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San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Leading multiple cross-functional teams with a total of 20 reports including software engineers, business analysts, and an engineering manager and over 25 services and applications in the Accounting and Inventory Management organization.- Reorganized underperforming teams by implementing various agile practices with a clear software development lifecycle to increase productivity by 50%.- Recruited and hired 10 new engineers, business analysts, and a manager.- Maintained a >90% retention rate over the past 24 months.- Drove the effort to modernize aging on-prem services and successfully migrated 15 services to use containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.- Led the plan and execution to migrate 4 mission critical Oracle databases from 11g to 19c which accounted for over 25TB and involved over 10 teams company wide.- Introduced SRE principals, established SLAs and SLOs with customers and measured SLIs with tools such as New Relic and DataDog.- Redesigned our strategy for recruiting and vetting software engineers and personally authored multiple take home and live coding challenge exercises.

New York, New York, Us

Managed multiple B2B and B2C products for software consulting company servicing a variety of industries. Led a team of engineers to plan, build, and support products for over 50 clients. - Oversaw multiple product life cycles using Agile software development techniques to drive prioritization, manage sprints, and iterate rapidly.- Conducted project discovery, scoped requirements, and negotiated over 150 projects. - Led project standups, backlog grooming meetings, and sprint planning.- Established a cloud-first strategy and migrated clients to AWS using EC2 and RDS.- Performed weekly 1:1s with engineers and provided technical guidance and mentoring.- Earned an unwavering rapport with clients and product stakeholders through strong interpersonal skills and ability to understand and solve complex issues.- Successfully grew workload 40% and increased the development team 50% over the last 12 months by identifying strategic opportunities to service clients more effectively.

New York, New York, Us

Full-stack developer and team lead, responsible for planning, designing, architecting and developing custom software solutions for enterprise-level clients.- Worked directly with clients and stakeholders to analyze requirements, implement solutions, and lead thoughtful conversations to drive additional development opportunities.- Single-handedly developed and delivered a custom product / order management system 25% ahead of schedule which is still in use 9 years later.- Headed up efforts for a large ecommerce client which resulted in a 2400% increase in annual revenue over 10 years.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Manager for one of the nation’s most prestigious medical education companies. Directly responsible for overseeing and managing the development team, various company websites and applications, and server infrastructure. - Collaborated with the other project managers and stakeholders to identify dozens of strategic technical solutions to support the education department and increase revenue. - Communicated with clients to gather requirements for projects and provide updates.- Led the IT department which included designers, developers, a systems administrator, and support staff.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Utilized ColdFusion, SQL Server and multiple object-oriented frameworks such as ColdBox and Fusebox to develop custom web applications to support the education department.- Led a team of developers programming applications for medical education.- Designed, developed and maintained a custom content management system, which housed nearly 200 modules used for data management and reporting. - Spearheaded the creation of a fully configurable learning management system which was utilized to issue tens of thousands of medical education tests and certificates.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

DFS, an enterprise level financial firm, hired me as the lead developer for their local intranet. Responsibilities ranged from posting documents and updates to building web applications and reporting tools using HTML, JavaScript, ASP, and SQL Server.

NubianRoots.com, a local internet service provider, hired me with a primary goal of rebuilding their custom content management system for their news portal. Using ColdFusion and SQL Server, I re-architected their database schema, built new back-end administrative tools, and redesigned the public facing front-end screens to match.

My duties at NBNTech Inc. consisted of various multimedia projects, including high-end web page layouts and interface designs for many telecommunication web applications. In addition to web design, I was given the opportunity to learn and assist in the development of interactive web sites and applications using HTML, ColdFusion, and JavaScript.