Promoted to lead three blended teams of onshore and offshore developers and testers across two products. Periodically managed one to three teams and other managers. Principal responsibilities include project management, people leadership, individual development, and engineering guidance. - Led a cross-organizational effort to develop a reliability improvement plan that would reduce the time to release the flagship product by 50%- Develop the TDD & BDD strategy encompassing education, staffing and an execution plan- Create a governance process for exceptions to the automated code quality tool- Led 30 people directly and indirectly, including other managers, across multiple products- Launched a new product, Certificate Center, to GA in two separate countries after 2 years of development with 0 critical defects on release day- Supported the domain team rollout for the value stream- Partnered with other engineering managers to combine the dedicated, offshore support teams with the domain teams fully utilizing the offshore partners- Led the effort with a large, cross functional group from Operations, Performance Engineering, Architecture and senior engineers to capture and remediate the risks for taking the flagship product to GA as a cloud offering- Collaborated with the Product organization to define and deliver the features necessary for launching the flagship product as a cloud offering- Upskilled a cloud team on the legacy application to increase throughput and expand the knowledge base of the core capability.- Defined and reviewed observability, alarms & dashboards for new feature launches- Defined FTA policy for the department- Led the creation of an E2E test suite and exit release requirements for the flagship application- Organized on-site team building exercises- Created a skills matrix for engineers

Promoted to lead two blended teams of developers and testers. One team fully onshore, one team fully offshore. Responsible for leading an AWS cloud native program to meet an aggressive timeline for a critical customer.- Assisted in the definition, design and implementation of a one button deployment model- Led a critical project that was 3 months behind and got it back on track over the course of a year- Led 22 people with a mix of onshore and offshore engineers and testers- Analyzed output to identify offshore team only added a 16% increase- Improved engineering output by 30% and reduced offshore contracting costs by 60% by blendering the onshore and offshore engineers into two mixed teams- Launched a Beta release of a new cloud Product with a critical customer after 1 year- Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager after 12 months

Initially brought on to support a large waterfall team developing enterprise tax compliance solutions. Transitioned to a second waterfall team to support a tax calculation engine. Moved to an Agile team to work on a large data manipulation system. Shifted to the cloud organization to develop an event driven, cloud based solution based upon 5 microservices and 2 UI front ends that was 3 months late on an aggressive timeline.- Modernized Flex pages to React/Redux on VE- Recommended and implemented simplified logging changes to the TPE product- Administered JIRA CST instance and assisted with the merge- Contributed to high level design decisions for ECM- Implemented a logging GUID to make REST transactions easier to debug in production- Coded our initial IaC Terraform solution and defined the deployment process we automated in order to enable 1-button deployments to QA, Stage and PROD- Simplified and implemented the back end services for the Customer Service- Defined the Structure of our ECM codebase- Mentor new and junior developers and lead training sessions for offshore team- Contribute to North Star designs, redefine them as intermediate designs for our timeline and decompose them into digestible features and stories in JIRA in priority order- Coordinate with external teams about timelines, designs and architecture to ensure compatible integrations and acceptable deliverables- Provide ROM estimates to aide in communicating timelines to a key customer- Negotiate MVP options for customer deliverables with PO and PM- Validate database implementations from architecture- Ensure architecture alignment between ECM and corporate cloud first objectives- Drive the sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions- Promoted to Tech Lead after 8 months- Promoted to Manager of Application Development after 10 months

Developed ApplePay on a large agile team running 2 week sprints developing the backend provisioning and payment systems for mobile payments and tokenization efforts across the bank. Currently developing the tokenized mobile payments platform for online and mobile payment solutions for Chase Bank.-Edit loggers to support integration into Splunk to aggregate logging across 132 JVMS-Support configuration and deployments of our pre-prod environments across three deployable .wars-Developed the business logic for setting tokenized payment accounts into a fraud suspicion status-Assist with the design of the transaction failure retry logic and our guaranteed delivery engine

Large team building a Post Payment System for the US Treasury to analyze payments made by subdivisions. Deployment implementations are rolled out yearly containing increasingly sophisticated payment case management and analytic tooling. Principal design considerations are encryption, performance and UI design. - Developed several PostgreSQL functions to retrieving multiple rows- Implemented a Spring Batch application for importing Treasury Subdivision information in an XML file into a database

Agile team designing and building software for fraudulent credit, debit and prepaid card workflows leveraging a BPM tool. Also contributed as a member of the framework services team building services for all three card lines of business for interaction between internal and external services.- Discovered and deployed a hotfix for a recurring connection bug when making SOAP calls outside the host system- Designed and implemented a correspondence engine- Implemented a queuing service for interacting with services external to the bank domain with a callback mechanism- Loaned to a Java team to build out 3 RESTful services and 1 SOAP service for XML messaging in a departmental data mart

Joined a newly formed Agile team supporting a medical practitioner management solution for health insurance companies. Moved to a second Agile core services team building a file import engine for healthcare procedures. Reallocated to a third team building feature enhancements for a medical payment engine. All teams had offshore developers and testers. - Contributed to XML schema changes implemented in JDOM.- Extended the Struts framework to support selection and import of files containing medical procedure codes and service groups leveraging Google’s Guava libraries.- Rewrote the DAO layer originally implemented in Hibernate using the Spring Batch framework and SQL to increase performance.- Wrote a UI test framework using fluentlenium, a fluent wrapper around Selenium.- Migrated test data from multiple database environments to a single CI system using PL-SQL.- Developed end to end tests using jbehave that compose JSON claims, insert test data into the CI system using DBUnit and validate JSON responses from the pricing engine. - Implemented pricing logic for a stop loss and anesthesia pricer with elements in scala- Contributed to a team where the lead architect received an award for having a record low number of defects over a release cycle.

- Provided first and second level support for a web based tax calculation engine that interfaces with the world's leading providers of ERP software as well as custom XML or Java interfaces.

- Maintained a resolution rate 13% higher than the department average.

- Provided first level support for a broad range of technical issues in relation to the company's 3 web based applications.