• Managed seven direct reports at various levels (from java application engineers to application architects) while also having responsibility over another twenty contractors: team members were spread across three application development teams and two support teams. • Redesigned development and support processes with a service experience focus as organization transitions to agile application delivery; the goal is to improve customer satisfaction and shorten delivery of new functionality. • Focused on team building by mentoring four senior engineers as they transitioned from individual contributors to team leadership roles allowing more complex projects to be completed simultaneously.• Defined new team structure and role responsibilities to provide clear expectations for employees, assist management with employee training, guide the creation of new teams, and inform future hiring.• Oversaw creation of a new cloud-based design tool empowering business users to create product designs. The software, being integrated across manufacturing and ecommerce applications, will enable quick introduction of new designs in response to market demand.• Improved performance of page rendering systems by optimizing the application threading model for the Amazon cloud environment. Peak day rendering time for a common product was reduced from multiple hours to less than an hour.

• Managed a major project effort to begin migrating an application from a monolithic codebase to a service-oriented architecture utilizing Amazon Web Services. This initiative expanded department knowledge around several new technologies that would be heavily utilized in future applications.• Educated team members on detection, analysis, and diagnosis of user experience and application performance issues. I focused on the importance of clearly understanding your objectives and providing analysis of the results instead of just raw data.

• Led development effort to modernize company's largest ecommerce site in terms of revenue. Changes included a new interface design and a complete rewrite of codebase to one built upon highly reusable RESTful web services.• Established new processes to improve code quality and reduce risk with making changes: technical design reviews, using code reviews for validation and mentoring, continuous integration, and increasing unit test coverage above 80 percent.

• Assisted company owner on sales calls to a major manufacturer by listening to customer needs and recommending solutions to customer goals resulting in more than five follow-on contracts with same and related organizations.• Developed a Java based ecommerce platform that could be used across multiple clients. Functionality included: shipping integration with UPS and FedEx, search with Apache Lucene, and integration with multiple credit card processors.• Implemented continuous build system for our software using Apache Archiva, Continuum, and Maven.