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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Led two teams including the centralized api team and the content management team. Changed the culture of both teams by implementing agile, OKR’s, enhanced processes, and delivering the highest value outcomes for the organization. Decreased turnover and increased hiring of staff on both teams.● Adopted agile and improved development processes to dramatically improve team culture as demonstrated by greatly reduced attrition and turnover by 85%.● Created and managed over 250 api’s that powered the highest value applications in the bank. For example the Payment Protection Plan (PPP) generated nearly $500 million to the bank in its first year.● Implemented a protocol and cadence to create and enhance new functionality to the api platform.● Led innovation teams with the ASU Luminosity innovation labs that developed students and faculty on cutting edge solutions that drive real business value. We created a document deconstruction platform that stored the data inDynamoDB and enhanced the meta data with generative AI.● Launched an api governance and review program that ensured development, communication, security, and auditrequirements were always met.● Mentored and coached leaders and individual contributors to deliver the best outcomes.● Worked across multiple business units to ensure success and meet or exceed set goals.

Tempe

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Built an implementation team to deliver on the strategy to create a cloud first reservation creation and delivery platform for Best Western. Managed developers on and offshore to create the first implementation of the platform targeting the Oracle property management system.● Defined a clear strategy on how the architecture works and how to deliver the optimal outcome for the organization.● Built the initial implementation of the platform integrating with the Oracle PMS.● Developed a roadmap on extending the platform to current and new PMS vendors to increase revenue and decreasecosts.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Rearchitected the entire reservation delivery system as a cloud first reservation platform. This platform is designed to extend the reach and capabilities for almost any property management system. In addition to driving highest value systems to the cloud, I developed and mentored leaders in devops, quality engineering and architecture.● Developed a strategy and architecture to reimagine the entire reservation delivery system as a cloud first platform. Reduced turnover, increased hiring, implemented agile, and created a culture of high performance while delivering the highest value outcomes for the organization.● Decrease turnover and increase productivity by changing the culture in the department.● Transformed the QA team of manual testers to a QE team of automated testers.● Worked with application owners to architect and troubleshoot applications in AWS for disaster recovery.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Deconstructed and modernized the website by breaking up the monolith into web service api’s and introduced a content management system. This new platform could be consumed by a content management system.● Increased revenue by $250 million by reducing downtime, delivering features, and working with e-Commerce for a consumer driven experience. By performing A/B testing we were able to identify the most effective calls to action and color palettes.● Transformed the www.bestwestern.com website from a monolith into a content management using web services and micro services.● Created and leveraged suites of micro services inside Adobe AEM with web services producing and consuming json.

Phoenix, Arizona

Built the core patterns and structures for the 140+ micro services and restful web services that power the website, mobile apps, call center. Modernized the legacy systems to a modern architecture to capitalize on horizontal growth. Updated and removed Oracle forms and stored procedures where reasonable.● Developed a strategy for restful web services and micro services as our core business engine.● Created the core patterns, code coverage, pipelines, standards and built tools leveraging devops where possible forBest Western.● Worked closely with all the development teams to refactor jsp/stored procedures and adopt to new architecturalpatterns. This allowed the business to deliver value faster.● Create new revenue streams for Best Western Rewards and other business verticals.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Created this company as one of 3 founders. The company focused on developing a next generation software application that was often used as middleware for large organizations in the military and defense contractors. Grew the company to execute on projects.● Worked with investors for operating capital.● Created applications for Raytheon utilizing our Xponential middleware application.● Extended our reach to Florida National Guard and Snow goose operations.