Platform team through several strategic product cycles. Part of internal group exploring the creation of a new publishing platform SAAS business at msnbc.Focused on delivery of high scale, highly available publishing software that enables delivery of 2.5+B page views/month to over 120M unique users. Managed 13 direct and 10 indirect professionals at 4 locations with a $2.5M operating budget. Reporting to Vice President, Technology.

New York, New York, Us

Group Manager for growing team of software engineers, testers and program managers. Set strategic vision and crafted design and implementation plans for the next version of msnbc.com's publishing platform.

New York, New York, Us

Manager for highly talented group of engineers, testers and program managers responsible for the publishing platform of msnbc.com. During my time in this position, we built the engine to drive msnbc.com's online elections systems.

New York, New York, Us

Developer Lead for Publishing Platform team, tasked with developing and maintaining publishing platform for online news site supporting over 1 billion page views per month. Responsible for full software lifecycle, with primary responsibility around software quality. Organized series of team meetings to refocus efforts and redefine team charter and goals. Collaborate closely with other business groups, architect technical solutions, design highly scalable and resilient systems, and provide oversight of the development process.

New York, Ny, Us

Technical Architect for .NET web applications. Projects focused on providing content management strategies for global Fortune 500 corporations. Responsible for full software lifecycle, with primary responsibility around project quality. Provided project and development team management for team of seven cross-group technical resources. Work closely with clients to gather and define requirements, document specifications, architect technical solutions, and provide oversight of the development process. Provided mentoring for junior staff members. Responsible for goal setting, providing focus and prioritization for project team. Successfully provided analysis of customer requirements and project dependencies, resource management, and project schedule and milestone tracking. Successful record delivering projects on schedule and on budget.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Application Developer working on in-house and vendor developed systems. Projects included modifications to existing Stock applications, batch processes, data exchange and designing new system processes. Member of fast-paced development team with emphasis on security, accessibility, and reliability.

Database Administrator/Developer on the Xbox Web Platform Leads team developing custom solutions for content authoring and management for Xbox.com, an international website serving over 4 million unique visitors per month in 27 localized languages. Work closely with program management, test, operations, design and marketing teams, as well as cross-product groups such as Xbox Live, MSN, SOC, Commerce Server, and Content Management Server, to gather requirements, design, architect, debug and implement software systems. Assumed Team Lead role during development cycle, significantly improving team throughput by matching team members with tasks aligned with skill sets. Participate in code reviews for peer developers and mentor other team members in new technologies.Projects included:* Lead architect for redesigning the Xbox Web Platform into a .NET-based extendable platform. Lead developer for infrastructure, database, CMS and Commerce Server functionality.* Architected, developed and customized a new online community for Xbox.com. Wrote and debugged C# code based on the ASP.NET framework.* Lead architect for the Xbox Web Platform Build and Release process.

Rapid City, Sd, Us

Responsible for full software project development lifecycles, network design and administration, and systems engineering. Customer facing role included customer requirements definition, functional and technical specifications, project estimation and scheduling, and resource management. Served as design consultant to sales team. Projects included :* Development Team Lead for .NET-based ecommerce application.* Design and developed a distributed .NET-based application for a geographically dispersed manufacturing corporation.* Active Directory migration strategy/implementation for 6,500+ user network.

As a Senior Technical Consultant, I was responsible for designing technical solutions for our client's business needs. Primary project was an online asset management system utilizing XML and XSLT to generate HTML markup.

Santa Fe, Us

Technical lead for the State of New Mexico Accounting Information Management System, a Visual FoxPro application used by 100+ state agencies to manage accounting information, including budgets, encumberances, and expenses.

Designed, developed, and marketed FoxBase/FoxPro/Visual FoxPro small- to mid-sized business accounting software. Expanded the product to include medical front office functionality. Built custom ecommerce websites using Visual FoxPro ISAPI components.