• Cofounded the technology innovation team and developed a framework for researching emerging technologies, defining problem statements, running experiments, and analyzing results. Introduced emerging technologies including Vision AI, Conversational Commerce, IoT, Metaverse/Web3, Geofencing, and Robotics. • Crafted and organized company-wide innovation challenges to showcase internal talent, promote innovation, build vendor relationships, and bring novel solutions to support strategic goals. • Extensive experience researching and collaborating with vendors including leading strategic legal, security, and contract discussions. Achievements:CEO Award, IT Marketing Excellence Award, Ranked highest level in yearly reviews

As both technical and team lead, involved strategic planning, implementation, and administration of eCommerce and customer loyalty solutions. Architected innovative applications, managed concurrent timelines, integrated with vendors, defined business requirements, researched new technologies, motivated technical staff, and troubleshot issues. Helped promote culture of innovation by prioritizing growth through technical conferences and training tools, created innovation research projects within team, and organized routine meetings to showcase new technologies.Achievements:Advanced rapidly from Analyst to Technical Lead to Team Lead. Received recognition for successful implementations of high revenue generating projects related to customer loyalty and payment processing. Member and leader of multiple ranked hackathon teams with projects chosen for implementation. Technical Lead of the first launch of the Unlimited Sip Subscription Service Additional ResponsibilitiesOngoing technical research and training both self-directed and instructor led to improve skills including CICD technologies, GCP/AWS, and API tools.Served as mentor to help grow technical and leadership skills to associates both within and outside of team.

At Panera Bread, Designed, developed, and deployed health monitoring application for monitoring ecommerce microservice layer for well-known franchise bakery café. Also, helped build additional web services to support new ecommerce functionality. Enhanced release manager process to streamline new employee training and reduce risk. Achievements:Member of winning 2016 hackathon team to develop an Amazon Alexa application. Additional ResponsibilitiesTrain new team members on applications and team processes. Participate in release manager rotation and help support production environment.

Architected, developed, and directed team in creating a web application to enhance work with Sabre AirVision and usability for schedule publication and planning team. During the US Airways/American Airlines merger led development to enrich application functionality. Led technical migration into the department portal platform and redesign to update technology stack. Also, was the core designer and developer for the TravelUS employee travel system. Led front-end design of project which involved working directly with business users and BA/PM to develop system using Agile methodology. Enhanced drug/alcohol testing application from design/development through deployment into production environment. Achievements:Promoted 4 times, honored with the Lunch Pail Hero award, and received numerous Above and Beyond awards. Integral part in merging legacy US Airways schedule publication team and processes with legacy American Airlines RPT planning. Delivered travel system successfully and helped train new team members on support. Created new support, review, and maintenance processes, which allowed team to work more efficiently and PCI compliant. Started Java User Group to help develop and build community with other employees. Additional ResponsibilitiesTechnical lead to many project teams requiring design, technical decisions, task management, mentorships, process development, conflict management, business analysis, estimating, QA testing, development, and project management. Led installation of third-party software products and developed procedures for ongoing upgrades. Set up hardware servers for different development environments. Developed technical interview process and participated/led many interviews for both my team and others in and outside of the company.

Promoted to work on crucial groundbreaking inventory management system. Managing and training a team while doing individual development. Project involved tight deadline with high pressure and visibility to the entire company. Achievements:Created Java System which ran as a back end loading application retrieving data from databases and Excel spreadsheets, manipulating the data, creating XML files, and passing to a vendor application to be used for various inventory management purposes. Finished project by deadline despite having six project manager changes as well as being understaffed and with many employees not having adequate technical knowledge. Worked in high pressure war room for over five months with users, testers, developers, and project managers. Additional ResponsibilitiesParticipated in 24 hour on-call rotational support team which included direct contact with users as well as solving issues with vendor software. Designed and documented on call procedures for entire project so support could be easily handed off to contractors and new employees. Designed next phase of system using UML documentation and estimation.Attended and helped with department JUG meetings. Researched and decided on new software options for projects.

Worked as consultant for St. Louis and Minneapolis offices helping companies with Java. Also helped train other consultants in new technologies as well as attending user group meetings within the company. Achievements:Traveled to Minneapolis to help advance new office growth and expertise. Led presentation layer team through a demanding implementation deadline. Worked with BL layer to design an efficient pagination structure to handle large amounts of data with complex object structure. Additional ResponsibilitiesPerformed intense project support tasks and designed system to handle defect tracking and issue logging. Educated .NET associates in java build procedures, basic version control systems, and ant scripting.

Led team to design and develop charting application. Integrated the system with NetCharts software and handled all aspects of the development from the front-end through the database to the server setup. Worked on team to rewrite and enhance supplier distribution solution for major airplane manufacturing organization. Achievements and Responsibilities:Improved performance of Hibernate driven Charting application by tuning hibernate settings, server memory settings on Sun ONE 6.1. Used AJAX to help improve the user experience on certain web pages involving data entry and search. Used Enterprise Architect in tandem with the Eclipse MDG plugin to keep UML diagrams updated with actual project changes. Documented system design, along with creation of UML diagrams. Designed screens and workflow according to Use Case requirements. Tuned database performance by examining slow queries and tuning indexes and the queries themselves. Implemented Spring configured Quartz timer processes to import fresh lookup data. Dealt with demanding customers and urgent deadlines. Simplified transmitting supplier and part information interfaces by employing improved web technologies and building more dynamic screens. Worked on teams utilizing Agile Development and Extreme Programming practices. Handled many environment and software issues by being the first team to implement a J2EE project. Created many documents and diagrams according to UML guidelines. Recommended by CEO to move into technical sales in addition to current technical responsibilities and feasibility studies due to excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Involved in more research and development centric work for new projects due to enthusiasm and aptitude. Called to help other teams when experiencing deadline and technical knowledge issues.

Worked on team to design and develop $2 billion, cutting-edge global solution for managing client and account information for 15,000+ users. Application is three-tiered client/server written in J2EE and built to be compatible with existing systems. Achievements and Responsibilities:Reduced complexity for opening an account by streamlining information. Decreased transaction time by 85%. Managed package creation, testing, and installation for entire system. Awarded raise and promotion three years early due to performance and dedication. Paved road for future projects by being first to implement global J2EE project in the entire organization. Utilized Agile Development practices with Scrums, changeable requirements, and iterative releases. Promoted to supervise team training and user support of the new global system. Administered training for existing COBOL developers in Java/Struts technology. Directly accountable for creation and support of time sensitive international tax documents. Created new process to allow non-client/server team members to utilize rotational support of monthly report creation.