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Lubbock, Tx, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Designed a payment system used to integrate client products with several existing payment gateways. ● Managed engineering resources, project roadmap, and technical requirements. Also, Responsible for designing, launching, and maintaining microservices built and launched with .NET 6, C#, SQL Server, Redis, Datadog, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, AWS, Kubernetes/Docker, and Terraform.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Created and led the Advantage Play (fraud) team which was composed of senior backend engineers located across the United States with the purpose of helping our division launch a new web and mobile product. We engineered API and data services to support storing and retrieving 20+TB/year of data for real-time and out-of-process fraud analysis.● Directed and advised in the creation of architecture review documents (ARD) when designing new services and features. Performed code reviews on pull requests.● Our team managed five microservices using .NET 6, C#, Python, MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Redis,RabbitMQ, and Microsoft Orleans. We implemented Backend-for-Frontend and CQRS patterns. CI/CD tools used were Bitbucket, Bamboo, Octopus Deploy, Kubernetes, Rancher (containers).

Plano, Texas, Us

Led the online payments team from 2 full stack engineers to 3 teams of 15 full stack engineers across America and the Philippines. Charged with stopping our declining YoY revenue growth, I drove growth of our annual recurring revenue (ARR) to over 340% from $5 million to $22 million over my five years as manager. ● Managed 24 products, including our citizen-facing Utility Billing payment multi-tenant SaaS site requiring PCI-compliance and processing over 19 million payments annually ($2.8 billion processed) for over 2,000 government agencies. ● Facilitated the split of critical and high traffic services out of our monorepo/monolith application into separate microservices (payment processing, user authentication, bill processing, etc.) using .NET/Core, C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework, and Dapper. CI/CD tools used were TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Docker, and Selenium.

Plano, Texas, Us

● Grew and maintained our Municipal Online Payments website which processed 5+ million payment transactions annually (in 2017). Used C#, JavaScript, MVC, LINQ to SQL, and Entity Framework.● Created the ExpressLane Defensive Driving online course that allows for e-filing completion certificates to courts. Developed using C#, JavaScript, MVC, and LINQ to SQL.● Created a PCI-compliant payment site used to take payments for city permits through our EnerGov Citizen Self Service portal. Developed using C#, MVC, and Entity Framework.● Led our Agile meetings such as daily standups, sprint retros, and sprint planning.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Worked with advertising agencies to create over forty websites and Facebook applications for high-profile clients. Clients included Microsoft, Samsung, Phillips 66, Welch's, Joe's Crab Shack, and many others. Technologies used were C#, Javascript, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, and Adobe Photoshop.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

Built and maintained custom web applications for the Police, Fire, Health, and Fleet Departments using C#, SQL Server, HTML, and CSS. Also maintained legacy financial and HR programs written in COBOL and RPG on an IBM AS/400 system.

Chicago, Il, Us

Collaborated with ten remote team members to develop our MedBill Enterprise software suite that automatically filled and/or verified medical codes sent to insurance companies.

Lubbock, Texas, Us

● Designed and developed the employment processing system to allow online applicants to log in and apply for positions and track its progress. ● Designed and developed the Capital Improvement Projects system that tracked detailed information about projects that cost $25,000 or more for use in the city's budget planning.

● Responsible for the development, data gathering, and planning of our development cycles.● Created custom web applications for At Risk Children, Family Tracker for the Florida Department of Children & Families, The Magnolia Project, St. Johns River Organization, and Florida KidCare.● Collaborated with another startup to create an application that determined the order of payment liability between multiple insurance carriers for individuals with multiple insurance plans.

● Developed the University of Florida's Alcohol Education site and consulted at PRISM to create a site that allows contractors to bid on projects for insurance companies using ASP, Visual Basic, and SQL Server.● Traveled across the country to teach various Microsoft engineering courses such as Visual Interdev 6.0, Visual Basic 6, IIS, FrontPage, and various custom web courses.

Computer Science

Diploma