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• Lead a team of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers using agile project management with Scrum in Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Responsible for the hiring and management of the team including yearly performance reviews
• Responsible for research, design, and planning of new features such as the implementation of OpenID Connect with Azure
• Lead code reviews to increase overall code quality and to provide learning opportunities to junior members of the team
• Regularly give guidance and assistance to team members
• Significantly improved the performance and reliability of our customer facing WCF SOAP based API for mobile clients

Carlsbad, California, United States

• Major participant in the estimation, design and planning of new features
• Significantly improved the performance and reliability of our customer facing WCF SOAP based API for mobile clients
• Enhanced the Angular 12 application to interact with USB scanners using SignalR
• Enhanced the storage of images to use SQL Server partitioning to improve performance and provide easier management of the image storage
• Major participant in code reviews to increase overall code quality and to provide learning opportunities to junior members of the team

Carlsbad, California

• Acted as Principal Architect to design new features and applications
• Built an Angular application that enabled merchants to deposit checks
• Created a RESTful API using WebAPI to support a rewrite of our flagship check processing application
• Refactored the data access layer from ADO.NET to Entity Framework 6.0 with a focus on testability and performance
• Used NServiceBus to handle asynchronous high-volume transactions
• Converted legacy code to modern object-oriented code backed by unit testing

Valencia, California

• Chief system architect for custom built distributed fleet systems using SQL Server replication and integrating corporate systems with cloud based solutions
• Supervise a team of three programmers and one BA including hiring and evaluation
• Primary contributor for data cataloging system in the Fleet HR system which is used as a foundation for management and dashboard reporting company wide
• Analyze business requirements and work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to create and implement robust and failure tolerant custom solutions
• Review program design, code, train and provide guidance to junior colleagues
• Participated in developer committee to identify problems, discuss solutions and implement changes to our SDLC process

Valencia, California

• Design and develop complex custom applications, databases and services in.NET and SQL Server for global HR and payroll systems that improved the efficiency of ship scheduling operations, multicounty payroll.
• Main contributor for shipboard component of the Fleet Payroll system in.NET and SQL Server that handled distributed transactions
• Utilized business intelligence reporting to create key operational, financial, and analytic reporting for hotel operations and fleet recruiting
• Key programmer for the custom fleet-wide gratuity and database system
• Major contributor for the company’s conversion to SOX compliance for our fleet HR, Payroll and Payment card systems
• Created high volume SOAP Web services using WCF for booking and ticketing

Valencia, California

• Primary support for the distributed Fleet HR system
• Engineered a.NET API for the vendor created HR system
• Re-wrote a number of custom built VBA and VB6 solutions in.NET
• Deconstructed and analyzed vendor based Fleet HR system to troubleshoot and diagnose long standing issues that were unresolved by the team and the vendor
• Primary programmer for the PCI compliant Pay Card system which utilized payment terminals and interfaced with payment processing providers
• Assistant programmer to the Onboard version of the gratuity system converted from the existing Excel template based process

Moorpark, California

• Developed custom applications for medical industry clients in Visual Basic 6.0 and.NET.
• Developed custom Transact-SQL scripts
• Provided consulting services on the use of custom applications and scripts
• Participated in project scoping and design meetings with clients
• Developed several custom applications that were sold commercially to several clients
• Resolved client database problems

Woodland Hills, CA

• Assisted with build and release management in Rational Clear Case
• Documented processes to support SOX implementation