• Lead developer on the Inventory+ SaaS product used by thousands of automotive dealerships to manage their inventory. Led a scrum team of six to ten members including a product owner, software developers, quality assurance engineers, and test automation engineers.• Instrumental in designing and implementing the strategy for the transition of the product’s tech stack from a LAMP (Perl) stack monolith to a distributed system made up of React+Redux front end, containerized Java (Spring Boot) microservices, and Kafka based real time data pipelines.• Primary developer on a successful effort to build an in house health monitoring and metrics collection stack built using Influx DB, Grafana, and some custom components for real time alerting. Stack directly responsible for stabilizing the legacy product as well as providing a ready to go platform for monitoring the new microservices.• Hands on experience with designing and developing deployment solutions using AWS’s suite of Cloud services.• Thought leader and evangelist in the organization for multiple technologies and processes: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum, Pair programming, test driven development, etc.• Constantly push the organization to innovate and adopt advances in technologies and processes by routinely publishing internal blogs, delivering “lunch and learn” style roundtable presentations, mentoring junior and mid-level developers, and delivering working proof of concepts.• Winner of multiple internal company competitions and peer recognition awards.

- Led two software teams (each containing 5-7 developers) responsible for developing a set of custom web applications for a reputable client.- Day to day activities spanned tasking both teams, mentoring junior developers, and performing software development tasks.- Instrumental in implementing and evangelizing the Agile/Scrum methodology across the the entire program.- Designed and developed customer facing web applications using modern Java/Javascript technology - JavaEE, Spring, AngularJS, RESTful web services, SOAP services.- Successfully practiced continuous integration using JIRA, Stash, and Bamboo.

- Developed and maintained a complex software solution for a reputable government client.- Actively employed Linux backend, Postgres, Grails or Spring MVC, JQuery, HTML5, and Bootstrap CSS to develop the software stack of the program.- Subject matter expert for the program on various internal software applications as well as industry standard technologies such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, Grails, JUnit, JMockit, Selenium, etc.- Worked directly with the customer and end users to demo software features, train users, and validate the overall solution for each release. Performed these activities at the home office as well as at various international sites where the software was eventually deployed and used.- Provided Agile leadership as needed on all my Scrum teams as the backup Scrum master. Completed Scrum Master Certification.

- Developed and maintained various J2EE applications (Java, JSP, JDBC, EJB, JavaScript—Dojo and Jquery) and scripts (Bash, Perl, WLST, and SQL) that formed a large J2EE based software system used by the US Air Force- Supported various stakeholders (i.e. customers/users, testers, system administrators, and managers) with deployment, verification, and validation of the system by resolving application, build, and configuration issues found during these activities.- Frequently traveled to customer sites to support installation, integration, and verification of the entire system. - Received numerous achievement and spot awards for solving complicated technical issues that enabled the entire team to meet critical milestones.

- Worked on a large number of different projects within two to three years to develop a strong and diverse software engineering skill set in all stages of the software life cycle- Projects spanned across three different programs in the Satellite Communications and Air Traffic Control domains for customers that included the US Navy and Federal Aviation Administration- Won numerous merit awards as well as a quick promotion for constantly delivering successful solutions well within the projected schedules.