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Deerfield Beach, Florida, Us

Deerfield Beach, Florida, Us

Dealership Portal Re-platformingProvided support and development efforts to uplift existing, business critical, platforms and applications to AWS including integration with SharePoint Online. Analyzed and refactored code bases as necessary to port to AWS including incorporating a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline.Internal Stakeholders ConferenceDue to the pandemic the conference, for the first time, was hosted virtually which required new solutions and integrations for JM. Supported implementation of SSO utilizing Azure Active Directory along with providing the best solution for newly acquired companies that were not yet integrated into Active Directory. Assured network capacity and streaming hardware could meet viewing standards for high definition streaming at 14 locations with potentially 4,500+ viewers.Audit ManagementCreated an Azure based solution to provide seamless SSO integration with a vendors SaaS product. Created appropriate configurations for Identity and Access Management to incorporate current standards for access regulations.Hackathon2020Ranked 3rd place out of 126 learners for Azure based technologies learning challenge on Pluralsight internal competition. Designed a proof of concept product to help keep company moral stable utilizing Azure Cognitive Services including Sentiment API to detect mood via automatic image capture along with Text Analytics to determine mood metrics on multiple message channels.2019Won 3rd place designing a proof of concept related to a personnel-less mobile total car purchasing experience with automated delivery system.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Contract with JMFERPAProvided technical lead and development support implementing a disaster recovery solution to support the companies business continuity plans for their Robotic Process Automation installation. Worked heavily with internal networking and infrastructure team to provide a more robust, stable and extendable solution for their growing needs.Physical SecuritySolely developed and implemented custom integration between internal systems of records and a new SaaS cloud based solution along with custom integrations with biometric devices. Learned the product in depth to provide better automated processes to the business that eliminated error prone manual steps. Worked with information security and security operations to provide the best level of data security to protect personal information and potential breaches.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for the management of development for a multitude of projects, teams and/or platforms. Utilize lean training to help facilitate change and continuous improvement department wide. Provide succinct reports and communications to executive management while achieving sustained productivity on aggressive deadlines. Facilitate leadership training and develop career goals for development team members. Interview and onboard prospective employees administering technical interviews and personality evaluations.MARKETINGOversee development for the marketing department and a development team of over 20 resources for feature requests along a multitude of product lines ranging from 100+ websites to television commercials. Research, evaluate and implement different solutions to help maintain and improve productivity and quality. Facilitate day to day operations working with project managers, scrum masters, quality assurance, compliance, legal and business clients.REGISTRARArchitect a custom internal system to help enable the registrar and admission to effectively work with potential students who have prior school knowledge and maintain accurate synchronization with the students system of records.LIBRARY INTEGRATIONManage a multitude of integrations for academic library resources utilizing federated identity applications. Foster business relationships with library providers to continue to stay ahead of the curve of newly developed features. Successful project to transition from an on premise configuration to a SaaS solution while maintaining full feature parity.CAREER SERVICESIntegrate new product lines to help facilitate a students transition from academia to the workforce with focus on building a career portfolio during the students tenure. Maintain and add new integrations with job listing providers to help provide a robust selection of potential jobs for the student and assist with the application process and resume writing.

Chicago, Il, Us

Architect and development of large scale business critical applications and solutions. Provide technical leadership to teams of varying sizes, geographical locations and skill sets. Create, implement and enforce software development standards with focus on code quality and productivity.INNOVATION TEAM LEADDiscover and interview a team of developers with a range of technical skills sets in order to facilitate accelerated and innovative project requests. Responsible for incubating new ideas centered around new product lines and enhancing high profile application for the greatest impact leveraging cutting edge technologies.MOBILE PLATFORMDevelop a REST based back end API consumed by the different mobile platforms for all mobile devices including iPad, iPhone, Android tablets, Android phones and a responsive website. Consume an Enterprise Service Bus to help obfuscate integrations for more agility consuming data sources and help eliminate discrepancies retrieving data.ACTIVITY RIVER STREAMDesign a system to dynamically integrate a multitude of data sources to inform student of critical events or data changes ranging from grade changes to upcoming seminars. Architect a robust messaging system to fan out messages for different communication mediums including push notifications and SMS texts.PORTAL PERSONALIZATIONIncorporate features into an existing portal for students to create a more personalized experience. Some features include profile pictures, contact customization's, online presence and instant messaging.LIFELONG LEARNING PLATFORMIncubate a new business idea that would help facilitate new learning models and incorporate a wider audience. Design a system that would data mine existing learning material, job data and real world skill definitions. Combined with deep learning systems and graph database technologies determine what learning material would be best suited for the desired learning goals.

Chicago, Il, Us

Design and manage new product development and high profile integrations. Architect and develop high availability internal systems to potentially enable all developers to increase agility and quality.GRADE CHANGE INTEGRATIONDesign and develop manual grade change functionality in multiple systems while maintaining compliance integrity. Code various grade change process flows depending on the type of grade change along with accurate grade calculations. Created a complex and fully customizable administration module with intricate authorization logic.ESBArchitect and create a full service Enterprise Service Bus for the entire development department. Effective implementation of Service Oriented Architecture to help facilitate loosely coupled tiers enabling the ability to change client integrations without making breaking changes. Implement RESTful versioning standards in order to effectively roll out service changes.EVERYONE.NETManage email account provisioning for all students and faculty using Everyone.net product. Leverage various API methods to keep accounts in sync with the internal system of record along with real time deprovisioning of accounts.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for porting older applications to C# .NET as well as develop new applications with focus on back end systems supporting domestic and international divisions.LMS INTEGRATIONCreate the backend integration of a new LMS solution on a very aggressive deadline that includes automatic enrollment synchronizations, grade calculations, reporting and bulk course creation. Support enhancement requests from different faculty and escalations for all active students.

As a consultant I had various opportunities to help clients improve all aspects of their business from simple solutions as reporting to more complex tasks related to financial operations and customer facing applications.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Science/Studies

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Technology