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Plano, Tx, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

● Direct a team of up to 30 onshore and offshore developers, quality control resources, business analysts, and project managers in the development and design of web applications supporting Bank of America’s enterprise data management program, with responsibility for delivery of applications supporting hundreds of users across more than 40 lines of business● Delivered consistent, high-quality releases in a Scrum Agile environment, with responsibility for establishing the team’s culture, mentoring and growing development and QC resources, and managing stakeholder relationships to ensure consistent execution of more than 100 total sprints● Advocated for and implemented the use of testing and regression automation across four projects, using test automation engineers as primary quality control● Managed the two-year design and deployment of internal data incident management web applications to prioritize and remediate incidents used in every line of business enterprise-wide, driving risk assessment and funding prioritization for data management challenges● Provided Agile training to development teams division-wide in consultation with partner teams across the enterprise, driving significant improvement in stakeholder relationships and improved projects’ time to market

Charlotte, Nc, Us

● Served as principal architect and developer on an internal Infrastructure as a Service platform used by hundreds of teams in the global markets and research technology line of business● Oversaw the implementation of Scrum Agile across a ten-member matrix team from two organizations with weekly iterations

Charlotte, Nc, Us

● Provided comprehensive architecture oversight during the transition of Countrywide Financial’s technology into the Bank of America infrastructure following its acquisition, with responsibility for providing technical expertise on all aspects of the transition and providing collaboration between key resources in both organizations● Leveraged relationships built over nine years at Countrywide to facilitate a forum for transition architects to present, discuss, and resolve complex architecture challenges, including integration timelines and obstacles in technology transitions● Delivered a comprehensive architecture diagram of hundreds of applications and thousands of integrations across 14 functional areas, providing a road map for architects and senior executives during the transition

Charlotte, Nc, Us

● Served as architect of the corporate-wide enterprise architecture program, with responsibility for managing relationships with other internal line of business architects, stakeholders, and primary vendors for enterprise software with an enterprise architecture focus● Launched an enterprise-wide software reuse program, including creation of reuse metrics, maturity models, program documentation, and an online reuse catalog using JRuby on Rails, saving more than 80,000 hours of work across all software departments through reuse of existing assets during FY2007● Assisted the CTO with resolution of a severity 1 defect having significant impact on the ability to originate loans across all branches, working with lead technologies to isolate, identify, and remediate a defect caused by a single line of code in branch-to-server communication logic breaking when scaled to thousands of servers and millions of transactions● Consulted on enterprise-wide single sign-on failures impacting customers’ ability to log in, working with lead developers and hardware/network engineers to isolate, identify, and stabilize the infrastructure, significantly minimizing customer impact while vendors developed a fix

● Managed the development team and served as primary architect for a .NET/C# mortgage origination application that originated loans for two large U.K. banks, with responsibility for oversight of 35 developers, analysts, and quality control personnel ● Led the architecture and development effort of centralized enterprise services for the company’s eBusiness division, with responsibility for deploying the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system in Java (still currently in production within Bank of America)