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Ashburn, VA, US

Reston, Virginia, US

As a Senior Solutions Architect within ICF's Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure (EEI) group, I provide technology leadership to deliver scalable, secure, and cloud-based solutions that support mission-critical initiatives. I collaborate with senior leadership, development teams, and key stakeholders to architect solutions that address complex business.

• Published author of "Pro.NET Best Practices" (Apress)
• Blog ruthlesslyhelpful.net
• Writing my next book... stay tuned!As a coach, I help teams become more productive, adaptive, and skilled in programming, software design, and development practices.- Test-driven development (TDD)- Static and dynamic.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Worked closely with the CTO, VPs, and other senior leaders to bring transformation and change.
• Led DevOps metrics initiative, improved operational efficiencies, and reduced AWS costs by 25%.
• Enhanced team performance through Scrum, Kanban, and agile practices.
• Increased automated testing, CI/CD efficiencies, and reduced technical debt.

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Recruited to enhance delivery performance through team coaching and process improvement.
• Drove innovation and service delivery in key product functional areas.
• Oversaw diverse technical teams, optimizing automated testing and development expertise.
• Led and expanded developer teams by focusing on strategic hiring, skills development, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Recruited to optimize software reliability, streamline processes, and ensure delivery commitments, managing a global engineering team across development, customer success, QA, and operations.
• Drove Winmore's innovation, expanding the B2B SaaS platform globally with new feature design, product release, and operations, focusing on the CPG vertical and a $52B beverage client.
• Established a European development center in The Netherlands, enhancing dual-shore capabilities and delivering 30+ features for a $19B logistics client, while ensuring GDPR compliance.
• Led a significant global rollout for the same client, marking the largest contribution to Winmore's ARR, and relocated to San Francisco to fortify the platform, achieving 99.99% uptime and reduced AWS costs.
• Held progressive roles at Winmore, culminating as VP of Engineering, driving delivery, quality assurance, platform reliability, and software delivery.

Boston, MA, US

• Recruited to improve a mortgage finance institution’s agile-lean delivery program for a web-app managing $500B in loans; doubling release velocity.
• Led team-level delivery improvements, coaching on agile principles for enhanced Scrum practices and greater product quality.
• Orchestrated program-level agile planning and coordination across a 60-person release train, boosting product backlog efficiency and fostering consensus among stakeholders.
• Worked as and enterprise-level coaching through the Agile COE, influencing a 2,000-person development organization and delivering workshops to promote continuous process improvement.

Arlington, VA, US

• Recruited to embed on a delivery team, leveraging technical and leadership skills to revitalize troubled client projects, by improving collaboration, efficiency, and quality.
• Coached and led diverse teams across 12+ engagements, impacting organizations ranging from $30M nonprofits to $13.7B+ retirement programs.
• Accomplished key turnarounds, including rescuing failed launches, revitalizing stalled projects, and instituting automation for continuous delivery.
• Drove advancements in team efficiency, development transparency, and customer satisfaction, while disentangling complex, high-profile projects.

• Recruited by CTO for a privately-funded transition of iFramework from on-prem to SaaS, overseeing architecture design and phased releases.
• Developed and executed an engineering hiring plan, rapidly assembling a team to innovate and build.
• Successfully hired engineers and launched iFramework version 5.0 in 3 months, driving critical partner investment decisions.

• Recruited pre-$5.1M Series A funding to lead Navigator's launch in the Risk Management sector, directing a dual-shore team and coordinating across functions.
• Spearheaded development phases, from crafting the.NET Windows Service backend to implementing CI/CD pipelines with quality control measures like NUnit.
• Directed Engineering for Brabeion, overseeing scheduling, releases, and cross-functional coordination, culminating in a successful technical evaluation and acquisition by RSA Archer.

Sterling, VA, US

• As the senior engineer on the eAgent project, consulted with co-owners and led the design and development of a next-generation web application, from requirement analysis to full-stack architecture.
• Created the eAgent CRM "dashboard," a real-time sales automation tool for tracking site traffic, displaying visitor details, and managing marketing qualified leads.

Designed and developed software systems and components for Cricket Technologies' commercial litigation e-discovery product -- a.NET Windows application called CricketBox -- used by law firms and corporate legal staff to electronically harvest, catalog, image, OCR and otherwise process electronic file obtained through litigation or internal audit.>>.

New York, NY, US

Primary architect and project manager of a document management software system for a large multi-national pharmaceutical company's auditors to compose, edit, review and distribute quality assessment documents.- Designed primary data tables used to store catalog files loaded, documents imaged, and metadata extracted- Developed stored procedures and triggers.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

Recruited as a software engineer with experience and expertise in Visual C++ and SQL Server. Soon, enlisted by senior management to be the project manger for the new browser-hosted, n-tier software product for fixed asset accounting (FAS). Led the project through many stages of the development, including conceptualization, prototype, development and.

Hunt Valley, MD, US

Recruited by the project manager to be a senior engineer for the Sallie Mae’s PortSS III project, building a software product sold to banks to help them originate and manage student loans. Performed the core business development in Visual C++ and T-SQL within the business-layer modules. Specific accomplishments included development of application and loan.

Recruited to solve the challenges of transitioning Roadshow's mapping technology from LaserDisc video to scanned-map images on CD-ROM.Solved all the key issues, which allowed migration off of LaserDisc, including:- optimizing color depth- deciding on file format- identify scanning services- employing lossless compression- showing on Targa display- CD-ROM.

One of several partners in a small, start-up company which developed two shrink-wrapped commercial software titles for multimedia CD-ROM. Designed and programmed all aspects of both products throughout the entire development lifecycle from concept to product shipment. Designed and developed innovative GUI for these consumer-oriented, multimedia.

Worked as part of a team of software engineers programming a network of parallel processing microprocessors, called Transputers, for real-time acoustical data processing. Responsibilities included the redesign and porting of the FORTRAN code to Occam, a Transputer specific machine language. Developed parallel-processing algorithms and provided programming.

Worked on the development of an advanced sensor for monitoring the slagging and fouling in black liquor boilers. This project aimed to enhance the operational efficiency and safety of recovery boilers. My role involved running the experiments, collecting the data, programming the software to analyze the data, writing the Phase 1 report, and writing the.

Programmed computer controlled assembly stations for the production of electromechanical devices used in automobile air-bag systems. Software development concentrated on hardware control, data acquisition and display, statistical quality control, and RS-232 interfacing of equipment.

Taught geometry, algebra, and AP math.

Graduate-Level Coursework Toward, Ms In Project Management

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Ba, Chemistry, Physics

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