Lead a team of onshore, nearshore, and offshore software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Oversee the planning, execution, and timely delivery of software projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards. Provide technical guidance on software architecture and implementation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align engineering efforts with business objectives. Play a key role in recruitment and onboarding, as well as conducting performance evaluations and supporting the professional development of team members. Operate fully remote.

Guide onshore and nearshore engineering teams in developing Take Command's AWS-based SaaS application while managing a team of eight full-stack and front-end developers. Contribute to strategic recruitment, talent retention, and professional growth initiatives, simultaneously driving process improvements to optimize team efficiency. Actively evaluate team members' work, identify and act on coaching opportunities, and mentor individuals for their development, professional growth, and advancement within the organization. In addition, actively participate in the system's design and architecture.Led the organization's Agile transformation during my tenure, successfully scaling the engineering team from 5 to 28 members across four scrum teams. Introduced the role of Technical Lead, providing mentorship to engineers and defining career development tracks for the team. Consistently provide personalized guidance to team members, fostering their individual development.Streamlined Jira workflows in close collaboration with the product organization. Implemented maker's schedule to boost development team productivity. Additionally, played a crucial role in implementing engineering metrics, fostering data-driven insights and operational improvements for increased efficiency.Led the selection of a vendor for nearshore engineering resources. Through a rigorous and effective interview and selection process, oversaw the hiring of 20+ contractors, including full-stack developers, SDETs, and manual QA engineers. Continue to manage these resources and oversee the vendor contract.Defined career development tracks for the engineering organization.

As a manager, successfully led multiple onshore and offshore teams in the development of cloud-based products and services. Utilized expertise in development processes and organizational leadership to establish an effective distributed Agile scrum team that delivered quality results on time and within budget. Ensured adherence to best practices for software development, effectively directing and guiding engineers throughout the development lifecycle.Collaborated closely with the Product and Architecture teams to define new product features and ensure alignment with overall business goals. Proactively coached team members in developing and achieving their career objectives, resulting in increased motivation and job satisfaction. Consistently maintained strong relationships with stakeholders and customers, delivering exceptional customer satisfaction and driving revenue growth.

As a leader utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies, successfully managed a team of highly skilled full-stack developers in creating AWS cloud-based applications. Our team effectively utilized Java, React, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Terraform, and LaunchDarkly to develop and deploy exceptional software products.

Developed and enhanced Guidewire's PolicyCenter application utilizing Java and Gosu, and managed the development process using Git, Bitbucket, Rally, Jira, and Confluence.Led a team of 4 engineering and 2 UX design interns using Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies to develop a Minimum Useful Demo of a cloud-based user experience data collection and analytics service. The project utilized React, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes. As Product Owner and Scrum Master, created and maintained the story backlog, prioritized work items, led daily stand-ups, and conducted weekly progress review meetings. Also played a significant role in the application architecture and UI/UX design. The application enables user experience research studies from within Guidewire's applications, presenting the resulting analytics in a graphical format.Managed the development of a MEAN stack productivity application for generating status reports using Agile/Scrum methodologies. As Product Owner and Scrum Master, created and maintained the story backlog, led daily stand-ups, conducted sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings. Also played a significant role in the application architecture and UI/UX design. The application provides the ability to create, manage, and prioritize activities and tasks, customizable status reports, support for multiple projects, and integration with Jira and Rally. The application is now in production and utilized by Guidewire's development organization.

Using Java and Gosu (as well as Git, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence) developed and enhanced the demonstration implementations of Guidewire’s insurance software solutions.Using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Spring designed and implemented an automated testing framework for performing functional testing of Guidewire's web based InsuranceSuite applications.Technical and functional certifications in Guidewire's PolicyCenter application.

As the leader of Razoa, a startup specializing in simplifying Java application development, spearheaded all company operations from engineering to marketing. Recruited and managed a team of developers and QA resources located in various overseas locations, ensuring seamless collaboration and successful project outcomes.Leveraging my knowledge of Java, Swing, JSF, Spring and Velocity, designed, developed, and launched multiple versions of Alpinia, an intuitive Low Code development tool that streamlines the creation of complex web applications. Additionally, contributed to the design and development of Kumquat DAO, a user-friendly Java persistence layer creation tool that enables the easy creation of JDO data access libraries.

As a leader, successfully managed a team of skilled professionals using Agile/Scrum methodologies to develop a robust and highly secure certificate management service and PKI infrastructure for Avaya's advanced application and system management platform. The project required the utilization of a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including Java, JBoss, EJB, JMX, and EJBCA, among others.

As the design and management lead for RedCannon's next generation enterprise-class USB device management application, oversaw a team of developers and ensured the successful delivery of this project. Brought my expertise in various technologies to the table, including Java, JSF, Ajax4jsf, MyFaces, MyFaces Tomahawk, JDO, Facelets, Spring, SOAP (Apache CXF), Castor, Tomcat, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and PostgreSQL.

Responsible for the design, development, and management of Expresso's back office applications that include various web services as well as public and private web applications. Using Java, Tomcat, SOAP (Apache Axis), JDO, Castor and MySQL designed and developed web services for user management, ride activity data collection and news announcements for Expresso’s Spark exercise cycle. Designed and developed a Struts based web portal for users to view their ride activity.

Performed system analysis to identify deficiencies, define requirements and develop solutions that improve the effectiveness of the services provided to Invisible’s customers. Using Java, Struts, JMS, and JDO designed and developed paging application for notifying on-call staff members of critical customer issues. With Java created service that synchronizes user accounts and information between Active Directory and Invisible’s trouble ticking system. Created web application for the management of Cisco IP phones using Java and Struts.

Participated in the design and development of a J2EE (JBoss) based IP telephony network testing application. As a Technical Lead was responsible for the design and development of the JSP/Struts based UI. Developed EJB based delegate for managing all aspects of phone test configuration. Developed comprehensive set of JUnit tests for delegate.

Designed and developed a high-performance client-server Java based application server modeled after J2EE/EJB for massive multi-player on-line game. Also developed message service modeled after JMS.Using Java, EJB, MySQL, JMS, JMX, and XML designed and developed a JBoss MBean that provided an extensible framework for driving simulations of objects within a persistent massive multi-player on-line game. Provided the ability to define and configure simulated objects with XML in real-time without the need for restarting application server.With Java, EJB, and JDBC designed and developed data access library with the goal of providing a standard interface for the creation, manipulation and removal of objects in a persistent store as well as the extension of database schema. This allowed functionality manipulating persistent data to be un-aware of the actual physical medium reducing development costs when changing storage type. Implemented storage models for EJB and MySQL. Used JMS to create object property change notification mechanism to inform of changes to persistent objects.Designed and developed Java based game client. Using Swing and Java 2D created component for driving complex animated sequences including the ability to easily scale and rotate the animations.

As an engineering manager, oversaw product development for Tut's TMS policy and network management application, and Expresso SMS 2000 subscriber management system. Led the design and writing of software specifications, participated in product development, and worked with QA to test applications. Collaborated with Marketing and Support to define product requirements and Technical Publications to create user documentation and training materials. Managed a team of 4 across various locations.As a technical lead, managed product development for Tut's TMS application. Led architecture and team, defined product vision and goals, set feature priorities, and created product roadmap. Managed resources, researched and integrated relevant technologies, and oversaw QA.As a senior engineer, designed and developed Tut's LDAP directory-enabled TMS application, utilizing Java, Swing, and JNDI. Developed an application framework for consistent user interfaces and designed QoS and DHCP/NAT address management services.

Acted as lead in the design and development of a server side Java based policy and service configuration management framework. Also involved in the design of GUI administration components.Played a major role in the design and development of a directory enabled general-purpose authentication service. Design included user interface, directory schema, back-end server components, 3rd party API, user based log-in policy and support of one-time password generating tokens.Maintained NetWare Administrator snap-in module for Novell's RADIUS Services for NDS/BorderManager Authentication Service using Visual C++ and MFC. Participated in the design and development of a scripting language interpreter to simulate a RADIUS compliant client that greatly improved testing efficiency and as a result the quality of the product. Responsible for design and setup of lab environment utilized in development and testing.Delivered presentations to several hundred attendees at Novell's annual BrainShare technical conference.