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Clearwater, Florida, United States

Responsible for the architecture and design of various solutions across the enterprise, specifically in the pay central (payroll and employee) domains. Responsibilities included developing the high-level systems and architecture artifacts and developing integration requirements. Technical Environment: C#, .net core 6, Sql Server, Azure

Founder and principal architect of a startup consulting firm offering end-to-end technology solutions to solving critical business challenges for our clients. Major responsibilities include the development of all architecture artifacts (diagrams and design documents) and the management of all development resources. Major projects include: Monolithic API Transformation – Led the design and architecture effort that migrated a set of legacy (monolithic asp.net core web API) web services to a set of microservices hosted in Azure Kubernetes, utilizing .NET Core 6 and Azure PaaS Services (Cosmos DB, Cognitive Vision, Azure SQL, and Azure Service Bus) Web Admin & Analytics Dashboard – Led the design and architecture effort of a minimal web admin designed to allow users to approve web content updates, utilizing Angular 11 and asp.net core web api services Technical Environment: Angular, Typescript, Firebase functions, ASP.net Core, Service Oriented Architecture, Azure, Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Typescript, Azure Kubernetes Services

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for designing and overseeing the development of a suite of microservices utilized to transform/map insurance and medical data to other input payloads. Other responsibilities included participation in the .NET development community of excellence, focusing on microservice architecture and development practices.Technical Environment: C#, .net core 6, Sql Server, Kafka, Azure (AKS)

Responsible for designing and overseeing an Azure Function Proof of Concept as part of a cloud migration project with a team of 3 senior developers. Other responsibilities included participation in the cloud readiness program, focusing on Azure architecture and development practices. Technical Environment: Azure, Azure Advisor, Application Services, Azure Functions, Application Insights

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for the design and infrastructure architecture, including design artifacts, of various cloud based (Azure) solutions. Other major projects include the optimization of the Azure landscape with a specific focus on cost optimization, security and reliability considerations, and the consolidation of over 25 discrete Azure subscriptions into a central enterprise owned subscription. Technical Environment: Azure, Azure Advisor, Application Services, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure SQL, Application Insights

Chicago

Responsible for the architecture and design of various solutions across the enterprise, specifically in the master data and quality domains. Responsibilities included developing the high-level systems and architecture artifacts, developing integration requirements, and development task management. Major projects include: Enterprise Product Recall – Led the design and architecture effort that digitalized a set of legacy manual processes that controlled the product recall procedure via a set of asp.net core 3.1 microservices and an angular 8 front-end customer-facing portal. Regulatory Controls for Content – Architected and developed a proof of concept and set of microservices that digitalized a set of legacy manual processes that control asset regulation and utilization. The proof of concept was developed utilizing asp.net core 3.1 microservices and several angular customer-facing fronts ends. Technical Environment: Angular, Typescript, ASP.net Core, Service Oriented Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Services, and Cloud Services

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Founder and principal architect of a small consulting firm offering end-to-end technology solutions to solving critical business challenges for our clients; significant responsibilities include developing all architecture artifacts (diagrams and design documents) and managing all development resources. Often lead small teams of up to six developers and was responsible for all phases of project and code management (code reviews and release management). Confident Kitchen / RecipeSavants – Acted as the principal architect and primary developer of a small recipe & meal planning startup. Major projects included: * .net Core Modernization Effort - Designed and developed all aspects of the application, including Service Layer, Data Access, Presentation, and Azure Web Jobs & Functions. * Azure Cloud Enablement - Drove the cloud modernization effort migrating the application legacy on-premise hosted solution, to a modern Kubernetes hosted solution, utilizing Asp.net Core, Redis, Cosmos, Azure Storage, and Service Bus. Fidelity Life Association – Architected, designed, and led development and tech modernization efforts. Responsibilities included developing high-level systems and architecture artifacts, technical requirements, and task management development. Technical responsibilities included code review. Major projects included: * Enterprise Single Sign-on Solution – Designed and implemented a custom security solution to allow both users and services to be authenticated and authorized for specific claims and activities. * Application Intake Queue Processor – Lead a development effort to allow for the automatic processing of insurance applications to ready to print policy pages. * MVC Modernization – Designed and architected a set of best practices and standards for ASP.net MVC & Core development patterns targeted toward legacy Webforms developers.

Greater Chicago Area

Designed, developed, maintained and insured quality and consistency of several key internal and external interfaces that powered CDW.com and CDW’s partners including:* Partner Services – architected, designed, and lead a team of developers (3) that implemented a suite of partner services designed to allow for ease of B2B integration between CDW and its partners (primarily Xerox and Spiceworks)* MVC Modernization – assisted the larger ecommerce team develop a common framework for MVC implementation and best practices , while developing, designing and architecting a unified LOB application that merged two disparate Asp.net Webform 2.x code bases

Greater Chicago Area

Projects Include:● 1stSource Servall - Led an analysis and architecture effort to redesign a critical LOB application to a completely custom .net platform. The technical environment of the solution consisted of WebApi2, MVC4, Sitefinity, Infor Sx.e ERP.● Strike, Inc. – Led an analysis and code review effort. Working with a lead business analyst, provided the client feedback and recommendations on how to improve the stability of their current mission critical LOB application. Also provided recommendations for future development efforts/enhancements.● Jones Lang LaSalle – Led an effort to architect and develop an analytical modeling tool designed for forecasting future real estate need and costs; utilizing ASP.net MVC4, Web API 2.0 and KendoUI data visualization components.● Pierce and Associates, LLP – Architected and designed a proof of concept application utilizing WebApi, MVC4 and SharePoint Application Models.● Sidley Austin, LLP - Architected, designed and led an effort to automate Exchange2010 mailboxes, utilizing XML and WCF services.● NEC Display, Inc. – Led an effort to implement ongoing maintenance releases and new functionality to an existing Asp.net E-commerce web application.● GTCR – Led an effort to architect and port an existing PHP application to a windows service.● Internal Windows8 App Development Group – Led an internal development initiative to grow Windows8 development / QA skills● Internal Cross Mobile App Development – Led an internal development initiative to grow Android & iOS development / QA skills utilizing cross platform frameworks.● Internal ASP.net MVC & TDD Process – Spearheaded an internal initiative to develop an ASP.net MVC and lean development client offering.Technical Environment: Windows Azure, Windows Azure Mobile Services, Windows8, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server 2010, Service Oriented Architecture, WCF, ASP.net & ASP.net MVC, Commerce Server 2009

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed & developed both the architecture and code base for mission critical business information systems for internal and external clients. Performed as the interface between clients and the user communities, and as such had to translate user demands into feasible technical requirements. Besides architecture and development tasks, often acted as a Team Lead (Scrum Master). Projects Include:Buddy Networks (June 2010 – June 2012) -- Architected and developed a comprehensive common API (via WCF Services and Windows Azure) for a series of cloud based social networking communities. Designed and developed all aspects of the application including: Service Layer, Data Access and Presentation. Also led a small team of two developers, responsible for all phases of project and code management (code reviews and release management).Cubik Media (February 2012 – May 2012) -- Architected and designed a business intelligence / business-to-business portal including service framework, data access and presentation layers. Also, developed a comprehensive project roadmap / designed to drive projects to a timely completion.Cylogy, Inc. (October 2011 – December 2011) – Architected, designed and lead an effort to integrate Oracle ERP with a custom warehousing information system, utilizing XML and WCF services.Rent Cycle (June 2011 – August 2011) – Architected and developed a custom coupon solution for a Cloud Based (Azure) start up.SALT Branding (October 2010 – April 2011) – Architected, designed and developed a branding education and asset management portal for a large textile/chemical firm. Lead and participated in both the service (business and SharePoint workflow and repository) and front-end MVC development efforts.Wentworth Solutions (July 2009 – February 2010) -- Developed a common CMS API for a set of 50 independent apartment communities, utilizing WCF services and ASP.net Web Forms.

Provided consulting and architecture services for small to medium sized enterprises in the DC / NOVA area primarily focused on the federal sector. Specialized in SOA (ASMX Web Services,WCF), Business and Data Layers (C#, ORM, LINQ, SQL Server) and ASP.net (Webforms and MVC) and Classic Asp

Re-architected and developed a mission critical work flow application for the FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission); utilizing leading edge Microsoft technologies (LINQ, WCF, SQL Server, ASP.NET 2.0, Framework 3.5) to implement a suite of services, providing regulatory and business validation. Also lead a small team (4 persons) of junior/mid-level developers, providing daily guidance and direction. Worked closely with the software architect and process architect to insure solid enterprise development standards where both implemented and enforced, while a new software development process (SCRUM) was being developed.

As the principal consultant of a small consulting firm, utilized various programming languages to meet the specific technical needs of the client. Primarily developed and implemented large-scale complex database driven e-commerce, business-processing websites; made extensive use of Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.NET and C#, SQL Server and Stored Procedures.Also, responsible for the development of sound project plans including scope documents, statements of work, data models, class/object models and detailed business and user analysis documents. Often, functioned in the position of lead or senior developer, and assisted more junior programmers. And as such often led teams ranging from 5 – 25 developers.