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Albuquerque, New Mexico, Us

As managing principal, I lead our Azure Cloud practice managing a team of 10 solution architects, DevOps engineers and senior developers across various project engagements. Approximately 80% of time is spent in hands-on architectural roles across multiple client projects (3-4 at a time) and primarily executed offshore (India and Pakistan). Those projects are typically in the Microsoft stack related to custom application development (public, private and hybrid cloud), Enterprise APIs, business intelligence or automation. The remaining 20% is spent on supporting pre-sales activities involving the delivery of RFP design proposals, estimates and oral presentations.Actively utilize and consult on Azure Reference Architectures, Azure Web Apps, Azure API Management, Azure SQL, Azure AI Services, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, IaC, Angular web applications, Onion Architectures, REST API, Microsoft Power Platform, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

As director of solution architecture, headed a team of approximately 15 consisting of architects, developers, business analysts and project managers across various client projects in the Microsoft stack. Those projects equated to $3+Million in revenue annually. Approximately 90% of the time was spent in hands-on architectural or senior development roles. The remaining 10% was spent supporting pre-sales activities involving the delivery of RFP design proposals and estimates in the public and private sectors.

• Designed process improvement strategy for a construction company’s contract management system developed in SharePoint Online. Constructed automations using Nintex and Microsoft’s Power Platform. • Provided technical leadership as solution architect for a large financial services organization in the construction of a cloud-hosted project and contract management system. Solution was built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Entrepreneur, executive leader and founding member of Tricension, a management consulting firm serving mid-market organizations ($10M to $1B) in the Midwest. Provided leadership as solution architect and delivery director for over 200 data management, CRM and custom application solutions across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare and non-profit industries. Responsible for all project P&L’s and forecasts.Key Projects... National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) – Solution architect of the Eligibility Center modernization project designed to improve scalability and stability of the NAIA’s flagship application. Data architect on a data warehouse and BI platform called Return on Athletics operating as a value-add service to member schools to improve retention.  Make the Difference Network (MTDN) – Solution architect and lead developer for non-profit organization which promoted charities supported by celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and Jessica Beil. QuickEyes – Solution architect for ocular medical record application written in .NET. Supervised the organization through meaningful-use certification process. Aratana Therapeutics Inc. – Solution architect for data warehouse and master data management solution using primarily EDI and Dell Boomi. Advent Financial Services – Solution architect for startup financial services company led by former leadership at H&R Block. Organization delivered modern tax-time technologies that help tax preparers and taxpayers achieve financial success.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Participated as active member of IT leadership team responsible for providing P&L’s, accruals and forecasts.• Provided technical oversight and management for a team of developers in support of the company’s SharePoint-based intranet as well as other internal applications. • Acted as data architect responsible for H&R Block’s only data warehouse that captured data from all four lines of business (tax, financial services, mortgage and banking). Instituted data governance practices and performed data analysis, data modeling, ETL development and quality assurance activities daily using Oracle DBMS and its suite of tools. Automated batch processes using CA Autosys improving system reliability from less than 50% to 98.5% within one year.• Established early hyperautomation system built on TIBCO BusinessWorks to acquire and qualify financial services leads sourced from 40+M tax returns annually. Approximately 10% of the tax returns evaluated resulted in leads being referred to hundreds of financial advisors across the country via Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Solution was nationally recognized by NetworkWorld and InfoWorld magazines as one of the most innovative of the year.