Hands-on expert with unique combination of strategic and tactical skills ranging from technology program management to individual contributor coding. Wearer of many hats including Chief Architect, designing products and custom solutions, Technical Product Manager, setting product roadmaps and defining scope and Director of Engineering, leading a team of managers and engineers while simultaneously guiding overall strategic technology vision and ensuring technology supports strategic business goals. Expertise in data governance, reporting, analytics, and travel data systems. Strong in DevOps management, with proficiency in the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) for team leadership and business planning. A career built on growing a business from startup to maturity (stages 1-5).

As the lead software and data engineer for the development team, I liaised with external stakeholders to translate requirements and market needs into technology solutions. I automated tasks and steadily built a technical, product, and data warehousing foundation for the business. I also managed the full project development lifecycle and successfully trained new employees.• Created custom solutions for Fortune 500 companies and large travel management companies, overtaking primary competitor.• Architected, designed, and authored functional specifications and design documentation, ensuring execution and build of effective software and database solutions.• Implemented data solutions for financial services companies, such as Visa and MasterCard, onto data services products using data engineering techniques.• Designed and developed hotel normalization process within flagship SaaS product considered to be travel industry's most accurate.• Successfully implemented first SAML v2 based SSO processes into products.• Created automated credit card reconciliation subsystem within flagship product using complex decision tree and "fuzzy" logic for one of travel industry's largest agencies.• Developed first version of virtual payment system, integrating with hotel faxing, emailing, APIs, and credit card reconciliation.

Hired as the third employee, I progressed from Junior Software Engineer to full stack Software Engineer and Data Engineer. Playing pivotal role in maintaining early product code bases and fostering the growing business, I led both technical and non-technical strategies and initiativesto move the business forward. I also architected and created multiple custom Windows applications.• Created and maintained various product code bases still in use in 2023 including flagship product GraspDATA, building first self-service web-based report builder.• Architected and created improved dashboard/data visualization system using charts, grids and Google Maps API to determine hotel market boundaries.• Designed and developed first data consolidation processes to merge disparate datasets together to provide customers with comprehensive view of travel programs.