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Rochester, New York, US

• Healthcare Reform - NYS Marketplace Implementation
• Turned around a struggling program by establishing basic program structure, eliminating non-essential meetings and realigning project manager resources.
• Improved overall Health Care Reform program level communication by creating several status dashboards (i.e. HCR Exchange Tracker, Project Interdependency Tracker and HCR Reporting Tracker).
• Created an independent team to manage reports and ensure they are developed and deployed to meet operational and mandated dates.
• Manage mulitple teams to implement the many facets of the NYS Healthcare Marketplace.

Herndon, VA, US

• Provided operational management and technical leadership to the software engineering, quality assurance, and technical documentation groups.
• Increased development efficiency by introducing Feature Driven Development concepts to the development process.
• Coordinated the establishment and managed the day-to-day operations of our Off-Shore software development group
• Introduced architectural concept changes to drive down the cost of ownership of the ePlus Systems products (i.e. Procure+, Supplier Portal, and Catalog+).
• Organized, managed, and delivered the first major release of the Procure+ product in over five years.
• Key participant in the SAS70 Audit process for ePlus Systems.

• Led a team that developed a mobile medical dictation device.
• Introduced process Improvement and Object Oriented Analysis and Design to the development team.

• Participated in software architecture/design process for software solutions.
• Developed the Realize Software Development Lifecycle for NetSetGo. The lifecycle integrates Software Engineering and Internet Marketing disciplines into a single development process.
• Managed/Advised/Mentored the Software Engineering group, which consisted of over fifty developers utilizing the latest Internet development tools (e.g. Java, WebLogic, Oracle, Enterprise Java Beans, DreamWeaver.
• Instituted process improvement including the development of templates for the key process documents required for level 2 of the Capability Maturity Model (i.e. Software Requirements Specification, Software Development.
• Senior developer/contributor on Visual Age Java/Web Commerce Server eCommerce projects.
• Research new technologies for possible inclusion into development environments (including J2ME for the Palm and Java Server Pages.)

• Directed the management of all projects developed by x.tier.
• Lead Architect/Developer on several custom multi-tier Java solutions.
• Developed several applications using a common architecture based on Java/WebLogic/Oracle.
• Introduced Unified Modeling Language and Design patterns into the development process.
• Coordinated design of Object/Relational abstraction layer to simplify application development.
• Recruited, hired, and managed the growth of the software development team. Team experienced significant growth, adding twelve software developers in 1½ years.

• Project Architect for a SGML Editing environment for Thomson’s Primary Law Group.
• Established a Methodology using Structured Rapid Prototyping to develop MS-Windows applications.
• Initiated use of CASE tools for Data Flow and Entity-Relationship Diagrams.
• Reduced ALR Authors required preliminary search time by 90% with new search assistant tools. The tools were developed by integrating several third party packages (i.e. Documentum, ORACLE, and the LEXIS Session Manager).
• Recommended client/server document and workflow management tool (i.e. Documentum) used for the foundation in the new authoring environment.
• Coordinated resource and project scheduling for a technical team consisting of 10 Software Engineers.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bs, Chemistry