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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Led the strategic migration of over 100 legacy applications to the Databricks platform, enhancing analytics and AI capabilities using Python libraries and solutions from AWS and GCP; significantly reduced costs, with the platform now extensively utilized by over 150 analysts and 20 engineers for advanced analytics and data sharing.- Directed the overhaul of the engineering team by recruiting and retaining over a dozen data scientists, AI engineers, and data engineers, enhancing service… Show more - Led the strategic migration of over 100 legacy applications to the Databricks platform, enhancing analytics and AI capabilities using Python libraries and solutions from AWS and GCP; significantly reduced costs, with the platform now extensively utilized by over 150 analysts and 20 engineers for advanced analytics and data sharing.- Directed the overhaul of the engineering team by recruiting and retaining over a dozen data scientists, AI engineers, and data engineers, enhancing service quality for customer-facing analysts; significantly boosted team capabilities, evidenced by the production of numerous white papers and thought leadership contributions.- Spearheaded the development of a proprietary dataset encompassing the social mapping of over 400,000 healthcare providers, advocates, businesses, and media entities using a record linkage tool that incorporated Graph Matching Algorithms and the Fellegi-Sunter Model, along with multiple open-source AI libraries; achieved an F1 score above 0.65.- Personally developed and wrote proof of concepts for two advanced AI solutions: 1) an earned media analysis tool utilizing genAI for bulk article analysis, delivering sentiment, topic insights, and content summaries, and 2) a solution for video analysis providing transcripts, object recognition, and text extraction; both innovations significantly enhanced data analysis capabilities, reducing analysts' efforts by thousands of hours and enabling trend identification in healthcare-related social media.- Managed all cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, leading a strategic reduction of the existing footprint that resulted in annual cost savings of over $700,000; simultaneously expanded the use of cloud AI offerings. Show less

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Directed a 6-month program to implement the SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) across PepsiCo IT, establishing consistent agile processes for 18 teams distributed across 12 countries; the initiative provided executive-level insights into the activities of over 1,000 employees and 85 projects, enhancing organizational transparency and project management effectiveness.- Led the adoption of UiPath as the automation tool for PepsiCo's global financial reporting on derivatives, enhancing accuracy… Show more - Directed a 6-month program to implement the SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) across PepsiCo IT, establishing consistent agile processes for 18 teams distributed across 12 countries; the initiative provided executive-level insights into the activities of over 1,000 employees and 85 projects, enhancing organizational transparency and project management effectiveness.- Led the adoption of UiPath as the automation tool for PepsiCo's global financial reporting on derivatives, enhancing accuracy and reducing manual processing time from 40 hours to 4 hours, thereby streamlining efficiency and precision across financial operations.-Trained over 300 people in 12 countries on Secure Dev Ops best practices resulting in 95% compliance of internal certification process. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Led the engineering and architecture teams in 6 successful releases of a commercial SaaS application that provided RPA functionality to over 350 clients' financial ERP systems. Succeeded in delivering over 90% of planned Epics & Stories, delivered 50% code coverage in automated testing, and reduced defect backlog by 40%.- Established and staffed the Agile CoE, which implemented Scrum and SAFe®, resulting in semi-annual predictable software releases and automated reporting.- Led the… Show more - Led the engineering and architecture teams in 6 successful releases of a commercial SaaS application that provided RPA functionality to over 350 clients' financial ERP systems. Succeeded in delivering over 90% of planned Epics & Stories, delivered 50% code coverage in automated testing, and reduced defect backlog by 40%.- Established and staffed the Agile CoE, which implemented Scrum and SAFe®, resulting in semi-annual predictable software releases and automated reporting.- Led the architecture team to create standards for the technology stack including migrating from AngularJS to Angular 6, implementing C# as a standard replacing Java, and developing SQL standards.= Designed and implemented a comprehensive training program for new and recent college graduates, accelerating their development to become effective team contributors within four months of hire; successfully integrated 10 new hires through this innovative process.- Developed and implemented a new AI solution for financial record matching at large-scale institutions, utilizing advanced approximate string matching and Soundex algorithms to replace an outdated simple threshold-based method; successfully matched over 3 million records in less than an hour with an accuracy exceeding 99.7%. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Successfully led a large greenfield project, including staffing, creating technical design, and development of a global platform using Azure PaaS offerings to replace existing thick client application.- Implemented TDD processes to address the defect backlog and iteration defects, which reduced the number of defects placed into production by more than 50%, improving the overall experience for end users. Efforts resulted in an average of 2.3 defects per 1000 lines of code on new… Show more - Successfully led a large greenfield project, including staffing, creating technical design, and development of a global platform using Azure PaaS offerings to replace existing thick client application.- Implemented TDD processes to address the defect backlog and iteration defects, which reduced the number of defects placed into production by more than 50%, improving the overall experience for end users. Efforts resulted in an average of 2.3 defects per 1000 lines of code on new development.- Created a management training program for underrepresented groups that led to the identification and promotion of 5 new minority leaders in 6 months. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Led the development team that created an Enterprise Service Bus in Azure that connected over 12 applications and served as the backbone for a replacement service that accounted for 20% of global revenue.- Created canonical model that converted data from source applications via XML transformations to downstream systems while maintaining data integrity.- Created Mobile CoE and managed development of mobile applications including private Objective C iOS application integrated with cloud… Show more - Led the development team that created an Enterprise Service Bus in Azure that connected over 12 applications and served as the backbone for a replacement service that accounted for 20% of global revenue.- Created canonical model that converted data from source applications via XML transformations to downstream systems while maintaining data integrity.- Created Mobile CoE and managed development of mobile applications including private Objective C iOS application integrated with cloud services. Show less

United States

- Created Microsoft IT’s Project Management Office including implementing project management platform, creating documentation for project processes and reporting standards, and training project managers for a department with over $1 billion budget.- Served as solutions architect for implementation of demand management tool for Microsoft IT Solutions Delivery group.- Served as Microsoft’s Integration Program Manager for $8.5B acquisition of Skype and directly managed project to integrate… Show more - Created Microsoft IT’s Project Management Office including implementing project management platform, creating documentation for project processes and reporting standards, and training project managers for a department with over $1 billion budget.- Served as solutions architect for implementation of demand management tool for Microsoft IT Solutions Delivery group.- Served as Microsoft’s Integration Program Manager for $8.5B acquisition of Skype and directly managed project to integrate all back office and LOB applications between Skype and Microsoft that resulted in onboarding over 1200 new employees, deploying equipment in 5 countries, integrating networks, and acquisition of intellectual property.- Turned around Microsoft’s multi-year joint venture with Yahoo! project that had 6 months variance in schedule. The program was delivered on time per the contractual obligations. Show less