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United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Steering Innovative Solutions: Lead and guide a team of skilled technology professionals within the Manager Research Development group. Drive the conception and development of cutting-edge investment products and business solutions, reinforcing the firm's competitive edge in the market.• Strategic Project Leadership: Spearhead the end-to-end management of multiple technology projects, collaborating closely with IT and business leadership to discern intricate business requisites and translate them into comprehensive architectural designs. Take charge of budgeting, resource allocation, and seamless project execution.• Complex Issue Resolution: Play a pivotal role in assisting the team by troubleshooting intricate business applications and processes. Apply expertise to swiftly diagnose and resolve complex challenges, ensuring the continuous smooth operation of critical systems.• Architectural Transformation: Propose and spearhead the formulation of solution architecture, driving the strategic design, development and successful execution of the Application Modernization roadmap. Guide the transition of legacy applications, ushering in enhanced efficiency and responsiveness.• Tech Advancement Insight: Maintain an unwavering focus on the technological advancements within the industry. Gain insights to inform the evolution of the platform, ensuring it stays aligned with the latest trends and innovations, thereby maintaining the firm's position at the forefront of technological progress.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Strategic Team Leadership: Oversaw a high-performing shared services team driving end-to-end application development, maintenance, and support across diverse business units. • Engagement with Key Stakeholders: Conducted impactful discussions with stakeholders from various shared services units—Fund Operations, Trading, Rebalancing, Finance, Research and Forecasting—ensuring alignment of tech initiatives with overarching business goals.• Holistic Application Oversight: Managed shared services app development and maintenance across units, handling applications, services, and ETL processes. Prioritized robustness, scalability, and reliability.• Agile Leadership: Mentored for adherence to Russell's SDLC practices, emphasizing Agile and Kanban. Fostered an agile culture, boosting team efficiency and output quality.• Driving Positive Change: Catalyzed transformation by understanding complex business needs and architecting fitting solutions and tech stacks. Delivered agile, responsive solutions for evolving business requirements.• Strategic Partnership and Technical Advocacy: Vital role as technical liaison for building partner relationships, influencing leadership decisions, and resolving external obstacles. Assumed Scrum Master duties.• Ensuring Code Quality: Gatekeeper role via code reviews for the application portfolio. Ensured compliance with coding standards, optimized performance, and enhanced security.• Resolution of Complex Issues: Resolved intricate problems within business apps and processes, maintaining operational integrity and minimizing downtime for seamless operations.• Crafting Technical Strategy and Architecture: Collaborated on complex technical challenges, presenting strategies and executing solutions aligning with business goals.• Championing Application Modernization: Led design, and execution of the Application Modernization roadmap for legacy apps in the shared services portfolio. Achieved enhanced efficiency and modernization.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led shared services application development and maintenance across business units encompassing 130 applications, services and ETL's

Seattle, Wa, Us

Technical Leadership and Project Management: Directed software development and QA teams as Technical Lead and Project Manager within a Global Delivery Model. Orchestrated bi-weekly code sprints, iteration planning, milestones, and release scheduling using agile methodologies.REST API Implementation: Spearheaded the technical design and execution of a REST-based Funds API, enhancing data accessibility and exchange.SCRUM-Driven Indexes Consolidation: Successfully led the Indexes consolidation project Workstream utilizing SCRUM methodology, optimizing product development processes.Credit Research Application Development: Led the end-to-end technical design and implementation of the Credit Research Application, augmenting internal research capabilities.Vendor Team Leadership: Leveraged a blend of technical and business acumen to guide and manage vendor teams within the Global Delivery Model, ensuring seamless collaboration.Code Review and Mentorship: Offered expert guidance and constructive feedback through code reviews, employing Git source control. Mentored Junior developers and Interns to enhance coding practices.Best Practice Advocacy: Coached junior and new developers in adhering to industry best practices for Software Development at Russell Investments, fostering skill development.

Vancouver, Bc, Us

Delivered on different campaigns for Starbucks client.• Led High-Impact Starbucks E-Commerce Projects: Owned development for major campaigns like Pumpkin Spice Latte, Refreshers site, and Frappuccino.com (migrated to AWS). Served as Associate Technical Architect and Lead Developer on Frappuccino.com.• Developed Core Starbucks E-Commerce Functionality: Led back-end development for Starbucks.com's Winter campaign and Holiday campaign APIs (email & file upload) used by web, iOS, and Android platforms.• Technical Leadership and Collaboration: Provided technical leadership across various Starbucks projects, collaborating effectively with internal teams to deliver successful outcomes.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

- Worked as Senior Software Developer within an agile process with the virtual team on Windows Mobile application for the OneMobile solution that utilized Sybase technology to interact with SAP.- Collaborated with virtual team and conducted deep dive sessions with Architects- Created and maintained technical design document for the functional requirements.Technologies: C#, C++, Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Forms, WPF, TDD, Powershell Scripting.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

As an Application Developer, my responsibilities included:- Took ownership of applications and provided dedicated to supporting internal customers by providing reliable and scalable web applications that improved our ability to support our end customers (outside clients)- Maintained legacy applications (ASP and ASP.NET 1.1/2.0/3.5). - Collaborated and worked with business representatives from various business lines to design effective workflow applications by implementing best practices to help standardize processes across the businessTechnologies: C#, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET Web Services, SQL, SSIS packaging, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Role: Software Developer- Used web application schematics and project specifications to design and develop e-commerce related websites.- Worked on Infrastructure Force Team to help shape the deployment process for the organization.- Worked on several popular e-commerce sites Role: QA Engineer- Used testing techniques such as Acceptance, Exploratory, Boundary, Security, Regression, Usability, Database, Error-handling, End-to-end e-commerce Transaction, Compatibility and Documentation to test ASP.NET, Flash and PHP applications.- Test Planning, Requirements gathering, Traceability Matrix creation and maintenance, Tracking, and Execution of test cases.- Bug reporting using home-grown defect tool. - Regression and Automated web site testing with Perl and Ruby Scripts using SAMIE and WATIR modules.- Experience in writing scripts to query Web services for debugging using Perl language’s SOAP::Lite module.Technologies: Web Application Testing, C#, ASP.NET, SQL, JavaScript, Perl and Ruby Scripting, Bug Reporting.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Contract role involving QA of Microsoft's in-house product while I studied at the University. Localization testing of tool for Arabic language.- Provided comprehensive analysis and QA of in-house software designed for the Partners and Benefits Team.- Found and reported localization issues with the tool.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Short term contract QA job for Macromedia's new e-commerce web site.- Created and executed Test Plans.- Detailed analysis and reporting of bugs.- Conducted tests on different platforms under different browsers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science