Responsible for the day to day operations of the Technology & Development department at Search Influence, a national digital marketing agency.- Manage Web Developers, Software Engineers and QA Specialists of all levels (both on and offsite)- Manage and balance department budgets - Manage relationships with technology partners and 3rd party vendors.- Oversee client maintenance & development, internal process, standards and delivery- Oversee internal software development to support staff and clients with aggregated metrics showing digital marketing campaign results - Oversee the professional development for all staff in my department.- Maintain & Manage AWS Resources including: EC2, EBS, RDS, S3

- Educated team and organization on benefits of Scrum and implemented Agile Scrum process- Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values- Guided the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks - Removed impediments and guided the team to remove impediments - Occasionally fixed production bugs when deemed appropriate based on effort and escalation level as to reduce sprint breaking impediments for the team.- Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on team improvement and problem solving. - Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. - Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution - Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information - Supported and educated multiple Product Owners, especially with respect to grooming, maintaining the product backlog, release planning and sprint participation. - Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style and whenever possible leading by example

- Mentored Jr and Mid level software engineers on OOP best practices, tests as documentation and meeting Product Owner acceptance criteria within time boxed effort.- Implemented SOLID design principles and introduced code standards resulting in improving code quality and reusability- Developed command line tools written in Ruby, PHP and bash scripts- Lead development teams while building several in-house and client facing single purpose applications using Ruby on Rails that communicated to a single database using application specific schemas..

Worked on various web development and consulting contracts mostly via remote work during this time.

Worked with a team to develop cutting edge applications for the New Orleans RTA and school districts in multiple states. We built a Next Arrival Time unit that was placed at bus stops through out the city. This NAT unit showed all bus locations on a map confined to the route, weather conditions and time. The unit also audibly alerted riders to the next bus arrival time at 10, 5 and 2 minutes.

Build innovative PHP web application solutions with Security, Search Engine Optimization and User Experience being paramount in every client project. I also consult on a Senior level on all issues related to internet technology. All work duties performed in 100% remote capacity online and via teleconference.

I oversee and participate in Web Design & Development, PHP/mySQL development, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Consulting, Apache Web Hosting with fully enabled cPanel for ultimate client control.

New Orlean's First Cyber Cafe - The Realm Of Delirium pioneered the internet cafe industry in New Orleans as the internet was just taking hold. We provided, fully enabled computers for email, internet and various applications. We also provided full web site services including web hosting and web design/development

KDDD/KMRE is a country radio station located in Dumas, Texas. I worked the afternoon OnAir slot, and wrote and produced numerous radio commercials.