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San Jose, California, US

• Directed the development of the MVP from idea to product document to design to working product in under 11 months, allowing manufacturers and merchants to sign up and gain an estimated 5% cost savings and 10% growth.
• Founded and built the technology team from the ground up, including hiring and onboarding a team of 5 architects and engineers plus 1 product designer, defining roles and responsibilities, and creating processes for.
• Successfully acquired and integrated Hola Cash in under 6 weeks to significantly enhance payment processing capabilities with Banorte, Stripe, and Openpay after evaluating 2 potential acquisition targets and 2.
• Developed the serverless architecture of the system, designing a scalable and flexible infrastructure that enables the company to meet current and future business needs, including selecting appropriate technologies.
• Created a comprehensive product document to align the ideation of the initial product offering across the company, including competitive alternatives, specifications of the work to be done, methods to measure success.

Ciudad De Mexico, Ciudad De México, MX

• Directed the work of 4 teams (architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, CloudOps) which included over 30 people, including budgeting, hiring, training, and reviews.
• Created the data team comprised of data analysts, data engineers, and ML engineers, and a manager, a total of over 15 people.
• Provided architectural guidance for all projects at PayClip including new services offerings as well as infrastructure initiatives.
• Designed a full CDC data pipeline for MySQL to facilitate asynchronous event-base processing.

Ciudad De Mexico, Ciudad De México, MX

• Led department of about 200 technical employees with 5 directors (engineering, IT, data, cybersecurity, agile) while continuing in my previous duties.

Ciudad De Mexico, Ciudad De México, MX

• Architected the solutions for the following service offerings: loans, merchant referrals, catalog, topups, card not present payment processing.
• Redesigned and re-coded numerous systems enabling PayClip to receive PCI-DSS certification, which has been maintained for 6 years straight.
• Led the “Core” team responsible for all backend services including payment and settlement processing.
• Created the settlement system, which started with 250 merchants daily, currently handling over 25,000 daily.

Hillsboro, Oregon, US

• Gave management visibility of orders and shipments by extracting relevant data from QuickBooks into SQL and creating reports against that data using SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Streamlined the inventory update process by creating a desktop application that downloaded the updated inventory from an FTP site and updated the numbers within QuickBooks.
• Saved time and improved accuracy in the accounting software by writing scripts to process large updates, such as updating all the SKUs to a new format.

Waltham, MA, US

• Enabled the medical record retrieval system to be sold as a service to other clients by redesigning the main SQL database.
• Eased the reallocation of developer resources between projects by architecting and standardizing the enterprise framework covering the application and data layers.
• Enabled near real-time reporting without affecting production by creating a synchronization agent between the production system and the reporting environment.
• Integrated disparate systems from recent acquisitions thereby permitting the sale of the services of the systems by creating a synchronization agent and utilizing SQL's Change Data Capture feature.
• Promoted consistency across the developers and the code by training other developers on the architecture and helping them utilize the framework successfully in their assignments.
• Consolidated the application layer code base while allowing both web service communication as well as asynchronous background processing by writing multi-threaded, multi-instance Windows Services hosting WCF.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Maintained over 99.975% uptime by managing all production database servers in two Tier-4 data centers and the corporate site.
• Facilitated payment from the FCC by compiling, auditing, and reconciling the call detail records.
• Protected the company from fines by designing and developing an application and database components to analyze millions of call records to identify interpreters making fraudulent calls.
• Improved call center response times and supervision by redesigning the call center dashboard to provide faster updates of call volume and type information (from 5 minutes down to 15 seconds), as well as enabling more.
• Streamlined the archiving process and reporting performance by redesigning the data warehouse.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Addressed customized client needs by researching and prototyping new technologies and methodologies.
• Streamlined the accounting and sales processes through automation, scripting, and migrating the accounting software from MAS90 to Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Improved accuracy and timeliness of quotes and orders by simplifying and implementing a lean just-in-time process using kanban and stations for each step of the process.
• Expanded and modernized the company storage systems by upgrading the database infrastructure and application queries from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Enabled the computer-aided translation of over 70 million words per year by architecting and programming the redesign of the system utilizing the.NET platform.
• Expanded features of the internal project management system through a redesign from a web-based system into a rich-client, multi-tiered application that included auto-update capabilities.
• Assessed both internal and external customers' technological needs by leading and coordinating a team of developers and a network administrator.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, CA