As the Director of Product Development for the LearningBuilder product, I manage the entire product development team and am responsible for meeting both internal and external expectations around delivery, scope, and budget. My role includes:* Feature definition, establishing the functional and technical requirements that developers implement* Coaching and developing all members of the product development team, including mid-level managers* Sales support and budgeting, helping… Show more As the Director of Product Development for the LearningBuilder product, I manage the entire product development team and am responsible for meeting both internal and external expectations around delivery, scope, and budget. My role includes:* Feature definition, establishing the functional and technical requirements that developers implement* Coaching and developing all members of the product development team, including mid-level managers* Sales support and budgeting, helping the sales and business development teams understand RFPs and formulate responses* Product documentationIn addition, I continue to serve a technical leadership role by providing code reviews and technical design direction for programmers and architects on the team. Show less

As the Lead Architect for the LearningBuilder product I was responsible for technical product design, estimations and short-term budgeting, code reviews, mentoring other developers, setting and modeling team standards, and project/release planning. Although no longer responsible for full-time day-to-day coding, I continued to ship the occasional feature as needed.

At Heuristics, an "architect" is responsible for the same things as an "engineer" [writing code, problem solving, etc] but is also capable of leading a team, making "big picture" architectural decisions and managing a customer relationship.In this role I have:* Estimated software development activities at both the task and project level* Led a technical team, providing guidance and support for other programmers* Selected appropriate architectures for a given problem or… Show more At Heuristics, an "architect" is responsible for the same things as an "engineer" [writing code, problem solving, etc] but is also capable of leading a team, making "big picture" architectural decisions and managing a customer relationship.In this role I have:* Estimated software development activities at both the task and project level* Led a technical team, providing guidance and support for other programmers* Selected appropriate architectures for a given problem or project* Requirements analysis, both on my own and pairing with business analysts* Designed, implemented, tested and reviewed features* Led code reviews and coaching sessions* Participated in both product development and consulting activities* Brought order to chaos and encouraged a culture of continual learning and improvementTechnologies used: C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Javascript, jQuery, TDD, Rhino Mocks, Selenium, Ruby, Rake, Team City Show less

As a software engineer I was responsible for requirements analysis and clarification, technical feature design and implementation, and production support.I also contributed to IRTH's agile transformation by acting as a Scrum Master and helping to define and refine their agile process.Technologies used: ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, TFS, SQL Server

As a senior programmer I was responsible for technical leadership and feature implementation, primarily using Cold Fusion and SQL Server.