Responsible for technology choices and solution success in an environment that requires consulting, product development, and elastic cloud hosted solutions (SaaS). Manages and guides all engineering efforts for software development and technology advancement. With a strong focus on constant improvement to the Virteom culture, Phil focuses on individual growth of his employees and aligning the business vision & direction to match the larger group's vision.As an architect, Phil zooms in and zooms out to see the detail and the big picture align. Phil works with clients and prospects to build innovative, ground-breaking solutions. Finally, Phil is also responsible for all IT infrastructure and software decisions within the organization. Running, implementing, and aligning systems that increase security, reliability, and responsiveness for the organization.

Owns and manages the balance of quality factors (non-functional requirements) and functional requirements of the business. Ensures that teams thrive through the proper guidelines, constrains, and practices. Manages an architectural group to keep uniformity and direction for all lines of business. Works with stakeholders to ensure the P/PC balance is appropriate, strategic, and intentional. Manages other innovation efforts (Innovation days, R&D teams, PC time, etc.).Owns and manages efforts to measure/understand current state and strategize on future state.Manages coaching program and trains on best-practices, leadership, and mentoring. Leads efforts in:- Maintainability- Operability- Robustness- Scalability- Usability- Availability- Software Design- Supportability- Performance- Quality- Security

Ensure all teams are predictably shipping useful and well-constructed software. This is achieved by constantly focusing on two things: growing everyone's technical skills and growing team dynamics. As a coach, I am responsible for teaching and balancing: Business Value, Mentoring, Testing, Design, Patterns and Best Practices, Style, Languages and Tools, Problem Solving, and Troubleshooting.With the goal of improving productivity, quality, and technical direction, this role is devoted to instruction, research, governance, and propagation of applied software engineering.- Assistance and coaching in: Estimating / course correcting / client interaction / post mortems (Assistance with client/account interaction)- Coaching / assisting on technical issues- Researching, learning, and prototyping- Formal teaching and documentation- Performing and facilitating in code & design reviews, process improvement, and SDLC

Responsibilities carried over from Intuit Sr. Software Engineer position. In addition, I am a technical leader; making technical decisions, driving technical direction and disseminating technical knowledge to software engineers. Finally, making architectural decisions and helping the business see the progress and direction of the development effort.

Working with a cutting-edge software stack, which includes WPF, WCF, nHibernate, Spring.Net and more. Developed many framework components that are needed by the whole development team. Contribute as a engineer and as a mentor for other engineers. Establish good software practices and instill quality in a extremely large suite of products. All new development is done in C# 3.5. This is a suite of enterprise software for multiple markets, currently involving real estate.

Engineering systems of both hardware and software to provide "end-to-end" business solutions. Currently working on security products and services, web 2.0 frameworks and advance algorithms and libraries for enterprise use.In my secondary role, as company CEO, I provide leadership and act as a mentor for my employees. Manage roles of the CFO and maintenance of processes and By-Laws. I work with the stakeholders to come up with viable and integral solutions.

Developing .NET web applicaitons in C#, VB.NET, and PHP. Utilizing .NET, BizTalk, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft Commerce Server. Designed and maintained sites receiving millions of dollars in daily revenue. Worked with reporting services and crystal to produce real-time reporting for e-commerce and for a educational LMS system.

Assisted clients with networking, software security, and provding software and hardware solutions designed to enhance security. Offered system cracking and analysis services to fortify clients.

Worked in an environment that was shifting from mainframe to client-server. As an intrinsically-motivated individual, working hard to learn and develop my abilities in new development areas. I introduced code-reviews and shared my knowledge with other engineers. I developed my craft and practiced standards for design and implementation (UML & design patterns). During this time, I worked on challenging new solutions that introduced .NET 1.1 to the department.Our management had a focus on Agile, and this was my first exposure to it. Along the way of instilling Agile in the workplace many mistakes and successes were encountered, strengthening my understanding for the principles and philosophies that follow.