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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

● Coached best practices in software engineering, enabling better outcomes for business partners andcustomers by fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.● Led DevOps transformations across engineering divisions, optimizing software delivery performance and building high-performance teams through streamlined processes and innovative solutions.● Directed the Dev Maturity practice by creating and delivering an Engineering Practices survey across 37 development teams, partnering with scrum masters, agile coaches, and tech leads to drive improvements.● Developed and maintained a prioritized backlog to address survey outcomes, ensuring focused and strategic improvements were implemented to enhance engineering practices.● Collaborated with enterprise architecture and development teams to establish enterprise patterns,implementing survey findings to standardize and elevate engineering practices across the organization.● Partnered with Development Managers and Product Owners to allocate capacity for teams to work onidentified focus areas, driving targeted improvements and fostering engineering excellence.

Teaneck, Us

● Leveraged expert-level proficiency in technology stacks including C#, .NET Framework, SQL Server,JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Azure DevOps, ADF, Distributed Systems, Multi-threading, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, and Object-Oriented Programming to build robust, enduring software solutions.● Served as Associate Principal Consultant, Technical Lead, Developer, Architect, Mentor, and Coach,providing visionary technical leadership and fostering a collaborative, innovative work environment.● Architected and developed high-quality software for some of the world’s leading companies, ensuring rapid time-to-market through agile methodologies and effective collaboration with clients.● Mentored and coached development teams in best practices, technical excellence, and modern engineering principles, significantly enhancing team performance and project outcomes.● Drove the adoption of advanced web development practices, including RESTful services and React, todeliver cutting-edge digital products with superior user experiences.● Championed agile methodologies, including Scrum, to streamline development processes, improvecommunication and leadership within teams, and deliver high-quality software solutions efficiently.

San Francisco, California, Us

● Developed a deep understanding of each client's business, products, mission, and values to deliver rich, visually compelling websites using robust web technologies in collaboration with design and engineering teams.● Created detailed Drupal Development plans during the sales and marketing process, forming the basis of proposals for Drupal web development and providing in-depth technical walkthroughs to address client concerns.● Led strategic direction and tactical operations for Chapter Three, ensuring the company’s continued success and growth in the Drupal marketplace by coordinating with management on financial well-being and operational health.● Delivered clients' envisioned sites within budget, fostering long-lasting partnerships, and ensuring smooth day-to-day business operations through practical guidance and mentoring of management staff.● Recruited renowned Drupal developers and designers, resulting in a 15% growth of the company andenhancing its reputation in the industry.● Launched a successful Drupal product targeting the Higher Education marketplace, contributing to a 10% revenue growth ($1.1MM) and increased profitability of the Consulting Division.

San Francisco, California, Us

● Built custom software and solutions for clients in San Francisco using .NET, SharePoint, and Drupal,including Document Management Systems, Intranet portals, and automated Commercial PropertyManagement business processes.● Implemented complex financial workflows incorporating AS/400 data integrations, data pipelines, ETL,and scheduled jobs, ensuring seamless and efficient financial operations.● Developed and launched SFCityDish.com (now owned by Yelp), engineered a reusable advertising platform and web-based user community CMS (similar to Groupon) for local businesses, leveraging an open-source technology stack (Drupal, PHP, MySQL on Apache and Linux).● Architected .NET and SharePoint solutions at application and system infrastructure levels, demonstrating expertise with Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP, SQL, XML, Web Services, Workflow, Silverlight, and WCF RIA Services.● Modeled complex financial processes into SharePoint custom workflows written in C# and ASP.NET,customizing SharePoint content types with inheritance, and integrating document information panels into Word, Excel, and other Office applications.● Designed logical and system architectures, created functional design documents, information architecture, security roles, and disaster recovery plans based on business requirements, delivered governance documents with information management and retention policies, and provided guidance and training for SharePoint deployment, configuration, and maintenance.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

● Architecturally responsible for diverse projects including ECM frameworks, LOB applications, public Web Apps, Web Services, and XML industry standards creation and compliance.● Created, reviewed, and approved design artifacts and technical documentation at component, system, and enterprise levels, incorporating risk measurement and trade-off analysis using UML for consistent communication.● Established and implemented development practices such as revision control, continuous integration, RUP, and other SDLC methodologies, along with change control management to enhance predictability within internal engineering staff and offshore consultants.● Managed the end-to-end architecture of solutions, ensuring the design and runtime characteristics of the primary OLTP transaction engine met user interface design, RPC-style SOAP services, SOA, OO interface design, and non-functional requirements (scalability, reusability, reliability).● Assisted with project management, business analysis, and product management, leading technical sessions to keep the team updated on evolving technologies and acted as a consultant and third-level support across all application areas.● Redesigned the primary transactional system, including the rules engine and pricing engine, and migrated inflexible EDI mainframe systems to a flexible Unix-based (CrossWorlds) scalable framework.

Copenhagen, Denmark, Dk

● Represented PMI in the Mortgage Industry standards body, promoting the adoption of modern standards and interfaces to encourage community cooperation, commoditization of products, and lower system costs for the industry.

● Led a team through two full product release cycles in a high-energy CRM startup, managing the localization of a web application in five languages and meeting stakeholder requirements for quality and functionality.● Managed Allegis eBusiness Suite, defining, designing, and ensuring quality and timely delivery of the project while effectively delegating tasks and mentoring a team of six engineers.● Directed SalesLogix system integrations and feature extensions for clients across various industries, recognized for handling complex requirements with specialties in scalability, reliability, and custom module development.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Led our software team through eight product releases (2 Web, 6 Client/Server). Developed architecture of the flagship Web product, written in Delphi, C++, C#, and Java. Utilized: COM & DCOM, XML, ISAPI, MSMQ, NT Services, Win32 API, multi-threaded & thread-safe programming, ADO, VB, VBA, ASP, MTS & COM+. Developed an understanding of how to build international software (understanding internationalization and localization issues). Designed & developed major "box-top" features, with emphasis placed on scalability & reliability improvements (e.g. server-based asynchronous Mail Merge, MQ synchronization, ADO connection pooling), while leading team of 8 developers.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Led SalesLogix system integrations and feature extensions for case study clients across various industries including IBM, NYSE, DoubleClick.com, Watlow Electric, infoUSA, Frost & Sullivan, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Pulte (Del Webb) Homes, and MicroWarehouse. Recognized as the go-to engineer for projects with complex requirements with specialties in scalability, reliability and custom module development. Directed a team of 9 system engineers, responsible for gross annual revenue of $3M (30% of group revenue, 5% of company revenue).

San Francisco, California, Us

Designed and developed a Java-based web application and early-Internet community portal. Including components for authentication, role-based authorization, database interactions, user surveys, data collection, user profiles, marketing campaigns, and dynamic (data-driven) web pages. Supported a real-time monitoring software (C++) platform for the environmental controls of 20 federal government buildings. (note: concurrent with Computer Science studies)

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Integral part of a software start-up team, contributing to each area of the development cycle; drafting design specifications, writing C++ foundation classes (SGML parser, Windows event handler, etc.), editing user manuals, building a context-sensitive help engine, and directing testing efforts. Developed the GUI for a multi-platform text search and retrieval engine, running on Windows, DOS, Unix and Mac. Written using C++, Rogue Wave DBlib, and XVT (a cross-platform development kit).(note: worked concurrent to full-time Computer Science undergrad; pre-acquisition name is Kinetic Technologies/Acuent)

Washington, Dc, Us

Developed a neural network application for an automated countermine defense system. Training the neural network involved machine learning of hundreds of EM map data points provided by an overhead scanner with a priori mine location information in various configurations. 95% detection rates achieved with an 85% confidence level with few false positives, so the system was widely adopted and is currently employed in the military. Written in C++, C, and LISA for Unix. Ported components of the program to a parallel-processing machine, achieved 10-fold increase in performance. Presented paper on findings at Army Engineering Industry seminar.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Assisted people with health conditions or impairments such as quadriplegia become computer users leveraging DragonDictate speech recognition software.(Dragon Systems, Inc was acquired by Nuance)

Stanford Center For Professional Development, Computer Science

B.Sc., Computer Science

High School Diploma, Computer Science