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Rocklin, California, United States

• Effectively managed 30+ engineers for our account opening and BPMS systems to design, develop, test, and deliver releases on-time, within budget, and with quality to help our business stakeholders reach their goals.• Worked directly with business stakeholders to ensure our account opening platform could support their growth from 6.5 billion in assets to 17 billion in assets by helping launch many new products, marketing campaigns, and ensuring our infrastructure was upgraded to keep pace with our growth to ensure we can handle at a minimum of 300,000+ applications per year.• Built our BPMS team from the ground up and led the migration from Salesforce to Pega. We currently have 1000+ business users actively using Pega daily and have worked with every business unit to see what processes we can automate so they can use their teams more effectively and save money.• Managed a high performing, dynamic team with high morale both onshore and offshore and helped career advancement and technical growth of direct reports.• Participated in hands-on technical design discussions, providing guidance and support to help engineers overcome obstacles.• Actively worked with stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure their vision was implemented.• Supervised project execution and timelines in collaboration with project managers and scrum masters.

Rocklin, Ca

Rocklin, Ca

• Worked as a Senior Developer who led the launch of our online account opening application which is hosted by Avoka and written in JavaScript which calls Groovy services on the backend and supports 50+ different products used by the Credit Union. I was the SME on the Avoka platform and helped mentor our other onshore and offshore developers in creating multi-page responsive applications and collaborated closely with the API team and business stakeholders.• Created many re-usable components that could be used on our account opening forms and templates.• Created a Web API 2 service used for authentication with Azure Active Directory as well as proxying the calls from Avoka to our ESB platform.• Created a WCF service with unit tests to ensure accounts were created successfully on our consumer lending platform as well as our core Oracle database.• Created several APIs with Swagger documentation for our partner integrations.• Worked on development as well as maintenance of our online banking platform and supporting systems written in C# and VB.NET. Administered the project lifecycle from initial planning and research to development, testing, deployment, and production validation.• Responsible for troubleshooting production issues that the first level development team could not resolve.

Rocklin, Ca

Rocklin, Ca

• Worked as a Lead Developer/Team Lead who led the development and maintenance of several C# ASP.NET solutions. Administered the project lifecycle from initial planning and research to development, testing, deployment, and production validation.• Architected and designed complex core processes and applications utilizing .NET technologies.• Took features from companies we acquired and implemented those features into our systems so we could begin migrating clients from those acquisitions.• Implemented SSO so users of our partners system can authenticate into our system without logging in.• Created integrations with job boards so jobs can be posted from our applicant tracking system to job boards without clients having to login to the individual job boards (Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, etc.).• Created custom integrations with payroll providers and post-employment companies so payroll information and employee data can be exported from our system to our clients’ systems (ADP, SharedHR, RedCarpet).• Created and merged code branches so multiple projects can be worked on at the same time.• Evaluated & analyzed new feature requests that came into the system from the business.• Worked with project managers to build out realistic project schedules. Also worked without project managers on projects where I worked with the business to gather the requirements.• Created design documents, performed design document reviews, as well as code reviews.• Responsible for troubleshooting production issues that the first level development team could not resolve.

Orangevale, Ca

• Converted classic ASP website to C# (www.thesource4ym.com). Went through all the static classic ASP pages and took the content and stored it in a database.• Created a new website (www.thesource4parents.com) and created a custom content management system so the owner could update pages easily. For authentication to the content management system, I used the ASP.Net Membership Provider.• Created a user control to be used on both above websites for adding comments & ratings to articles.

Rocklin, Ca

• Promoted from Support Engineer to Support Engineers Manager during my tenure in the department.• I was responsible for the team of Support Engineers and Network Administrators as well as all network and system tasks for all users for Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Servers, web servers, desktops, and printers.• Helped coordinate data center move as well as multiple office building moves.• Performed network hardware and software troubleshooting.

Rocklin, Ca

• Repeatedly promoted during 3-year tenure in the criminal records department ending in a management position.• I was responsible for recruiting, hiring, supervising, and managing day to day activities of the department of approximately fifteen people.• Responsible for all criminal records data provided to companies for pre-employment background screening.• Developed workflow/process improvements that made it possible to accommodate increasing workload.

Associates In Applied Science, Computer Networking Technology

Associates In Applied Science, Computer Information Technology