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Frisco, Texas, United States

Frisco, Tx

Leading Ellucian Technology Governance which provides comprehensive oversight and guidance of all technologies used within Ellucian products to ensure alignment with our technology strategy. Also leading cross-functional team to establish standards, best practices, and guidance for all product teams that enable continued maturity of products for a Cloud-First solution platform.

Frisco, Tx

Managed multiple teams comprising 65 people across product development & engineering teams to drive and sustain the Banner Product suite, including Banner General, Banner General Self-Service, Banner Architecture, Banner Communication Management, Ellucian Solution Manager, Banner Data Defense, and Banner Release Engineering Services.

Frisco, Tx

Managed a global team that provides full software life-cycle development and support for the Texas Connection Consortium, a group of over 40 Texas public universities and community colleges serving over 500,000 students that are Ellucian clients running the Banner Enterprise software suite. This team manages all the customizations to Banner software needed to support Texas institutions and comply with Texas regulations.

Frisco, Tx

Provided architectural oversight for several product initiatives and led delivery teams in developing solutions for Consulting Services and Product Development organizations.Key Achievements:Led the creation of a comprehensive development guide that covered all aspects of the development processes for the re-engineering of the Banner platform to a multi-tier Grails/Groovy application framework. The guide contains over 200 pages of content and was critical in training developers and establishing programming standards and patterns. Banner Flexible Registration - Provided architectural guidance and development of a web application using Adobe Flex, Spring, Java, and Oracle database focused on supporting Continuing Education college programs. Delivered the first product delivery within 9 months, and subsequent feature-rich deliveries resulted in over 140+ client sales within 3 years.Key Technologies: Java, Adobe Flex, Oracle Database, Oracle Weblogic, Tomcat, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Maven, SVN, Git, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Grails, Groovy, Junit, SOAP, XML, Eclipse.

Distinguished Systems Engineer, United States Architect Office Directed architecture to re-engineer EDS supply chain portal and integrate multiple processes & applications utilizing Microsoft SharePoint; improved global cost savings activities $50M+ annually. Received Distinguished Software Engineer award for track record of technical leadership and business impact throughout career at Electronic Data Systems Corporation.System Architect, Core Integration & ArchitectureLead architect chosen to establish the EDS Technology Policy and create an environment to collaborate and publish the policy across the global organization utilizing Microsoft SharePoint. Selected as Partner Consultant for Microsoft Technology Center in Austin, TX; collaborated with clients while facilitating architectural design & lab sessions to identify Microsoft technology solutions. System Architect – Interactive Solutions LabLed cross-functional technology teams in design and development of architecture frameworks for numerous clients, including development of architecture for Microsoft Sales Execution Framework application. Served as System Architect for EDS Executive Compensation group, performing full lifecycle architecture development of two key compensation systems. Co-invented patented system processing performance data describing provider/client relationship (US Patent 6,687,560, awarded Feb. 2004)Key Technologies: Microsoft .Net, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Analysis Services, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SharePoint, C++

Served as a software developer across numerous teams and EDS business units. Continued advancing skills in numerous technology stacks: IBM mainframe/COBOL/ALC/JCL, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services, C++, Microsoft Foundation Class Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic.