Leading our Business Experience team to help develop best in class payment solutions for our client financial institutions. I have a great team and my focus is guiding and helping them do what they do best!

- Designed and built system to manage 3D assets, the resources to create and maintain those assets, and 3rd party assets using Python and React. - Built CLI tooling to help manage requests and assets with Go- Designed and built data handling system in Unity/C# to import and maintain data important to application. - Designed and built 3D react-based application that informed business decisions and visualize how products are placed and organized. - Managed the operational needs of the projects, including cloud and source control needs. - Developed MVP and Roadmap for project to deliver application to product owner.- Worked with product owner to develop and build out a room to use 1:1 scale prototype aisle review system.- Provided support to product owner and users of prototype review system.

• Led three engineering teams with 23 individual contributors who were responsible for building, updating, and maintaining several enterprise applications. • Drove and engaged relationships with business owners to coordinate application wants and needs. • Diligence maintaining applications security and long-term support through regular technical sustainment, patching, and upgrades.• Led creation of team focused on creating virtual reality business experiences, focused on creating more efficient workflows for business users.• Started and led effort in reinventing legacy enterprise applications with new technology and newer user experience paradigms.• Worked with User Experience team to facilitate better user experience design in enterprise applications.• Utilized development metrics to drive agile process improvements. • Managed individual performance, growth, and advancement through performance-based discussions and regular 1 on 1 discussions.

Collaborate and Developer Services:- Managed an organization of 15 to 20 members. - Responsible for hiring for four different disciplines inside the organization. - Build and maintained roadmaps for development goals. - Guided the effort to create a more package oriented approach for Unity Editor Collaborate.- Helped to guide effort to rebrand and create the Diagnostics product.- Participated in engineering and results focused Hackweeks to produce usable prototypes and developed Go-based services to support them. - Focused on engagement and career development for team members, coaching some into leadership positions. - Highest engagement score in Cloud Services organization and one of the highest in the company.

As the Director of Software Development for Rackspace Private Cloud Storage, my responsibilities revolved around testing and providing storage technologies to the Private Cloud organization. My teams were charged with developing solutions using OpenStack and leading storage technologies. These included Block, Object, and File System Storage solutions.- Lead world class team of software developers to create a fully cloud scalable file system as a service solution.- Participated in executive level strategy sessions to plan out direction of organization and Rackspace Private Cloud.- Collaborated with compute development teams to help provide a managed kubernetes solution for Rackspace Private Cloud.- Tested and vetted storage integrations with leading container technologies.- Tested and vetted leading commercial and open source storage technologies.

As Director of Storage Development, my job was to lead the strategic direction of the Cloud Storage development organization. This includes roadmap planning, prioritization with product organization, and coordination with other groups.- Developed and built world class engineering organization and leadership.- Developed several storage related R&D initiatives into products.- Worked with OpenStack Community to develop guidelines for OpenStack standards.- Guided strategy with other Rackspace Cloud leaders, including Private Cloud.- Worked closely with Intel and the OpenStack Innovation Center to advance enterprise OpenStack features and adoption.- Manage several budgets for organization. - Manage several development processes and implemented development methodologies.- Develop and coach the managers reporting to me, as well as help develop their teams.

Lead the engineering and operations for Rackspace Cloud Storage group. Coordinate development and engineering efforts across groups. Teams include Cloud Files and Cloud Block Storage, both OpenStack projects.- Managed Development and Operations of Cloud Files and Cloud Block Storage.- Worked closely with compute and network groups to build out largest OpenStack based cloud infrastructure.- Worked with partners and vendors to plan and secure infrastructure necessary for scaling Cloud Storage.- Worked to help plan strategy for Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Storage groups.- Participated in OpenStack Community and Summits.

- Managed Development and Operations Team of the largest OpenStack Swift based storage system.- Worked to project growth and procure new equipment in timely fashion.- Developed new features in OpenStack Swift and Rackspace CloudFiles.- Participated in OpenStack Community and Summits.

- Managed team responsible for maintaining company wide applications and services used by over 3000 users.- Responsible for working with offshore team of contractors to continually maintain company wide critical applications.- Worked with business to prioritize application development and releases.

Primary responsibilities involved leading my team in supporting corporate goals through creating, maintaining and improving corporate software systems:- Built AJAX/Python based spell checking system that had to be seamlessly added to several ticketing systems.- Work with outside departments to coordinate interface changes needed to have system interoperability.- Maintain current systems by tracking down and fixing bugs.- Utilize source control and ticketing system in order to track projects.- Add functionality to current systems utilizing Object Oriented Concepts- Integrated new SSL solutions into existing code base.- Led a team in creating a service and tools to track virtualization product offering.- Created a service to add new products to existing database with an added category system.- Led a team to refactor our SSL offering to offer new SSL products and improved response time dramatically by automating process.- Led review of existing architecture in order to simplify and increase performance of systems.- Created ReST based web service to manage IP configurations for customer networks.- Added several new critical product offerings to system.

Instructed upper division class for undergraduate and graduate students, focusing on Python and the Pylons framework:- Created assignments to help students focus on Python principles and learn new concepts outside of class.- Created group assignment for students to create practical Pylons application.- Required students to present at IT Symposium at the end of the semester.

Primary job function was to solve problems around campus:- Created caching database server using Python to log transactions and store in case of main system failure.- Created ID Card checking application and system for Gym to authorize student access using Java SWT.- Created several XML standards for information retrieval system.- Used XML standards to generate billing statements on the student information web site.- Used XML standards to generate degree audit product on the student information web site.- Setup and maintained Faculty and Student ID Card system.

Responsibilities included maintaining existing eCommerce system, upgrading various components and providing new services:- Successfully implemented UPS XML interface with eCommerce system. No downtime was permitted.- Created mod_perl based keyword search module for search system that increased search performance 250%.- Created garage system which allowed users to store their vehicle and engine information for search purposes.- Modified customer service interface to speed up order processing 200%