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• Personify Health - formerly Virgin Pulse part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group - is a healthcare and wellness platform that prevents employee health issues by supporting employees along their day to day health journeys and offering incentives for positive health behaviors. This is done via personal coaching and via a iOS/Android/Web app that leverages fitness devices (e.g. Fitbit). • Platform is built on AWS and leverages several features including Aurora PostgreSQL, EC2, S3, SNS/SQS, etc. It also leverages Salesforce Health Cloud as CRM for health data, Kafka/Kstreams for streaming data, Cloudflare for CDN, New Relic for run-time observability, Harness for CI/CD, Gitlab for GitOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Liquibase/Flyway for DB, etc. • Manage software engineering teams of 25+ engineers and quality testers in 5+ locations. • Teams federated all person data to a “person-centric data model” via one consistent set of APIs/Kafka streams and store person data in Salesforce Healthcloud CRM for coaching. • Built a medical claims billing system based on X12 Insurance and HL7/FHIR for billing Virgin Pulse services • Process/analyze medical insurance claims data to identify gaps in healthcare, make recommendations for closing gaps, and reward for closing gaps, • Engineered iOS/Android native mobile apps and Angular Web UI that implement the front-end for Members to manage care gaps and the business for managing business logic. • In addition to managing my engineering teams, I identify and drive forward improvements to organization/process/technologies such as: ◦ Created a re-usable rules platform that allows business users to control business logic from a web UI ◦ Spearheaded CI/CD process improvements resulting in faster feature turn-around and fewer deployment issues ◦ Scaled Agile Framework/SAFe adoption ◦ Drove adoption of SonarQube static code analysis to improve code quality

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Manage a software engineering team that built the next-generation U.S. Bank digital banking experience while transforming to agile methodology.Responsible for building iOS and Android native mobile application frameworks and server-side capabilities including:- Identity and access management- Anti-fraud capabilities- REST APIs interfacing with internal server-side systems and external facing managed via Apigee API management- Common components including caching, secrets management, audit logging, error handling, etc.- CI/CD processes and automation to ensure application quality- Transforming org to agile Scrum

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed a team of 20 software engineers that built modernized merchandise space planning and presentation tools built on react/redux and SVG.Improved software release success rate and improved quality of critical services via an automated approach to quality management where critical sets of microservices and their environments are built, spun-up, and verified as a whole which is especially valuable when microservices and environments are undergoing massive change at a fast pace.Increased interactivity with Target via voice-activated Google Home/Amazon Alexa interface. E.g. “OK Google, ask Target to ship paper towels to my home.” “Alexa, ask Target for Edina store hours.Open-source technology stack includes Java, SpringBoot, REST API, PostgreSQL, React/Redux, Github, Kubernetes, Linux, Drone CI/CD and using Agile Scrum.

Toronto, On, Ca

Thomson-Reuters does data center on a massive scale with over 150,000 endpoints located across the globe. My development group uses big data technologies to solve big data center problems and implements systems that improve company performance overall. Examples: Software licensing system, simplified technology ordering system, service/asset management API, infrastructure provisioning and automation enabling tools.Built a successful software development organization by consolidating 20+ team members from disparate development teams into one high-performing team that develops strategic Thomson-Reuters software applications in a large, complex business environment. Implemented a SDLC based on agile methodologies to manage development effort. Responsible for personnel decisions, budgets (personnel and infrastructure), providing leadership on multiple, simultaneous development efforts and ensuring quality software systems delivered to customer satisfaction.Multiple development technologies used including Java, MS development tools, C/C++, continuous integration, source code control, etc. Applications include: private cloud/infrastructure provisioning, data center management systems, internal ordering, asset/software management, service/asset management, server performance, storage reporting, demand forecasting, data center consolidation, network configuration.

Toronto, On, Ca

There are 100+ Judicial Development Group (JDG) applications, and software releases have the potential to disrupt a $500 million+ per year revenue stream. Given this backdrop, built a successful release and implementation management team and function that achieved the goals of ensuring infrastructure systems were ready when needed and software releases were governed, planned, and executed smoothly.

Toronto, On, Ca

Worked with internal customers to understand and prioritize their business needs. Given these priorities, work with developers to define detailed system requirements, tasks, resources, scope, schedule, dependencies, priorities, risks in order to meet project and content processing needs in a given time frame. Develop project plans and regularly report project risks, issues, and status to management.Successfully project managed development of the JDG portion of the Litigator product, which generates $100+ million in revenue annually.

Toronto, On, Ca

Lead development team that modernized a large, business-critical metadata management system (metadata repository, service layer, legacy system data feeds, user interface). Defined the system architecture and communicated to management and technical staff. Developed using emerging internet-based technologies including Java, JSP, Tomcat, Oracle, and implemented on Linux web servers.Managed development team including performance reviews, mentoring, and 1-1s.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Work with internal customers to define business needs and requirements for rules-based three-tier client/server systems. Manage customer expectations and needs regarding system development, implementation, and support. Determine impact of customer and corporate requirements on other systems (e.g. claims processing) and work with appropriate teams to define and implement system changes. Led team of software engineers and system testers to analyze, design, develop, test, implement, and support system enhancements. Systems include Benefits Administration, Drug Categorization, Drug Administration, and Eligibility and were developed in PowerBuilder, C, Aix, DB2, and Entera middleware.

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