Guide, mentor, and support development team members and practices focusing on the quality and stability of the technology platform.* Analyze, estimate, and prioritize development project requirements while managing and monitoring the project’s critical path progress to ensure the successful delivery of the product. Also, has included the sequence and pipelining of individual requirements and/or project epics when under constrained timelines.* Onboarding of new full time employees and contractors to the platform’s design and architecture, as well as the team’s development process and methodology, to start delivering value as quickly as possible.* Introduce, teach, and implement new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to the platform and its development team – such as AngularJS built on top of an ASP.Net Web API service backend constructed in a Domain Driven Design architecture and tested with automated acceptance tests running Selenium WebDriver.* Architected a new business management infrastructure processing in excess of $130M annually, built using a Service Oriented Architecture with a large collection of REST services to administer all customer, order, fulfillment, and accounting information.* Implemented a continuous integration environment using Cruise Control.Net, and later Jenkins, automating the building, testing, and deployment of all business system applications, services, and libraries within the development environment.

Work directly with platform owners, business users, and stakeholders to analyze, architect, develop, and test requirements and solutions to complex business needs.* Designed and developed Accounts Receivable management application controlling $22M annual revenue of business to business billable information including invoices, credits, debits, payments, and statements.* Interfaced directly with 3rd party vendors providing solutions for eBook and mobile application delivery, merchant card processing, and delivery address validation.* Developed automated deployment solution capable of one click deployments of business web applications, web services, windows services, and SQL database structures (DDL).* Encapsulated standard application components such as data access, service access, authentication, and authorization within NuGet packages hosted in a company repository.

Designed, coded, and tested new software systems and feature enhancements of existing store applications.* Member of a team developing a complete re-write of the company’s Point Of Sale system. Specific components assigned include: transaction queue management, calculating product availability estimates, and standardized error handling.* Gathered and clarified business requirements from end users for new applications or enhancements to existing.* Performed program maintenance of Customer Facing System applications.

Performed system testing of Customer Facing System applications and created installations for all store applications.* Created test suites for functional, sanity, GUI, limit, and regression testing of store applications.* Developed automated software testing using Mercury (HP) QuickTest Professional and WinRunner. Created iterative dynamic data driven tests for both GUI and service applications.* Created InstallShield installations for HomeStore applications. Installations were developed to be as non-interactive as possible thereby decreasing the potential for incorrect configurations from human error.

Provided call center support for HomeStore licensee stores servers, computers, and networks as well as Ashley Furniture applications for more than 150 locations across the US and Canada.* Issues included application debugging, system hardware failures, user training, and parts order entries.* Developed automation programs decreasing or eliminating required employee time to keep store systems up to date and customer’s data secured.* Administrated stores’ server and network systems. Performed initial setup of the server’s RAID configuration, Windows Operating System, and Ashley Furniture applications.