As an award-winning fintech company, Tapcheck empowers employers and workers with the employee benefits of earned wage access a.k.a “on-demand pay” and financial education. The result? Reduced employee financial stress, increased employee productivity, lower HR expenses, and higher profits.

RealVision, once known as the "YouTube of financial advice and education," is undergoing a strategic pivot to become a data-rich financial toolset integrating media assets with powerful trading tools and AI insights.- Led a global team of engineers spanning backend, data, AI, and DevOps, orchestrating a complete product rewrite and replatform (from a java monolith in AWS to cloud-native microservices in Azure) in just 10 months.- Successfully delivered a seamless transition to the 2.0 rewrite, introducing Azure OpenAI features and a data-rich user experience to existing customers.- Managed multiple contractor partnerships, overseeing contract review and ensuring on-shore, off-shore, and near-shore development alignment.- Architected and developed the backend application base libraries using Azure cloud-native nano-services on the MS Orleans framework and Federated GraphQL.- Designed the data solution utilizing Azure Synapse, Cognitive Services, and Azure OpenAI Service technologies.- Architecting the DevOps Solution (Azure DevOps, TF), we have achieved continuous release capabilities.- Led the AI team in the integration of RV-content-trained chatbots leveraging Azure OpenAI Service.

Building RV 2.0!

- Designed the cloud and application architecture for the high-volume ISO-20022 debit switch- Implemented the base patterns & framework and most of the switch functionality- POC implementation was capable of supporting 1000 dual message (or 1800 single message) tx/sec with 99% of tx at <500ms

- Managed project staffing for all practice projects- Developed a personnel management process including weekly, quarterly, and annual reviews- Worked with sales to provide support during the sales process, supported the win of several significant contracts- Served as a Solution Architect for many projects, creating implementation plans, SOWs, and Estimates

- Developed application architecture for a cloud-native Azure implementation of a tax workflow management system for KPMG to be used in every country's offices- Authored and maintained the .net base libraries for our custom microservices application framework- Provided technical leadership to the back-end and support for the integration team- Developed a scriptable RPA microservice with event fabric integration

- Provided process leadership to technology team, support team, and product team- Implemented Scrum methodology, an incident management process, and a team growth process- Oversaw implementation of ZenDesk, Confluence, BitBucket, and Crucible

- Led the technology team and more including development, devops, infrastructure, professional services, support, and product- Provided process creation and refinement across teams- Provided architectural guidance to the engineering team- Managed multiple data partnerships (D&B, ESRI, BSI, EMSI, and others)

- Managed multiple software development teams - including 2 off-shore teams in India- Scrum master for multiple independent development teams- Delivered consistent updates to multiple legacy products

- Negotiated licensing terms for PASS-PORT technologies- Built a technology organization capable of supporting ~150k students and professors- Led the development team to introduce continuous updates- As sales lead, grew customer headcount 250% in 3 years

- Taught a graduate-level technology course in the College of Engineering- Oversaw the initial implementation of ULL's new SGI Altix Cluster Supercomputer- Led the dev team creating PASS-PORT, a web-based application for gathering accreditation data* Authored multi-media CD-ROMs: "Knee-deep in Louisiana Wetlands" and "The Centennial Disc